Both the United States and Russia are nuclear powers and are inherent strategic competitors. Any misjudgment of the two countries in the fierce game may bring devastating disasters to the whole world. Therefore, the United States and Russia have been maintaining contacts to avoid miscalculation and unforeseen consequences.
Therefore, according to the Global Network, The Secretary of the Russian Federal Security Council, Patrushev, recently held talks with the visiting US CIA Director Burns, and the two sides discussed issues related to US-Russian relations. It is reported that Burns also plans to meet with other relevant Russian government officials. At a sensitive time when the United States and Russia have confirmed that they will hold their second summit this year, the director of the US CIA has visited Russia, does this mean that the US-Russia relationship will turn around? Therefore, Burns's visit to Russia has aroused great concern from the outside world about the future trend of US-Russian relations.
However, those who hope that there may be a turnaround in US-Russian relations may be disappointed. At the same point in Burns' visit to Russia, a number of warships of the US Navy's Sixth Fleet sailed into the Black Sea to participate in multinational joint military exercises held with NATO in the sea. In response, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov accused the United States of "undermining regional stability with this move."
At a time when the heads of state of the United States and Russia are about to hold a summit, the United States and NATO are holding military exercises in the Black Sea to provoke Russia's territorial sovereignty. At the same time as the contacts, we should not forget to carry out military provocations, which is actually the consistent means of the United States in dealing with Russia, and the purpose is to increase more bargaining chips when the United States and Russia hold summits in the future.
Russia's response to U.S. provocations is not limited to diplomacy, but more in action. Therefore, just after the US warship entered the Black Sea waters, the Russian Defense Ministry then issued a message saying: "As part of regular training and combat missions, the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet also held military exercises in the sea area on the same day."
From this point of view, the frequent contacts between the high-level of the United States and Russia are not only unlikely to bring much change to the relations between the two countries, but may on the contrary lead to the occurrence of incidents in which major powers are shooting off because of military provocations by the United States. After all, U.S. and Russian warships are rattling in the same sea, and no one can guarantee what will happen in the next second.
Elephants fight, and the unlucky ones are always the little ants who don't know whether they are dead or alive. In the face of this tense situation between the United States and Russia, the slightest rational decision-makers in the country will try their best to keep their countries away from the whirlpool of great power confrontation. However, Ukraine, which is at the eye of the European storm, has moved forward in the opposite direction. According to Xinhua Net, Ukrainian President Zelenskiy recently approved a package of sanctions against Russia, causing strong dissatisfaction from the Russian side.
The Office of the President of Ukraine recently released a list of sanctions signed by Zelenskiy, announcing the imposition of sanctions on 140 individuals and 50 entities in Russia. The reason is that these individuals and entities "participated in the organization of the Elections to the Russian State Duma in Crimea and Donbass this September". At the sensitive moment of the tense military confrontation between the United States and Russia in the Black Sea, Ukraine's move is to a large extent to cooperate with the United States to take action against Russia.
However, compared with the body of the Russian elephant, Ukraine's move is considered by Russian officials to be "like a rabbit sanction on the elephant", which can not cause much damage to Russian relevant individuals and entities, let alone damage Russia's political and economic interests. On the contrary, a new round of military confrontation between the United States and Russia in the Black Sea may occur at any time, and Ukraine will break into the whirlpool of great power confrontation at this time, and once an accident occurs, ukraine will bear the brunt of its misfortune.
Judging from the current situation of "confrontation and communication coexist" between the United States and Russia, the two countries should have their own measures, even if there is a gun-and-gun incident in the Black Sea, both sides have corresponding mechanisms to avoid the expansion of the situation. In contrast, Ukraine as a small ant at the scene of the elephant fight, once the United States and Russia have military friction, it is not excluded that Russia will take the opportunity to let Ukraine shed some blood. At that time, when the heads of state of the United States and Russia shook hands again, Ukraine could only hide in a corner to secretly shed tears and bandage wounds.