NATO Needs a Strategy for Countering Russia in the Arctic and the Black Sea

The author suggested that it was important that, during the NATO Brussels summit, 11-12 July 2018 the alliance recognised the threat Russia posed in the neglected areas of the Arctic and the Black Sea.

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