What is Happening Between Moscow and Washington and What is the Relation to the New Space Weapons?

Russia rejected a warning from the United States regarding new Russian nuclear capabilities in space, describing it as "malicious slander" and a trick by the White House aimed at convincing U.S. lawmakers to approve more funding to counter Moscow. The United States provided Congress and European allies with new intelligence information concerning Russian nuclear capabilities, claiming they could pose an international threat. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated he would not comment on the content of the reports until the White House reveals the details. However, Peskov noted that the Washington warning is clearly an attempt to push Congress to approve more funding. TASS reported Peskov saying, "It is obvious that the White House is trying, by any means, to encourage Congress to vote on a bill to allocate funds; we will see the tricks the White House will use." Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, responsible for arms control in Moscow, accused the United States of "malicious slander." U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken informed reporters during a visit to Tirana, Albania, on Thursday that Washington is in talks with its allies and partners about this issue. He emphasized, "This is not an active capability, but it is a latent capability that we take very seriously. I expect we will have more to say soon, in fact very soon, so stay tuned for that." The Russian military operation in Ukraine has led to the largest confrontation with the West since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Both Moscow and Washington have warned of the risk of conflict between NATO and Russia. Russia and the United States are the two largest nuclear powers, holding together about 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons, and they also possess advanced military satellites in orbit around the Earth. Russia claims that U.S. dominance in the post-Cold War era is collapsing and that Washington has sown chaos around the world for years while ignoring the interests of other powers. In the early years of the Cold War, after Russia advanced in the space race and both sides developed intercontinental ballistic missiles, the West proposed a treaty to ban nuclear weapons in space. This resulted in the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which prohibits putting any weapons of mass destruction in Earth's orbit or outer space. In recent years, disagreements between Moscow and Washington have eroded the framework of arms reduction treaties aimed at reducing the risk of war between them.