Across the west, the “Russian-aggression” theme is being promoted by vested interests to scare politicians and the public into agreeing to increases in defense spending. But a US State Department claim that Russia’s military strength eclipses that of European Union states is especially ludicrous.
“The threat to [the West’s] collective security posed by Russia is clear, and we on both sides of the Atlantic cannot ignore it,” Brian Hook said. The official is a senior adviser to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who was addressing the Center for Strategic & International Studies' Transatlantic Forum.
According to RT News, “He went on to liken the level of the threat the West saw from the Soviet Union with the one it sees from modern Russia, claiming that ‘as in the past, the threat runs from the Baltic to the Black Sea,’” before suggesting that the “military arrangement of forces in Europe favors Russia.”
This is absolute balderdash, for reasons I will outline.
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