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As reported by YouTube -U.S. channel Tour of Duty, former American intelligence officer Scott Ritter compared the attitude of the leaders of various countries to the visits of the heads of the foreign affairs agencies of Russia and the United States.
As an example, he cited the visit of Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to China, where he was met rather coolly, while time, when the visits of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov are comparable in warmth to the arrival of a real rock star.
«You will not see Lavrov at the plane in the capital greeted by someone of low rank… this happened to Blinken in China,» Ritter said.
According to the ex-intelligence officer, this is due to the fact that Moscow, unlike Washington, builds its foreign policy on the principles of mutual respect.