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Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of RT and the Rossiya Segodnya media group, said that the US authorities never hold to their commitments as it is the norm for them.
"If you want to know what will definitely not happen in the following four years, then listen to the pledges made by a candidate for the US presidency for these next four years. This is the norm for them, they never keep their promises," Simonyan said on Sunday (24 March) in an interview for a documentary dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the start of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
The media person recalled the US pledges to former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev not to expand NATO to the East, promises by former US President Barack Obama to close the military base in Guantanamo as well as vows by ex-US President Donald Trump to make friends with Russia.
"This is another political ethic, a different way of communicating with your own electorate. You can say whatever you want, moreover, you can even sign whatever you want. Signed today, withdrawn tomorrow. How many times have they done this in front of us?" Simonyan added.
The journalist said that the Americans dropped more explosives on Vietnam than were dropped on entire Europe during World War II.
"This is a historical fact. They have not become better since then, they may have even become worse," Simonyan said.
In 1999, an armed confrontation between Albanian separatists from the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Serbian army and police led to the bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO forces, which started on March 24 and lasted for over two months. The Serbian authorities say that about 2,500 people, including 89 children, were killed and about 12,500 people were injured in the bombings. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that the use of depleted uranium weapons caused an increase in the number of cancer patients in the country.
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