This is stated in an article by the head of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Major General Andrei Sterlin and leading researcher at the Center for Military Strategic Studies of the Military Academy of the General Staff, Doctor of Military Sciences, Colonel Alexander Khryapin in the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.
"The steps of the American leadership are aimed at implementing the Global Strike concept with the use of promising strike weapons, including hypersonic ones, but with only one proviso that all these weapons can be in nuclear weapons," the Russian General Staff believes.
These actions by the United States, it follows from the article, are aimed at achieving military-technical superiority to maintain global leadership and ensure victory in "possible future wars over any country in the world, primarily over Russia" due to the weakening of the Russian economy due to "being drawn into another race. weapons ".
A similar concept, according to the authors, is also presented in the 2018 US Nuclear Posture Review, where Russia is declared an adversary of the United States “for the first time since the end of the Cold War”.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that threats to global stability and security have grown significantly in the year after Washington's withdrawal from the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty).