On Monday, the story continued with the scandalous statement by the German Defense Minister about the so-called policy of deterrence against Russia. The Military Department of the Russian Federation reported that on October 25, the defense attache at the Embassy of Germany in the Russian Federation was invited to the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation.
"During the meeting, attention was drawn to the statements of the head of the German Defense Ministry Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on Russia's nuclear deterrence and a note was passed. It was noted that such statements provoke an increase in tension in Europe and do not contribute to the normalization of the situation," the Russian military informed.
Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu responded to Mrs. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer's appeal to NATO about the need for military deterrence of Russia using nuclear weapons in the Baltic and Black Sea regions. "Against the background of calls for military deterrence of Russia, NATO is consistently pulling forces to our borders. What this has already ended for Germany and Europe, the German Defense Minister must know well," Shoigu recalled. - Security in Europe can only be shared, without infringing on Russia's interests. But it is NATO that is not ready for an equal dialogue on this issue today. Moreover, the implementation of the NATO "containment" plan in Afghanistan ended in a catastrophe, which the whole world is now dealing with."
Recall what the German Defense Minister said verbatim in response to a question from Deutschlandfunk radio station on October 21, is NATO thinking about scenarios for deterring Russia for the Baltic and Black Sea regions, including in the airspace with nuclear weapons? Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer then stated: "We must make it very clear to Russia that we are ready to use such means so that it would have an early deterrent effect and no one would think of attacking, for example, the Baltic regions or NATO partners in the Black Sea. This is the basic idea of NATO, this alliance, and it will be adapted to the current behavior of Russia."
Yuri Gavrilov
