Friday, January 18, 2013

Russian And American Top Generals Meet Brussels

Gen. Dempsey met with the Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia Gen. Valery Gerasimov. Facebook

Hello, Menya Zavut Gen. Martin Dempsey -- E-Ring

With tensions between Moscow and Washington at higher-than-usual levels, the top military officers of the United States and Russia met for the first time in person this week while attending a NATO meeting of military chiefs in Brussels, diving right into a discussion of “irritants” between the two powers.

The meeting comes at the cusp of President Obama’s second term and when many arms control watchers expect the U.S., with the help of the president’s incoming defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, to press Russia for further nuclear reductions.

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My Comment: The Russian press for the past few months has been focusing on the upcoming U.S. budget cuts/sequestration and it's impact on the military. I suspect that the new chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia Gen. Valery Gerasimov knows that .... and I would wager that all that he has doing now is sitting back and watching the upcoming "carnage".

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