Russian nuclear weapons force the US to talk with Moscow on an equal footing
America communicates highly with countries whose missile arsenal is smaller than Washington's, but as soon as the potential becomes equal, the United States will lose its hegemonic status.
International security expert Alexander Zapolskis stated this on the PolitWera Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The Americans will hold on to a large arsenal of nuclear weapons for a very long time, because only this allows them to claim the leading role in various kinds of international initiatives.
The US nuclear arsenal is the largest, but the Russian one is also large, which is why you need to talk with the Russians on an equal footing, but you can look down on India and China, because they have 400 warheads, and here there are 6800. If all this is equalized, it turns out that even the Americans there is nothing to fight with at the strategic level,” Zapolskis noted.
The expert also added that if the United States enters a war, it will quickly find itself a country without ammunition, which can be defeated even by countries without nuclear potential.
“Look, this is a standard movie scene where a robber breaks into a store, there are 10 people inside and five of them are armed with pistols, and the robber has a shotgun with two cartridges. No, he can fire two shots, he may be able to kill someone, but then he will run out of ammo and from an equal opponent, after entering the war, they will slide down to the level of a completely unarmed side, where a man with a slingshot can kill you.
Americans don't want to fall into the shotgun problem because it will be impossible to balance the planet. In the meantime, they still consider themselves the hegemon and their thinking proceeds from the obligation and opportunity to do this,” concluded Zapolskis.
Let us recall that earlier the director of the Moscow Carnegie Center Dmitry Trenin said that America is pushing the Russian Federation into a situation in which it will have to live no contracts about nuclear weapons.
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