The US should “rein in Russia.” Opinion – RIA Novosti

04:34 06.06.2016

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MOSCOW, June 6 – RIA Novosti. Former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul in an interview with the Estonian newspaper Postimees said that the current activities of Russia needs a “concrete response”

“The US should, in accordance with the needs of curb Russian and respond to it,” -. Said the diplomat , adding that Russia’s actions allegedly forced NATO to “reflect posed by Moscow’s threat.”

At the same time McFaul said that the approach of NATO to Russia’s borders is legal because he had not heard about the US promises not to expand NATO eastward. “This promise was not given,” – McFaul argues

The former ambassador also assured that Russia is making every effort for the collapse of the Ukrainian economy, and to counter this must be “the West must do everything in its power to so. did not happen. “

Michael McFaul served as US ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014. Prior to that, he was a special assistant to Obama on national security issues. Now former diplomat an analyst at a number of American TV channels and teaches at Stanford University.

Earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that NATO defense spending in Europe will increase significantly in 2016 against the background of “threats from Russia”

In particular, the Alliance intends to transfer battalions in Poland and the Baltic countries -. Lithuania , Latvia and Estonia. The final decision on the number and places of deployment will be made at the summit in Warsaw on July 8-9.

In addition, the United States plans to deploy in Eastern Europe elements of a missile defense system. The first set has already earned at the former military air base Deveselu in southern Romania, later the same object was built in Poland in Redzikowo.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on May 27 said that Moscow would be forced to respond to the commissioning US missile defense system. According to the President, in the units can be placed strike systems.

In Moscow, also said more than once that it is not interested in fomenting confrontation with NATO, but ready to give an adequate response to the actions of the West.