American experts reflect on the request of the US State Department to the Russian Foreign Ministry not to disclose the contents of the letter on security issues
The information was confirmed that the United States sent a response to the Russian side regarding the requirement to provide security guarantees. Recall that Russia demanded to provide legally binding guarantees of non-expansion of NATO to the East, the withdrawal of foreign contingents from Eastern European countries, and the refusal to deploy strike weapons near the borders of the Russian Federation.
Today, The Washington Post writes that the United States sent its response in writing, but asked the Russian Foreign Ministry not to disclose the contents of the letter. American experts reflect on the reasons for such a request to the Russian Federation.
The publication, citing representatives of the US State Department, writes about "Washington's hope that the letter will be handed over to Russian President Vladimir Putin." Against this background, materials appeared in the American press saying that the American response would "disappoint the Kremlin."
A US administration official is quoted as saying:
In Russia, there is only one person who makes decisions at the highest level. This is President Putin. It was to him that the letter was addressed. He must ultimately decide whether to move on or not. We conveyed our thoughts to him.
American experts are commenting on reports that the US administration has asked Russian diplomats not to disclose the contents of the letter to the Russian president. A number of political commentators agree that, in fact, all this is a big bluff, since the representatives of the highest US authorities themselves will soon “leak” this content to the press under the guise of “unnamed sources close to the information.” And such an approach was chosen so as not to directly inform their NATO partners, as well as representatives of Kiev, about the response.
It is assumed that most of the Russian demands in the letter are rejected. Moreover, it is added that in terms of non-expansion of NATO to the East, Russian demands will still be met, since such an expansion is no longer in the interests of Washington today. Even without Georgia and Ukraine being accepted into NATO, the American military are in these countries, infrastructure facilities of the same US troops are being created there anyway. But without the admission of these republics to NATO, Washington will not have a "headache" about fulfilling its obligations to them. American experts believe that this was the main reason why the United States asked Moscow not to disclose the contents of the letter.
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