NATO leaders remained concerned about the actions of the aggressor.
After a two-day NATO summit has announced the strengthening of forces to assure its European partners that it intends to protect them. But what, in the opinion of military experts, NATO will not do so is to reduce the threat of conflict with Russia, writes columnist mark champion in his article for Bloomberg.
According to him, the Alliance would send four battalions in the Baltic States and Poland. In addition, after the summit is expected to strengthen ties with Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. Thirdly, is nearing completion of the installation of a missile defense system in the region.
Former adviser to NATO Andrew Monaghan indicates that every time NATO is something implemented in this region, he must think that the Kremlin will do in this regard. Instead, NATO negotiates first with himself and then thinks about the plans of the aggressor. “We are neither there nor here in terms of Russia,” says Monaghan. And this is the problem of Russia divides the block into two parts.
Champion recalls that the Minister of foreign Affairs of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier actually condemned the NATO plans in Eastern Europe, the Eastern Europe, on the contrary, believes that NATO could be in the region actively to repel the Russian threat.
Report of the British Parliament “Russia: implications for the protection and security of the United Kingdom identified the dilemma that the Alliance is going to the summit is any delay, the Kremlin will perceive as a weakness, however, the bullying may intensify the antagonism between the West and Russia.
Russian military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer believes that the President of the aggressor country, Vladimir Putin is afraid of not only NATO troops in the Baltic States, how much the installation of missile systems that can reach his residence in Sochi in a few minutes. That is, Putin (and his military commanders) believes that everything is an extension to the East is a cover for the true purpose of killing him, Putin. Felgengauer believes that an open conflict between the Kremlin and NATO remains unlikely – as any agreement.
Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin believes that the result of the Warsaw summit, NATO must become a comprehensive aid package from the Alliance for the defense sector of Ukraine.
