NATO should turn their air patrols in the Baltic state into a force capable of defending Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia of a hypothetical aggression, as declared on Tuesday the commander of forces in Europe, General Philip Breedlove and publishes Reuters.
the multinational NATO Air Force, which is in service and patrol the skies over the Baltic region of Europe, is composed of eight aircraft. “I think the Alliance must be ready to carry out missions of air defense,” said Philip Breedlove.
“The air surveillance and air defense are two different situations. The air patrol Baltic is a mission for a period of peace, “stressed the US general.
Before 2014, the Atlantic organization only had four fighters in the region, but doubled that amount when the population of Crimea decided to meet Russia by referendum.
The commander of NATO in Europe also argued that the iconic spy plane Lockheed U-2 that used during the cold war is necessary to “counter effectively increasing the threat” posed Moscow after decades in which they had declined the US military resources in the region.
According to Breedlove, that ship should return to Europe to monitor the movements of Russia, because it believes it represents an “existential long-term threat” to the United States
Lavrov. “The NATO exploited to hysteria myth about the Russian threat “
” the leadership of NATO and a number of European countries, especially the United Kingdom, the Scandinavian countries, our neighbors the Baltics, of Poland, Romania and other countries inflates to hysteria the myth of the Russian threat and the fact that we plan to threaten with nuclear weapons to Sweden and the Baltics, “said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in early February.
“it’s an information war. we see and we understand”, but “we do not intend to respond to hysteria hysteria and try to go it alone with facts,” said the Russian minister.
RT.
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