NEW YORK, June 18. /TASS/. The US ruling class has miscalculated when it ignored Russia as a vital factor in the global system, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov wrote in his article for Newsweek.
"Forerunner of the crisis is the neglect of the U.S. and their allies of the national interests of the Russian Federation. Lack of foresight in such approach was evident from the very beginning," the Russian embassy quoted Antonov as saying.
"Euphoric after the collapse of the Soviet Union, local elites convinced themselves that they won the Cold War. Some pundits even talked about "the end of history," which was supposed to evolve into liberal democracy. With such distorted perception of reality, the American ruling class made a series of grave miscalculations. They boil down to one thing: ignoring the role of our country as a backbone factor of the world order," he wrote.