NATO Secretary General Rasmussen Responds To The Ukraine Crisis

Russia May Not Stop at Crimea, NATO Chief Warns -- ABC News

Calling Russia’s actions in Crimea a “wake-up call,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a crowd at a Washington think tank on Wednesday that Russia might not stop with Crimea.

“I see Crimea as an element in a greater pattern, in a more long-term Russian — or at least Putin strategy,” he said. “So of course, our major concern now is whether he will go beyond Crimea, whether the Russia will intervene in the eastern parts.”

Rasmussen said Russia’s military intervention is the “gravest threat” to Europe since the Cold War.

“We had thought that such behavior had been confined to history, but it’s back and it’s dangerous because it violates international norms of accepted behavior,” he said.

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