On Thursday, Maria Zakharova delivered her regular briefing at the Foreign Ministry, during which she characterized the US maritime strategy document released on Dec. 17 as nothing more than threat inflation in order to justify the demand for a bigger military budget. “Strategists in Washington are most concerned that the growing Russian naval capabilities can challenge US’s superiority at sea,” she said, reported TASS. “Apparently, they have never heard about such principles as equal safety or parity, or, if they have, they must have misunderstood them.”
The US maritime strategy, she continued, describes the forces’ joint plan of preparation for countering Russia and China, which Washington defines “two most significant threats to the era of global peace and prosperity,” Zakharova said. According to the diplomat, the confrontational idea of competition of superpowers is a leitmotif of the entire document.
