West ready to use any means necessary to contain its competitors — Kremlin aide

Kremlin Aide Yury Ushakov
Phoro: TASS

The West does not hesitate to use any means, including military and propaganda, to contain its competitors at the global and regional levels, Kremlin Aide Yury Ushakov stated.

"Advocates and driving forces behind this approach do not shy away from using any means to contain competitors at the global and regional levels: military, political, propaganda, economic, and so on," he noted during the Primakov Readings international scientific and expert forum, TASS quotes.

The Kremlin aide noted that Western sanctions against Russia are "pouring in like from a bucket." At the same time, the West is deliberately pursuing a course aimed at destroying the international legal order and at "weakening and burying the familiar multilateral, universal institutions."

"Westerners are building a 'rules-based order' in which, in reality, there are no rules at all except the law of the strong and their right to do whatever they want. And they, of course, hope – as has happened repeatedly in the past – to emerge victorious. All of this is in the spirit of the familiar colonial and neocolonial practices and policies that have been rehearsed for centuries," Ushakov added.

Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov has criticized the G7’s direction at the Evian summit, stating that the group encouraged itself to more brazenly impose its "rules-based order" globally, primarily through unrestrained support for the Kiev regime.

Speaking at the Primakov Readings, Ushakov contrasted this with the recent Russia-ASEAN summit held in Kazan. He noted that the outcomes of the Kazan meeting clearly showed that Moscow’s partners, especially in Southeast Asia, "want to live not by someone else’s rules, but in a just, multipolar world where everyone is guaranteed sovereignty and respect, and where prospects for secure and sustainable development are open."

"It is quite telling," Ushakov emphasized, "that while those discussions were underway in Kazan, an international gathering of a completely different nature took place in Evian, France. There, the 'Club of Seven' encouraged itself to more actively and, if you wish, more brazenly continue to impose its ‘rules-based order’ on everyone - chiefly through its unbridled backing of the Ukrainian regime."

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