A senior Russian official has urged the European Union and the United Kingdom to recognize their “limits” in international affairs and to accept their status as followers of the United States.<\/p>\n
According to the Novosti news agency, Kirill Dmitriev, the special representative of the Russian president, stated that Brussels and London are trying to portray themselves as “middle powers,” a stance that has caused concern in Washington. He emphasized that countries aligned with Washington must understand the boundaries of their roles.<\/p>\n
Dmitriev added that the EU and the UK are pursuing a misguided strategy, which cannot lead to an independent standing for them. According to him, this approach will only intensify internal divisions within the Western camp.<\/p>\n
These remarks come in response to comments by a U.S. Department of Defense official, who said that the so-called “middle power” strategy would ultimately result only in wasted time and financial resources.<\/p>\n
The term “middle powers” in political discourse refers to countries that, without global hegemony, play significant economic and political roles regionally and internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Russian official warns EU and UK to understand their limits and accept follower status to the US amid rising tensions over ‘middle power’ ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}