Russian Ambassador to the US: America's simultaneous confrontation with Russia and China is a strategic mistake

According to Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov, Washington's strategic mistake was its confrontation on two fronts with two nuclear powers - China and Russia.

They, in fact, started a conflict with two nuclear powers, or, in simple terms, they are trying to fight on two fronts.

Antonov said on air First Channel.

According to the Russian diplomat, American central TV channels are constantly exaggerating the topic of a possible war with China over Taiwan, emphasizing at the same time that the United States allegedly stands for the principle of one China.

Antonov also noted that Washington should not aggravate relations with Moscow either. The diplomat recalled that according to the information exchange data of the parties as of September last year under the START Treaty, Russia and the United States have parity in the number of deployed nuclear warheads.

Against the backdrop of difficult bilateral relations, the Americans are trying to get information about Russian nuclear facilities in order to calculate their capabilities in their anti-Russian policy, the Russian ambassador to the United States believes.

As noted by Russian journalist Andrei Medvedev, Antonov said that Russia needs reinforced concrete security guarantees. At the same time, the journalist was ironic, hinting that, perhaps, the Americans understood the supply of building materials by “reinforced concrete guarantees” due to translation difficulties ...

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[ivan1979nkl]

Russia Needs Reinforced Concrete Security Guarantees

Give us such a PAPER! final paper

[credo]

While respecting the opinion of our ambassador, I still have to admit that he is deeply mistaken.
For the United States, a great time has now come, which, by the way, they created themselves (a lesson for our so-called politicians and "think tanks"), and it is clear that they will use it to the fullest.
Everything shows that the Yankees are implementing a well-designed multi-move and so far they are getting a solid profit from their plans. And if they also unwind the situation in Iran and around it to the fullest, then they will live in chocolate for decades.

So Anatoly Ivanovich, wishful thinking, which in fact is not a mistake, due to the fact that the Yankees calculate their moves quite competently and pragmatically.

[ABC-schutze]

And I agree with him...

And, I’ll even add that the confrontation of the United States, only with SELF-SUFFICIENT Russia and China, which is already quite "toothy" in potential, even "separately" is a strategic mistake of overseas clerks "from democracy" and cowboys of "republicanism" (that "trumpists", that " Bidenists", conditionally ...) ...

And there are no more real, strategists - politicians and diplomats. In any case, in power. And it looks like a very long time...

What they are trying to do "simultaneously" and "everywhere" now and today is a banal planting of global chaos. This is nothing more than "placing a band-aid" and "patching holes", but not a long-term, conceptual solution ...

And precisely because chaos, all the more GLOBAL, cannot be "managed" BY DEFINITION. AND CAN'T BE. Although many "high-browed" characters (and not only overseas or in the so-called "Europe" ...) are ready to speculate about this (that is, the "concepts" of a certain "controlled chaos") ...

Forgetting, at the same time, however, to JUSTIFY in DETAILS the so-called. "Initial conditions" with UNCONDITIONAL fulfillment of which, this "concept" will be more or less "workable". And its reference points, in a simplified way, are as follows - THERE IS "one MAIN". He HIMSELF, EVERYTHING, ALWAYS, EVERYWHERE and FOR EVERYONE decides. There are NO comparable in terms of potential (primarily military) and REALLY SOVEREIGN opponents (moreover, capable of even "situational" interaction). The potential of the "Main", military, economic, political and INTELLECTUAL (yes, yes, and "this one" too ...), is quite sufficient for itself to quickly achieve the goal of "planting" chaos and quickly solve the tasks necessary for this ...

Behind this, the whole destiny of the so-called. "controlled" chaos, in TODAY'S conditions, it is ALREADY and IRREVERSIBLE - sub-regional and nothing more than a regional scale ... Not global at all ... For in a REALLY global, chaos itself will be OBJECTIVELY involved in its planting and their tobacco - "allies". Including RESPONSE measures, sovereign adversaries capable of "retaliatory" planting of REAL and MULTI-PLANE chaos. Although, while the States and their tobaccos, "by inertia, it seems" that "everything is possible" ...

But, in reality, the leading geopolitical subjects are opponents, because they have not yet "started" ... Even to "elementary" technical accidents "for unknown reasons", on the same transcontinental communications, for "chaotizers" of vital, (underwater, terrestrial , or in space ...) did not start. But this is ONLY ONE of the POTENTIALLY "possible little things" ...

