On June 27th, after attending the highest council meeting of the Eurasian Economic Commission in Belarus, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed to the media that Russia had been deceived regarding its “NATO non-Eastern expansion” commitment. Regarding NATO’s increase in military spending proportion, Putin emphasized that NATO has expanded its forces and prepared for war on the pretext of “Russia’s aggressiveness,” but this aggressiveness does not exist; rather, it is actually NATO itself. Putin also announced that the “one-sided give-and-take game” with the West has come to an end. (CCTV International News)