The elephant in the room at this week’s NATO summit will be Russia. Deterrence options on the table in Warsaw, including the presence of NATO forces in Eastern Europe, are attempts to respond to the Alliance’s biggest, most unpredictable neighbor. But when NATO leaders sit down to discuss relations with Russia, don’t expect any change to the status quo.
The Alliance faces a near-impossible dilemma: A European security system is hardly conceivable without Russian cooperation, but neither is cooperation with Vladimir Putin as long as he maintains his current stance on Europe. The illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the …read more
Source: European Voice
