NATO was set on Tuesday to agree deployment of a new force in the Baltics and Poland, the last of a series of steps to deter a resurgent Russia but which some allies say must go further to be credible.
Three weeks before a critical NATO summit in Warsaw, the alliance’s defense ministers will approve deployment of some 4,000 troops which, backed up by rapid reaction forces, could help deter a repeat of Moscow’s show of force in Crimea elsewhere.
“We don’t seek confrontation with Russia, we don’t want a new Cold War,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said before the meeting in …read more
Source: Antigua Observer
