Moscow, Jul 9 (EFE).- Ex Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev said on Saturday that the rhetoric used by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in its summit in Poland is a sign of war.
“All the rhetoric used in Warsaw is almost a declaration of war against Russia,” he said to Russian news agency Interfax, adding that “the Cold War is preparing to get hot.”
The decisions made by NATO, such as the deployment of 4000 troops to Poland and the Baltic countries, force Russia into a growing confrontation with Europe and the United States, he warned.
Gorbachev, who won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Cold War, asked the international community to do anything possible to stop the world from returning to a past in which two blocks threatened each other with mutual destruction.
NATO leaders agreed on Friday to deploy troops in Eastern Europe as a reinforcement against Russia.
The troops’ purpose is “to enhance our forward presence in central and eastern Europe,” said US President
Barack Obama on Friday during the Warsaw summit.
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