For Jens Stoltenberg, the former Norwegian prime minister and one-time government statistician who is now the 13th secretary general of NATO, even the highest-stakes military and political problems can often be reduced to simple math.
Asked in an interview with POLITICO if he worried that the four new NATO battalions to be stationed in eastern Europe and the Baltics might be viewed by Russia as a provocation, Stoltenberg said he was confident that Moscow could count.
“There is no way battalions can be seen as a threat against divisions on the Russian side,” he said in the interview at NATO headquarters, at …read more
Source: European Voice
