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Anastasia Rumyantseva
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The first deputy chairman of the State Duma’s international affairs committee, Dmitry Novikov, commented on RT on the words of Bundeswehr General, Chief of Staff of the US Army in Wiesbaden, Jared Zembritzki, who said that Russia is the main threat to NATO.
Novikov stressed that the maintenance of the combat readiness of the Russian army, the modernization of the armed forces does not carry any other functions, except for protective ones.
“But for those who are clothed in NATO uniforms, it is important to receive more and more new budgets, to build up the arms race, perhaps they are pursuing only career goals and goals related to enrichment, pumping out national budgets in favor of the military-industrial complex and the armed forces , but the expansion of the military arsenals is not a harmless thing, ”said the deputy.
According to the parliamentarian, Russia must defend its security, and this, as Novikov added, cannot be achieved without modern armed forces.
Earlier, General of the Bundeswehr, Chief of Staff of the US Army in Wiesbaden, Jared Zembritzky, in an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, said that Russia is the main threat for the North Atlantic Alliance.
He added that Russia is “building up arms” and actively modernizing its army.
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