The commander of the U.S. European Command and NATO is calling for pressuring Russia against deploying new cruise missiles that violate the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty.
“We have to change Mr. Putin’s decision calculus as to whether he uses these [missiles] or brings these forward or deploys these,” Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove told reporters at the Pentagon during a briefing last week.
“We have to change that, and that series of thoughts that the SecDef [Ashton Carter] put forward are options that would help change that.”
Breedlove was referring to written answers to questions Carter submitted to the Senate Armed …read more
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