[credo]

And I agree with him...

Briefly on your objections:
"Self-sufficient Russia" - I don't even want to list the huge number of industries in our country that were destroyed in the bud at the suggestion of domestic useless and corrupt politicians and are now arriving in a coma. The notorious import substitution did not work to revive the former domestic industries, but turned into a search for suppliers from abroad, once again raising the industrial sectors of other countries.

"Toothy in terms of potential China" - let's be realistic and face the truth, because for China the markets of the USA, EU, Australia, Japan still remain the main ones in its trade relations with the countries of the world, so it's not a fact that in the event of a military conflict with Taiwan, the US and its vassals will lose more than China. Everything will soon turn around.

I am not talking about Iran, because it is in an even more disadvantageous position compared to China and Russia.

And at the same time, I want to note that the Anglo-Saxons everywhere act by proxy, only throwing firewood on the fire and being at a decent distance from the epicenters of hostilities, surrounded by their vassals, ready to kill themselves for the United States even now.

[ABC-schutze]

"Self-sufficient Russia" - I don't even want to list the huge number of industries in our country that were destroyed in the bud at the suggestion of domestic useless and corrupt politicians and are now arriving in a coma. "
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Your statement is correct, but it is purely "technical" and not conceptual. And, the key terms you have here are "today" and "they" ...

Duc, after all, this does not even mean that the REAL potential of Russia's SELF-SUFFICIENCY (and it is the ONLY country in the world that has such a ...) has "disappeared" somewhere. Moreover, "irreversible" ...

That's the "trick" that, achieved under the USSR, it did not disappear with the collapse of the USSR (although many, quite consciously, "had a hand" in its destruction. And not only "foreign", but also "liberal-friends" ...). Although, naturally, it suffered damage and its GROWTH was pretty "slowed down". But, once again, I note that it is by no means "irreversible" ...

Yes, and the people themselves in Russia, NOW, in terms of civic consciousness and Awareness of what (with what potential) HE and HIS COUNTRY (and not at all the so-called "power" and, or successful "privatizers - oligarchs" ...) POSSIBLE REALLY, fairly "grown up". And it no longer resembles "market-minded" shuttle traders and other "cooperators" ...

Although in terms of civic consciousness, the Russians still have a lot of work to do. It is enough to mention (remind) that Russians (according to the Constitution) are even "forbidden" to have THEIR IDEOLOGY ...

Those. A BASIC, historically, OBJECTIVELY established form of national identity, standing on the foundation of NATIONAL values ​​and development priorities, formed on the basis of INDIVIDUAL and MULTIPLE historical experience in the development of THEIR OWN state ...

For now, it will continue like this, the potential of Russia's REAL self-sufficiency, indeed, will always EXIST, but ... under the "potential threat" of its elimination ...

Incl. and all sorts of potential "perestroika", who do not share the mentioned values, but the SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE PEOPLE, are considered "formed on remnants and prejudices" ...

[credo]

Your statement is correct, but it is purely "technical" and not conceptual. And, the key terms you have here are "today" and "they" ...

You know, the conceptual nature of the future of our country was well realized in the first five-year plans of the USSR, when the country was headed by people who clearly understood in what direction it was necessary to develop and what needed to be done in order for the country to be self-sufficient and independent.

Unfortunately, for all of us and the country itself, since the 70s of the last century, people came to the country's leadership who calmed down and slowed down, and at the top of power there was even a kind of clouding of mind, which led to the fact that a weak and weak-willed person, with a limited outlook and small-town mental development, and as a result to the collapse of the country.

What now? And now the majority of the country's population lives today and from paycheck to paycheck, not seeing an upswing in the economy and improving welfare.
The daily flashing faces of the country's ministers with their slurred speeches do not evoke any feeling that they are capable of changing something for the better, except perhaps within Moscow and their personal affairs.

My "technical" view of the current state of affairs in the country is based not on speculative conclusions, but on the real state of affairs, and no matter how much domestic economists and political scientists talk about the collapse of the dollar and the decay of capitalism, life in Russia itself will not get better from this until verbiage and empty words conversations will not be replaced by real deeds when a new plant or factory of the same kind appears on the site of a demolished (abandoned, collapsed) plant or factory, and not a wasteland overgrown with weeds or a multi-kilometer high-rise building of dubious quality.

