Michael Peck
Security, Europe
Would NATO do it in time of war?
Russia is not happy over a new RAND Corporation study that suggests the Russian city of Kaliningrad—the former German city of Königsberg—might need to be militarily “neutralized.”
“Just Try It,” warned the headline of a Sputnik News article on the RAND study, which Sputnik described as being “filled with standard rhetoric about the dangers of ‘Russian aggression’ in Eastern Europe.”
Actually, there was nothing particularly bellicose about RAND’s U.S. government-sponsored research, titled “European Relations with Russia: Threat Perceptions, Responses and Strategies in the Wake of the Ukrainian Crisis.” It’s a straightforward analysis …read more
Source: The National Interest
