Russia: US dreams of a unipolar world when withdrawing from INF
The US move to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia is motivated by the dream of a single global superpower, Russian state news agencies quoted a Russian Foreign Ministry source as saying.
Illustrative photo. (Source: AFP)
The diplomat said Russia had "repeatedly and publicly condemned the US policy line towards the abolition of the nuclear deal."
Three major Russian news agencies quoted the official as saying that Washington "approached this step in a multi-year roadmap by deliberately and gradually destroying the basis of the agreement. This decision is part of the US policy of withdrawing from international legal agreements that place equal responsibility on them and weakening the concept of US 'exceptionalism'."
Russian Senator Alexei Pushkov wrote on Twitter that the move "deals a second blow against the entire system of strategic stability in the world," the first being in 2001 when Washington withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
According to Mr. Pushkov, "once again the initiator of the cancellation of the agreement is the US"./.
