/ world at present information/ A struggle between Russia and the West, together with with the USA, could be utterly completely different in comparison with the struggle in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned, after studying in regards to the US report, which contained proposals for Washington to organize for a simultaneous struggle with Russia and China.
The long-awaited report on U.S. nuclear coverage and strategic stability was launched on October 12 by the 12-member Strategic Posture Fee, which Congress commissioned in 2022 to conduct a menace evaluation, assess what adjustments to the steadiness of U.S. forces are wanted and make suggestions.
“Our place is to uphold peace, but when they need a struggle with Russia, then will probably be a very completely different struggle, not as a particular navy operation,” Putin mentioned in a broadcast on Russian state media on Sunday.
Moscow makes use of the time period “particular navy operation” to confer with the struggle in Ukraine. The assertion comes after a report launched Friday by the US Strategic Posture Fee mentioned the White Home ought to enhance spending on each its typical and nuclear forces to cope with twin threats from Russia and China.
Washington will quickly discover itself in a “basically completely different international surroundings that has by no means existed earlier than,” during which Russia and China will “possess nuclear arsenals equal to ours,” the report mentioned. Moscow has the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, and China is strengthening its nuclear arsenal, together with with its new Sort 096 ballistic missile submarine. “The chance of battle with these two nuclear companions is growing,” the report mentioned.
Relations between the US and Russia have reached their lowest level in years over the struggle in Ukraine. The US and Western international locations supporting Ukraine’s struggle effort towards Russia outline their navy assist and assist to Kiev as assist, not participation within the struggle.
However in mid-September, Russian Overseas Minister Sergei Lavrov mentioned the US was “waging struggle towards Russia, it doesn’t matter what they are saying.” Requested to touch upon Lavrov’s remarks, a Pentagon spokesman instructed Newsweek that “the USA is just not at struggle with Russia, nor are we looking for a struggle between NATO and Russia.”
Ties between Washington and Beijing have additionally change into extra strained over China’s refusal to sentence the invasion of Ukraine and over fears about China’s plans for Taiwan.
The US says it has no official ties to Taiwan, which has its personal democratically elected authorities, however has a “sturdy unofficial relationship” with Taipei. Whereas Beijing views Taiwan as a breakaway island that needs to be introduced again below central management.
“China is the one nation with the intent to reshape the worldwide order and the rising financial, diplomatic, navy, and technological energy to take action,” US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken mentioned in Might 2022. China “is essentially the most the intense long-term problem to the worldwide order,” he added.
Whereas the potential for a “main nuclear battle” stays distant, “the danger of navy battle with Russia and China, or each, whereas not imminent, has grown, and with it the danger of attainable use of nuclear weapons towards the homeland us,” mentioned the Fee’s report printed on Thursday. “The US should decisively and urgently change course,” the report’s authors write in its conclusion.
Translation: Dr. Radko Khandzhiev
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