Nicaragua: “This is the third world war,” Daniel Ortega says after receiving Lavrov

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said the invasion, initiated by Russia V Ukraine “This is the third world war,” the Managua government said in a televised address to the press on Thursday.

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In his speech following the Wednesday reception in Managua of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Ortega declared that “the third world war is already underway” because “it is the United States and Europe (those that) use Ukraine find how to disappear Russia”.

“The same as it was in World War II. When Hitler created his party in Germany, no one criticized or condemned him in Europe, rather large European and American capitals supported him so that he would come and lead this country, ”he said.

“The enemy at that time was not Hitler, but Russia. The Soviet Union (was) the enemy the Europeans and the United States looked up to,” he said.

However, suddenly “Hitler, the son of capitalism, European and North American democracy, came up with the idea to act in a Napoleonic way: by capturing Europe, capturing Russia, and the United States was no longer left, when he saw the strength that Hitler had, and how he was moving forward than an alliance with the Soviet Union,” Ortega said.

“Now we are seeing the same story, that is, we have Europeans who fell into the swamp, paying attention to the fact that gringos” disappear Russiaconsidered.

He observed that the European people “are suffering from this war” and that “the American people are beginning to feel the consequences of this war financially and economically.”

Russia is “fighting for peace”

“And this is the third war, because the whole world is involved in this war,” he insisted. Ortega.

He noted that only the countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Selak) “tried not to get involved” in the war launched by Russia against Ukraine.

“There was an attitude of neutrality and a demand to seek a peace agreement,” he added.

He said that at the meeting with Lavrov, they talked about “the efforts that the Federation is making RussianPresident (Vladimir) Putin, seek peace with security, and this is what Europe must understand, that there must be peace in the new world.”

He added that “no one wants an escalation with nuclear weapons, because then there will be no one left on the planet,” so “the world now depends on the results and efforts made for peace.”

For Ortega, Russia “waging a battle for peace”, not a war against Ukraine.

“This is not against the nation, this is against the fascists, the Nazis, who 9 years ago made a coup in Ukraine and settled there. The children and grandchildren of Hitler, (Joseph) Goebbels rule there,” he said.

The Russian foreign minister arrived in Managua on Wednesday as part of a trip he is taking through Latin Americawhich began in Brazil, continued in Venezuela, Nicaragua and will end in Cuba.

(As reported by EFE)