Nuclear Buildup in EU: Who Benefits From Aggravating US-Russian Tensions?

Thursday, July 23, 2015
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
23.07.2015

While beefing up NATO’s military presence in Europe Washington should refrain from deploying more US nuclear weapons in EU countries, senior fellow of the Brookings Institution Steven Pifer said.

According to Steven Pifer, a senior fellow and director of the Arms Control Initiative at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., the Pentagon is currently considering re-deployment of US nuclear weapons in Europe in order to counterbalance Russia’s “threat.”

However, the expert considers such a move “not a good response,” claiming that it would be both useless and risky. According to Pifer, NATO should “maintain its lead in numbers of key conventional weapons” in Europe.

Pifer insisted that Russia poses a substantial threat to the European security order. Referring to the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, that stipulated that “states should not use force to change borders,” the expert went so far as to falsely claim that Russia “seized Crimea militarily” in 2014. Pifer also stated that Russia is providing the Donbas independence supporters with “heavy weapons, leadership and Russian soldiers,” presenting no evidence to confirm his other false claim.

>Curiously enough, the expert has seemingly forgotten that the US/NATO military aggression against Yugoslavia in 1999, launched under false pretenses, had dramatically changed the borders of Europe.

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