NATO military chief’s tough talk fails to allay Europe’s fears over Trump and Putin

LONDON – “Block, blunt, smash.” That’s how the top commander of NATO, the US-led military alliance in Europe, summed up his strategy of responding to a potential Russian incursion into his alliance’s territory.In a speech in Warsaw, the Polish capital, on Oct 12, US General Alexus Grynkewich, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), NATO’s top officer, warned: “If someone is foolish enough to attack us, we will fight.