The countries that make up the Shanghai cooperation organization (SCO) and the Collective security treaty organization (CSTO) are becoming guarantors of stability in Central Asia, including in connection with the irresponsible withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, Russian Security council (SB) secretary Nikolai Patrushev said to the Argumenty i Fakty newspaper on Tuesday.
"The irresponsible withdrawal of American troops [from Afghanistan] has led to the fact that the states of the region have to face increasing problems, which the Westerners have not only failed to solve, but also aggravated. Under these conditions, the SCO and CSTO countries become the main guarantors of stability in Central Asia," Patrushev said.
He noted that in fact, Afghanistan "has become a litmus test that once again confirms that Washington has no friends in the world but only its own selfish interests". In this regard, the secretary of the Security council recalled how the events in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and earlier in Yugoslavia developed as examples of "destructive American strategy of global domination". "Having spent trillions of dollars on military operations, the US and its allies left chaos and destruction everywhere," Patrushev said.
Interference in the affairs of other countries
The secretary of the Russian Security council added that where Washington "cannot achieve its goals by open military intervention, it aggressively interferes in the internal affairs of sovereign states." Moreover, Patrushev pointed out that Washington tries to cut off even supplies of the most basic means of survival to unwanted countries.
He cited the situation when the crisis in Cuba escalated in the summer of this year. "Planes with food, medicines and medical equipment flew from Moscow to Havana almost immediately. And Washington urged the Cubans to go out into the streets and overthrow the lawful government. This is the American way of democracy," said Patrushev.
"At the same time, in each of its bills, Washington cynically calls Russia, China, Iran and a number of other countries bad countries, troublemakers, revenge-seekers, malicious players," summed up the secretary of the Russian security service.
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Based on materials from TASS