[ABC-schutze]

“Unfortunately, for all of us and the country itself, since the 70s of the last century, people came to the leadership of the country who calmed down and slowed down, and at the top of power there was even some kind of clouding of the mind, which led to the fact that a weak one was put at the head of the country. and a weak-willed person, with a limited outlook and small-town mental development, and as a result to the collapse of the country.
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It's hard to argue with this, but again, let's clarify two points ...

This process of increasing "opportunity" of intellectual laziness and the objectively related conceptual degradation of the ruling POWER nomenclature, especially in terms of the dialectical approach to the development of the SYSTEM (both social and economic-technological) affected not only the USSR, but also the same USA .. .

After all, it would be frivolous to assert that the same "clown" and Hollywood cowboy, Reagan, brought by the American military-industrial complex, as a result, to the top of the pyramid of power, was "much more intelligent" than a talker, a "Stavropol combine operator" who was not able to coherently complete compound sentences. Although he is credited with the "origin" of this or that "concept" (the same, the so-called "Star Wars") or politics ...

The Bush family, senior - junior, with all their "advisers - assistants", and other "Rumsfelds", is no better, in conceptual terms, than the "Yeltsins - Chernomyrdins" ... Or "Gaidars - Chubais" ...

Some - "overseas", banal and clumsy, "globally grabbed", everything that they could get their hands on, taking advantage of the moment. Under the beautiful reasoning about some "chessboards" ... Although their policy, in intellectual and conceptual terms, did not even reach the point of "hammering the goat" ...

Others, "local", "Gaidaro - Chubais" tritely fell apart, to the best of their ability, also stealing robustly, under the guise of a "radical reform" of the system ... Also, absolutely no "chess" ...

But after all, there was also the Celestial Empire. With its reformers - dialecticians, practitioners - conceptualists who ensured development without collapse ... Yes, "specific", taking into account the dialectical approach to THEIR system, but DEVELOPMENT. And those who demonstrated ABILITY, despite all their notorious "dependence" on the so-called. "Western technologies", "dollar", etc., QUICKLY, within the framework of the "changing environment", to change the CURRENT policies and approaches without significant damage to what has been achieved (let alone talk about the "collapse" ...) and without REFUSAL from the PLANNED (still "under Mao, in general ...) STRATEGIC goals ...

The fact that "clerks" dominate in the Russian system of power even now, even in the formation of long-term policy (moreover, literally in all spheres (from the military to culture and economy) is evident. Moreover, from the influence of all kinds of "advisers from the dressing rooms" free Including both personally and corporately - mercenary ... This is clear ...

But there are other examples as well. "Adequate" Russia (which they are trying to poke into a kind of dwarf "example" of no less dwarf, "prosperous" Switzerland, Finland and other "Sweden-Chukhonians") of scale and geopolitical role ...

The same India, China, Brazil, Turkey. Where, for all the difference in their systems and cultures, and individual (but at the same time sovereign) goals, there is no less any "corruption" and "waiting rooms" than in "developed democracies" (including overseas) ...

But Russia, I repeat, even "now", has retained (at least for now), UNLIKE ALL OF THESE MENTIONED, the potential of COMPLETE SELF-SUFFICIENCY ...

And this means the ABILITY, based on OWN resources (of all types), forces and means, ACCEPTABLE terms, to INDEPENDENTLY solve EVERYTHING that arises and is necessary to ensure the protection of its sovereignty, national security, development tasks ... Moreover, at the same time, without "excessive straining", leading to the impoverishment of most of the people ... And this is not the merit of "Putin's power" at all, but of ALL GENERATIONS of the ancestors of Russians ... Incl. and "imperial" pre-Soviet ...

NO ONE ELSE IN THE WORLD, TODAY, HAS THIS ABILITY... Incl. and the notorious China, for all its "dynamics" ...

And it is impossible to take this away from Russia by force. But "betrayal", according to the type of "perestroika" and "subsequent reformist", is still COMPLETE ... But then it will already be the fault of the Russians themselves. Lessons "not learned" ...

