Russia's warning of 'chaos' is a 'threat' US ambassador to NATOIn The News

Well, of course it's a threat, they know
they're on the wrong side of this, they know that the international community is standing against their use of chemical weapons in the U.K., That they guaranteed that Syria
would not have chemical weapons again, and yet here we have seen another
mass destruction of innocent people. And I think that Russia should be getting the
message that we are not going to back down, That we are going to stay within the
rules of international engagement, we have now tried to degrade
some of the capability in Syria, but Russia was supposed
to do that on their own. It's time for Russia to step up and
keep their international commitments and stop breaking the treaties
time and again, like the INF treaty, like, most certainly the agreement they
made after 2013 that they would assure that Syria would not have
chemical weapons again. Then going into the U.K.

And putting
chemical weapons or nerve agents in their country to try to
murder someone. Those are beyond the norms of international civil behavior and Russia needs to step up to the plate and start trying to do things in the right way, which
would be accepted in the international community. Ambassador, one final question for you then
on Russia's behavior and the U.S. Response to it.

A Russian analyst told The Washington
Post over the weekend that the U.S. Currently seems to have three
separate Russian policies. You've got the president's, the
executive branch's and congress', and I wonder that now that we're
hearing slightly more muscular language from President Trump about his
opposite number President Putin, do you think those three separate strands,
you yourself, as a former Republican senator, do you think they're aligning
more closely at last? I certainly think that America is
speaking with one voice, I think the president has been very bold
in the sanctions against Russia, to say, "Stop this kind of behavior," and Congress is, in a bipartisan way, very
forceful on the issue of Russia stepping back and looking at what they're doing,
looking at who they are supporting, supporting a president of a country that is
killing his own people by whatever means. They should know better
and they should do better.

And that's what Congress is saying to Russia,
it is what the president is saying to Russia, it is what his whole administration
on every level is saying to Russia, "Stop the bad behavior, the malign influence
that you are sowing all over the world, it's time to come into the community of nations
and if you do so, we will welcome you..