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Wednesday, June 04, 2014

NATO and Europe at odds over defense cuts

EU or NATONATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen wants European leaders to loosen their purse strings on defense, but Merkel, Hollande, and Cameron are keeping their grip tight. Is efficiency and cooperation a viable compromise?

"We live in a different world than we did less than a month ago," NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a Brookings Institution forum back in March. "Russia's military aggression in Ukraine is in blatant breach of its international commitments and it is a violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. This is a wake up call for the Euro-Atlantic community, for NATO, and for all those committed to a Europe whole, free and at peace."

What he wanted was to see NATO's member states re-think their defense budgets - always the most politically expedient cuts when an economic downturn strikes. And there have been dark warnings that NATO is unprepared for Russian aggression.

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