... To all intents and purposes, it is a de facto front line. Following the 2014 Ukraine crisis, relations between Russia and NATO have turned as hostile as they were during the Cold War. Small Western military contingents are now deployed in each of the Baltic states. Poland is emerging as a new hub for the U.S. military presence in Europe.
Russia’s relations with non-NATO countries in the Baltic Sea region—Sweden and Finland—have also become markedly strained. Stockholm has just decided on a major increase in its defense spending, citing the Russian threat. Moscow, of course, has always considered Sweden an informal ...
... scenarios
involving the defence of NATO’s eastern flank. Georgia, although formally a participant in the drill of nearly 40,000 NATO troops mainly deployed in Poland and the Baltic states, will only be involved in airdropping a small multinational force.
Armenia and Azerbaijan: a powder keg
Sergey Markedonov: ... ... systems and even theatre missiles. Azerbaijan mainly buys its weaponry and military equipment from Israel, Turkey, Belarus and Russia. Armenia often criticizes Russia and Belarus for their active military cooperation with Azerbaijan, presenting it as nothing ...
This new ELN policy brief looks at ways to reduce the risk of military confrontation between Russia and NATO, namely in the Baltic region. The authors argue that steps to ensure military stability are not only possible, but are also mutually beneficial.
This new ELN policy brief looks at ways to reduce the risk of military confrontation between Russia ...
... negative Soviet legacy in Central European and Baltic countries. Now it is clear that if Russia seeks good relations with the EU, it has to start with the closest western neighbors.
Little weight is given to the fact that Moscow’s policy towards the Baltic states is not the only factor contributing to the situation. It was not Russia who approached NATO's border, increasing military tensions – rather the opposite. Anti-Russian sentiment has also driven the foreign policies of the Baltic states. In the long-term, this can become too costly and too irrational.
Today, instead of becoming the bridge ...
... had been part of the socialist bloc, is considering the possibility of taking the military and political confrontation with Russia to a new level.
When information was leaked to the media in mid-July 2015 about the possible deployment of a U.S. military ... ... potential serious consequences of this initiative by the Pentagon, particularly with regard to relations between Russia and NATO.
The U.S. project officially became known a month prior in mid-June 2015, when The New York Times
published an article
reporting ...
... for Stationing U.S. Heavy Weapons in Central and Eastern Europe
The “war of words” that is heating up between Russia and individual NATO countries in connection with plans to deploy significant military force in Europe is becoming increasingly strained.
At first ... ...
Perhaps this is how we should look at the plans to move a part of the United States’ heavy weaponry to Poland and the Baltic states, which have become more convenient places for U.S. troops to store their military equipment, from both the political ...
... aimed at ensuring that the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia did not have a destabilising influence on the situation in the region. They were... ... include political forces that are ready to support the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO and to help these states become deeply integrated into the military and political... ... this that the countries of Northern Europe started to pay increased attention to the Baltic states as soon as they gained their independence, and focused on developing various...
