{"id":265700,"date":"2023-02-28T07:46:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T07:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=265700"},"modified":"2023-03-01T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:05:13","slug":"nato-is-de-facto-at-war-with-russia-kremlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=265700","title":{"rendered":"NATO is de facto at war with Russia \u2013 Kremlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT.com — Feb 28, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Dmitry Peskov. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The US-led collective West must change their approach to global security and finally take Moscow\u2019s concerns into consideration, before talks on the New START nuclear agreement\u00a0can be renewed, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Izvestia newspaper for an interview<\/a> published on Tuesday, Peskov said relations with the United States and Europe have \u201cchanged radically\u201d<\/em> since President Vladimir Putin formulated draft security treaties<\/a> that were sent to Washington,\u00a0Brussels and Vienna in late 2021, only to hear that \u201cthey were not ready to talk about anything with us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf they wanted, they could have sat down at the negotiating table [back then, before the decision to launch a military operation in Ukraine],\u201d<\/em> he said. \u201cThere would have been very complex, positional, sometimes irreconcilable talks, but they would have been under way. But they refused.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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 \u201ctheir intelligence is working against us 24 hours a day, their weapons\u2026 are supplied to Ukraine for free to shoot at our military, not to mention that they shoot at Ukrainian citizens.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe moment when NATO de facto became a participant in the conflict in Ukraine, the situation changed,\u201d<\/em> the spokesman continued. \u201cIn fact, the NATO bloc is no longer acting as our conditional opponent, but as our enemy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Putin was and remains open to any contacts that can help Russia achieve its goals in one way or another,\u201d<\/em> Peskov continued. \u201cPreferably peacefully, at the negotiations table, but when this is not possible, also by military means, as we are seeing now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Peskov touched on the New START treaty, a US-Russian accord intended to limit both nations\u2019 nuclear stockpiles and allow them to monitor each other\u2019s military facilities to confirm compliance. Amid the conflict in Ukraine, however, Moscow and Washington have accused each other of failing to facilitate such inspections.<\/p>\n

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow intended to formally suspend its obligations under the pact, with Peskov explaining \u201cthe conditions must somehow change.\u201d<\/em> During the New START negotiations, the nuclear arsenals of France and Great Britain were left out of the equation, even though they are \u201csignificant enough for the entire system of European strategic security,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese countries \u2013 France, Britain, the United States \u2013 are members of an organization which is de facto at war with us… you need to call a spade a spade,\u201d<\/em> Peskov added, noting how Western states nevertheless keep \u201crepeating like a mantra that they do not want to be participants in the conflict.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2019s system of nuclear deterrence. He blamed Washington and NATO\u2019s proxy war against Russia for destroying the foundation of trust on which the treaty was initially built.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to journalists for an interview published on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said relations with the United States and Europe have \u201cchanged radically\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265704,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265700\/revisions\/265704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}