Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Maria ZakharovaMOSCOW, Feb. 9 The West is in an existential crisis, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. “You see what is happening inside the United States and the Western world: a clash of ideologies, but not with external representatives, as during the Cold War, but within these countries. When this is no longer just a democratic struggle between two parties or three parties, and this is an existential political crisis of these systems from the inside. When people representing certain political movements are ready to destroy opponents — not to fight politically and then recognize the victory of the one who won the elections, but to really destroy, » — said Zakharova, speaking at the Diplomatic Academy in Moscow. «The culture of cancellation, the use of repressive mechanisms, arrests, political, financial, economic pressure, rejection of h a person from society,» Zakharova also gave examples.
