Why Experts Believed an Armed Conflict with Ukraine Would Never Happen

....” Andrey Kortunov: The end of diplomacy? Seven Glimpses of the New Normal The consequences of a potential conflict that I predicted three months ago can now be supplemented with another two. Afterthought 1. Moving towards a significant increase in NATO’s military presence in Eastern Europe. With a number of Western states blocking the airspace, the Kaliningrad Region can successfully be isolated from the rest of Russia. NATO is currently avoiding active engagement in the crisis. However, tensions ...