While tension prevails between the major powers and the language of negotiation on contentious issues is absent, features of a global arms race appear, especially between the United States, which unveiled a new stealth bomber, and Russia, which announced the success of a new missile test.
Russia's war on Ukraine deepened the differences and divisions between the major powers, with its American and Russian poles, and attempts at communication and understanding between Western countries in general and Moscow in order to end the Ukrainian war failed.
Despite US President Joe Biden's announcement of his willingness to talk to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, if the latter showed an intention to end the war in Ukraine, Moscow responded by saying that it rejected the American condition for negotiation between the two countries, and the Kremlin considered that Biden's condition for Russia's withdrawal from Ukraine is not possible, stressing that what Call it the "special military operation," continuing.
Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Washington still refuses to recognize the new territories of Russia (Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson), and that this complicates the search for common ground for discussion, as he put it.
Russia does not see that there is a real desire in the West to negotiate peace, as the Russian expert in strategic affairs, Andrei Frolov said in his interview with the "Behind the News" program, who also made it clear that Moscow has offered many times to sit at the negotiating table and talk with Kyiv and the US administration, without to respond to it.
As for the American position, expressed by the former diplomat in Moscow, Donald Jensen, he blames Russia, which he said had suspended its participation in the meetings of the "New START" agreement with the United States, but indicated that there are other channels of communication between the two countries.
The military and strategic expert, Brigadier General Elias Hanna, ruled out the existence of a complete break in the channels of communication between Washington and Moscow, as evidenced by the meetings of the defense ministers of the two countries and the meeting of the CIA director with his Russian counterpart in Turkey, and said that the crisis between them is being managed under the table so that it is not There are miscalculations.
Draw the deterrence equation
Amid the atmosphere of blockage in the channels of understanding between Russia and the West, the harbingers of a global arms race appear, as the Russian Air Force announced that it had successfully tested a new defense system against missiles and air targets in a test field in Kazakhstan.
On the other hand, Washington unveiled its "new stealth strategic bomber - B-21", which the Pentagon confirmed would form the backbone of the US bomber force in the future, thanks to its range, capacity and strength.
From the point of view of Brigadier General Elias Hanna, what Washington and Moscow announced falls within the framework of a show of force and a redrawing of the deterrence equation between the major powers, and it is not an arms race but rather a process of modernizing the existing weapons, and these weapons will not be used on the Ukrainian stage, just as nuclear weapons will not be used. major powers.
As for the Russian expert, he considers that the real arms race is taking place with new hypersonic weapons, laser-guided missiles and smaller nuclear weapons.
While the American expert called for the need to update laws that regulate the ongoing technological developments, especially in light of the growth of countries such as China, North Korea and Iran, stressing that the Americans' concern about China is because it develops its systems outside the laws set by Moscow and Washington.