NATO is not seeking a return to a Cold War standoff with Russia, the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the BBC Thursday.
The former Norwegian prime minister, who has served as NATO’s top diplomatic official since 2014, defended the alliance’s new security measures in Europe, which Russia has called aggressive.
Stoltenberg said that NATO is merely “adapting” in “response to a more assertive Russia” and the “aggressive actions Russia has taken in Ukraine.”
Four multinational NATO contingents, each made up of 1,000 troops led by the U.S., Britain, Canada and Germany, will be deployed to Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania early …read more
Source: Newsweek
