Outer space

US pursuit of military domination hampers space arms ban negotiations – Churkin

The US’ selfishness and its desire for global military domination accounts for its reluctance to negotiate the ban on the placement and development of weapons in space, and poses a threat to other countries, Russia’s UN Ambassador told RT.

“They want to have American military domination, they are not comfortable enough in the world of checks and balances. They don’t want much to share power and influence with others,” Vitaly Churkin told RT’s Sophie.

 “If you imagine that the arms race weapons spread into outer space ... it creates all sorts of problems,” Churkin explained. “For example, in terms of the possibility of continued reduction of nuclear weapons. From time to time Washington says that they want to see further negotiations with Russia on the reduction of nuclear weapons, but it’s hard to talk about that without keeping in mind the possibility of weapons appearing in outer space. If that were to happen, that would create a completely different strategic situation, much more difficult to regulate.”