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  • NATO members mull rearmament | World | DW.DE | 07.05.2014
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    Defense expert Neu (...) thinks the Russian threat to Europe is overestimated.

    “Not a single NATO country is in any way threatened,” he told DW. “It’s artificial hysteria which is used to improve the public image of NATO.” The defense alliance has lost its old bogeyman - the Soviet Union - and now Russia has to serve as bogeyman once more, he says.

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    "European NATO members alone outnumber Russia. That applies for the number of troops as well as for the size of the tank fleet and other military units."And NATO also is qualitatively superior to Russia," [SWP expert Mölling] added.

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    Not one of the experts thinks the Ukraine crisis should mark the beginning of a new arms race, as NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has requested.

    SWP expert Mölling would like to see armament “in homeopathic doses and at the right place.” He added that, “We are not talking about hundreds of billions of euros, as Rasmussen is currently dreaming of.”

    Mölling sees Rasmussen’s statement as a parting shot at the end of his time in office. NATO will have a new Secretary General by autumn.

    Alexander S. Neu goes a step further, suggesting Rasmussen is a “Washington man” who intends to transplant US military costs onto European shoulders.

    “The Europeans are increasingly having to undertake tasks which, up until now, had been managed by the US alone. That’s why [the Europeans] are supposed to beef up their defense budgets.”

    The Left politician also added that he views Rasmussem as the executive body of US policy wishes.

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