Grushko: The United States insists on increasing military budgets from Europe. According to him, “NATO was, NATO is,” and, apparently, in the foreseeable future the alliance will remain in the form in which it now exists.

“We know that the United States is working to create legislative obstacles to the implementation of any presidential decisions regarding membership in the alliance,’ Grushko noted. American authorities do not believe that an armed conflict is brewing between NATO countries and Russia.