Sergei Lavrov predicted a change in political elites in Europe
The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the inevitability of the departure of current European leaders and criticized the militarization of Germany
Quick Look
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the current European leaders will soon be “washed away from the top” of politics.
- He also criticized Friedrich Merz for his policy of militarizing Germany, calling it a dangerous manifestation of Nazism.
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Why It Matters
The statement was made against the backdrop of the ongoing geopolitical confrontation between Russia and Western countries.
The leaders of a number of European countries will one day be “washed away from the top.” As RIA Novosti reports, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov predicted such a sad future for the leaders of individual states in a conversation with Kremlin pool journalist Pavel Zarubin.
“I cannot get inside these political characters who, by the will of fate, ended up on the surface of European politics. But to be honest, I don’t have any big doubts that at some point, hopefully not too distant, they will be washed away from this pinnacle of European politics and that the peoples of Europe will still make the right choice,” the head of the foreign policy department said, adding that “the wait is not very long.”
Lavrov separately touched upon the person of the German Chancellor. According to him, Friedrich Merz's statements about the militarization of the country are becoming reality.
“He’s coming, well, essentially, to declare war on us. And the lessons of history have not been learned at all. It turned out that these metastases of Nazism were beginning to break through. This is a dangerous phenomenon. It seems to me that the Russian leadership will draw appropriate conclusions,” Lavrov suggested.
Open Questions
- What specific conclusions will the Russian leadership draw?
