Daily Mail: West will anger Russia if it pulls troops to its borders

MOSCOW, 16 Feb. NATO will anger Moscow if it decides to pull new forces to Russia's borders, writes British Daily Mail columnist David Avery. According to the article, Western defense chiefs gathered in Brussels today to discuss sending more troops to Eastern Europe in particular to Romania. These plans directly contradict Moscow's requirements for security on the continent, the columnist noted. «There are fears that the actions of the North Atlantic Alliance will provoke the wrath of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu,» Lavrov said. He also recalled that Russia does not want war and seeks to resolve issues peacefully. According to the journalist, against this background, sending thousands of troops to Eastern Europe will be a major demonstration of the bloc’s aggression against Moscow. At the end of 2021, Russia published draft agreements with the United States and NATO on security guarantees. Moscow, in particular, demands from its Western partners legal guarantees of refusing further eastward expansion of NATO, joining the Ukrainian bloc, and establishing military bases in post-Soviet countries. The proposals also contain a clause on the non-deployment of NATO strike weapons near the borders of Russia and the withdrawal of alliance forces in Eastern Europe to the positions of 1997. Later, the US and NATO sent written responses to Russia's security assurance proposals to Moscow.February 15, 3:46 pm»We are idiots.» The British realized that there would be no «invasion» of Russia into Ukraine