TASS: Moscow ready for military response if NATO ignores Moscow’s concerns
Sergey Ryabkov stressed that Russia would seek to prevent this scenario and was aware of the need to hold a dialogue to avoid serious implications.
MOSCOW, December 20. /TASS/. Russia is ready for a military response if NATO keeps ignoring Moscow’s security concerns, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Monday.
“I said that we would find forms to respond, including by military and military-technical means [if NATO ignores Moscow’s concerns again],” the high-ranking Russian diplomat told TASS.
“I reaffirm this. We will have to balance the activities that are of concern to us, because they increase the risks, with our countermeasures,” Ryabkov said.
The senior Russian diplomat also stressed that Russia would seek to prevent this scenario and was aware of the need to hold a dialogue to avoid serious implications.
On December 17, the Russian Foreign Ministry released two Russian draft documents on the provision of legal security guarantees from the United States and NATO.
Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier called on NATO to begin substantive talks on reliable long-term security guarantees to Russia. He stressed that Russia needs legally binding guarantees because the West has failed to fulfill its verbal commitments.
As Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov told US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan that Moscow was ready to immediately begin talks on draft documents on security guarantees. Russia will be represented at these talks by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov.
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Does the bark have bite? Is it intimidation to a easy victory or is it a front because of fear?
Back in ’89 or ’90, HW Bush and James Baker, along with our allies the Brits and the French, did make a promise to Gorbachev that the NATO alliance would not go “one inch” (Baker) east towards the big enemy.
Fast forward to now. NATO has taken in most all of former Combloc countries to be part of its club. And has pushed further East: the Baltic states, and a wish towards getting Georgia and the Ukraine under the NATO umbrella.
All this, in defiance of a previous series of promises that can be summed up in Baker’s statement that NATO would not go a further inch east, once the two Germanies were accepted into NATO.
Putin is to be admired for putting his country’s interests first. That can’t be said for the folks in DC.
This is aimed more at the few sane factions in the west but more to the Russian public ( ‘we tried all avenues other than war’) who have been fed a steady diet of patriotic movies/tv for a decade.
Xi and Putin have had 37 meetings since 2013. China approved of this latest security guarantee Russia proposed. The chihuahuas of Europe egged on by US are the problem- again. Still haven’t got over 1945. Taiwan and other small countries will be the victims of these fools and predators. If the girls running the west persist then all bets are off.
This is a sad state of affairs. Absolutely no reason to be involved there at all, ever. That is especially true when you have pothole laden streets, collapsing cities, and an inflated currency at home.