The ticking clock: Why NATO’s deterrence against Russia is under pressure – European Council on Foreign Relations

The ticking clock: Why NATO’s deterrence against Russia is under pressure – European Council on Foreign Relations

Cover image: picture alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS | Mindaugas Kulbis Vladimir Putin has not gone to any trouble to hide his hostile intent towards NATO. “I think no one doubts [European military build-up] will force Russia to act,” the Russian president told a foreign policy forum in Sochi last October, “and Russia’s countermeasures will not be long in coming. It seems (to me) that the response to these threats will be, to put it mildly, very con…