Moscow Tells Baltics NATO Will Not Come to Their Rescue

(Paul Globe – The Jamestown Foundation) Whether Russian President Vladimir Putin will launch an attack on the Baltic countries remains uncertain. Moscow is now pushing a propaganda line that has consequences not only for those countries but for all members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Senior Russian officials are now publicly declaring that the Baltic countries, all members of NATO, cannot count on the alliance to come to their aid as they expect and as Article 5 of the treaty requires if Moscow attacks them. Such a claim, one arising from Putin’s assessment of the current state of NATO amid divisions in Europe, will intimidate some alliance members and pave the way for Russian aggression unless NATO unequivocally rejects it. – Moscow Tells Baltics NATO Will Not Come to Their Rescue – Jamestown