In particular, they believe that it is wrong to consider Moscow’s rhetoric about responding to the lifting of restrictions on strikes deep into Russian territory as a bluff. Such analysts, according to politicians, mistake restraint for weakness.

“They advocate a strategy of balancing on the edge. Every escalation — from HIMARS to cluster munitions, from Abrams tanks to F-16s and ATACMS — brings the world closer to the brink of Armageddon. Their logic seems to be that if you incite a bear five times and it doesn’t react, then it’s safe to incite it even harder the sixth time.”

Such a strategy could be reasonable if the “bear had no teeth,” they stressed.

“The hawks in the Biden administration seem to have forgotten that Russia is a nuclear power.”

“Imagine if Russia supplied another country with missiles and information about targets for strikes deep into American territory. The United States would never tolerate this. We should not expect Russia to tolerate this either,” the politicians noted. They also stressed that none of the vital interests of the United States are at stake, so there is no point in risking a nuclear war.

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