As Obama reassures Baltic states of Nato’s protection, Kazakhs wonder if they will follow Ukraine, Chechnya and GeorgiaBarack Obama leaves Washington on Tuesday for the small Baltic state of Estonia on Russia’s north-western border to reassure the vulnerable country that it is safe within Nato from Vladimir Putin’s clutches.En route to Wales for a Nato summit that Putin, in Ukraine, has transformed into the most important such gathering since the end of the cold war, Obama will reiterate the alliance’s ‘”all-for-one and one-for-all” defence pledges of Nato’s article five commitments, seeking to assuage Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Romanian fears …read more
Source: The Guardian
