Defense Secretary Ash Carter, in Germany to usher in a new U.S. military commander for Europe, used the opportunity Tuesday to send a blunt warning to Moscow not to provoke the NATO alliance – after recent encounters in the air and on the high seas.
“We do not seek to make Russia an enemy. But make no mistake – we will defend our allies, the rules-based international order, and the positive future it affords us,” Carter said at the U.S. military’s European Command in Stuttgart, Germany. Carter expressed a desire not to start a new Cold War with Russia – or a “hot” one.
But he said Russia seeks to “erode” the peaceful order Europe and the rest of the West have enjoyed since the end of the Cold War. Carter, in vowing the U.S. would defend its allies, warned Russia is increasing its submarine patrols to the North Atlantic. READ MORE
We cannot offend Russia at this time, we have no CinC, and a pretender has woefully weakened our military. As a famous man once said “Speak softly, because we have no stick”!
Russia is facing an ISIS problem therefore they have the right to do what they are doing protect their country and its people. If anyone is at fault here it is our president who has put us and other countries at the same risks as he has allowed illegals and terrorists to enter our own country.
Carter, like Obama, is all talk and no action….Putin must be eating caviar and champagne, while laughing his butt off at these clowns….
Way too much drama! Oh well. Two biggest boys on the block……sooner, or later
they’re going to fight.