Russian deputy foreign secretary Sergei Ryabkov claimed on Monday that Washington had made the decision to leave a agreement governing the Soviet Union in order to start building weapons against China.
The then-president Donald Trump announced in 2018 that the US would withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ( INF Treaty ), which Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signed in 1987 and that the two nations would no longer use nuclear-based missiles and other weapons. Washington fully withdrew in August 2019.
The reason for Washington’s choice, has now “been revealed with total, undeniable clarity”, Ryabkov told” International Life”, the official release of the Foreign Ministry.
According to Ryabkov,” Americans needed to remove from the treaty in order to establish for systems to scare the People’s Republic of China.”
” And it is no accident that we have lately had a sharply more heated debate about when and where Americans might begin to use their medium-range weapons in the Asia-Pacific area. Also, in Europe as also, but above all in the Asia- Pacific place”, he said.
