Russia and the West will remain in a state of confrontation over the next few years, said Last news Director of the Moscow Carnegie center Dmitri Trenin, commenting on recent statements by the Russian General staff.
The Russian General staff on Wednesday spoke with the most hard lately statements in the West, accusing the United States and NATO attempts to undermine the military-economic potential RF interference in Ukraine's Affairs and direct participation in the " color revolutions ".
According to Trenin, now there is a gradual formation of ideological, logistical, doctrinal apparatus of a new confrontation with the West." Clearly, this is a long term situation that requires orientation that over the next few years, Russia and the West will remain in a state of confrontation, " says the specialist.
anyway, training avoids the term " cold war " because " we cannot return to the past, it will be something else, in my opinion, is as dangerous has the ability to be partly no less dangerous than the cold war, but still it will be a fundamentally different nature of the confrontation."
unlike the situation during the cold war for the West, particularly the United States, the Russian direction continues to be, in the opinion of the expert, " non-priority ", i.e. " if the Russian Federation, the United States became real today's opponent ", for the West, Russia was not an opponent of the scale of the Soviet Union.
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