Vladimir Putin’s spokesman says one way Donald Trump could help build confidence with Russia after he becomes president would be to persuade NATO to slow down its expansion or withdraw its forces from Russia’s borders. Dmitry Peskov said this “would lead to a kind of detente in Europe.” But unfort-unately, he said, Russia now sees “NATO’s muscles... Getting bigger and bigger and closer and closer to Russian borders.”
At a NATO summit in July, the Western alliance said it is building up positions in Poland, Estonia, latvia and lithuania in response to what it sees as escalating tensions with Russia.