Germany’s foreign minister warned Wednesday that Russia risked spurring a “spiral of escalation” with the West after President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was boosting its nuclear arsenal.Frank-Walter Steinmeier told news website Spiegel Online that Putin’s announcement was “unnecessary and certainly not a contribution to stability and detente in Europe”.He said the world had changed since the end of the Cold War “but the old reflexes from this time are apparently more alive than we thought even last year”. “I can only warn against giving in to such reflexes and entering into an accelerated spiral of escalation in word and then …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
