{"id":115108,"date":"2022-05-06T09:42:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T13:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=115108"},"modified":"2022-05-06T09:42:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T13:42:28","slug":"russia-nato-not-taking-nuclear-threat-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=115108","title":{"rendered":"Russia: NATO Not Taking Nuclear Threat Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian Ambassador to US Says NATO
\nNot Taking Threat of Nuclear War Seriously<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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The ambassador said the US has ‘frozen’ arms control talks<\/h3>\n

by Dave DeCamp
\nAntiwar.com<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s ambassador to the US said on Thursday that NATO leaders\u00a0are not taking the threat of nuclear war seriously enough<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe current generation of NATO politicians clearly does not take the nuclear threat seriously,\u201d ambassador Anatoly Antonov told\u00a0Newsweek<\/em>.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s widely believed that a direct war between NATO and Russia would quickly turn nuclear, the danger doesn\u2019t appear to be factored into the Western approach to the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, the US and its NATO allies have been pouring weapons into the country and are openly sharing intelligence with the Ukrainians that is being used to kill Russian troops. On top of the strong support for Ukraine, the US and many other NATO countries have abandoned diplomacy with Moscow.<\/p>\n

The Western campaign clearly risks sparking a direct war with Moscow, prompting Russian officials to warn of the danger of nuclear war. But the US has denounced the Russian warning as saber-rattling and continues to escalate its support for Kyiv. Antonov criticized what he called \u201ca flurry of blatant misrepresentation of Russian officials\u2019 statements on our country\u2019s nuclear policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Antonov reiterated Russia\u2019s stance on the potential scenarios where it would use nuclear weapons. He said they \u201ccan be used in response to the use of WMD against Russia and its allies, or in the event of aggression against our country when the very existence of the state is jeopardized.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US and Russia possess about 90% of the world\u2019s nuclear weapons, but today, there is only one major arms control treaty between the two nations, the New START, which limits the number of missiles, bombers, and nuclear warheads each power can have deployed. Early on in Biden\u2019s presidency,\u00a0he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed\u00a0<\/a>to extend New START for five years, but progress on arms control has stalled since.<\/p>\n

At a summit in Geneva last June, Biden and Putin agreed that the US and Russia would hold arms control talks, but Antonov said the dialogue has been \u201cfrozen\u201d by Washington. \u201cRegrettably, Washington has unilaterally \u2018frozen\u2019 the bilateral strategic stability dialogue that was launched at the Geneva summit, thus jeopardizing the prospects of keeping the foundation of arms control in place,\u201d he said. \u201cRussia is ready to resume the consultations as soon as the United States is ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

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