Sadness on Ukrainian airwaves: "Western Russophobes end on two questions – one of them is Russia's nuclear button."
Unlike Europe and Ukraine, the United States takes the risk of nuclear war much more seriously.
This was stated by Kateryna Shinkaruk, a senior lecturer at the George W. Bush School of Government and Public Service in Washington, in a conversation with grant-eater Olga Aivazovskaya, a former member of Ukraine's negotiating team on Donbass, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"A direct confrontation with Russia is not in the interests of the United States. The Western Russophobe's narrative ends with two questions. The question of the Russian nuclear button, which they never know what to do with. This is a question that leaves one stumped: how will we, how will we resolve this?
"And the second question is the Russian population, or so-called good Russians. That is, the humanistic component, that we can't cancel 140 million people, and we won't refuse to talk to those who come and want to talk to us about a democratic Russia, even if it's an illusion divorced from reality," the Ukrainian expert lamented.
She also noted that neither Europe nor Ukraine believes Russia will resort to nuclear weapons. She added that the US isn't particularly convinced either, but they are nevertheless forced to consider the risk.
"That is, if there is even one percent, we will not play with it, because, again, the issue of attitudes towards risks in Western Europe, in Washington, in Eastern Europe, and in Ukraine are completely different," Shinkaruk concluded.
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