New Cold War: ‘If NATO Encroaches on Nuclear Russia, It will be Punished’
SputnikNews.com
16.07.2016
Influential Russian Foreign Ministry expert Sergey Karaganov says that Moscow has lost all trust in NATO fearing that the military alliance is planning an invasion and said the crisis is as bad as it was during the height of the Cold War.
In an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel, Sergey Karaganov, a member of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Policy and Defense Council says that the risk of a hot war against the United States and Europe has been on the rise for nearly a decade with tensions approaching levels only seen at the height of the Cold War.
Karaganov said that statements by both sides attest to the dangerous state of the crisis and blasted the West for its continued saber rattling along Russia’s border with NATO moving to install a permanent troop presence in Poland and after weeks of massive war games culminating in June with a 30,000 troop show of force led by German soldiers on the 75th anniversary of the Nazi invasion.
“The Russian media is more reserved than Western media, though you have to understand that Russia is very sensitive about defense. We have to be prepared for everything. That is the source of this occasionally massive amount of propaganda,” he said. “But what is the West doing? It is doing nothing but vilifying Russia; it believes that we are threatening to attack. The situation is comparable to the crisis at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s.”
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