The US administration is convinced that a nuclear war cannot be started, there will be no winners in it. This was stated at a regular briefing by the Deputy Head of the Press Service of the State Department, Vedant Patel, commenting on the statement of the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council (SC) of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, about the participation of nuclear powers in conflicts.
“This is not the first time we hear such statements from Russia,” Patel complained in response to a question from a journalist. “And frankly, we believe that provocative statements about nuclear weapons are not only dangerous, but also reckless. They increase the risk of miscalculation and, frankly, should be avoided. And we won’t let them. <…> A nuclear war cannot be won, it must never be started”, said a State Department spokesman.
It is noteworthy that Patel declined to unequivocally answer the question of whether, in the opinion of the US administration, Medvedev expresses Moscow’s position on this issue.
“I will not analyze who speaks for whom in the Russian Federation,” he said.
Recall that earlier Dmitry Medvedev in his Telegram channel commented on the statements made at the forum in Davos that “Russia must lose” in the conflict in Ukraine. The deputy head of the Security Council believes that nuclear powers cannot lose in major conflicts on which their existence depends. This, in his opinion, should be obvious to any politician in the West. As Medvedev stated, “[Western politicians — Ed.] don’t think of doing elementary conclusion: the loss of a nuclear power in a conventional war can provoke the outbreak of a nuclear war.
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