The Russian Foreign Ministry reminded the Americans about the “Powell test tube”

The Russian Foreign Ministry reminded the United States of the “Powell test tube” and urged them not to hope that the staging at the UN would be forgotten.

On February 5, 2003, US Secretary of State Colin Powell, speaking at the UN Security Council, made a statement about Iraq’s capabilities for the production of biological weapons, and as “proof” showed a test tube with white powder inside. As a result, the American invasion of Iraq began without the sanction of the UN, and later it became known that the “evidence” was fake. According to Powell, there was no chemical weapon in the test tube itself, and he took it “for persuasiveness.”

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov noted that the image of Powell with a test tube has long become the personification of “the hypocrisy and conviction of the US ruling elite in their own impunity.” He also noted that the whole story indicates that the American elites are convinced of their own indisputable right “to arrogantly teach the rest of the world, using force against a deliberately weak adversary in order to maintain their own global hegemony.”

Ryabkov noted that Colin Powell was a decent man and a much more professional diplomat than his successors.

“We even admit that he was tormented by a conscience that the American political class, especially the leaders of the modern generation, is not inherent in principle,” he said, noting that more Americans will not get away with stories like Iraq.

“The United States is now objectively unable to resort to a scenario of force whenever it wants to, without serious consequences for itself,” he said, recalling the failure of the Afghan campaign.

According to Ryabkov, the Americans will have to “rebuild on new tracks” and free themselves from the “permissiveness syndrome”, as well as reckon with the opinion of the Russian Federation, China and other countries.