Not scared

How in the West and East they reacted to the speech of Vladimir Putin

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If Donald Trump was the main recipient of yesterday's “nuclear” message of the Russian president, he pretended not to hear him. Usually, a very energetically reacting on his Twitter to external stimuli, this time the 45th president of the United States did not comment on a publicly demonstration of Russia's virtual power. However, as the official representative of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany Steffen Zaybert , Trump and Bundescantler, Angela Merkel, said this topic during a telephone conversation on the evening of March 1. “The Chancellor and the President are concerned about the recent statements of the Russian president,” Zubert said.

Washington's reaction

“Thirty years ago, even ten years ago, the Putin statement with threats to attack America with new nuclear weapons would become a sensation requiring the reaction of our president. What today? Nothing. Marvelous. Sadly. And scary, ”the former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFol reacted on his Twitter to Twitter to the silence of Trump.

Representatives of the Pentagon and the State Department made it clear that the Russian president did not see the special sensations in the speech of the Russian president.

30 years ago, even 10 years ago, the Putin statement with threats to attack America with new nuclear weapons would become a news sensation requiring the reaction of our president. What today? Nothing. Surprisingly sad. And scary, ”Michael McFol reacted on Twitter to Twitter to the silence of Twitter

“We again live in the era of great -power rivalry, and Russia, undoubtedly, chose this as its approach,” John Rud, Deputy Minister of Defense of the United States for political issues, said on Thursday evening. “Personally, I was not surprised by those comments that Putin sounded in speech. This in the broadest sense corresponds to what was said earlier, ”said Rud.

The official representative of the American defense department Dana White told reporters that the weapons , which Vladimir Putin mentioned, have been being developed for a long time and this moment was taken into account in the updated nuclear doctrine of the United States.

“Of course, it was sad to watch the video -canom, depicting a nuclear attack on the United States. We certainly did not enjoy it. We do not consider this the behavior of a responsible player in the international arena, ”said Heker Nauert, head of the US State Department, said on Thursday, the head of the US State Department during a regular briefing for journalists.

“This speech seemed to try to reassure voters that a significant increase in social expenses would help solve the economic problems of the last four years, and at the same time make it clear that he is the only defender of Russia as a besieged fortress,” The New York Times suggests .

“It seems that this message to Washington after the Trump administration recently announced the development of new nuclear weapons,” says The Washington Post . “Putin wants modern weapons, not modern Russia,” the Bloomberg commentary is entitled .

London's reaction

The Minister of Defense of Great Britain (having its own nuclear arsenal) Gavin Williamson noted in his statement that “Russia has chosen the path of escalation and provocations. We do not want to participate in this. ”

“Putin opened the veil of secrecy over the terrifying non -emergency nuclear missiles that can strike anywhere in the earth,” the British The Daily Express scared her readers.

“President Putin’s statements about strong Russia, modernizing his nuclear arsenal, is essentially a mirror reflection of such statements that his American colleague Donald Trump made in recent months,” said BBC military observer.

And the Middle Kingdom

Extremely restrained to the performance of Vladimir Putin, they reacted to another nuclear power (and the main rival of the United States) - China. “Vladimir Putin stated that Russia was developing the latest weapons, we also followed the USA,” the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China Hua Chunin told reporters on Friday. - We think that maintaining the universal world and stability is an important topic that has an epochal meaning. Strategic security should be ensured on the basis of the joint participation of all interested parties. ”