“This is a hint to those countries that buy, for example, Russian weapons. Among them is Turkey, which recently acquired Russian S-400 air defense systems. Some time ago Greece bought our weapon systems. Obviously, this statement is also addressed to other NATO countries if they want to acquire Russian or Chinese weapons, ”Batiuk said.
According to the expert, if before the United States did not express much dissatisfaction, now the situation has changed.
“America is worried about the fact that it has serious competitors in the international arms market,” concluded Batiuk.
Earlier, Mike Pence said that the United States would not tolerate NATO allies buying weapons from potential adversaries.
On February 15, the head of Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, told RT that the United States and a number of other Western countries are trying to use the political situation against exporters of Russian weapons.