MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. Preventing a head-on collision of nuclear powers is now a goal for Russian diplomacy, as such a collision would be fraught with the highest risks of escalation, Alexey Drobinin, director of the foreign policy planning department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview that was published on Monday in National Strategy Issues, a journal of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies.
"Diplomacy at this stage faces a new yet old task: to prevent a ‘head-on clash’ of nuclear powers, which would be fraught with the highest risks of escalation, the probability of which has risen significantly due to the reckless actions of our opponents," he said.
According to Drobinin, the West today is destroying the mechanisms of collective security that were developed in the 20th century "in favor of opportunistic political aspirations."
"The arrogant and destructive behavior [of the West] has led the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe into a deep impasse, undermined the system of arms control treaties, contributed to the emergence of new hot spots and, in general, significantly increased the threat to universal security," the diplomat said.
He noted the growth of military spending by the US and its allies, as well as their military assistance to Ukraine and Washington's "accelerated remilitarization of Germany and Japan."
"Let's be frank: The Ukrainian crisis and what preceded it clearly demonstrate the unwillingness of our Western colleagues to jointly work on building a system of collective security. Although no one canceled the postulate of the indivisibility of security in the global and regional dimensions, they preferred to ignore it and deliberately moved toward escalation," the diplomat said.
He noted that the construction of a more stable security architecture can occur only if "the US and its satellites refrain from placing bets on domination by force" and the West realizes that there is no alternative to peaceful coexistence with other countries, including Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.
"It won’t be easy to achieve this. So far, geopolitical circumstances are not conducive to this," Drobinin concluded.