Canada is pressing ahead with plans to deploy hundreds of troops to serve as a NATO buffer against Russia in eastern Europe, despite concerns about the military alliance’s future under the administration of Donald Trump.
The president-elect repeatedly criticized NATO during the election campaign, calling it obsolete and warning that the U.S. would not automatically come to the defence of a member that was attacked.
Now that he has been elected, there are questions about what would happen if Russia decided to flex its muscles in eastern Europe in the same way it did in Ukraine a few years ago.
Among those who …read more
Source: National Newswatch
