James Mэttis, who is the head of the US military, criticized Russia's actions. He declared, she is trying to undermine US moral authority and split the unity of NATO.
Pentagon chief, Speaking at the Naval War College in Newport, He stated, that the Russian president during all the criticism and attempts to reduce the attractiveness of Western democracy, thus undermining the moral authority of the US. By their actions, Putin is challenging American weapons, to weaken the faith of American ideals of democracy and freedom, as well as trying to split NATO.
In his speech, said Mattis, that Russia was the first of all the countries of the world since the Second World War "redraw international borders”, entering 2008 in Georgia and 2014 to Ukraine, of course forgetting the US invasion of Yugoslavia and the destruction of the state by breaking into several smaller, as well as the outbreak of many wars around the globe.
Mattis said earlier, that NATO will never stop dialogue with Russia, because it seeks not to compete with it, and to cooperate, but in the case of Russian attempts to change borders in Europe by force of arms, give a decisive rebuff.