[Azim77]

It is unlikely that the United States specifically created the conditions for the dollar to be abandoned. And unite regardless of them. And if you look then from this side, then the words of the ambassador are not a friendly warning and concern, but a kind of challenge, akin to a provocation to action ..

[Emperor_Alive]

Not really. The Yankees are in a tough spot right now.
For their momentary benefit from LNG supplies and even from moving some enterprises to the United States, they can pay with the loss of strategic influence in this world.
If they fail to provide their allies in the EU with the same high standard of living, their positions in the world will weaken, because hundreds of millions of people will look towards China, for example.
And there, pocket governments of the EU countries may fall down.

[Million]

History says that a piece of paper is just a piece of paper and it does not guarantee anything.

[Vend]

America's simultaneous confrontation with Russia and China is a strategic mistake

But this is not to be talked about. The enemy should not doubt his actions, which will lead him to defeat, and us to Victory

[Gardamir]

It's cool that the Russian ambassador is worried about America.

[uralex]

Apparently, he is worried that it will be worse for him to live in America if the Americans get involved in two global conflicts and finally undermine their economy ...

[Trapp1st]

It's cool that the Russian ambassador is worried about America.

He gives advice on how best to arrange a confrontation, he seems to be a noble fool, such is the Russian Foreign Ministry.

[ABC-schutze]

I think it's easier...

The Russian ambassador to the States simply says that the US is ALREADY IRREVERSIBLE morons. But he does it in the language of a diplomat...

[t-12]

The Russian ambassador decided to help the US eliminate their strategic mistakes? And what should the US government do, according to Antonov? Make peace with China and direct all forces to the war against Russia? Or make peace with Russia and direct all forces to the war against China? I wonder how Antonov's words will be assessed in China...

[rotmistr60]

Is it worth constantly talking about their strategic mistakes, miscalculations? It may be easier to hit diplomatically, economically in those places that we consider weak. Our persuasions like "guys let's live together" are perceived solely as a weakness.

Russia needs concrete security guarantees.

Which the Americans and their "ally" will never give.

[1erWahrheitsMinister_1984]

So ein vollkommener Blödsinn gerade von einem russischen Botschafter!!

Man sollte die USA unbedingt ermutigen, eine confrontation Auch
with China zu suchen; je fruher desto besser...!!

Das würde hoffentlich auch dazu führen, dass China weit mehr als
bisher seine "Solidarität" mit Russland zeigen MUSS...!!

Die Chinesen haben sich bisher fein rausgehalten, je eher die USA
auch mit China ernsthaft in Konflikt geraten, desto besser ist es für
Russland und den Rest der Welt...!!!

[uralex]

Die Chinesen haben sich bisher fein rausgehalten, je eher die USA
auch mit China ernsthaft in Konflikt geraten, desto besser ist es für
Russland und den Rest der Welt...!!!

Ich stimme Ihnen völlig zu!

[Trapp1st]

1erWahrheitsMinister_1984 (Robert Bendix)
er lebt dort

[Ivan Ivanov]

According to Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov, Washington's strategic mistake was its confrontation on two fronts with two nuclear powers - China and Russia.

So you show them that they made a strategic mistake while the words are the same.

Interesting news:

The authorities of Kazakhstan are closing the trade representation of the republic in Russia. The document was developed by the Ministry of Trade and Integration of the republics. Why was it necessary to close the representative office in Russia right now? If the decision is dictated by economics and optimization, then why will the format of cooperation be curtailed only in the Russian Federation? There have been no similar decisions regarding other countries from Astana recently. The State Duma believes that Astana is most likely trying to maintain ties with the West. Kazakhstan is maneuvering.....

Those. we can’t even explain anything to our allies.

[Pravodel]

Russian Ambassador to the US: America's simultaneous confrontation with Russia and China is a strategic mistake

You don't need to report errors. Let the impudent Saxons rage and get the full from both us and China ..

[Galleon]

Our diplomat worries about the US and advises how they can do better for them? What kind of speech is this?

Washington should not aggravate relations with Moscow

To grow a fascist state at the side of Russia and against Russia and unleash a war with Russia - not the first, but already the third war against Russia - is it "not worth aggravating relations"?
And this is definitely our Russian ambassador to the United States, and not some Washington speaker?

