{"id":246275,"date":"2025-07-07T21:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T21:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246275\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T21:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T21:38:12","slug":"russias-top-diplomat-claims-mild-mutiny-brewing-within-nato-amid-deepening-disagreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246275\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s top diplomat claims \u2018mild mutiny\u2019 brewing within NATO amid &#8216;deepening disagreements&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISTANBUL<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>A \u201cmild mutiny\u201d is taking place within NATO, Russia\u2019s foreign minister said Monday, citing growing disagreements among member states and rising discontent over what he called ideological impositions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters after attending a BRICS economic bloc summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sergey Lavrov argued that NATO\u2019s expansion has failed to benefit even its own members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are deepening disagreements, a kind of mild mutiny is brewing on the ship, since more and more countries want to be guided not by some ideological guidelines imposed by the owner, but by their own national interests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov also dismissed Western claims that BRICS\u2019 expansion since last year has weakened the bloc\u2019s unity, asserting that the group remains cohesive and focused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has never been such a risk in BRICS, and I do not see any threat of blurring our activities,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Since last year, several new members have joined longstanding BRICS members Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He underlined that BRICS operates on principles of equality, consensus, and mutual respect, which he said stand in contrast to NATO\u2019s structure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBRICS has always relied on consensus that truly reflects the balance of interests, and is not dictated by the elder brother,\u201d Lavrov said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot agree with such attempts to artificially describe BRICS as an organization that is exhausting its purpose. On the contrary, its potential is only just beginning to be revealed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has long opposed the expansion of NATO in Europe and would like to see the alliance smaller and less united.<\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/p\/subscription\/1001\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:12px; color:#444; text-decoration:none;\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. <b style=\"color:#1897F7\">Please contact us for subscription options.<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n                                <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL A \u201cmild mutiny\u201d is taking place within NATO, Russia\u2019s foreign minister said Monday, citing growing disagreements among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[5340,2821,332,95562],"class_list":{"0":"post-246275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-anadolu-ajansi","9":"tag-nato","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-russian-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114814119101742555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}