Antonov: Washington must stop delusions of defeating Moscow

Washington-Sana

The Russian ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Antonov, warned that the continuation of arms transfers to Ukraine constitutes a "path to confrontation between Russia and the United States," calling on Washington to stop indulging in the idea of ​​defeating Moscow.

The Russian ambassador said in an article published in the American magazine Newsweek and quoted by the RIA Novosti agency, “It seems clear that the Americans are short-sighted in the current circumstances, and the local elite is obsessed with the desire to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia that is working to escalate tension by injecting weapons into the regime in Kyiv, wondering whether they really do not realize that this is the way to achieving peace.” A direct military confrontation between the two largest nuclear powers, considering that such a confrontation is “fraught with unpredictable consequences.”

Antonov stressed that US plans to stifle Russia with sanctions are futile, stressing that imposing restrictions without thinking only aggravates the situation in the US economy.

In an article for the American National Interest magazine yesterday, Antonov confirmed that Western institutions are intimidated by the sanctions stick if they cooperate with Russia, and that talk about excluding Russian food and fertilizer exports from the sanctions is delusional.