The defense Minister of great Britain Ben Wallace supported the policy of the government aimed at revising the approach to security due to “threats” from Russia and China. According to him, it will be “the radical review” of policy in this area since the cold war. The Minister of defence of Britain recalled the testing of the Russian satellite, which supposedly has “weapons capability” and is a danger to spacecraft of the Kingdom. Earlier, the Russian foreign Ministry refuted such statements by official representatives of Washington and London. Meanwhile, experts note that the statement Wallace is not the first accusation of Britain in Russia for the last time.
The British defense Secretary Ben Wallace in a letter to the newspaper The Telegraph stated that the UK government intends to create a “defense of the new generation” because of threats from Russia and China. According to him, it is very important that the country is revising its foreign policy and activities in the field of security.
As an example of “threats”, which, from the perspective of London, comes from Moscow and Beijing, Wallace spoke about Russia conducted the testing of the spacecraft, for allegedly possessing weapons capability. Also the head of the British Ministry said that a similar system is developing in China.
“Such actions only serve to underline the importance of the ongoing government review of our foreign policy and policies on security, defense and development is the most thorough and radical revision since the end of the cold war,” said Wallace.
“Russophobia in the fake cut”
Recently, a number of officials of great Britain and the United States have accused Russia of militarization of outer space. In particular, on 23 July, the commander of the space forces General John Raymond announced that on July 15 in Moscow held a testing apparatus “Space-2543”, which he classed as anti-satellite weapons. According to him, this object is carried out manoeuvres near a us space object.
Moscow rejected the claims of London and Washington. The Russian foreign Ministry called accusations against Russia “propaganda stove-piping” and had caught the American and British authorities that they once again distort information about the activities of Russia in space. As stressed in the Russian foreign Ministry, the tests “pose no threat to other space objects and, most importantly, didn’t break any rules and principles of international law.”
“According to our military officials, a Russian “satellite inspector” reviewed close to the Russian spacecraft, using specialized equipment of small spacecraft,” — said the Russian foreign Ministry.
According to Moscow, such accusations the UK and the US is trying to discredit the space activity of the Russian Federation and peace initiatives to prevent an arms race in extraterrestrial space.
As stated in an interview with RT, Professor of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vinokurov, claims to Moscow concerning the militarization of outer space become the new excuse for spreading anti-Russian hysteria in British society.
The prosecution authorities of the United Kingdom fit into the outline of a powerful Russophobic campaign London launched in mid-July, the expert said.
On the 16th of July the Minister of foreign Affairs of the UK Dominic Raab said that Moscow is “almost certainly” tried to interfere in the parliamentary elections of 2019 through the “online dissemination of illegally obtained and leaked government documents”. The alleged leak comes to negotiating new trade deals between the UK and the USA.
In November last year, copies of these secret documents filed at the time the leader of the labour party Jeremy Corbyn (now it does not occupy this post). The politician has accused London of making excessive concessions in the negotiations with the Americans.
It is noteworthy that even before the publication of these documents, the President of the United States Donald trump named Corbin victory in the elections “very bad option” for the UK. In an interview the us President gave the leader of the Party of breccia by Nigel Farage on radio LBC, trump said that if Corbin will become Prime Minister, it “will lead you to bad ways and will lead to very bad places”. Then spoke in support of the current Prime Minister Boris Johnson. In response the then labour leader accused the White house of meddling in the British election campaign.
RT interviewed experts stated that the ruling in the United Kingdom elite ignores excessive American influence on the country’s internal Affairs and continues to promote the theme of “Russian interference” with the use of language like the famous highly likely.
On 21 July, a parliamentary Committee of UK has published a 50-page report, which accused Russia of the cyber attacks and the spread of misinformation. In particular, under suspicion the authorities of the Kingdom got the RT and Sputnik Agency, who allegedly were partial in covering the referendum on British membership in the EU in 2016.
The Russian foreign Ministry called the report “the Russian intervention” a manifestation of “the Russophobia in the fake cut”. The official representative of the Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the document is “empty exhaust”. According to her, there’s no evidence or specific facts. In CreamLe also rejected accusations that London cyber attacks and attempts to influence political processes in the UK.
The next day after the publication of the parliamentary report of the British shadow Minister of culture, digital technology, sports and the media, Joe Stevens addressed to the Executive Director of the media regulator Ofcom Melanie Dawes to reconsider the question of giving RT a license to broadcast in the country. According to the chief editor of RT Margarita Simonyan, we are actually talking about the deprivation of channel licenses to broadcast.
Growth spy
Vladimir Vinokurov believes that the growing volume of accusations against Russia contributes to the spread in British society spy that a few died after the scandal around the case of the poisoning of ex-GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia.
On 25 July citing sources, the British newspaper Daily Mail reported that Boris Johnson plans to radically change the legislation in the sphere of high treason and counter espionage. Also, according to journalists, a registry of foreign agents of influence operating in the country.
According to the newspaper, citing a report on “Russian intervention”, currently only 4% of the resources of British law enforcement agencies are focused on confrontation “hostile” to foreign countries.
“the UK is constantly making excuses for denigrating Russia’s policy, whether space or espionage. However, these accusations and escalating spy may not lead to positive consequences for either the United Kingdom or to British-Russian relations or the collective West, losing its solidity” — said Vinokourov.
According to experts, in the current situation the government of Johnson need to focus the state’s efforts to fight the pandemic of coronavirus, and not on finding a “Russian trace” in the problems facing the political system and the country’s intelligence agencies.
In turn, the Deputy Director of the Institute for strategic studies and forecasts of the peoples ‘ friendship University Paul Feldman drew attention to the fact that Russophobia and spy are a convenient excuse for increased funding of the security services and military establishment of great Britain.
“the British are well understood algorithm. Come up with some kind of external threat, and through regular statements and media reports overstated its importance in the public consciousness. In the end, prepared fertile ground for the allocation of additional funds is not the most necessary things,” explained Feldman in the comments RT.
The expert drew attention to the fact that in recent years to discredit Moscow’s policy has become “a factor in domestic British politilife”. In addition, London is trying to use anti-Russian discourse to strengthen positions in the international arena and demonstrations of loyalty “duty as an ally” of the US.
“the UK is committed to a qualitatively new role in the system of international relations and to become the second after the flagship of the US Western civilization. It is also one of the causes of aggressive Russophobic rhetoric. In response, Moscow is acting cold, strategically clear understanding of all threats and challenges,” concluded Feldman.
