Brussels – Greater security cooperation with Albania and Kosovo would augment Europe’s existing security architecture, and advance US strategic interests. Albanians are staunchly pro-American. They crave closer security, cultural, and commercial cooperation with the US. Albania and Kosovo would welcome the expansion of US military bases on their territory.
Albania and Kosovo are all the more important given trends with Russia and Turkey. Steely-eyed realism: Russia is a strategic adversary; Turkey an uncertain ally.
Vladimir Putin has dangerous disregard for the international system. After illegally seizing Crimea, Putin threatened other parts of Ukraine as well as Poland and the Baltic States. …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
