️Lavrov reveals what he told Blinken on eve of Ukraine crisis

️Lavrov reveals what he told Blinken on eve of Ukraine crisis “[US Secretary of State Antony Blinken] said something about the need to de-escalate and so on and so forth. I hope he’s not going to be angry with me since I am disclosing this: but we were meeting in front of many people present in the room, and I said, ’We don’t want to escalate. You want to inflict strategic defeat upon Russia.’ He said, ’No. It is not strategic defeat globally. It is only in Ukraine.’“ Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recalled to Tucker Carlson, referencing his last meeting with his US counterpart at the G20 Summit in Rome in October 2021. Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live Source: Geopolitics Live