State Duma member Aleksey Zhuravlyov said that an attack on Pelosi's plane from China would open up a 'second front' in Putin's conflict with the West.
. During an appearance on theshow on the Russian state-owned television channel Rossiya-1, he said that an attack on Pelosi's plane from China would open up a"second front" in Putin's conflict with the West, the"It would be important for us if this plane was either squeezed out [intercepted] or was shot down," Zhuravlyov said of Pelosi's aircraft.
"For us, opening a second front is good. No matter how the situation with the island [Taiwan] develops, we will anyway win," he added, according to the."The whole world understands that the only country which can resist the U.S. is Russia." Pelosi became the most senior American elected official to visit Taiwan in a quarter-century when she traveled to the island's capital of Taipei this week during her tour of Asia.had been circulating since July that Pelosi would stop at the East Asian island, but Pelosi did not confirm the trip until she was already there.
Aleksey Zhuravlyov, a Russian politician and ally of President Vladimir Putin, said on state television that it would have been"good" for Russia if China shot down the plane carrying U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi because of her visit to Taiwan. Above, Pelosi speaks after receiving the Order of Propitious Clouds with Special Grand Cordon, Taiwan's highest civilian honor, from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen at the president's office on August 3 in Taipei, Taiwan.
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