“The West, due to the lack of authoritative leadership in recent years and at the present time, as well as due to lack of confidence in itself, in its ideas, in its system of values, has been unable to create either a system of unions or an attractive political and economic model comparable to Shelkov by China,” he wrote in an article for Giornale.
At the same time, Berlusconi noted, the foreign policy defeats of the West, for example, in Afghanistan, undermined its authority in the eyes of the ruling classes and public opinion throughout the planet.
"The political and military unity of Europe ... is no longer just a desirable choice, but an inevitable necessity," he concluded.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Grigory Mashkov said that the United States is preparing for future conflicts by making alliances to create a system of global dominance.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov noted that Western attempts to split Russian-Chinese ties are doomed to failure.