“As Russian misbehaviour has been growing in recent years, NATO has been exercising its responses methodically,” writes Rose Gottemoeller in a guest commentary for The Economist
between Russia and Ukraine shows why the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is the most successful of the international bodies created in the wake of the second world war. As Russian forces built up along Ukraine’s borders in the final months of 2021, thealliance was watchful and active, continuing its exercises and policing the sea and airspace near Russia and Belarus.
This, though, was nothing new. In the 1960s, France’s withdrawal from the military command structure and the banishment of’s headquarters to Brussels rang an early death knell. In the 1960s and into the 1970s, the crisis sprang from military coups in member states such as Greece, Turkey and Portugal. In the 1980s Europeans were on the street in their hundreds of thousands in protest atEuromissile deployments.
With Mr Putin rattling his nuclear sabre during the present crisis, such pragmatic co-operation is long ago and far away. The experience of-Russia co-operation shows, nevertheless, that the alliance was trying to adapt to Russia as a partner, trying to figure out a way to avoid ending up where we are today. For a number of reasons that we are still sorting through, the Russian president decided that cooperation with’s adaptability is the key to its success as an institution.
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