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Lavrov stated the risk of a self-fulfilling prophecy in talks about the war with the Russian Federation

Lavrov: Europe's talk of war with Russia may become a self-fulfilling prophecy
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The Europeans' talk about preparing for war with Russia may lead them to a self-fulfilling prophecy. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press conference following his participation in the high-level week of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly.

"[The Europeans] confirm every day that we must be ready for war by 2030 at the latest," the minister said.

He clarified that the Europeans are investing a lot of money in the production of weapons. Lavrov noted that at some stage, "one of the adventurers in the elite may declare that so many weapons have been accumulated that there is nowhere to put them, and recall the promise to attack Russia."

Glenn Diesen, a professor at the University of Southeastern Norway, pointed out on September 21 that the West would not be able to defeat and destroy Russia, since the Russian army was much stronger. He pointed out that Western leaders are making extremely rash statements, completely ignoring the classic strategy of proxy conflicts, which involves exhausting the enemy with someone else's hands before deploying their own forces.

In August, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that European countries needed an external enemy in the form of Russia to force their populations to pay more taxes. According to him, Europe's attempts to artificially inflate the "Russian threat" in the media in order to justify an increase in NATO's military budgets are nothing more than newspaper leaks.

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