I’m not sure I get all of this handwringing over the NATO response to the war between Russia and Georgia. There is a really simple, clearly understandable explanation for why NATO didn’t come to Georgia’s aid: Georgia isn’t a NATO country. NATO was under no obligation whatsoever to render assistance. If Russia had invaded Estonia […]
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I have an article up at TAP on NATO and the Russia-Georgia war.
Back in 2005 I sat on a panel at the University of Kentucky library on the future of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At one point the conversation became heated, with an interlocutor from the audien
This backs up something I heard at the recent International Studies Association meeting: A statement from the Russian foreign ministry said that “a bridgehead is being prepared for the start of military operations against Abkhazia”. Russia accuses Georgia of amassing 1,500 soldiers and police near the rebel areas of the upper Kodori Gorge. Russia is […]
Like Matt, I don’t have any principled opposition to Ukrainian membership in NATO. It will irritate the Russians, yes, but I don’t have a terrible lot of sympathy for Russia on this point;
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