International security

Dangerous for US to Treat Russia as Opponent Due to Nuclear Arms – Ex-Ambassador

It is dangerous for the United States to treat Russia as an opponent due to comparable nuclear capabilities of the two states, the former Russian ambassador to the United States said Friday.

"The perception of Russia as an opponent [by the United States] is very dangerous. Russia is the only country which has a comparable nuclear arsenal [to the one of the United States]," Sergey Kislyak, who is also the first deputy chief of the Russian Federation Council's Foreign Affairs Committee, said at a plenary session at the Stolypin Forum in Moscow.

The diplomat added that the United States treat Russia as an opponent because Moscow had been implementing policy aimed at revision of the existing global political order.