Allies of the United States in Europe and the Pacific are trying to prevent Washington’s transition to the principle of non-use of nuclear weapons first. The newspaper writes about this on Friday, October 29 Financial Times…
Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan and Australia adhere to the position that abandoning the principle of a preemptive nuclear strike can “give courage” to Moscow and Beijing, the newspaper specifies.
It is noted that the US nuclear policy since the Cold War is “deliberately vague”, and the American allies feel protected under the “nuclear umbrella”.
According to the newspaper, the White House is now reviewing its policy on the use of nuclear weapons.
On September 25, the Russian ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, said that the Russian Federation and the United States would have to discuss intermediate and shorter-range missiles (INF) in order to avoid an arms race.
Prior to that, on October 14, the US President’s Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation Jeffrey Eberhardt demanded that the Russian Federation remove from Europe the missiles allegedly deployed there, since this runs counter to the INF Treaty. This is how the special envoy answered the question of how the administration of US President Joe Biden relates to the initiative of Russian leader Vladimir Putin to introduce a moratorium on the deployment of intermediate and shorter-range missiles in Europe.
On March 12, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the possible deployment of US ground-based missiles in the Asia-Pacific region could lead to a new round of the arms race with unpredictable consequences.
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