RT.com — Feb 28, 2023
Dmitry Peskov. Click to enlarge
The US-led collective West must change their approach to global security and finally take Moscow’s concerns into consideration, before talks on the New START nuclear agreement can be renewed, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
Speaking to the Izvestia newspaper for an interview published on Tuesday, Peskov said relations with the United States and Europe have “changed radically” since President Vladimir Putin formulated draft security treaties that were sent to Washington, Brussels and Vienna in late 2021, only to hear that “they were not ready to talk about anything with us.”
“If they wanted, they could have sat down at the negotiating table [back then, before the decision to launch a military operation in Ukraine],” he said. “There would have been very complex, positional, sometimes irreconcilable talks, but they would have been under way. But they refused.”
With the failed attempt at dialogue, tensions continued to soar between Moscow and the West in the lead up to the conflict in Ukraine. Peskov argued that NATO is now fully involved in the hostilities, noting “their intelligence is working against us 24 hours a day, their weapons… are supplied to Ukraine for free to shoot at our military, not to mention that they shoot at Ukrainian citizens.”
“The moment when NATO de facto became a participant in the conflict in Ukraine, the situation changed,” the spokesman continued. “In fact, the NATO bloc is no longer acting as our conditional opponent, but as our enemy.”
“President Putin was and remains open to any contacts that can help Russia achieve its goals in one way or another,” Peskov continued. “Preferably peacefully, at the negotiations table, but when this is not possible, also by military means, as we are seeing now.”
Peskov touched on the New START treaty, a US-Russian accord intended to limit both nations’ nuclear stockpiles and allow them to monitor each other’s military facilities to confirm compliance. Amid the conflict in Ukraine, however, Moscow and Washington have accused each other of failing to facilitate such inspections.
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow intended to formally suspend its obligations under the pact, with Peskov explaining “the conditions must somehow change.” During the New START negotiations, the nuclear arsenals of France and Great Britain were left out of the equation, even though they are “significant enough for the entire system of European strategic security,” he said.
“These countries – France, Britain, the United States – are members of an organization which is de facto at war with us… you need to call a spade a spade,” Peskov added, noting how Western states nevertheless keep “repeating like a mantra that they do not want to be participants in the conflict.”
Putin has also accused NATO specialists of helping Kiev to launch drone attacks against Russian airfields hosting long-range bombers, which are part of Moscow’s system of nuclear deterrence. He blamed Washington and NATO’s proxy war against Russia for destroying the foundation of trust on which the treaty was initially built.
Here is one, and the only reason why the US isn’t interested in a working security system that works for all.
The US will not have any arms control treaties with China. Now, you can fart about with the various reasons for this, but it makes no sense for the US to have treaties that limit US reach.
Why the Russians want a treaty with the US is beyond me. Take out a tiny component and declare X nuke to be scrapped. This is how the US cheats at every turn.
The US and UK were defacto at war with Russia (& China) before 2014.
There are three systems. One is the ‘International Rules Based Order, which is effectively suck Uncle Sam’s todger. The UN and international law, a system which is broken, and has been broken because of too much todger sucking, and the third system is’ My way’, or your way, and this is where Russia came unstuck.
All very noble doing things by the book, all nice and legal, but Russia was and still is wasting it’s time with the UN and international law.
If Russia had launched a proper military invasion with full shock & awe, after 6 days, demand surrender, no surrender, 2 tactical nukes on two Western UKraine cities or towns on the 7th day, and two additional nukes everyday thereafter until surrender.
The war in Ukraine would have been over by day 8. What would happen after that, who knows, but one thing is for sure. Hundreds of thousands of thicko sheeple would be alive today. The US would now face an apponent who was willing to be just as brutle as they’ve been in the past.
Putin’s speech and China’s rejected path to peace has been rejected. The legal case and charges have been made, and the US has sealed it’s fate. It’s now just a question of when does Russia strike first?
If the US-led west has started war against Russia then the US-led west is ipso facto at war against Russia, China and Iran. And by extension their BRICS allies. They all know that to stand alone is to risk defeat and to let any stand alone is to risk them all being targeted one by one and then defeated. It’s unlikely the west is able to defeat the first let alone all of them but the west remains a risk and must be treated as such. They must stand together until they’re beyond challenge, even if it’s unwise just yet to present themselves as a united front.
“These countries – France, Britain, the United States – are members of an organization which is de facto at war with us… you need to call a spade a spade,”
– Peskov
Wow.. what a “coincidence”! These are the very cuntries that Deagel projects to be pulverised into oblivion ny 2025!!!
RT is another Yid-Communist controlled mass media network. The ‘Minister of Mass Media’ in Russia is some hideous obese Jew named ‘Maksut Shadayev’. Search for images of it…it looks like it shambled out of some sewer in Israel. Peskov like Medvedev is another crypto-yid. Most if not all of the cabinet members in the Jutin Admin are Yids or crypto-yids with fake ‘Russian’ names. Just like all the cabinet members of these ‘western nations’ are jews/crypto-yids too..
NATO = ZOG
Russia = ZOG
Jews are playing both sides. Its all a facade to mask global Jewish control & provide the pretext to legally murder millions of whites in war. Now you know.
Looks like TTS is becoming some propaganda/news outlet for Commie Russia.
we have one enemy and that is our own government they cut up our children into trannies
they chem trail us tax us shit on us with migrants
it is them who are our enemies
not russia iran or china
Carl Jones –“thousands of thicko people would be alive today”, and then he would be even more pissed-off