NATO wants to re-establish contacts with Russia’s military - bloc chief

[Loki]

NATO wants to re-establish contacts with Russia’s military - bloc chief


U.S. General Philip Breedlove, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe

NATO's top official has announced plans to re-establish contact with Russian military leaders after months of tensions, calling the relations "important."

"We have talked an awful lot about how we re-establish communication and the fact that the communication with our senior military interlocutors in Russia is important," NATO's General Philip Breedlove, who also serves as the Commander of the US European Command, said on Thursday as quoted by Reuters.

Correspondence between the military heads have been tense over Ukrainian crisis. However, according to Breedlove, he has had conversations with General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of Russia's armed forces, in 2014, even with the relations strained.

"We are going to re-establish that, we have talked among several of us senior military leaders how we will do that ... but yes, we are going to re-establish communication with Valery [Gerasimov]," he said.

In April, Moscow recalled its chief military representative to NATO for consultations after the North Atlantic Alliance suspended military and civilian cooperation with Russia over the Ukraine crisis. At that time, the bloc also said it would step up its cooperation with Kiev, promoting defense reforms and increasing the activity of a liaison office in Ukraine.

Russia's new military doctrine, an updated version of which was adopted in December, was also among the discussions at the NATO's defense ministers meeting in Brussels on Thursday. NATO's position on certain issues might be revised according to the doctrine, Chairman of NATO Military Committee Knud Bartels said.

The core of Russia's position is unchanged, with the Russian military remaining a defensive tool, which the country pledges to use only as a last resort. But there have been additions to the threats against the country's national security, with NATO military buildup and the American Prompt Global Strike concept listed among them.

At the meeting on Thursday, General Breedlove said NATO doesn’t pose any threat to Russia.

[BeerBaron]

NATO isnt really serious about it, Putin has just pushed NATO to make a peaceful move, and Russia will welcome it because they are being choked to death under rampant oil production and sanctions. Its all sort of like a childs play, no one whats to actually be there but they have to preform the song and dance.

[Kabul]

I'm ashamed that my country's flag is behind that NATO serial killer guy.

[BeerBaron]

I'm ashamed that my country's flag is behind that NATO serial killer guy.

would you prefer a soviet? putin wasnt called a kgb butcher for no reason ya know. there is a very good reason the psychopath is in power.

[Kabul]

would you prefer a soviet? putin wasnt called a kgb butcher for no reason ya know. there is a very good reason the psychopath is in power.

I wouldn't mind. During the days of the Warsaw Pact, Bulgaria had a huge, well armed military (back then it was probably one of the best in the world, but nowadays our army is literally 3 times smaller than the police force and still shrinking), an ever growing economy, an ever growing population (back before 1989 the population was 9 million people, now it is barely 7 million, everyone left the country because things are shit now), and a great social-welfare system. Freedom really doesn't mean shit. I would trade all my personal freedoms tomorrow if it meant that we would be as prosperous and well armed as we use to be. NATO countries are all these evil things such as pro-faggot, pro-minority, pro-oligarchy, anti-family, etc...

[BeerBaron]

thats good then, you can suck on a kgb butcher all you want