The UK considers Moscow the biggest threat – RT in English

According to the new British doctrine on national defense and security, Russia is the “most immediate threat”. Analysis Moscow regrets while relations between the two countries are “blocked”.

According to the new British geopolitical roadmap (Integrated reviewWhich sets the country’s national defense and security priorities for decades to come, remains Russia’s “most important direct threat” to Britain. Thus, in this hundred-page document we can read: “The United Kingdom respects the people, culture and history of Russia. [mais] And until relations with his government improve, we will defend ourselves against the set of threats emanating from Russia. “

Prime Minister Boris Johnson also confirmed that the island would remain a member of NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and that it would work with its “allies and partners” to meet the security challenges of the “physical world” and via the Internet. “We will continue to go beyond NATO guidelines and allocate more than 2% of our GDP for defense, and we will devote our nuclear and electronic capabilities to the defense of allies,” he said.

This is the first time that the United Kingdom has published its priorities in the area of ​​defense and national security since leaving the European Union. Relations between London and Moscow have deteriorated considerably in recent years after several incidents and disputes, such as the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in March 2018, the continuing tensions in part of the Navalny case or accusations of the UK’s cyber-attacks against Russia.

“Russia was not and no one’s enemy”

Another important point in this report that Prime Minister Boris Johnson must elaborate on before MPs: The UK’s desire to increase the ceiling of its nuclear arsenal, the first since the fall of the Soviet Union. One of the major moves is for the UK to raise its maximum stockpile of nuclear warheads from 180 to 260, or an increase of nearly 45%.

As reported by RIA Novosti Agency, on March 16, Russian President Dmitry Peskov expressed his regret over Britain’s new defense strategy. “Of course, this confrontational situation can only cause regret and even anxiety,” a Kremlin spokesman said, stressing that this approach has nothing to do with the real state of affairs: “Russia has nothing to do with it. It was so. It is not an enemy of anyone, it is.” They do not pose any danger to anyone. On the contrary, as President Putin has repeatedly stated, we support the normalization and development of good and mutually beneficial relations with all countries. We want good relations. “

In early March, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the magazine Russkaya Mysl Relations between the two countries are “stalled,” pointing out that London has in recent years pursued an anti-Russian policy characterized by the intensification of pressures and sanctions of all kinds.