The US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey said that among other actions, the U.S. military is dusting off decades-old plans, just in case.(..)
As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov put it meeting press on July 28, «I guess you read analytical materials regarding current preparations for the September summit of NATO – to arrange members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in a new way, to strike through the foundations of the Rome Declaration, the Founding Act, based on which the West and Russia agreed to cooperate. It is just that there are those, who want the Ukrainian crisis to continue, and they want to use it as a pretext to radically change all those positive things, which have been reached in the relations between Russia and the West in the last decade».