Vladimir Putin is placing a cynical bet that he can invade Ukraine just one week before a NATO summit — and that NATO will do nothing to stop him. The alliance must prove him wrong. To prove Putin wrong, NATO should take the following steps at its Wales summit: ●Cancel all allied sales of military and dual-use equipment to Russia. The most notorious case is the French naval assault vessels — Mistral and Sebastopol — but other allies, including Britain and Germany, have yet to scrap all of their sales to Russia. As for the French ships: NATO should buy them for itself using its infrastructure budget and deploy them as a naval component to the NATO Response Force. Full article: goo.gl/3WuQmQ
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:17:23 +0000
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