White House has created a secret working group, which develops possible scenarios for the behavior of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and NATO’s response measures in case Russia resorts to the use of weapons of mass lesion, be it chemical, bacteriological, or nuclear, writes New York Times newspaper.
the so-called “Team of Tigers”, which includes national security specialists, and February 28 conducts imitation exercises to work out possible responses.
According to the unnamed sources of the newspaper, the group also works as a reaction to the case of an attack on the NATO territory – for example, if Russian troops begin to fire columns delivering weapons and help to Ukraine from the Alliance countries.
The team that meets three times a week, also examines the readiness of Russia to attack the neighboring countries, including Moldova and Georgia.
Only a month ago, such scenarios seemed soon as hypothetical, newspaper writes. But today and the White House, and NATO headquarters realized that Russia could resort to the most powerful weapons in his arsenal to get out of a military deadlock.
It is expected that possible scenarios for the development of events All leaders of NATO countries will discuss on Thursday, March 24, at an extraordinary session in Brussels, where the US President Joe Biden arrives.
The meeting will pass behind closed doors, without helpers and mobile phones, and this will be the first meeting of all the heads of NATO after the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war.