The emergence of a multipolar world is irreversible despite attempts to thwart it, Russia’s Security Council chief has said
The Western states are reluctant to come to terms with the emergence of a multipolar world, Secretary of Russia’s Security Council Sergey Shoigu has stated.
Speaking at a meeting of security council chiefs representing members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Moscow on Wednesday, Shoigu proclaimed that a “new stage of historical development has begun – the era of a multipolar world.”
He added that Western states, however, “are not prepared to accept this – they are basing their policies on the obsolete colonial system.”
In their efforts to preserve the old global power structure, including in the post-Soviet area, the West “practically stops at nothing,” according to Shoigu.
Among the tools the Western powers are deploying to this end are election meddling, “ideological subversion,” and attempts to sow discord among various ethnic and religious groups in target nations, the Russian official said.
The secretary of Russia’s Security Council singled out the parliamentary elections in Moldova in late September as a case in point, claiming that they had been rigged “with the direct involvement” of Western nations.
Shoigu noted the fact that there were only a handful of polling stations open in Russia, even though a large number of Moldovans reside in the country. In stark contrast to that, numerous polling stations were set up in EU member states.
The ex-Russian defense chief went on to highlight Georgia, noting that the authorities in the South Caucus nation had also accused Western powers of interfering in the country’s internal affairs and attempting to stage a coup earlier this year.
“The Western nations continue to actively support the Kiev regime despite that fact that it demonstrates its terrorist nature time and time again,” Shoigu went on to state.
He also observed that “Europe is actively militarizing – military spending is growing; drills increasingly feature the enactment of aggressive actions against adversaries from the East.”
