According to a senior Russian diplomat, the Kremlin is getting concerned enough to consider a nuclear option due to US global provocations.
Moscow Braces for Instability
Senior Russian diplomat Alexey Drobinin claimed that US policies implemented by the Biden White House have led to Moscow being among nuclear powers preparing for nuclear war, reported RT.
His comment as the chief of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Foreign Policy Planning Department is a window into how Moscow thinks about it. He authored Wednesday's article published in Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn (International Life) magazine.
It is claimed that the foundation for weapons limitation and strategic stability is now being undermined at the request of the United States. In their military doctrine, the Americans have decreased the first-strike threshold, noted Viuku.
He noted that these and other worrying elements are bringing the most catastrophic scenarios of the nuclear option, loaded with disastrous repercussions due to US global provocations, back into the sights of military planners.
Belief that an emerging multipolar international order, which the Kremlin is constructing, will offset the West's unipolar predominance, making it safer. It was stated that the US-led West should not obstruct or its well-being would be jeopardized.
According to Drobinin, more benefits will accrue to multipolarity and deglobalization if no interested organizations, such as the hegemonic West, try to interfere with this new attitude that is not entrenched in a cold war ethos, citing CSM Times.
The Russian ambassador went on to describe how Washington and its European allies are worried about losing clout in a changing world that is moving away from them.
US-Russia Arms Control Agreement
In a letter to the ninth Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed that there would be no winners in a nuclear war and that it must never happen.
New START is the only major weapons control pact between Moscow and Washington that is still in effect.
The agreement was on the verge of expiration in early 2021, but it was saved shortly after Biden's inauguration when Washington finally accepted Moscow's request to extend the agreement without any limitations. It is currently due to expire in 2026.
Besides keeping the world from self-destructing in the nuclear conflagration, Russia is establishing an economic framework for Greater Eurasia. A top diplomatic goal remarked Aleksey Drobinin, is also a senior strategist at the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Free trade and multilateralism across larger Eurasia could become a priority for Russian foreign policy in the years ahead. The Greater Eurasian Partnership (GEP) aims to promote economic links among nations while not meddling in domestic politics.
According to Drobinin, it serves as a mechanism to combine economic integration and security; it is open to all states and organizations on the continent.
It's clear the Kremlin is ready to consider a nuclear option that US global provocations are pushing for, but concepts like the GEP on the sidelines assure a better future for multipolarity.
