MOSCOW, May 17./TASS/. In an interview with the Belarusian BelTA news agency, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova drew attention to the fact that there is no unity, solidarity and shared outlook within NATO.
"We have been persuaded for many years that it is an alliance of like-minded countries, that they come together solely because they have common interests, ideology, approaches to key issues, and at the same time they differ from the rest of the world that has not yet matured to these high standards," the diplomat said.
"Today we see that these civilized foundations don’t differ much from barbarism, based on what they profess, namely the culture of cancellation, aggression, and all kinds of phobias you can think of," Zakharova went on to say.
"The second point is that there is no solidarity, common grounds and unity. First, there is no unity in their own ranks. This is not just a difference in views on the development prospects. These are claims against each other, verging on hatred. Look at the statements they allow towards the countries members of the alliance not over the past month or weeks, but for the past years," she said, citing such statements as "the brain death of NATO".
She also stressed that there is no unity among the political leadership of these countries and the people. "After all, the decisions that were made are presented as the decisions of freedom-loving Finland and Sweden, while in fact they mean that these countries are being drawn into NATO. And they are by no means based on the opinion of the population of these countries," Zakharova went on to say.