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The Russian embassy to the United States has issued a pair of statements regarding both the war in Ukraine and the recent sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
On Wednesday, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov published an article addressing comparisons between the current situation in Ukraine to the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 1960s.
Antonov noted that “this October will mark sixty years since the Cuban Missile Crisis when the USSR and the United States were on the verge of a nuclear conflict,” and said the time is now to “look closer at the foreign policy lessons that the two great powers have learned from that dramatic time.”
Recently, the ambassador pointed out, American media outlets and politicians have been repeatedly warning Russia may soon use nuclear weapons and comparing the situation to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
However, Antonov claimed the “experts” are wrong about the comparison, and are “ignorant of history and misinterpret the current state of affairs.”
Continuing, the Russian representative described how global treaties signed over decades have recently “sunk into oblivion” and the U.S. has consistently searched “for opportunities to achieve global military dominance.”
NATO forces have also crept closer and closer to Russia’s Western border despite pacts to refrain from doing so.
Regarding the decision to wage war on Ukraine, the Russian Ambassador to America asked several rhetorical questions, including, “What did the United States do to ensure the implementation of the Minsk agreements?” and “Why did Washington keep silent for eight years and not pull Kiev up when Ukrainians and Russians were killed in Donbas?!”
He continued, “How could it ignore the terrible tragedy in Odessa when several dozen people were burned alive?! Where were the international humanitarian institutions?! Why did the administration prioritizing human rights allow such crimes?!”
These are all fair questions that have yet to be answered.
“Today it is obvious that the United States is directly involved in the military actions of the Kiev regime,” Antonov wrote. “Washington is openly building up the supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine and provides it with intelligence. They jointly plan military operations against the Russian Armed Forces. Ukrainians are being trained to use NATO military hardware in a fight.”
Russia said it feels as if it’s “being tested to see how long it will remain patient and refrain from responding to blatantly adversarial actions and attacks.”
The ambassador also claimed media coverage of Russian nuclear threats is a “sham” and that President Putin would only use such weaponry in a defensive manner which would “strictly adhere to the 2014 Military Doctrine and 2020 Basic Principles of State Policy on Nuclear Deterrence.”
After Russia officially acknowledges the recent referendum in Donbas, Ukraine, in which citizens voted to become a part of Russia, Putin’s government will treat any attacks on that area as an attack on the Motherland.
Antonov also criticized “American military planners” who think a limited nuclear conflict is possible, warning nuclear attacks would rapidly escalate to a global scale.
The ambassador concluded the article by stating he wants to believe that Russia and the Americans “have not yet approached a dangerous threshold of falling into the abyss of nuclear conflict,” with the caveat, “It is important to stop threatening us.”
“Today, it is difficult to predict how far Washington is ready to go in exacerbating relations with Russia. Will the U.S. ruling circles be able to give up their plans aimed at wearing out our country with the prospect of its dismemberment?” he asked.
The Russian embassy in Washington D.C., on Thursday, issued an official statement suggesting the Biden administration intentionally sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines.
First, the embassy noted the fact that U.S. politicians have already blamed Russia for the pipeline sabotage.
Former CIA Director John Brennan also peddled this theory on CNN Wednesday.
“Perhaps, they have a better view from the top of Capitol Hill,” the embassy sarcastically wrote, adding, “But if that is the case, they must also have seen the U.S. warships’ activities at the very site of the Russian infrastructure disruption just the day before.”
The Russians continued, “Or noticed drones and helicopters fly over there. Or observed U.S. Navy exercises with underwater explosives that have been conducted in the same area some time ago. Finally, they should have recalled the promises made by President Biden to ‘bring an end’ to the Nord Stream 2 project.”
The Russian embassy to the U.S. also asked, “who benefits from the pipelines’ rupture?” before explaining “the U.S. decided to ‘squeeze out’ Russia as a competitor using non-market methods and sanctions.”
The embassy said the “decades-long energy trade between Moscow and Europe has long turned into an eyesore for Washington strategists” who are “unable to offer a decent alternative to reliable and, no less importantly, cheap supplies of gas.”
America’s endgame, according to Russia, is to get “its allies hooked on an expensive and environmentally unfriendly ‘LNG needle,’” or liquified natural gas.
Chinese and Ukrainian companies that produce and trade LNGs are suspiciously enough the exact ventures Hunter Biden chose to dive into leading up to the war in Ukraine.
The Russian government has called for a UN Security Council meeting regarding the Nord Stream attacks which will be held on Friday.
Russia is expected to present evidence that the sabotage was an act of “international terrorism.”