Putin With a Stark Warning Against US Misadventures
NOVANEWS
In addressing the Ministry of Defense Putin noted the discrepancy between US and Russian military spending is $725 billion to $46 billion but warned that the Americans better draw any crazy conclusions from that
MK Bhadrakumar
The Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address to an expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board in Moscow on December 18 stands out as a tour d’horizon of the global strategic balance. The speech must be seen against the backdrop of the free fall in US-Russia relations, build-up of NATO infrastructure on Russia’s western borders and, in particular, the Trump administration’s statements about the US withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty of 1987.
Broadly, Putin’s message is in three directions:
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