MOSCOW (Dispatches) – The United States and its allies are behind the crisis in West Asia and other regional conflicts, and benefit most from global instability, Russian President Vladimir Putin says.
“Those, who are behind the conflict in the Middle East and other regional crises will exploit their devastating consequences to sow hatred, and sow dissent among people worldwide,” said the Russian leader at a meeting with top security and law enforcement officials.
It is important to understand who is behind the Middle East conflict and who is responsible for organizing and benefiting from “deadly chaos” in different regions, Putin said.
“It is the current U.S. ruling elites and their satellites that are the main beneficiaries of global instability,” he said.
Putin said that attempts have been made to use the dramatic situation in West Asia and other regional conflicts against Russia, with the aim of destabilizing the country and splitting its diverse and multi-religious society.
The United States is becoming weaker and losing its status as the world’s sole superpower and hegemon. This world order is slowly becoming a thing of the past, said Putin.
Russia has already declared that it backs an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and has thrown its weight behind the United Nations Security Council resolutions that mandate that prospect.
The United States, which invariably supplies the Zionist regime with unstinting political and military support, has, however, been vetoing those resolutions that either hold the regime responsible for its atrocities or call for cessation of its aggression.
Meanwhile, Russia’s UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia has blamed the United States for the ongoing atrocities committed by Israel against Palestinians, as Washington has opposed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an urgent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
“This ugly situation was brought about by the fact that, because of the United States position, the Security Council has been virtually paralyzed and has not yet been able to adopt a resolution demanding an urgent ceasefire,” Nebenzia said in a statement at UNSC briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian issue.
He noted that the blocking of such UNSC resolutions shows that Washington and Tel Aviv “have quite different plans: to exterminate the population of Gaza or ‘oust’ it from the Strip, and assimilate the rest of the Palestinian population into Israel in order to solve the Palestinian problem.”
Meanwhile, as two of President Joe Biden’s top advisers asked U.S. lawmakers to provide billions more dollars to the Zionist regime on Tuesday at a congressional hearing interrupted repeatedly by protesters denouncing American officials for backing what they called “genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testified to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Biden’s request for $106 billion to fund ambitious plans for Ukraine, Israel and U.S. border security.