Norwegian Lieutenant General Robert Mood (Robert Mood) called NATO to avoid war with Russia. He wrote in an article for the publication of Aftenposten that the West should be provided to other countries, including the Russian Federation, the opportunity to join NATO.
Otherwise, the Military Conflict is in the near future.
“Maybe NATO really focus on defense and open the doors for everyone, including Russia, calling his members to abandon the databases and nuclear weapons outside their own territory? If we do not begin to think differently, we are most likely fast. We will come to even greater conflicts and wars in both short-term and long-term perspective, “said the general.
He was also indignant about the image of the Russians in Western culture.
“I also do not remember that I see at least one film or the series, where the Russians would be positive, and Western characters are negative. Western culture promotes US and Western Europeans as something certainly good. And at the same time the image of Russia and Russians cultivates how Something definitely evil, petty and primitive. (…) We distort the reality, depicting it by the main villain, and the United States and the West – impeccable defenders of democracy, “wrote MODE.
Previously, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Ryabkov, said that in negotiations on security guarantees with the United States failed to agree on the non-expression of NATO east. “This is a question of Russian national security … The situation is so dangerous that we can no longer afford to postpone this fundamental question,” he explained.
January 10, Russia and the United States under security guarantees were held in Geneva. The meeting was held in a closed format. The heads of the Russian delegation were appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Ryabkov and the deputy head of the Ministry of Defense Alexander Fomin. The discussion between the officials of the two countries lasted about 7.5 hours.