“During the Cold War, we understood each other’s signals. We talked. What worries me is that today we don’t know them as well, ”the Associated Press quotes him.

According to Scaparotti, communication is “a very important part of deterrence,” although it “should not be much.”

Earlier, the head of the Strategic Command of the US Armed Forces, General John Heithen, said that the United States must participate in the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms with Russia.