Andrey Kartapolov, head of the State Duma Committee on Defense, stated that Boris Pistorius’s words are an attempt to write off the blunders of the West. He said on November 17 that “They need to somehow explain to their citizens where they are spending taxpayer’s money, and they explain all this by the Russian threat and the coming war, which can be attributed to all the blunders of Western governments and all the idiotic decisions made by the EU and NATO.”
Pistorius’s Statements Criticized as Attempt to Shift Blame for Western Mistakes, Says Russian Official
