We at NATO do not want to see a Cold War, we do not talk about it. It's not what we want to happen or anticipate to happen. ... We're a defensive alliance who are arraying ourselves to face a challenge ... [from] a nation that has once again decided it will use force to change internationally recognized borders and so we take those appropriate actions to be able to assure, defend and deter.

Philip Breedlove

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They have occupied Ukraine and built a bubble [defense] in the Black Sea and now [we] see a defense bubble developing in northern Syria.

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I think that the alliance does need to be ready for the air defense mission, and of course we as military men and women are looking at that capability, air policing and air defense are meant for two different situations. The Baltic air policing is a peacetime mission.

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I get a lot of questions from our European counterparts on our election process this time in general, and I think they see a very different sort of public discussion than they have in the past.

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Russia is eager to exert unquestioned influence over its neighboring states.

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I believe that Russia will dial up and down the pressure along the line of contact to keep Kiev under pressure to meet their parts of the (Minsk) agreements first.

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We are not exactly sure what it will take to work in the future.

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We should make any changes on our troop structure based on conditions on the ground, not on schedules, other nations are already ringing in that they are committed.

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Several of our largest contributors have already communicated with us that they will remain in their current posture.

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ANSF (Afghan National Security Forces) are preparing now to retake that part of the city and I have great confidence that they will do that.

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I don’t think Mr. Putin is done in eastern Ukraine.

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This is a very fragile ceasefire and we need to return to a ceasefire situation, i think that what we see is a pattern that matches previous patterns during ceasefires... We see training, we see re-equipping, we see new forces, new money, organisation, increased command and control, all these things are in a pattern across the past several times where we have seen a push( offensive).

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I do believe that those remarks were put out... to send a message... It was put out there to intend to give us pause in our decision-making.

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We do see a very distinct Russian set of command and control in the eastern part of Ukraine, command-and-control, air defense, support to artillery, all of these things increased ... making a more coherent, organized force out of the separatists.

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Many of their actions are consistent with preparations for anothe... by Philip Breedlove

Many of their actions are consistent with preparations for another offensive.

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In the past they have not wasted their effort. by Philip Breedlove

In the past they have not wasted their effort.

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What we do believe is that we should consider changing the decision calculus of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. That's what we look at.

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But we really have no way of knowing one way or another. by Philip Breedlove

But we really have no way of knowing one way or another.

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We need to first and foremost signal that we cannot accept this change and that, if this change is continued, that we will have to change the cost calculus for Russia in order to help them to find their way to a less bellicose position.

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That exterior message has now obviously fallen apart and we see outright Russian involvement, air defense systems that have never really been used anywhere outside Russia until now are being used in that area.

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