Contents tagged with arms race

  • 'American analyst' who claimed on Russian TV that US has lost arms race turns out to be a fake

    The “American analyst” who said on Russian TV that the US has lost the arms race turned out to be a “singing poet” and soap vendor, The Insider news outlet reports.

    In a program on the Russian TV channel NTV, one of the stories was devoted to the “violent reaction in the West” elicited by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address to the Federal Assembly. According to NTV, the reason for the fuss is that “the US was absolutely convinced that it was ahead of the rest of the planet in the …

  • Western Media: Russia is too poor for an arms race

    For the past 38 years, there has not been “much nuclear rhetoric, like it is heard now: even at the height of the Cold War no one so lightly threatened the use of nuclear weapons,” wrote Julian Hans for the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

    “Recently, Russian leadership let the genie out of the bottle and now it is causing Russian authorities difficulties,” the author wrote.

    Recently, a documentary on a Russian TV state channel portrayed the Russian leader as the “general director” of …