US & Russia’s fundamental interest not to destroy each other with nukes – former US ambassador
RT.com
16 Feb, 2017
The interests of Russia and the US are compatible and the most fundamental of them is not to engage in nuclear warfare with each other, former US Ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack Matlock told RT.
Matlock served in Moscow from 1987 to 1991, witnessing the Mikhail Gorbachev-era transformation of the Soviet Union and playing a key role in negotiating international treaties that defused Cold War tensions. He believes that those in Russia and the US who see current tensions between the two nations as a reincarnation of the Cold War are wrong.
“I see no reason for a renewal of the Cold War, because the basic interests of the United States and Russia are compatible. There is simply no reason for us to treat each other as enemies,” he said.
The former ambassador says the defusing of tension during his tenure in Moscow was based on the presumption that a nuclear war would be unwinnable, and the same remains true today.
“I think that our most fundamental interest has to do with the control and reduction of nuclear weapons. Let’s face it, for both our countries the only issue that affects our very existence is nuclear weapons in the quantities that they now exist.”
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