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Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders, March 2, 2015

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Mar 30, 2015

Dutch Foreign Minister Worried About Russia’s Nuclear Exercises and Threats

By Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

NATO’s collective strength lies in the solidarity among its members: one for all and all for one. The Netherlands is helping the alliance to make changes, for instance by enhancing the deployability and responsiveness of NATO units.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dec. 18, 2014

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Mar 16, 2015

Putin Willing to Put Russian Nuclear Forces on Alert in Support of Attack on Ukraine

By Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post

Russian President Vladimir Putin personally directed his nation’s capture of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, he said in a documentary aired Sunday, in which he offered details of his deep involvement in last year’s quick and effective takeover.

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"only one institution that can contain the conflict and deter it from spreading"

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Mar 6, 2015

Time for Some Straight Talk on NATO

By Andrew A. Michta, American Interest

Unfortunately, there is a direct link between the lack of political will in Europe to respond to hard power emergencies and the stark decline in countries’ military capabilities and capacities.

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New Atlanticist

Mar 4, 2015

Kroenig: NATO Should Develop Credible Response to Russian Nuclear Strike

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Atlantic Council analyst says US, NATO lack adequate nuclear deterrence policy The United States and NATO lack an adequate nuclear deterrence policy even as Russia has put the nuclear option at the center of its national security strategy, according to Atlantic Council analyst Matthew Kroenig. “NATO should strengthen its nuclear declaratory policy and develop new, […]

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SACEUR Gen. Philip Breedlove, May 23, 2013

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Feb 25, 2015

General Breedlove: US Depends on European Allies and Partners to ‘Fully Defend Our National Security Interests’

By Philip Breedlove, EUCOM

Our many shared values, interests, and economic interdependence with Europe provides unique opportunities and assets for collective security as well as global security cooperation.

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In the News

Feb 23, 2015

Kroenig to Testify on Regional Nuclear Dynamics

Matthew Kroenig, Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, will testify on regional nuclear dynamics before the Senate Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Strategic Forces on February 25. More details here.

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Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, Oct. 17, 2012

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Feb 10, 2015

Putin Security Aide Warns US Over Arms For Ukraine

By Kathrin Hille, Financial Times

A key security adviser to Russian president Vladimir Putin has accused the US of seeking to drag Russia directly into war in Ukraine through a possible plan to arm Kiev, underlining the seriousness with which Moscow would greet such a move.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dec. 4, 2014

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Feb 9, 2015

Russia’s Nuclear Strategy Raises Concerns in NATO

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

Concern is growing in NATO over Russia’s nuclear strategy and indications that Russian military planners may be lowering the threshold for using nuclear weapons in any conflict, alliance diplomats say.

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Lt. Gen. Frederick Ben Hodges, Nov. 13, 2014

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Feb 9, 2015

Commander of US Army in Europe Sees Russia Mobilizing for War

By Sohrab Ahmari, Wall Street Journal

‘I believe the Russians are mobilizing right now for a war that they think is going to happen in five or six years

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UK Defense Minister Michael Fallon, Oct. 30, 2014

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Feb 6, 2015

UK Concerned Over ‘Threatening’ Russian Nuclear Strategy

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

Britain’s defence minister voiced concern on Friday that Russia may have “lowered the threshold” for using nuclear weapons and said Britain must update its own deterrent in response to Russian modernisation of its nuclear forces.

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