Despite the crisis, spy scandals and risky Cold War diplomacy, relations between Moscow and Washington have never been severed since the United States forged ties with the Soviet Union in 1933.
THE Russia should not close it American embassy despite the judgment caused by him war in Ukraine because the two largest nuclear powers in the world they should continue to talksaid today the American ambassador in Moscow.
THE Russian President Vladimir Putin has characterized the invasion of Ukraine a turning point in his country’s history: a revolution against US hegemony, which Putin says has humiliated Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Ukraine – and its supporters in the West – says it is fighting for its survival in the face of the dangerous, imperial-type land grab that has claimed thousands of lives, displaced more than ten million people and left them barren. land huge areas of the country.
In a clear attempt to send a message to the Kremlin, the John S. Sullivan, the American ambassador President-elect Donald Trump told Russia’s state-run TASS news agency that Washington and Moscow should not cut diplomatic ties..
“We must retain the ability to talk to each other.” said Sullivan in an interview with TASS.
Sullivan warned against the removal of Leo Tolstoy’s works from the shelves of western libraries and against the refusal to play the music of Piotr Tchaikovsky.
His statements were broadcast by TASS in Russian and translated into English by Reuters.
Despite the crises, the spy scandals and the risky diplomacy of the Cold War, Relations between Moscow and Washington have never been severed since the US gained ties with the Soviet Union in 1933.
Now, however, Russia says that the post-Soviet “flirtation” with the West is over and will turn east.
Last month o US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken commented that she would like to dedicate her song to Putin Taylor Swift “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” (“We Will Never Be Together Again”).
Asked about this comment, Sullivan replied: “Also, we will never completely separate.”
When asked by TASS if the ratio means that embassies are likely to closeSullivan replied: “Maybe, there is this possibility, although I think that would be a huge mistake “.
“As far as I know, the Russian government has mentioned the possibility of severing diplomatic relations. We can not just sever diplomatic relations and stop talking to each other.” he said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry today summoned the heads of US news agencies in the Moscow office for talks that, as Moscow described, concerned the impact of US hostile actions.
Her denial Tsar of Catherine the Great to support the British Empire, when America declared its independence, prepared the ground for the first diplomatic contacts between the US and St. Petersburg, then the capital of the Russian Empire.
After Bolshevik Revolution, in October 1917, o President Woodrow Wilson refused to recognize the revolutionary government of Vladimir Lenin and the American embassy closed in 1919.
Relations were restored in 1933.
“The only reason I can think of why the US might be forced to close its embassy would be if it became dangerous to continue operatingsaid Sullivan.
Asked how the relationship would develop, 62-year-old Sullivan, who is a lawyer, said he did not know, but added that hope one day for a rapprochement.
“If I had to bet, I would never say as long as I live,” he concluded.
