Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow. © Pavel Golovkin/AP/Press Association Images
The most powerful impression I took from chairing the opening session of Chatham House’s Security and Defence Conference yesterday is that Russia’s President has injected a new sense of purpose into Nato. You might bleakly call Vladimir Putin “Nato’s salvation;” he has rescued the alliance from its drift and loss of confidence—and even possibly from its lack of money.
An incursion across the sovereign boundary of Ukraine; a potential subversive recruitment of Russian-speaking people in the European Union’s eastern most members; all this …read more
Source: Prospect
