... developments in the Black Sea Region generally agree that acceding to NATO was a good idea. For example, the Turkish political scientist Mitat Çelikpala and his Greek colleague Dimitrios Triantaphyllou
state
that “three of the six littoral states are NATO members (Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria) and two others (Ukraine and Georgia) seek to enhance their relationship with NATO.” At the same time, we would like to note that if Çelikpala and Triantaphyllou support the territorial integrity of Georgia and Ukraine (which ...
... territory of the US system is due to the strategic and operational commitments enshrined in Romania’s NATO membership. By acquiescing to those moves, Bucharest is merely meeting its alliance commitments, which, according to repeated statements by both NATO and Romanian officials, are not directly targeting Russian missile systems per se. In addition, the new system was deployed on a temporary basis to maintain NATO’s operational capability during the upgrading of the Aegis Ashore Romania system. Possible ...
To What Extent Does the U.S. Aegis BMD in Europe Threaten Russia?
In May 2016, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency announced that its ballistic missile defence (BMD) base at Deveselu, Romania, had been put into operation. This marked the second phase of the European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) announced by Barack Obama in 2009. Immediately thereafter, construction of a similar base in Redzikowo, Poland began
as part of the third ...
... agreement are bandied around with increasing frequency, and some hotheads in the Russian Duma have proposed responding to yet another U.S. report by denouncing the Treaty outright. Besides, placing the Pentagon’s stationary military facilities in Romania and Poland deals another blow to the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation.
On the whole, it should be stated that making U.S. ballistic missile defence components operational at the present moment, during yet another period of heightened tensions, will have more dire political consequences than ...
... equipment there and back and would be “more logical” to simply deploy it in Central Europe. Meanwhile, there has been no discussion whatsoever of the fact that deploying military hardware will only cut costs for the U.S. and not for Hungary or Romania. Even more curious is the fact that NATO has publicly distanced itself from the initiative of placing heavy weapons in countries of the former Eastern bloc, noting that this
is a U.S. proposal not related to the alliance’s activities
.
If all the parties agree to this this will mark ...
