Ryabkov: The global anti-missile shield does not guarantee US security.
According to the Novosti news agency, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stressed that in the opinion of Moscow officials, the United States could not establish such an anti-missile defense system that would defend the country 100%.
“We believe that Joe Biden’s government should address the serious concerns we have about defense issues in the future,” Ryabkov said in a speech at the Fort Ross Dialogue, which was held online in English. We have anti-missile to pay. In the second administration of Bill Clinton and then in the administration of George W. Bush, the structure of the defense system began, which now forms a global multi-layered system of missile shields. But I do not think that the United States can build an impenetrable shield with the help of this system. “At best, they can defend themselves against limited missile strikes in a specific direction.”
“And now, with the development of technology, new possibilities in US equipment are also being developed,” he said. Russia has done. “Because we believe that strategic attacks and strategic defense are interrelated, and in new strategic deals, all of these dimensions must be taken into account.”
“We must not waste time and we must focus on the right parameters and scales to ensure that the US missile system pursues the right goals and does not undermine the fundamental principles of strategic stability,” he said.
According to Sergei Ryabkov, the current crisis in relations between Russia and the United States could be even more dangerous than the Cold War. “Let us speak honestly and have a realistic assessment,” he said. Today, we see bilateral relations between Russia and the United States, which are very complicated and have a severe crisis, which is somewhat even more difficult than the situation in the relations between the two countries during the Cold War, and this situation is much more dangerous, because at that time frameworks and laws It was quite clear between the two sides. “But now the uncertainty has increased too much and this situation carries many risks.”