• NATO, Russian Officials Clash Over Situation in Europe - NYTimes.com
    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/03/20/world/europe/ap-eu-nato-russia.html

    Top officials from NATO and Russia clashed sharply in public Friday over who is to blame for the dramatically worsened state of East-West relations.

    The big difference is that we are a defensive alliance,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told a member of Russia’s parliament. “You send troops into other countries.”

    The Russian, Konstantin Kosachev, flatly denied Russia is using its regular troops in Ukraine. He said the U.S.-led alliance talks a lot these days about the need to respect international law and a country’s borders and sovereignty, but that it had bombed a sovereign nation, the former Yugoslavia, in 1999.
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    When the discussion turned to the growing threat of cyber-attacks being used to undermine a country’s economy or security, a tactic of hybrid warfare that many Western sources suspect the Russians of engaging in, Kosachev asked Stoltenberg point-blank if NATO would bomb a country it held responsible for such an assault.

    Nuland jumped in, asking the Russian lawmaker if he was posing a “planning question.

    Stoltenberg gave a deliberately murky answer.

    We will do what’s necessary to do to protect all allies,” he said. “But I’m not going to tell you exactly how I’m going to do that...that’s the main message.

    C’est l’ambassade de Chine à Belgrade qui est contente d’avoir été défendue de cette façon…

    Dans les enceintes officielles, les échanges sont moins détendus qu’entre Jen Psaki et Matt Lee.