Russia claims that the war benefits the US, arms manufacturers and NATO

Russia claims that the war benefits the US, arms manufacturers and NATO

the war in Ukraine is benefiting USAwhich sells its gas to Europe; American arms manufacturers and countries on the eastern flank of the NATOwhich is taking advantage of to get rid of old weapons, said today before the Security Council the deputy ambassador of RussiaDmitry Polyansky.

For the ambassador, who was speaking at a new council meeting dedicated to Ukraine, this war is serving Western countries “to wage a war by proxy, while you (Westerns) need the Ukrainians as cannon fodder but do not forget of their interests,” he said.

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Among these interests, he cited those of the arms companies “whose shares rose by 40% in the first weeks of the offensive”, but also the Eastern European countries “happy because they are getting rid of old Soviet weapons that they know the Russian army will destroy and that way they don’t have to recycle it, while NATO promises them new material”.

He also alluded to the effect of sanctions against Russiawhich according to him cheers the United States when the Europeans are the most affected, being forced to buy American gas instead of Russian, for example.

But he questioned the effectiveness of the embargo against Moscow: “The Russian economy is doing very well, as everyone knows – he said – considering the new areas of development and the new partners,” he said. (I)

Source: Eluniverso

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