President Obama made his statements while in Hanover, Germany on a trip to promote the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnerships, but Moscow’s response was swift. In his key-note address to Moscow security forum Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that an unprecedented information war is underway against Russia, and that the US is inventing a false “Russian threat” in order to justify NATOs’ military buildup.
Building off of his remarks, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged unnamed countries, contextually inferred as the US and its allies, from using terrorist groups for regime change purposes, and warned about the growing trend of conflict in international relations. The way that Russia sees the world, it’s Washington, not Moscow, that’s responsible for global destabilization.
Sergei Utkin, head of Department of Strategic Assessment, Centre for Situation Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences (studio guest); Richard Sakwa, professor of Russian and European Politics, Kent University, Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House; and Carl Osgood, analyst at the Executive Intelligence Review joined us to discuss the agenda of the Conference.
