WARSAW: Leaders meeting in Warsaw for a NATO summit this week will be surrounded by the ghosts of communism as they endorse the defense alliance’s biggest military buildup since the Cold War in response to a newly resurgent Russia.
US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other top officials will on Friday dine in a ballroom considered a symbol of the West’s triumph over communist ideology and Soviet expansionism.
It is there, in the presidential palace ballroom, that the USSR inked the 1955 Warsaw Pact with its Soviet satellites, forming a defense alliance that became NATO’s military adversary.
But decades later, …read more
Source: The Manila Times