[Akuzenka]

I don't understand "our" ambassador. Well, the United States is getting into a bad situation, so let them do it, do not stop them from making strategic mistakes. The United States will overthrow its neck, for some time the world will become easier.

[Ivan Ivanov]

I don’t understand why we need an ambassador to the United States at all? The same applies to Poland and the Baltics. To provide services to citizens for whom Zakharova is so worried, a temporary attorney is enough.

[vovochkarzhevsky]

Do you want to deprive "respected people" of their positions?

[Shamil88]

Such statements convince only that he worries more about the USA than about Russia, probably the whole family lives there, good earnings, good pension, children in the USA, why should he aggravate, because they can be recalled to unfortunate and cold Russia, long overdue recall ambassadors from all countries that help Ukraine with weapons

[AdAstra]

The ambassador is the ambassador and the ambassador, but this is what his boss says:

Lavrov: Russia is trying to move the Armed Forces of Ukraine to a safe distance
“If now we are striving to move the artillery of the Ukrainian armed forces to a distance that will not pose a threat to our territories, then the more long-range weapons are supplied to the Kyiv regime, the further they will need to be moved away from the territories that are our country,” Lavrov said in a statement. interview with the TV channel "Russia 24" and the agency RIA Novosti."

Can someone explain to me clearly what he is talking about, otherwise I myself do not understand?

[megadeth]

On the contrary, China needs to be pushed to take Taiwan, if the FSA fits in, it will be easier for us ... The ambassador should take care of his country ...

[cash]

Anyone interested in the problems of Russia's foreign policy is highly recommended to read the book of the USSR ambassador to the United States for almost a quarter of a century, Anatoly Dobrynin.

First of all, this is a very interesting read.

Secondly, they make it possible to see the hidden mechanisms and motivators of the foreign policy of the Kremlin under the Soviet regime. And this, in turn, allows us to understand that modern Russian diplomacy to a very large extent continues the Soviet tradition in this direction, inheriting all its key features.

What are these traits?

- the desire to avoid conflict with the West at any cost. Dobrynin quite colorfully shows how Soviet diplomacy tried to improve relations even with Reagan, who in the first years of his presidency openly and defiantly refused any contacts with the USSR. The consequence of this was: a) giving the enemy the impression of a greater interest in détente and, consequently, weakness, and b) an internal unwillingness to go into a potentially deadly confrontation for any purpose.

- the perception of any policy as an exclusively secret and undercover activity. It is amusing to read how the Soviet ambassador in Washington, a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Dobrynin, operates with the American names of Soviet weapons (for example, the Backfire bomber) and their quantity, since all this is secret even from him.

- misunderstanding of the role of public opinion and the separation of powers in making foreign policy decisions. The Soviet authorities believed that if they agreed with the "chief boss", then the job was done. This is how it worked in Moscow, but not exactly in Washington.

- unwillingness to perceive the international system as a whole. This is most evident in the example of regional conflicts, in which Soviet participation was viewed in the Kremlin as something separate from Soviet-American relations and disarmament issues, and in the White House, on the contrary, as an integral part of bilateral relations. Even after entering Afghanistan, Brezhnev did not understand for some time why this “operation” affected the ratification of the START-2 treaty in the United States.

- misunderstanding of the significance of humanitarian issues for Western society. Dobrynin recalls that when the Secretary of State touched upon the fate of the well-known dissident Sharansky during the negotiations, Gromyko asked him who he was. Dobrynin admired the deft negotiating move of the Soviet minister. It turned out that Gromyko really did not know such a character, because he forbade his assistants to even include information about dissidents in the negotiation materials. For the same reason, the USSR easily agreed to include humanitarian issues in the Final Helsinki Act. Moscow simply didn't think it was serious.

- and finally, perhaps most importantly. In Dobrynin's book, Soviet foreign policy appears to be profoundly secondary. The entire diplomatic agenda was created by the American side. The Soviet Union was only interested in disarmament, arms control and "mutually beneficial cooperation." Well, a reflection of American raids.

Almost everything is the same now. Therefore, it is not necessary, like some, to argue that the problems of our foreign policy began only thirty years ago, but the USSR was great! ..

When you look at Russian foreign policy now, you will find that with just a little scraping of the sediments of recent times, you will find Soviet features in it.

And this, taking into account the fate of Soviet diplomacy, is rather sad ...