LONDON — Set against the backdrop of escalating challenges to European security from Russia and the Middle East, NATO’s recent announcement that Montenegro is to be the transatlantic Alliance’s 29th member might seem an inconsequential footnote. This tiny Balkan state in the southern Adriatic will add just 2,000 active military personnel to the Alliance’s strength; its navy consists of a couple of ex-Yugoslav frigates. Hardly game-changing, you might think. Yet the Kremlin blew a gasket, declaring that “the continued eastward expansion of NATO and NATO’s military infrastructure cannot but result in retaliatory actions” to ensure “parity of interests.”
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Source: European Voice
