Russia's Grushko: the Moment of Truth Has Come: Will Europe Become a Battlefield?

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko directly addressed the need for NATO to hear what Russia is saying and doing with their disarmament proposal: “The moment of truth has come.” He explained on Solovyov Live YouTube on Saturday, Dec. 18: “We have reached a red line and our proposals aim to pull us away from this red line and start a normal dialogue.... We, in a very clear manner, have defined the way forward to achieve that.” However, if NATO turns down the proffered security guarantees, Russia will take that seriously: “We are making clear that we are ready to talk about switching over from a military or a military-technical scenario to a political process.… If that doesn’t work out, we signaled [to NATO] that we will also move over to creating counter threats, but it will then be too late to ask us why we made these decisions and why we deployed these systems.”