As a tense war of words among powers looms over the ongoing fighting in Ukraine, Russia’s envoy to the US has warned that the current generation of NATO politicians clearly does not grasp the true gravity of a potential nuclear conflict erupting.
Amid tension rivaling the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Anatoly Antonov claimed that it’s the West and not Moscow that’s driving brinkmanship, condemning at the same time Western officials for blatant misrepresentation of the nuclear doctrine of Moscow.
He also blamed the leaders of the US-led military alliance for an apparent lack of concern about the potential for a civilization-ending thermonuclear exchange.
Russia’s ambassador in Washington said that Russian officials have never stopped its agreements reaching efforts that will prevent a catastrophic confrontation from unleashing since leaders in the military bloc continue to misread the risk of nuclear war.
Antonov also noted Russia’s persistent proposal for the US to affirm that nuclear war should never happen since there can be no winners in it.
His comment comes in light of the warning of Moscow’s Security Council deputy chair Dmitry Medvedev of new nuclear deployments in the Baltic region if Sweden and Finland are admitted to NATO.
The former Russian president and prime minister noted that in the Nordic states’ membership application in the military alliance is apparently imminent in the coming weeks since both countries have repeatedly voiced interest in joining.
Meanwhile, US officials including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair General Mark Milley insist that it is Russia that has upped the nuclear ante, accusing it of nuclear saber-rattling.
Those accusations intensified after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov argued in an interview last month that the risk of atomic war is serious and real and warned that it mustn’t be underestimated.
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