NPR: A Dark View Of Russia From U.S. NATO Commander
At a post-summit news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin last July in Helsinki, President Trump did not once mention Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. Nor did he point to its military support of pro-Russian secessionists in eastern Ukraine.
If Trump's aim was to avoid confrontation with a superpower whose nuclear arsenal rivals that of the U.S., or more personally, not to to antagonize an iron-fisted ruler who may or may not have damning information to spill on Trump, his top military commander in Europe does not seem to have gotten the memo.
Appearing this week before the Senate Armed Services Committee, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti sounded an alarm about Russia's aims in the lands west of its border with Europe.
"Russia is a long-term, strategic competitor that wants to advance its own objectives at the expense of U.S. prosperity and security," Scaparrotti, who also leads the U.S. European Command, told the panel.
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WNU Editor: U.S. NATO Commander Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti has always been a hawk when it comes to Russia, and he did not disappoint in his testimony this week.
3 comments:
To be a dove vis a vis Russia would be huge mistake
He says what is expected of him. That he probably believes what he says he is a militant. Expect no less from such as him.
There are disagreements among generals, but do not expect Bobby-poo the paid troll to acknowledge the truth.
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