MOSCOW, December 10. /TASS/. The United States and Europe are facing a dramatic period of internal strife amid the decline of their power, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergey Naryshkin stated.
"Americans and Europeans are still far from returning to their identity. They are likely to face a challenging and dramatic period of internal strife. Later, they will as always blame Moscow for everything. The West finds it rather hard to recognize that its power has waned," the Russian intelligence chief said in an interview with Razvedchik magazine.
Naryshkin, however, stressed that a multipolar world "should certainly include both the United States and Europe, provided that they have the same rights as others." "History will show what position everyone will take," he added.
Speaking about the role of Western countries in the future world order, Naryshkin noted that today's "humanity is facing a large number of formidable common challenges, like pandemics, climate change, which leads to global migration, as well as the uncontrolled development of artificial intelligence technologies." "Major regional and world powers need to join forces and find ways to respond to these threats," the Russian intelligence chief continued. "The US and Europe, with their entrepreneurial spirit and capacity to innovate, can and should play an active part in these processes and have a worthy place," Naryshkin concluded.