The Russian ambassador to Venezuela, Sergei Melik, declared that “there is no fixed deadline to complete the military operation” that his country is carrying out in Ukraine.
He stressed that this special operation is based on Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. “It’s totally legal because it’s our right to self-defense,” he said.
“We had no other choice, we had no other way to defend the people who were attacked for eight years for being Russian-speakers, for not tolerating that coup that took place (took place) in Ukraine in 2014,” Mélik explained during a conversation held at the Bolivian Museum and organized by the Necessary Journalism Movement.
The Russian representative assured that in the military operation the civilian population is protected because the combat is between Russians. “It’s like Venezuelans or Colombians, it’s the same people.”
In relation to the possibility of unleashing a third world war as a result of the conflict in Ukraine, the ambassador ruled it out, “because those who make decisions about wars do not feel untouchable, firm and protected; the threat of being exterminated, annihilated is the only factor that puts them in a situation of pause”.
Parallel to that comment, he warned that “the situation in Ukraine will be very difficult, very hard, for a long time, but we are going to endure, we are not going to give in because it is a fight for the future; for the new world order, not an artificial new world order.”
Mélik criticized the coverage that the media of the so-called Western countries have given to the conflict in Ukraine. “It is a computer colonization; they are colonizing our minds and NATO is an instrument to carry out the aggressive plans of this neo-colonialist economic and political model; it is an instrument of force,” he noted.
Taking advantage of the topic, the ambassador indicated that he was surprised that from time to time in Venezuelan media they publish materials signed by authors who compare Adolf Hitler with the current Russian president Vladimir Putin.
When asking questions, Helena Salcedo, a member of the Necessary Journalism Movement, inquired about the role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military alliance between the so-called Western countries. The diplomat recalled that the roots of various armed confrontations that occurred after the Second World War are related to NATO, founded in 1949 with a single objective: “to dismantle the results of the Second World War, to attack.”
Analyzing what supports this NATO claim, Mélik pointed out that for this military alliance the role played by Russia in defining the Second World War was obvious. “Back then the Soviet Union was a country that played a role in this crucial victory; It was no secret,” said the ambassador, who recalled that next May 9 “we are going to celebrate Victory Day.”
It alluded to May 9, 1945, the day Nazi Germany signed the surrender to the Soviet Union, thus closing World War II. “Now, later with the times, the Americans intend to show that they were the ones who won the Second World War. But they did win; they earned a lot of money; they won, it’s true, because they made money, as always”, commented the ambassador.
As a counterweight to the warmongering objectives of NATO, Mélik upholds the model of the United Nations Organization, an entity that the diplomat classified as fair. And he pointed out that this spirit of coexistence manifested in the UN is an uncomfortable situation for the so-called Western countries with the United States at the head. “This does not serve their economic model, their interventionist, neo-colonialist economic model; this expansionist economic model can only serve by taking out and taking out more and more territories, peoples, wealth”, he explained.
Mélik recalled that Russia does not consider the conflict in Ukraine as a confrontation with NATO, despite the fact that this organization does present it that way. “Why? Because the purpose of NATO’s existence is to fight against Russia, against China, against any sovereign, independent state. Why? Because it doesn’t fit in their heads, it doesn’t serve them for their enrichment”, reflected the diplomat.
the war machine
The ambassador explained that NATO’s maneuvers against his country seek to convince European countries that they are threatened by being Russia’s neighbors.
With this argument they seek to promote the purchase of arms by US corporations, he deduced. All this strategy mounted by NATO is complemented by the United States, which along with others is responsible for “sowing hatred towards Russia” to boost and promote its war industry, Mélik explained.
To exemplify such a situation, the ambassador said that during the last 30 years, Western countries have implemented “an anti-Russian model” in Ukraine, after that country separated from the Russian Federation. “What is happening now in Ukraine is a very tough, very difficult military confrontation with many victims,” the Russian representative described.
The ambassador wondered how Nazism was born in Ukraine. Before responding, he clarified that Nazism “is a form of xenophobia, of racism, it is a form of intolerance.”
To answer his question, the ambassador said that during World War II in Ukraine they collaborated with Nazi Germany for the extermination of the Jewish people. But when the Red Army liberated those territories and put an end to that world conflagration, many of those Nazi collaborators emigrated to the United States and Canada, even to Venezuela, according to what the ambassador narrated. And when the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1990, those migrants thought the time had come to recover “their historic homeland,” he said. “In what way? With the ideas of your ancestors, with the Nazi ideas and of course many books arrived in Ukraine, a lot of information to create an atmosphere of hatred against Moscow; in this way an environment appeared in the current territory of Ukraine, where the new Nazis, the neo-Nazis, appeared”, he exposed.
The power of money
Before the Russian ambassador began his presentation, Professor Pascualina Curcio spoke, who asked: why has the United States been able to carry out a trade embargo on Russia?
Curcio responded that in war conflagrations not only military power counts, but “the power of money”, which was concentrated by the United States after World War II by placing the dollar as the world reference currency. “That’s one of humanity’s worst mistakes,” he said.
The researcher recalled that, in 1971, then US President Richard Nixon declared that the dollar would continue to be the reference currency, but no longer backed by gold, but rather by confidence in the economy of that nation. “How do we measure trust? but Nixon also said that all the oil in the world would be bought in dollars”, she referred.
The teacher recalled that, based on that decision, the United States created the Swift payment system, “which allows that country to blackmail, manipulate and attack currencies.”
