Guy Faulconbridge

LONDON, (Reuters) – Russia shouldn’t close its U.S. embassy despite Ukraine’s crisis. The two largest nuclear power nations in the world must still talk, according to the U.S. ambassador quoted saying Monday.

Vladimir Putin has said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a crucial turning point in its history. He called it a revolt against America’s hegemony, which the Kremlin chief claims has humiliated Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The West backers of Ukraine claim that it fights for survival against an imperial-style land grab. This has resulted in the deaths of thousands and displacements more than 10,000,000 people.

John J. Sullivan was the U.S. Ambassador appointed by Donald Trump to Russia’s State TASS news agency. He stated that Washington and Moscow shouldn’t just end diplomatic relations.

Sullivan stated in an interview that “We need to preserve our ability to communicate with each other.” He warned against the removal from Western bookshelves of Leo Tolstoy’s works or the refusal to play Pyotr Tachikovsky’s music.

His comments were published by TASS Russian in Russian, and then translated by Reuters into English.

Although there have been many crises, spy scams, and brinkmanship during the Cold War, Moscow and Washington still maintain good relations since 1933, when the United States began ties with Soviet Union.

Russia now says that its post-Soviet flirtation with the West has ended and it is ready to move eastward.

Antony Blinken (US Secretary of State) joked last month that he wanted to dedicate Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Together” to Putin.

Sullivan replied to a question about the remark by saying, “We will also never split up completely.”

TASS was asked if the analogy meant the embassies were possible to be closed. Sullivan responded: “They can – they have that possibility. Although I think that it would make a great mistake.”

He said, “As far as I know it, the Russian government mentioned the option of seperating diplomatic relations.” We can’t simply end diplomatic relations without talking to one another.”

Russia’s foreign minister has summoned the Moscow bureau chiefs for U.S media outlets to talk about Monday’s repercussions from the unfriendly US actions.

After Tsarina Catherine The Great refused to support the British Empire when America declared Independence, it was the beginning of diplomatic relations between the United States (USA) and St Petersburg.

After the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Woodrow Wilson declined to acknowledge Vladimir Lenin’s revolutionary government. The U.S. Embassy was closed in 1919. The relations were never reestablished until 1933.

Sullivan stated that there is only one reason the United States might have to close their embassy. That would be if they were unable to carry out its duties.

Sullivan (a 62 year-old lawyer) said he doesn’t know how things would turn out but that he hoped for a rapprochement.

“I would not place a wager if I had to.”