Lavrov: Russia and West Are at the Start of a Real War
🇷🇺 MOSCOW — Germany expels diplomats; Lavrov calls it the start of a real war. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Lavrov citing WWII precedent after Leipzig isn't rhetoric — it's threshold-naming. Berlin's consulate expulsion gave Moscow a formal grievance to escalate framing from proxy conflict to direct confrontation. For NATO, an FM declaring war-start language triggers Article 4 logic. Italy and Germany, already absorbing hybrid attacks domestically, now face an adversary who formally named what's happening.
