A Russian peacekeeper in Tskhinvali, August 11, 2008
Photo: Vasily Deryugin
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U.S. Says Russia Too Weak for Cold War
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza stated in an interview with the Azerbaijani television channel ANS that Russia is too weak for a new cold war with the United States, Interfax information agency reports. Bryza said he hoped Russia would understand sooner or later that military operations were too expensive for it and deprive it of both money and prestige.
Bryza denied the allegations of Russian Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin that the U.S. has prepared in Georgia a staging ground for an attack on Iran and called Rogozin’s statements “unprofessional.”
Talk of a new cold war arose after the increasing tension in U.S.-Russian relations due to the August 8-12 war in South Ossetia. The U.S. considered that war Russian aggression against Georgia, bulwark of democratic in the former Soviet Union. After that, bilateral military cooperation was called off and the U.S. agreed to Polish terms to speed up placement of elements of its missile defense system in that country. That move was seen as hostile in Russia.
The U.S. called the visit by Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers to Venezuela this month “a holdover of the Cold War.”
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