Gorbachev Sounds Alarm On US-Russia Relations: ‘World Has Come To A Dangerous Point’
- 8 years ago
In a recent interview with Sputnik News, past Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev is quoted as calling current U.S.-Russian relations ‘tense’ and suggests that the two work to resume collapsed talks about nuclear weapons and other important issues.
A Soviet leader from the Cold War era is sounding the alarm about the increasingly strained relationship between the U.S. and Russia, especially over disagreements about Syria.
Sputnik News is reporting that Mikhail Gorbachev said during an interview, “Current Russian-US relations are escalated, tense. There was a collapse of mutual trust. I expressed my opinion many times, it is necessary to relaunch negotiations on the entire agenda, not fixing on the regional issues.”
He also brought up the need to resume talks over nuclear weapons which reportedly came to a halt after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ended other discussions with Russia over its bombing of Aleppo; however, the Eurasian nation has attributed the collapse to U.S. sanctions stemming from its military actions in the Ukraine.
Based on his observations, Gorbachev has said, “I think the world has come to a dangerous point. I would not like to give specific advice, but I want to say it is necessary to stop. It is necessary to resume the dialogue. Its abandoning was the gravest mistake.”
A Soviet leader from the Cold War era is sounding the alarm about the increasingly strained relationship between the U.S. and Russia, especially over disagreements about Syria.
Sputnik News is reporting that Mikhail Gorbachev said during an interview, “Current Russian-US relations are escalated, tense. There was a collapse of mutual trust. I expressed my opinion many times, it is necessary to relaunch negotiations on the entire agenda, not fixing on the regional issues.”
He also brought up the need to resume talks over nuclear weapons which reportedly came to a halt after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ended other discussions with Russia over its bombing of Aleppo; however, the Eurasian nation has attributed the collapse to U.S. sanctions stemming from its military actions in the Ukraine.
Based on his observations, Gorbachev has said, “I think the world has come to a dangerous point. I would not like to give specific advice, but I want to say it is necessary to stop. It is necessary to resume the dialogue. Its abandoning was the gravest mistake.”