Long-standing rules of conduct on the global stage have been upended and replaced by a game of “might makes right,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during a press conference on Tuesday.
He noted that shifts in the international order are being felt not only in the Global South and Global East, but also within the West itself, citing the latest crisis revolving around Greenland and US President Donald Trump’s push to annex the Danish autonomous territory.
Lavrov stated that the situation has come as a “shock” to Western Europe, as the so-called ‘rules-based order’, used by the collective West for years, is now being rewritten by just one country – the US.
He went on to comment on the West’s recent efforts to combat China’s economic advantage with sanctions and tariffs, saying that rules that have for years underpinned international economic relations have been “thrown out the window.”
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