Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also warned that proposed NATO expansion poses a threat to peace in Europe.
."In 2018, the U.S. spent over $700 billion on this, while NATO as a whole spent around $1 trillion, while Russia only spent less than $50 billion." NATO figures released in March suggest the alliance's total military spending for 2018 is around $987 billion.
The alliance deployed four multinational battalion-size battle groups in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland on a rotational basis to deter Russian aggression. There have also been discussions about opening a permanent U.S. military base in Poland, whichIn June, President Donald Trump announced that he would transfer 1,000 U.S. troops from their base in Germany to Poland, though stopped short of committing to a new American base there.
Any suggestion of membership for Russia's neighbors or former satellites is regarded as an existential threat. This is especially true for Georgia, with which Russia fought a brief but bloody war in 2008, and for Ukraine, which has moved closer to NATO since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. Tensions between Russia and NATO have also risen amid the collapse of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.was signed by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, banning ground-launch nuclear and conventional missiles with ranges from 500 kilometers to 5,500 kilometers .
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