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Protest in Prague, July 14, 2014

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Jul 23, 2014

Putin’s Crime, Europe’s Cowardice

By Bernard-Henri Lévy, New York Times

Faced with this new Lockerbie, will we in the West do no more than beg Mr. Putin to provide “free and complete” access to the crash site and offer “full cooperation” in the recovery of remains?

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, May 8, 2014

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Jul 23, 2014

President of Poland Calls for Strengthening NATO’s Eastern Flank

By Office of the President of Poland

The Ukrainian-Russian conflict is the biggest challenge for European security since the time of the Cold War, according to President Bronislaw Komorowski. The Polish president is in favour of strengthening NATO’s eastern flank.

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French President François Hollande and President Barack Obama, Feb. 11, 2014

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Jul 23, 2014

Members of Congress Urge Obama to Make Personal Appeal to Stop Mistral Sale to Russia

By Mark R. Warner, Mark Kirk, Adam Kinzinger, and William R. Keating

Text of letter to President Barack Obama from US lawmakers.

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and President Barack Obama, March 6, 2014

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Jul 23, 2014

Special Summit Series: The United States and NATO

By James Joyner

In the run-up to September’s NATO summit in Wales, the Obama administration is sending decidedly mixed signals to its European allies, simultaneously demanding that they contribute more to their own security and signaling that they needn’t bother.

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French snipers, February 16, 2012

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Jul 22, 2014

Shouldn’t Europe Pay More for its Own Defense?

By Graham Allison, Los Angeles Times

Two decades after the end of the Cold War, the twin trends of overdependence on U.S. power and underinvestment in military might have left European defenses at risk of becoming dangerously irrelevant.

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US-led multinational exercise, May 15, 2008

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Jul 21, 2014

Pentagon Discloses Components of Obama’s $1 Billion Reassurance Initiative

By Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes

Of the $1 billion being sought for Europe, $925 million would be set aside for the Defense Department and would be available for two years.

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RAF Eurofighter Typhoon, Oct. 13, 2013

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Jul 21, 2014

Five NATO Weapons of War Russia Should Fear

By Michael Peck, National Interest

Should NATO and Russia come to blows . . . here are five NATO weapons Russia should fear:

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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Dec. 4, 2012

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Jul 21, 2014

Special Summit Series: France and NATO

By Jeff Lightfoot

As France looks toward the 2014 NATO summit in Wales, it does so with a foreboding sense that ‘international taboos’ are increasingly being broken by state and non-state actors alike.

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Buk-M2E missile system

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Jul 18, 2014

NATO General Warned of Russian ‘Anti-Aircraft’ Training for Separatists

By Luis Martinez, ABC News

At a June 30 Pentagon news conference, NATO Supreme Commander Gen. Philip Breedlove said Russia had been providing air defense training to Russian separatists

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SACEUR Gen. Philip Breedlove, Feb. 17, 2011

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Jul 17, 2014

The Meaning of Russia’s Military Campaign Against Ukraine

By Philip Breedlove, Wall Street Journal

Let’s be clear, Russia’s military actions in and around Ukraine have not been, and are not now, defensive in nature.

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