Russia's envoy to NATO: Alliance wants to return to past

Russia's envoy to NATO: Alliance wants to return to past

The alliance is shifting to Cold War-era schemes of maintaining security in Europe, and to pursue that goal, it consistently eliminates the tools created once the Cold War was over, literally “inviting us to return into the past,” Grushko said, adding, according to RT, that "political efforts alone would not be enough to break this tendency, it implies a rejection of 'confrontational military planning'."

NATO-centric policies based on Europe-U.S. strategic ties lay claim to remain the only source of security and to do so they need a major foe the alliance is supposed to be countering and also have another aim to make Europeans to hike security expenditures and buy American weapons, he said.

According to him, the quality of European security will be defined not only by Russia-NATO relations, but also by creating a collective security means to deal with common threats.

Grusko noted that the U.S. military command in Europe has set the task of promoting American interests from Greenland to Caspian Sea and from the Arctic Ocean to the Levant:

“The question is: where is the U.S. and where is the Caspian Sea? And where can Russia promote its own national interests? When they say that Russia is strengthening its military power: firstly, we do this in our own territory. And all our actions, I can assure you, are not a secret for our partners.”

Russia's envoy to NATO also assured that "all attempts to test Russia’s borders with reconnaissance flights and approaches of warships with cruise missiles to minimal distances to Russian naval bases would not be left unanswered."