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THE US vice-president urged confrontation with Russia yesterday just hours after the secretary of state condemned Congress for voting to impose new sanctions on Russia.
The gulf between hawks and doves in President Donald Trump’s government opened up when Vice-President Mike Pence contradicted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s comments made on Tuesday.
In a remarkable press conference, Mr Tillerson said: “The action by the Congress to put these sanctions in place and the way they did, neither the president nor I are very happy about that.”
Western nations’ increasingly aggressive stance is not prompted by any increase in security threats against these countries — rather, it is caused by a desire to bring about regime changes against governments that pose a threat to the hegemony of imperialism, writes PRABHAT PATNAIK
While 69 per cent of Ukrainians want negotiated peace, Western leaders are cynically prolonging the war for their own strategic and economic goals, to the immense detriment of Ukraine and Europe, write BOB ORAM and MAGGIE SIMPSON