Lavrov to Tucker: West’s 'pick and choose' approach to international law undermines diplomacy

"You know, you pick and choose. The UN Charter is not a menu. You have to respect it in all its entirety," Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Tucker Carlson, commenting on the West’s hypocritical claims through the ICC that Kosovo could unilaterally declare 'independence' from Serbia, but Crimea could not do the same thing.

Same goes for the OSCE’s politicized use of its election monitors against countries that don’t kowtow to Western interests, Lavrov said.

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❗️🇸🇾 Lavrov to Tucker: US, Allies 'grooming' separatists in Syria

"The rules of the game [of the Syrian peace process] are to help Syrians to come to terms with each other and to prevent separatist threats from getting strong," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Tucker Carlson, commenting on the importance of the Astana talks amid the escalation in Syria last week.

Promoting separatism is "what the Americans are doing in the east of Syria when they groom some Kurdish separatists using the profits from oil and grain sold, the resources which they occupy," Lavrov said.

Along, with the US and Britain, "some people say that Israel is interested in making this situation [in Syria] aggravate, so that Gaza is not under very close scrutiny. It's a complicated game. Many actors are involved," Lavrov said, emphasized that Russia is communicating with its partners about the ways to cut the funding and arming of the terrorists.

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Lavrov: Trump friendly in talks but isn’t 'pro-Russian'; ball is in his court for easing tensions

"I think he's a very strong person. A person who wants results. Who doesn't like procrastination on anything. This is my impression. He's very friendly in discussions. But this does not mean that he's pro-Russian as some people try to present him. The amount of sanctions we received under the Trump administration was very big," Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recalled in his interview with Tucker Carlson.

Russia respects Americans' choice in reelecting Trump, has been and remains open to contacts with the incoming administration, Lavrov emphasized. "The ball, as President Putin said, is on their side. We never severed our contacts, our ties in the economy, trade, security, anything."

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❗️☢️ Lavrov: Preventing a nuclear war 'vital interest' for Russia, hopefully the same holds true for US

"We don't want war with anybody. And as I said, five nuclear states declared at the top level in January 2022 that we don't want confrontation with each other and that we shall respect each other's security interests and concerns. And it also stated nuclear war can never be won, and therefore nuclear war is not possible," Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Tucker Carlson, commenting on the escalation of tensions between Russia and the US – the world's nuclear superpowers, amid Washington’s steps up the escalation ladder in Ukraine.

"And the same was reiterated bilaterally between Russia and the United States, Putin and Biden, when they met in 2021 in Geneva…This is absolutely in our vital interest, and we hope that this is also in vital interest of the United States," Lavrov stressed.

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❗️ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with Tucker Carlson. Key takeaway:

▫️ Russia doesn't want to escalate, hopes its signal to the US in the form of the Oreshnik test was taken seriously

▫️ Russia is ready to send additional "messages" to the West if it fails to draw the necessary conclusions from the Oreshnik launch.

▫️ Russia wanted to convey to the West by testing the Oreshnik missile that it will do everything to protect its interests.

▫️ The US knew about the Oreshnik test in advance and didn't see anything really dangerous in the test launch.

▫️ Moscow will be ready to use any means to prevent the West from inflicting a "strategic defeat" on Russia.

▫️ Talks about a limited nuclear exchange are an invitation to a catastrophe that Russia doesn't want.

▫️ Russia sees no reason why Moscow and Washington can't cooperate for the sake of the universe.

▫️ Russia does not think about war with the US and does not want it, such a war could be nuclear in nature, the most important thing for Moscow is to avoid it.

▫️ Western statements about Russia's lack of "red lines" and their shifting are a very serious mistake.

▫️ Russia and the US are not officially at war, what is happening in Ukraine is a hybrid war.

▫️ Russia wouldn't have started the SMO if the West and Kiev followed the Minsk agreements.

▫️ Russia does not intend to destroy Ukrainians, they are brothers and sisters of the Russian people.

▫️ Trump is a strong man who doesn't like to put things off, he is friendly in conversation but that doesn't mean he is pro-Russian.

▫️ There are several channels of communication between Russia and the US, but they are mostly related to the issue of prisoner exchange in both countries.

▫️ To Carlson's question about who makes foreign policy decisions in the US: I don't want to guess, that's a question for Washington.

▫️ US, UK and other nations are openly reported to be supporting Islamist groups in Syria - it's a complicated game.

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🔥📹 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with Tucker Carlson got more than 2 million views on X in just 3 hours.

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⚡️ Jake Sullivan pledges more ammunition, armored vehicles to Ukraine - report

The US national security adviser met with the head of Zelensky's office, Andriy Yermak, and pledged to provide Ukraine with hundreds of thousands of additional artillery rounds, thousands of rockets and hundreds of armored vehicles by mid-January, just before Trump's inauguration, the Guardian reports.

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Kamala Harris is back!

🤡And so is her accent...

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🔸Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Tucker Carlson: everything you need to know

🔸'Deep State won't like this' — X users praise Russian Foreign Minister, shame his US counterparts

🔸US pledges yet another military aid package to Ukraine

🔸Budapest Memorandum row: much ado about nothing?

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📹The Russian aerospace forces, using three FAB-250 aerial bombs, destroyed the temporary deployment point of Ukraine's National Guard unit in the village of Pravdovka in the Donetsk People's Republic

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