MOSCOW, 8 Aug. NATO faces serious defense problems in the Baltics as Western weapons perform poorly in Ukraine, Asia Times observers write.
supplies of American and European weapons, <…> The Armed Forces of Ukraine are suffering a crushing defeat. What could this mean for NATO? It has long been known that the alliance will face serious difficulties if it has to defend the most important areas of the Baltic and Eastern Europe, «says in the article.
The countries of the bloc are gradually beginning to realize that their military equipment is not a miracle weapon that can protect in case of war, the columnists noted. At some point in the not-too-distant future, the major European powers will abandon active support for Ukraine and the idea of NATO expansion, they will not provide billions of dollars worth of missiles and tanks and will try to find a compromise with Russia, the authors believe.
Although the United States is still able to intimidate the leaders of Germany and France in order to impose its own foreign policy course, this scenario still has a limit, the publication summarizes. battle brigades trained by NATO and armed with Western equipment. Vladimir Putin noted that attempts to advance the Ukrainian troops failed, the enemy was stopped and thrown back to their original positions.
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