{"id":156227,"date":"2021-12-18T09:26:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T01:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=156227"},"modified":"2021-12-18T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T01:27:07","slug":"156227","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=156227","title":{"rendered":"US says will discuss Russia proposals but warns on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2021\/12\/17\/image-34176-1639762397.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States is willing to discuss security proposals put forward by Russia but disagrees with parts of them and will impose &#8220;massive consequences&#8221; over any &#8220;aggression&#8221; on Ukraine, a senior official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &#8220;We are prepared to discuss them. That said, there are some things in this document that the Russians know will be unacceptable,&#8221; the official told reporters on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; The official said the United States expected to respond to the Russians &#8220;sometime next week with a more concrete proposal&#8221; on talks after consulting with European allies, which the United States insists need to be part of any discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; Russia took the unusual step of presenting draft agreements on security amid mounting concerns over its amassing of tens of thousands of troops by the Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; The US official renewed a warning that the West would not tolerate an invasion, which would come after seven years of a Russian-supported insurgency in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &#8220;If there is any further aggression against Ukraine, that will have massive, massive consequences and will carry a high price,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; She said that any retaliation would consist &#8220;largely&#8221; of economic measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 But she warned: &#8220;We are prepared to consider a number of things that we had not considered in the past, and the results will be very profound on the Russian Federation.&#8221; &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States is willing to discuss security proposals put forward by Russia but disagrees with parts of them and will impose &#8220;massive consequences&#8221; over any &#8220;aggression&#8221; on Ukraine, a senior official said. &nbsp; &#8220;We are prepared to discuss them. That said, there are some things in this document that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156227"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}