Meanwhile, russias Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has used his address to the Unted Nations General Assembely in new york to criticise the unites states, nato and the European Union for trying to force the world to play according to their own self centered rules. The collective west has a calling card and it has long been to reject the principle of equality and their Total Inability to reach agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments, inter alia, written ones and legally binding ones, and then theyjust dont fulfill them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this first hand. For more on this im joined by phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at St Andrews University welcome to you. Good to have your own. What you make of the comments of Sergey Lavrov . To be as expected . On the one hand absolu
else. he vitally needs that is vladimir putin, he vitally needs ukraine, if not directly under his thumb, at least adhering to his will. yes, well, he wants ukraine substantively for the natural resources, but psychologically, ukraine is very important to russia, always has been. even when the soviet union was dissolving, that was one of the major concerns for what was left of the russian empire, what was going to happen to ukraine. we re getting words that the u.s. is going to recommend they pull back in the region. wendell goler, how forceful can the administration even be about that outside of strongly urging it? neil, i m sorry, i didn t hear your question. i apologize. i jumped on you there. we re hearing that the white house is going to recommend that all troops, russian troops, pull back from the premier region. that might be easier said than