The Russian deputy defense minister spoke with RTD ahead of the Moscow Conference on International Security, which kicks off on Tuesday. Over 1,000 people from 111 countries are expected to attend the annual event and discuss the most troubling global security issues.
While terrorism and regional conflicts that have been rampant over the past decade remain concerning, Fomin said, increasingly more independent states are wary of interference from major powers - particularly the US - and the prospects of a potential sovereignty loss. Fomin told RTD:
"They realize that concepts like peace, independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty tend to be increasingly fragile today. They need to be protected. The last 20 years have taught them that a state can only be secure if its military is well-equipped and armed with the most advanced air and missile defense systems."
The most recent example of an external threat to sovereignty is Venezuela, which has faced extensive meddling from the US, ranging from backing the opposition to threats of a direct military invasion, he said.
"The US does not sit idly and is employing other tactics including a broad range of techniques developed for hybrid wars and color revolutions. The Americans have been training leaders and members of extremist groups. They have been ramping up pressure including bribery, bullying, and sectoral sanctions. Operation Blackout is underway, a man-made shutdown of energy facilities... deepening the economic crisis."
Recall how we planned to be the police of the Pacific in anticipating intercepting drug shipments from Afghanistan in trans-ocean cargo carriers. That went down in flames but the global police have yet to hear the NO in capital letters. Their sticky fingers are everywhere in the net, cel, and satellite communications. The US global police are chomping at the bit to be seen as the Homeland Security of the world, in spite of refusals everywhere. Sanctions fly, condemnation of anything not promoted by the US is rife, and to addict the world to our supremacy, we have the Trump circus, calculated to enthrall by its demeaning nastiness.
We want the world watching our every move, after all, no publicity is bad publicity.
What a shock to wake up to this diabolical plot to capture the world adoration of our public excoriation. After the horrific murders in Sri Lanka, I suddenly realized that all the media in the past year or more has been Trump, Trump, Trump as if the rest of the world did not exist, nor practice any other kind of politics except for scandals, nor have any form of diplomacy except 'knock down and grab.'
My God, I was nearly mesmerized! Even tho I have rejected national tv, refused on line news except for the briefs. I feel like the fish who escaped the hook at the last minute when a rogue wave disrupted my rapture.
Our global police seem to feel injured since the Sri Lankans acted as if they did not want, desire or even contemplate their domineering interference. The media covered their pontificating on high as if it was law, we told them. Can the world exist without the US global police? Something tells me they are going to.