Reuters-Putin says suggestions of US war against Russia and China are nonsense
October 15, 2023 3 min 573 words
这则新闻报道涉及到俄罗斯总统普京关于美国可能与俄罗斯和中国开战的言论。他认为这些提议是荒谬的，警告称任何与俄罗斯的战争将是一场与乌克兰冲突完全不同的战争。普京还指责美国加剧了与中国的紧张关系，通过建立美国、澳大利亚和英国的"AUKUS"安全联盟。他表示，俄罗斯和中国并未建立军事联盟，但他们的紧密合作引起了西方的担忧。 这个报道凸显了国际政治格局中的一些重要动态。首先，普京试图贬低关于美国与俄中可能开战的观点，表现出对此类话题的不满和担忧。其次，他警告称与俄罗斯的战争将是严重的，与乌克兰冲突不可同日而语。这强调了战争可能对世界带来的危险性。最后，报道还提到了中俄两国的合作，这是一个引起西方国家焦虑的重要地缘政治发展。 普京的言辞和态度似乎是为了维护俄中关系的稳定，但也显示出他对美国的警惕。这个报道凸显了当前国际关系中的紧张局势和不确定性，需要各国领导人采取谨慎和冷静的外交政策，以维护全球和平与稳定。
President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that suggestions the United States should prepare for a war against Russia and China were nonsense, and warned the West that any war against Russia would be on a whole different level to the conflict in Ukraine.
A bipartisan panel appointed by the U.S. Congress said on Thursday that Washington must prepare for possible simultaneous wars with Moscow and Beijing by expanding its conventional forces, strengthening alliances and enhancing its nuclear weapons modernization programme.
Putin, who is to visit China this week, said the United States had stoked tensions with Beijing by building the "AUKUS" security alliance of U.S., Australia and Britain and that Russia and China were not building a military alliance.
Putin told Kremlin reporter Pavel Zarubin in a clip published on Sunday that thoughts of war between Russia and the United States were unhealthy but that if people were making such thoughts public they could not but cause concern to Moscow.
"I don't think these are healthy thoughts in the minds of healthy people, because to say that the United States is preparing for war with Russia, well we are all preparing for war because we follow the ancient principle: if you want peace, get ready for war," Putin said in a clip posted on Telegram.
"But we want peace," Putin said with a chuckle. "Moreover, to fight with both Russia and China, it is nonsense - I don't think it is serious. I think they are just scaring each other."
The deepening partnership between the rising superpower of China and Russia, the world's biggest nuclear power, is one of the most intriguing geopolitical developments of recent years - and one the West is watching with anxiety.
The United States casts China as its biggest competitor and Russia as its biggest nation-state threat while U.S. President Joe Biden argues that this century will be defined by an existential contest with between democracies and autocracies.
Putin cautioned that if the United States fought against Russia then it would be very different to the war in Ukraine that the Kremlin calls a special military operation.
"And if they want to fight with Russia then it will be a completely different war - it will not be carrying out a special military operation," Putin said. "Look at the Middle East - is that a special military operation - can you compare them?"
"If we talk about a war between great nuclear powers, then it would be a completely different story. I don't think that people in their right minds can think about such a thing, but if such a thought does come to them then it can only cause us to be wary."
The United States says that both Russia and China are modernising their nuclear weapons arsenals and that China will likely have a stockpile of 1,500 nuclear warheads by 2035 if it continues with its current pace of nuclear buildup.
Putin controls around 5,889 nuclear warheads as of 2023, compared with 5,244 controlled by Biden, according to the Federation of American Scientists. Of those, Russia has about 1,674 deployed strategic nuclear warheads while the United States has 1,670.