from Sputnik News:
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia is too large and too responsible a country to initiate a third world war, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.
“Russia is too big and too responsible a country to be an initiator of a third world war. The United States knows the possible consequences of that war as well, plus we have relatively good dialogue. We’re not good enough at bilateral relations because they’re stuck. They’re running on zero-level bilateral relations, but despite that, we are clever enough to talk to each other, and we’re too big and too powerful in terms of mutual deterrence to be at war,” Peskov said in an interview with Swiss newspaper Weltwoche.
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US President Donald Trump prefers to resolve problems through negotiations, and Russia welcomes this approach, Peskov said, adding that Russia will never start a world war but will take measures for its own security.
The militarization of Europe will require Russia to take additional measures to guarantee its national security, Peskov said.
“Europe, all of a sudden, understood that they are not any more guaranteed from the point of view of security by the United States, and that they have to add a military, a military capacity to EU to economic bloc. And now we are witnessing a transformation of EU to an economic and military block. This is a brand new process on European soil, and of course we were monitoring it very closely,” Peskov said.
European taxpayers are being persuaded to justify the increased military spending, Peskov said.
“It [Ukraine] was about to be to be a country that will would grant its soil for deployment of any kinds of weapons aimed at our country. So we were speaking about that threat for quite, for a long time, before starting the military operation. No one would listen. None of the European capitals would listen to us,” Peskov said.
