“Russia is done with the West. The divorce is nearly complete. In the past few days we’ve heard from all major Russian leaders the same thing, The West will play by our rules now.‘ You can decide for yourselves whether Russia is writing checks they can’t cash, but in the words of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov telling the BBC bluntly, ‘We do not care about the eyes of the West.’ Lavrov has always been the soul of politeness and discretion when dealing with European media.
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