LA Times: the Aim of the new military doctrine of the Kremlin ? pressure on NATO

The new edition of the military doctrine of Russia defines NATO as the main danger and reserves the right to use nuclear weapons to counter aggression, " threatens the very existence of Russia, informs the Los Angeles Times.
Although, highlights magazine, document changes in comparison with the 2010 revision are insignificant in nature, the aim of the new doctrine of " increasing pressure " on the U.S. and Western military Alliance, so they abandoned the attempts to involve Ukraine in the form of economic and strategic ally, informs Russia Today. In the new doctrine also says that NATO's plans for missile defence in the European Union, break the balance in the region, and for the first time indicated that the protection of natural resources and shipping routes in the Arctic is a priority for the Russian Federation. Among the security threats in the doctrine also highlighted " the development and deployment of strategic missile defense, undermining global stability and violate the existing balance of power in the nuclear-missile sphere." According to the publication, fix the defense doctrine reflects " hypersensitivity " Russia against the backdrop of withdrawal of Ukraine from the traditional sphere of influence of the Russian capital. The new strategic document also makes it clear that the Kremlin is considering the expansion of NATO into the space of the former Soviet space in the form of aggression and accuses the Western Alliance in the use of global functions to be implemented in contravention of international law." The NATO officials said that if Ukraine will file a petition for membership in the Alliance (As noted in the publication, it is unlikely that it will happen before 2020, as the country will have to take a broad series of reforms), then this issue will be addressed without " third party interference ". However, concludes Los Angeles Times, trying to start a peaceful dialogue Between the republics of Donbass and the Kiev government " stalled " once the Ukrainian legislators voted for the abolition of the neutral status of the country. On the last working day of the week Russian President centuries Putin approved the new military doctrine. As reported in the print edition of the VIEW, in the new military doctrine has been altered, for example, in the Chapter " Military threats and Military dangers of the Russian Federation ". According to centuries Putin, the Russian military doctrine remains defensive, if this country wants to protect its security " consistently and hard."


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