November 2, 2022)—Sputnik News published a lengthy interview with US Senate candidate for New York, Diane Sare. The interview was then picked up by Urdu Point based out of Pakistan, and radiated out to many other news agencies—particularly in the Arabic speaking world.

The interview was wide ranging, taking up issues of the strategic crisis, democracy and culture—in a polemical manner typical of Diane Sare and her politics of truth approach.

Sare called for cutting US funding for Ukraine and the NAZI insurgency groups there, and discussed how a peace deal back in April was sabotaged by Boris Johnson. She called for reconciliation and rebuilding immediately.

“I can’t imagine myself how the soldiers on the ground, at least the ones who are not Nazis, on both sides, I mean, the Russian troops, and the regular Ukrainian people who are not in Azov or these extremist groups are feeling about this because the people of Ukraine, the people of Russia are very close. It’s the same family,” she said. “Therefore, you’re going to have, I think, an approach like Abraham Lincoln after the Civil War. We’re going to have to have a massive plan for reconstruction.”

Sare told Sputnik that the resolution in Ukraine must be put “in the context of a new order of relations among nations in the world which is based on mutual respect of the security interests of all and that includes emphatically the right of every nation to sovereign economic development.”

Sare further called for restoring US-Russian relations, saying, “I would do whatever I could do to repair this relationship.”

However, Sare, a trained classical musician and choral conductor, noted that the damage to those relations extended even to culture itself, with attacks on Tchaikovsky, the Bolshoi Ballet, Tolstoy, or Dostoevsky.

“I think it’s a complete outrage… the role of the artists is not a political role. It’s not a partisan role. The role of the artist is to ennoble mankind,” Sare said. “So, trying to stop this, to nullify it, you really are limiting the ability for human beings to communicate with each other in the domain where we have common interests and a common identity,” she added.

Sare went on to say that 2024 will mark the 200th anniversary of the Missa Solemnis of Beethoven, which was premiered in St. Petersburg.

“It was written for that chorus because the chorus in St. Petersburg in 1824 probably was the best chorus in the world,” she said. “Beethoven is slandered all the time, because the vocal parts in this piece are so difficult. Everyone said he was crazy. He didn’t understand the singing voice. No, he was writing it for the best chorus in the world. Now, I think this is incredible. We just had the 250 year anniversary of Beethoven, which we didn’t celebrate properly because of the pandemic. But what an extraordinary thing. Shouldn’t we be collaborating to celebrate the 200 year anniversary of this masterpiece, and the legacy of the history of the choral tradition in St. Petersburg, and probably we’re not even allowed to talk about it?”

Sare’s comments on Democracy in the United States, however, are likely to draw the ire of those guardians of the “rules based international order.”

“I want the world to know that the idea of democracy in the United States is a complete fraud,” Sare said. “I’m telling you this without saying anything about what happened in 2020, but merely my own experience, what I had to do to get on the ballot, and then a blatantly rigged opinion poll to keep me out of the debate,” noting her exclusion from the Spectrum News debate and the opinion polls upon which participation in that debate was based, even though she achieved over 20,000 more signatures for ballot status than required.

Sare said regardless of the results she is not going to disappear as a political voice.

“This fight is not going to go away. My point of this campaign is to win the policy. And I intend to win the policy, whether I’m in the Senate or whether I’m not,” she said.