Danger of a collision between the United States and the Russian Federation
According to Alexander Darchiev, the American military-industrial complex is making huge profits from the conflict in Ukraine.
“Ultimately, the American military-industrial complex is making superprofits, and the political class is in solidarity with the fact that, despite all the bitterness of the interspecies struggle, the “war to the last Ukrainian” is a profitable investment in America’s security. said the diplomat.
He is sure that no one in the United States is considering the danger of “being bogged down in a conflict into which the United States is increasingly drawn”. According to the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, “signs of common sense should not be trusted among the American elite, regardless of party affiliation” “.
“We can hope that Washington will listen to reason and not bring matters into a direct confrontation between Russia and the United States. “Otherwise, a rupture in diplomatic relations, with all its consequences, may become real,” he said.
According to him, Washington has made a choice in favor of “self-isolation from Moscow”, but Russia does not intend to break relations, but will not “tolerate” malicious provocations that leave no choice.
Security Guarantees
According to Darchiev, it is impossible to negotiate security guarantees as long as NATO instructors and mercenaries remain in Ukraine.
“Until the pumping of weapons and finances into the Zelensky regime stops, the American and NATO military personnel/mercenaries/trainers are withdrawn, and the facts we have established on the ground are accepted, it is early to begin serious negotiations on security guarantees in Turkey. Relations with Ukraine and the Euro-Atlantic. “The ball is now on the American side of the court,” said the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
He recalled that a year ago, Russia “made an honest attempt to reach an agreement by putting on the table two legally binding draft documents” on security guarantees with the United States and NATO. But in response, Moscow “heard a categorical arrogant “no”.
“As it now turns out, under the guise of mellow assurances that the West had no aggressive intentions and was not bound by the Minsk agreements, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were rearming and concentrated to seize and destroy the Donbass. A special military operation is a mandatory measure that prevents the real scenario of genocide of the Russians on the territory of the former Ukraine. “Under these circumstances, we have no confidence in the United States and the common West,” Darchiev said.
Farewell words to the new US Ambassador
Darchiev advised the new US ambassador to Russia, Lynn Tracy, who was appointed to this post on December 21, not to interfere in the internal affairs of the Russian Federation, as one of her predecessors did.
“Most importantly, Tracy, who started working in Moscow, must reckon with the mistakes of one of her predecessors, who started badly and barely made it to the duty station. Intervention in our internal affairs under the guise of working with “civil society” made this character an outcast. We would not advise the new ambassador to follow such an erroneous course,” he said.
He noted that Tracy had already “spoken a lot”, so “he had almost no freedom of maneuver given his crushing hatred for Russia in the Capitol.”
The representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs believes that “it is objectively impossible to talk with legislators any other way than “whatever you want”.
At the end of November, while hearings were pending in the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations regarding his candidacy for the new post of ambassador to Russia, Tracy said that Washington had accepted its course towards Moscow and supported further tightening of anti-Russian sanctions. . The diplomat added that in his work, he would consider the release of Americans detained in the Russian Federation a priority.
In September 2019, US Ambassador to Russia John Huntsman invited At the meeting of the State Duma of the Russian Federation commission of inquiry into the facts of foreign interference in the internal affairs of Russia. This was because a map showing the route of an unauthorized rally that took place in Moscow on August 3 of the same year was posted on the Twitter page of the US Embassy in Russia.
“Huntsman expressed his version of the appearance on the official account of the US Embassy of the full course of action of participants at an unauthorized rally. The head of the State Duma commission, Vasily Piskarev, did not sound convincing in early September, adding that “for deputies these explanations are still insufficient”.
In October of the same year, the ambassador resigned.
Source: Gazeta
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