'Russia will defend itself and protect its allies with all available means, if necessary. Is the U.S. position any different?' Anatoly Antonov told Newsweek.
the Kremlin's approach was part of a successful self-deterrence doctrine and one not unlike that of the White House.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price reacted hours later, criticizing what he called Putin's"nuclear saber-rattling" as"irresponsible" and"dangerous" during a press briefing in Washington, D.C.that"it is unclear where the U.S. side sees irresponsibility." "But to break it down, what is so unreasonable about the president's words?" Antonov added."He reminded us of the immutable fact—that Russia will defend itself and protect its allies with all available means, if necessary. Is the U.S. position any different?"
The Kremlin has cited concerns that Ukraine's aspirations to join NATO would put the neighboring nation under the alliance's nuclear umbrella as one of the reasons Russia launched what it refers to as a"special military operation" more than nine months ago. Since the fall of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact coalition in 1991, the majority of Eastern European states in the former USSR sphere of influence have become members of the rival NATO bloc.
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