Russia Says Cold War Is Over: We Are In a “Hot Conflict With the United States”

A Russian government minister has accused the United States of engaging in a “hot hybrid war” with Russia and blaming the U.S. for the growing nuclear tensions. According to him, the Cold War has already passed, and the United States is now “playing with fire” by pushing the world towards nuclear war, which he insists Russians want to avoid.

Despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Kremlin spokesman claimed that the new Cold War was over and that the U.S. was responsible for escalating the situation that led to rising nuclear tensions. Russia also announced that it had deployed nuclear-capable missiles to the borders of NATO in Belarus and had refitted Belarusian jets with equipment to drop nuclear bombs. Russia hinted that the United States was responsible for this by saying that it was doing no more than what the United States had already done by stationing nuclear weapons in European allies’ territories.

Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergey Ryabkov, claimed in his statement that the United States was risking making “fatal mistakes” and “playing with fire” and said that the Russian Federation would take all measures and use all means if its sovereignty was threatened.

He added that there were no winners in nuclear war, and it must not be unleashed. However, the way the U.S. is recklessly moving up the escalation ladder and blinded by its absurd certainty about its strategic defeat on Russia makes one doubt its mental faculties and common sense.

While NATO’s support for Ukraine has directly provoked Russia, it has skirted around its own role in invading a sovereign nation, referring to it as a “special military operation.” The Pentagon spokesman spoke about this and was skeptical about the effectiveness of the Russian military in executing strategies on the battlefield.