Moscow, Jan 28 (Agency) US is trying to spread its own model of democracy around the world, but it is absolutely inapplicable in a number of countries, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said. Commenting on the US’ actions in Afghanistan, that official said the Afghanistan could have been turned “into a blooming garden” if the money spent over 20 years on it were used for completely different purposes and Washington did not try to impose its model of democracy.
Firstly, if efforts were made for this, and, secondly, if our partners, in this case the US, did not try to impose everywhere their own model of democracy, which they are trying to deliver around the world and which is absolutely inapplicable in a number of countries,” Medvedev said. Medvedev also said the situation with drug trafficking in Afghanistan is extremely dramatic, and there were cases when NATO and US turned a blind eye to this.
The official noted since 2001 when the US sent troops to Afghanistan, drug traffic in the country had grown by about 40 times, calling the current situation “super-dramatic.” “Trillions of dollars have been spent, the population is still poor, very poor, and drug trafficking is growing. Moreover, we are aware of cases when the contingent present there, the international one, in fact, that of NATO, American, simply turned a blind eye to this,” Medvedev said.