The head of Russia’s military general staff and NATO’s supreme allied commander held a rare face-to-face meeting on April 19 to try to ease the worst East-West tensions since the Cold War.
U.S. Army General Curtis Scaparrotti and Valery Gerasimov met in Baku, Azerbaijan, less than a week after the United States, Britain and France staged missile strikes on Syria in retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack by the forces of President Bashar al-Assad – a close ally of Russia.
