Troops from Canada's 3rd Division, composed with a platoon of 3rd Battalion and Princess Patricia's Light Infantry, participate at a NATO-led exercise "Orzel Alert" held together with the U.S. Army's 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team and Poland's 6th Airborne Brigade in Bledowska Desert in Chechlo, near Olkusz, south Poland May 5, 2014. (Reuters/Kacper Pempel)
KyrolAnz - NATO mungkin stesen tentera kekal tambahan di Eropah Timur, komander tertinggi tentera persekutuan itu sambil menambah bahawa ia akan menjadi langkah pertahanan. Beliau menyebut "satu paradigma baru" ditunjukkan oleh Rusia di Crimea dan Ukraine.
Pada masa ini perikatan telah menganjurkan putaran pesawat dan kapal-kapal perang di Eropah Timur dan rombongan kecil tentera darat untuk latihan tentera ke Amerika Baltik, Poland dan Romania. Tetapi penggunaan tetap harus dipertimbangkan, Tentera Udara Amerika Syarikat Ketua Philip Breedlove Selasa.
"Kita perlu melihat responsif kita, kesediaan kita dan kemudian kedudukan kami tenaga untuk dapat menangani paradigma baru ini bahawa kami telah dilihat menunjukkan di Crimea dan kini di sempadan timur Ukraine, " katanya.
NATO may station permanently additional troops in Eastern Europe, the alliance’s top military commander said, adding that it would be a defensive measure. He cited “a new paradigm” demonstrated by Russia in Crimea and Ukraine.
Currently the alliance has organized a rotation of aircraft and warships in Eastern Europe and sent small contingents of ground troops for military drills to the Baltic States, Poland and Romania. But permanent deployment should be considered, US Air Force General Philip Breedlove said Tuesday.
"We need to look at our responsiveness, our readiness and then our positioning of forces to be able to address this new paradigm that we have seen demonstrated in Crimea and now on the eastern border of Ukraine," he said.
Ahli NATO adalah untuk berkumpul untuk sidang kemuncak di Wales pada awal bulan September, tetapi dalam jangka sehingga ia komander NATO, menteri-menteri pertahanan dan menteri-menteri luar akan melihat "soalan sukar" kira-kira sama ada pakatan itu mempunyai jejak yang betul di Eropah, Breedlove memberitahu sidang akhbar di Ottawa.
"Kami mengambil langkah-langkah yang perlu dengan mudah dilihat sebagai pertahanan dalam alam semula jadi. Ini adalah mengenai memastikan sekutu kami, tidak memprovokasi Rusia, dan kami berkomunikasi yang di setiap peringkat, "kata Breedlove, yang sebelum pada hari Isnin berkata beliau tidak berfikir Rusia akan menyerang Ukraine.
NATO members are to gather for a summit in Wales in early September, but in the run-up to it NATO commanders, defense ministers and foreign ministers would look at "tougher questions" about whether the alliance had the right footprint in Europe, Breedlove told a news conference in Ottawa.
"We are taking measures that should be very easily discerned as being defensive in nature. This is about assuring our allies, not provoking Russia, and we are communicating that at every level," said Breedlove, who earlier on Monday said he didn’t think Russia would invade Ukraine.
Paradigma Breedlove merujuk kepada nampaknya penggunaan yang dikatakan tentera operasi khas Rusia di rantau Donetsk Ukraine. Tuduhan kerap disuarakan oleh Kiev dan beberapa negara-negara barat, termasuk Amerika Syarikat, tetapi setakat ini semua bukti yang dikemukakan terbukti tidak meyakinkan atau palsu.
Wartawan yang meliputi kegawatan yang berterusan di Ukraine melaporkan bahawa dalam militia bersenjata menentang Kiev di timur Ukraine mempunyai hubungan etnik, budaya dan agama yang kukuh dengan Rusia, mereka mendapati tiada bukti 'no evidence' bahawa mereka ialah tentera Rusia.
Rusia menyuarakan bantahan terhadap NATO membina tingkatan tentera di Eropah Timur di tengah-tengah konflik Ukraine. Pegawai-pegawai berkata bahawa penggunaan tetap hanya akan membuktikan penilaian Moscow tindakan NATO sebagai hostile.
"Saya percaya keputusan ini akan diambil dan ia akan menimbulkan ancaman sebenar kepada keselamatan kami. Ia akan menjadi, skandal antarabangsa yang serius yang besar, tetapi saya tahu mereka akan melakukannya, "kata Frants Klintsevich, timbalan pengerusi Jawatankuasa Pertahanan Rusia Negeri Duma ini. "Amerika mengambil semua pertaruhan luar, dan Ukraine adalah hanya alasan. Mereka tidak mengambil berat tentang rakyat, tentang apa yang berlaku di Ukraine."
"Kenyataan yang bermakna topeng kini benar-benar di luar. Ia adalah jelas walaupun sebelum bahawa penggunaan sistem peluru berpandu anti-balistik di Eropah Timur menunjukkan penerusan perkembangan perikatan ke arah timur," bersetuju Russia Senator Dmitry Sablin, yang merupakan seorang ahli Jawatankuasa Pertahanan dan Keselamatan Majlis Persekutuan.
Setiausaha Amerika Syarikat awal Negeri John Kerry berkata bahawa krisis Ukraine menimbulkan ancaman kepada kepimpinan global 'global leadership' Barat dan Amerika Syarikat dan Eropah mesti bergabung tenaga untuk menentang mereka dengan sekatan dan penurunan taraf hubungan perdagangan EU dengan Rusia.
The paradigm Breedlove was referring to is apparently the alleged use of Russian special operation troops in Ukraine's Donetsk region. The accusations are regularly voiced by Kiev and some western countries, including the US, but so far all evidence presented proved to be unconvincing or false.
Journalists covering the ongoing turmoil in Ukraine report that while armed militias defying Kiev in eastern Ukraine have strong ethnic, cultural and religious ties with Russia, they found no evidence of them being Russian troops.
Russia voiced objections to NATO's build-up of troops in Eastern Europe amid the Ukrainian conflict. Officials say that a permanent deployment would only prove Moscow's assessment of NATO's action as hostile.
“I believe this decision would be taken and it would pose a real threat to our security. It would be a big, serious international scandal, but I know they would do it,” said Frants Klintsevich, deputy chair of the Russian State Duma’s Defense Committee. “Americans are taking all bets off, and Ukraine is just a pretext. They don't care about people, about what happens in Ukraine.”
“Those statements mean that masks are now completely off. It was clear even before that the deployment of the anti-ballistic missile system in Eastern Europe indicated the continuation of the alliance expansion eastwards,” agreed Russian Senator Dmitry Sablin, who is a member of the Federation Council’s Defense and Security Committee.
Earlier US Secretary of State John Kerry said that the Ukrainian crisis poses a threat to West's global leadership and that the US and Europe must join forces to oppose them with sanctions and a downgrading of EU's trade relations with Russia.
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