‘Projecting Stability’? NATO Vows Even More Anti-Russian Build-Up
SputnikNews.com
20.05.2016
Having just finalized the largest military build-up since the end of the Cold War, NATO is openly discussing the possibility of doing more to counter an “assertive Russia.”
On Thursday, NATO foreign ministers finalized an agreement which will create a significant increase of military troops in the Baltic. According to British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, new deployments could include up 3,500 troops.
“It looks like there could be four, maybe five battalions…the point of these formations is to act as a trip wire,” he told reporters.
“It isn’t intended to be aggressive.”
But while the move has drawn criticism from Moscow as an unnecessarily aggressive buildup along Russia’s borders, NATO intends to do even more in the future.
“We will discuss how NATO can do more to project stability,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters on Thursday, “and at the same time address how NATO can continue to adapt to a more assertive Russia to find the right balance between defense and dialogue.”
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