The termination of the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles made European countries nervous. As members of the North Atlantic Alliance, they can easily be used by Washington as bridgeheads, so NATO is trying again and again to level the dissatisfaction of the “allies.”
Thus, the deputy secretary general of the military bloc Rose Gottemoeller once again assured that the alliance would not use the termination of the INF Treaty to be deployed in European countries.
“We do not intend to deploy new ground-based nuclear weapons systems in Europe,” she said in an interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung. However, she noted that NATO will still raise the question of how to “prepare for new Russian missiles.”