“They want to make it look like they're taking the initiative when actually, there's nothing new out there,” he specified. “I think also they probably have some type of concern. They probably want to wrap in whatever agreements. New missile technology that we do not have that Russia does have, to try to prevent the growth of that or to control that. So it's all self-interest rather than like global interests,” he stated.
“In order to prove their security, to prove that American security will not be undermined, the US is trying to reestablish the US-Russian dialog on strategic stability. And if they succeed in doing that, they will say, look, there is no risk to US security from Russia because, look, we maintain cooperation on nuclear weapons, and we control the risks of escalation and so on and so forth,” he elaborated. “They simply want to legitimize and justify the continuation of their hybrid war against Russia and prove to their own society and elites that it is absolutely safe for the United States to conduct the policy that they are conducting now.”