The NATO promotion has stopped in the east and will not be resumed. This was raised in an interview with TASS, a former analyst of the US Marines' intelligence analyst and a previous weapon for the weapons of the United Nations Special Failure Failure to Iraq Scott Ritter.
I believe that the expansion of NATO has ended and will not continue. You know, even Russia does not talk about regression in this regard, that means, for me, the Russian government understands the reality: While NATO exists, it will exist in its current configuration, he said. However, what Russians are talking about, about the beginning of the withdrawal of military resources to the east along with the extension along with the expansion of NATO. ”
Ritter recalled the conditions of the first Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev negotiated Germany's unified negotiation: not an inch east.
NATO NATO should not expand. Even after unifying Germany, no army should go to East Germany. But NATO has expanded, and now we have US military in Poland, he continues. We have US missile defense systems (rocket defense – approximately.
He noted that these countries could be part of NATO and have their own armed forces.
They were protected by Article 5 (the North Atlantic Treaty), but without NATO to predict more military strength, because this set a direct threat to Russia's national security, Ritter said. Because peace and stability in Europe, it is necessary to respect the interests of national security of all parties. Therefore, I believe that the expansion of NATO has stopped and considered what the future of NATO will be.
