For the first time since Cold War, Russia said it is ready for a protracted confrontation with US

Moscow has stated that Russia must prepare for a long confrontation with the United States. Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov claimed this. s that the aggressor country is full of determination.

As Reuters writes, the war that has been going on in Ukraine for 2.5 years has provoked the most serious confrontation between Russia and the West since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, which is considered the closest to a nuclear war between the two superpowers - the USSR and the USA - during the so-called Cold War.

It is noted that, according to statements by official representatives of the Russian Federation, the conflict is now entering a dangerous phase.

"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been urging Kyiv's allies for months to allow Ukraine to launch longer-range Western missiles deep into Russia to limit Moscow's ability to strike. Ryabkov, who focuses on arms control and relations with Washington, said Moscow has no illusions about the relationship, given the "bipartisan anti-Russian consensus" in the United States," the publication said.

In particular, Ryabkov said that Russia "must prepare for a long-term confrontation with this country." He was quoted by the Russian state news agency RIA:

"We are ready for this in every sense. We are sending all warning signals to our adversary so that he does not underestimate our determination."

Reuters also notes that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin warned the West last week that Russia could use nuclear weapons if it was hit by conventional missiles. He also said Moscow would consider any attack on it backed by a nuclear power a "joint attack."

The Cold War was a global geopolitical, military, technological, economic and ideological confrontation on a world scale in 1946-1991 between two blocs of states with different social and economic systems. On the one hand, the socialist bloc, led by the USSR, on the other, the capitalist bloc, led by the USA. The conflict ended with the actual victory of the USA and the collapse of the USSR. The Cold War was accompanied by a race in conventional and nuclear weapons, which sometimes threatened to lead to a third world war.