Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov
Reuters – Dec 13, 2021
- Comments raise stakes in East-West standoff
- Minister says Russia has complete lack of trust in NATO
- Russia working on proposals after Putin-Biden call
Russia said on Monday it may be forced to deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe in response to what it sees as NATO’s plans to do the same.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russia’s RIA news agency in an interview that Moscow would have to take the step if NATO refused to engage with it on preventing such an escalation.
His comments further raised the stakes in an East-West standoff in which Russia is demanding security guarantees from the West while the United States and its allies are warning Moscow to pull back from what they see as a possible invasion of Ukraine – something Ryabkov again denied was Russia’s intent.
Intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) in Europe were banned under a 1987 treaty agreed between Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan in what was hailed at the time as a major easing of Cold War tensions. Washington quit the pact in 2019 after complaining for years of alleged Russian violations.
Ryabkov said there were “indirect indications” that NATO was moving closer to re-deploying INF, including its restoration last month of the 56th Artillery Command which operated nuclear-capable Pershing missiles during the Cold War.
‘COMPLETE LACK OF TRUST’
“Lack of progress towards a political and diplomatic solution to this problem will lead to our response being of a military and technical military nature,” he said.
“That is, it will be a confrontation, this will the next round, the appearance of such resources on our side. Right now there aren’t any, we have a unilateral moratorium. We call for NATO and the U.S. to join this moratorium.”
NATO says there will be no new U.S. missiles in Europe and it is ready to deter new Russian missiles with a “measured” response that would only involve conventional weapons.
But Ryabkov said Russia had a “complete lack of trust” in NATO.
“They don’t permit themselves to do anything that could somehow increase our security – they believe they can act as they need, to their advantage, and we simply have to swallow all this and deal with it. This is not going to continue.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden held two hours of talks last week on the Ukraine crisis and Moscow’s demand for what it calls legally binding security guarantees from the West.
Ryabkov said Russia would present its follow-up proposals to the United States, and possibly also to other NATO countries, in the coming weeks. Putin’s spokesman, however, said he expected the Russian ideas to be presented this week.
Yes, it is like I’ve been saying. Biden has so say agreed, but you can’t trust Amerika, & the UK wants war. The UK fake news is full of bullshit stories that Boris has warned Putin, but the reality is that Putin read Boris the riot act. The UK is probably ahead of the US when it comes to the targeting order when nukes are fired.
If the US doesn’t make a genuine effort to set terms and sign agreements/treaties, then Russia will probably invade Ukraine in late Fubarey or March 2022. Make no mistake, the US, UK, and NATO members know exactly where the Russians stand, & exactly what the Russians will do the moment that Russia determines that the West are wasters.
Russia should use its missile systems to directly target western elites. Ensure some of them are amongst the first to die in this next war of theirs. Change the nature of warfare forever. Make them pay a price and not just soldiers and civilians.
If they retreat to their bunkers send over army engineers to breech the tunnels and divert large bodies of water into them. Any part near the coast pour the ocean into it. That’ll flood them all up to sea-level.
Ryabkov–Another Jewish looking ‘Russian’, like Putin & Lavrov…The Zionist Cryptocrats & their visible political puppets of the USA/Britain/Ukraine/Russia–setting up the white goyim again to kill each other…
Jewtin playing the game no doubt.
The longer it takes to nuke London the more rotten it gets, emanating its stench far and wide.
Sooner or later, a collapsing and desperate US will attack Russia and China. The Russians and Chinese know this and are preparing.
lewis jones:
” lewis jones on December 14, 2021 at 6:56 pm
The longer it takes to nuke London the more rotten it gets, emanating its stench far and wide.”
I hope that wasn’t personal…