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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Who’s Afraid of NATO Enlargement?

For many members of the NATO alliance, Russia’s invasion of eastern Ukraine has had two positive effects.
The first is that NATO has returned its attention to Europe after focusing for so long on the faraway war in Afghanistan. Back home, the organization has established six command centers in Eastern Europe with the aim of supporting 5,000 troops and boosting the defenses of what has been a neglected area of the alliance.
The second consequence is that the war in eastern Ukraine is making all NATO members finally confront their decline in defense spending—even though there is little political will in many finance ministries to increase defense budgets.http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=60945&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonvKXNZKXonjHpfsX57uQsW6Sg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YIGRcR0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEIQ7XYTLB2t60MWA%3D%3D
Posted by Michele Kearney at 6:26 PM

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