“Precisely to change, because the vast majority of these states either consider our attitude to the long-term neglect by the West of Russia's legitimate security interests in the field of security to be justified, or they want to take a neutral position.
They are broken “over the knee”, using the rudest methods,” the minister told the Zvezda TV channel.
At the same time, Western countries are not even shy about public statements that if someone does not obey them, it will be “not good,” Lavrov recalled.
“When such unacceptable, boorish threats are made against, for example, India, this suggests how adequate Western speakers are and whether they understand the national identity of a people like India,” he continued.
He also expressed the opinion that Western countries today only live on sanctions, in fact, they have replaced with them what used to be called diplomacy.