Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova pointed out to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken that the US has a “habit” of attacking other states. on this he Wrote on your Telegram channel.
Earlier, an American diplomat said that his citizens did not like “one big country bullying another”. “Most Americans don’t like when one major country bullies another and they think it’s wrong and they want to do something about it,” the Secretary of State said in a statement. report CBS Mornings.
In response, Zakharova decided to “deliberately remind” Blinken of her own country’s history.
“I could be wrong, but this person to this day represented the USA, not any other country. The Secretary of State should at least know the history of his own state. Is the USA not attacking Iraq? Or is Iraq not small enough? – wrote the diplomat.
George W. Bush (43rd US President 2001-2009) led the US and its allies’ preemptive invasion of Iraq in 2003, which many experts and political figures dismissed as unjustified. In the war that followed, more than 4,000 American soldiers were killed, along with tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
In the 21st century alone, the United States has been involved in a dozen military operations, including the invasion of Syria and Operation Enduring Freedom in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks.