Against Putin, NATO must find a hard answer
This week, the main peak of the Western alliance starts since fall of the Soviet Union. Apparently NATO will establish a rapid reaction force. Is that enough? Probably not.
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Americans, Europeans, German, many months not understand what is happening in Europe, the Middle East. Even if they were doing this now and again, that their idea of ??Russia did not agree with reality, so they have the Russian President Vladimir Putin but repeatedly dipped into the mild light of (their) dreams and acted as if the Kremlin leader, although a crude (person) but the legitimate heir, (to) Mikhail Gorbachev, who now and then indulges his political selfishness, but nevertheless somehow is a pleasant berserk.
The conflicts that Putin has sparked since he took office in 2000 - of his dealings with the opposition, to the war in Chechnya - they took note (of the events) while shaking his head , but they interrupted the period of calm in the Western consciousness at best as a belch, of the long, worry-free meal. Putin remained the "flawless democrat" and "security partners".
For him to put his own interests aside willingly, gave up a missile shield in Eastern Europe and did much to open the gates to the alliance so far that eventually even the former chief opponent would be able to enter. Several times invited NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson to the Kremlin during his term of office, to cooperate so trusting with the alliance that Russia in the near future member could be the same. But Moscow did not want to.
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