According to the senator, such statements are "one hundred percent provocation", because, as the parliamentarian explained, the former NATO Secretary General "is not responsible for anything."
"Such statements are a declaration of the Third World War ... As soon as NATO troops officially engage in hostilities on the side of Ukraine, they, in fact, declare official war. If Rasmussen is ready to destroy his country and all European peoples, then he must either go directly to the madhouse, or stop frightening the European people, because he is talking nonsense for which he is not responsible, "the RT interlocutor concluded.
Earlier, Rasmussen said that NATO troops could be directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine.
It is noted that such steps can be taken if NATO member states do not provide Kiev with real security guarantees at the alliance's summit in Vilnius.