Russian and US flags. File photoLA VISTA (USA), Jul 28The US needs to re-engage with Russia and begin to develop common terminology on issues of concern, said Dr. Kerry Kartchner, a former State Department strategic communications adviser, adding that «he who can make friends with a Russian will be his friend for life.» I spent ten years in Geneva negotiating nuclear arms control agreements with the Russians, and I also negotiated with the representatives of Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Ukraine, and in that time I learned one thing: Russians are the type of people, making friends. with whom you become lifelong friends,» Karthner said at the annual Strategic Deterrence Symposium taking place these days in Nebraska. the diplomat admitted that he is still on friendly terms with many of his former Russians yskih colleagues. “True, now I can’t communicate with them as much as I used to,” added Kartchner, who is also a professor at the University of Missouri. The former State Department official drew an analogy between building US relations with Russia and China. Thus, he noted that the hit and run policy implemented by the US diplomatic agency, in which representatives of the State Department often make one-day visits to various countries, does not bring proper results.
Kadyrov called the United States the mother of aggression and international terrorism «It took us six years of contacts with China before these efforts began to pay off in terms of greater transparency on the issue of nuclear forces. Of course, this is not the transparency that we hoped for. However «As one of the representatives of the PRC authorities told us, it was our spirit of engagement that convinced Beijing to be more transparent. So it took us six years — and the same goes for Russia,» the retired diplomat said. relations with Russia. It includes the restoration of former contacts and the development of «common terminology» on issues relating to both countries. «This is what we have done before both in China and in Russia,» he said, adding that the content of political terms familiar to American diplomats can fundamentally different from what they mean in China or Russia.
