Reuters – Dec 10, 2021
Russia on Friday warned of the danger of a major confrontation with the West unless the United States and its allies gave serious thought to security guarantees for Moscow, and it also raised the prospect of a European missile crisis.
Sergei Ryabkov. Click to enlarge
The comments by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov at a news briefing in Moscow came amid soaring tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine and a Russian troop build-up near its borders.
In a top-level video call to defuse the tensions on Tuesday, President Vladimir Putin asked U.S. President Joe Biden for security guarantees for Russia that would halt NATO’s eastward expansion.
Russia has said it is waiting to see where the idea leads, though Ryabkov said it would be “naive” to expect the guarantees to be obtained. Bilateral ties are at their lowest point since the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
“If our opponents on the other side – above all the United States but also other countries, its allies, so-called like-minded countries – if they refuse, and try and torpedo this, they will inevitably get a further worsening of their own security situation,” Ryabkov said.
“Not to agree would mean to move closer towards a big confrontation,” he said.
He also urged the West to seriously consider a long-standing proposal to impose a moratorium on the deployment of short- and intermediate-range missiles in Europe that were banned under a missile pact that collapsed under then-U.S. President Donald Trump.
Ryabkov criticised the United States and its NATO allies for expanding their military capabilities in Eastern Europe.
“We need before it’s too late to avoid a new missile crisis in Europe. The appearance of short- and medium-range weapons on these territories is a direct route to escalating confrontation,” he said.
(Reporting by Tom Balmforth and Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Paul Simao)
Ryabkov is a sane man. NATO went insane years ago.
We can’t trust our leaders to protect us anymore, whether from microbes or migrants, but we DO have a well-paid warmongering staff who are busy trying to get us all killed before any virus has a chance.
The Russians have my respect for attempting to make a deal but it’s not going to happen.
DONT DISTURB RUSSIAN BEAR !
If you haven’t figured it out yet–NATO, Russia, Ukraine are all directed by the same Zionist Cryptocrats behind their visible appointed puppets like Biden, Putin, Zelensky, Johnson (who just happen to be all Jews). Its all a staged act to mask their pervasive power & further their ethno-demographic transformation of the West into nonwhite simian-mongrel societies (Kalergi Jew). But hey, this is what millions of white Allied morons destroyed Hitler for…
Many thanks to you, Russian Goverment and Russian People, you are really friends of all humanity and are doing all your best to save yourself and all of us from the nefarious globalist dictatorship or the final nuclear holocaust, but you are confronting psychopaths without soul and the most evil creatures of the universe whom they wont stop until crush you and later on the whole humanity therefore you are morally free of any guilt if you decide to use your complete capacity in a first strike as a selfdefense.
Rwuters like the weather was bought by Rothschild years ago
it cannot be trusted
PUTIN/RYBAKOV
WELL SPOKEN !
some money powers should hire
an international deathsquad to stirup
the hiding rothschilds,rockefellers,
soros,gates, bourla etc and their upper
sanhedrin + deep stater servants !
it should be also in their intrests since
after us they will not be spared to go
our way .