Sputnik Reports Ambassador Jack Matlock’s Interview with the Schiller Institute

Sept. 10, 2024 (EIRNS)—The Sept. 10 Sputnik, in an article, “Ex-U.S. Ambassador to U.S.S.R.: ‘Dangerous’ for U.S. To Attempt Undeclared War with Russia” reports on former Ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack Matlock’s Sept. 3 interview with the Schiller Institute.

Sputnik quotes Matlock: “It seems to me that it is extremely dangerous to attempt what is, in effect, an undeclared war against a nuclear armed power, which perceives, rightly or wrongly, that its sovereignty and even its political existence are being threatened.” Such a situation, Matlock said, could result in a nuclear exchange between the United States and Russia, because of mistakes.

U.S. efforts to conduct diplomacy with Russia have disappeared, and turned into feeding the conflict in Ukraine, Matlock said. Ukraine is on a “suicide course” by continuing hostilities with Russia. Matlock added, Sputnik reports, that the United States has “grossly overcommitted” internationally by fueling de facto economic and military war against Russia, supporting Israel’s actions in the Middle East and preparing the U.S. military for a war with China. The situation is sustainable neither economically, nor militarily.

Sputnik reports Matlock as saying that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. had proposed a Partnership for Peace with the countries in Eastern Europe, including Russia and the successor states of the Soviet Union, only then to abandon that strategy for an expansion of NATO. The publication focuses on Matlock’s comments about sanctions against Russia, “I would say the economic sanctions against Russia are failing to do what they were intended to do. They were aimed to destroy the Russian economy, but they have not.” Instead, Matlock asserted, the sanctions have only served to make the Russian economy more autonomous and to assist in building its relationships with China and Iran.