The Independent: Do not feed the bear’s paranoia
Western leaders should adapt their rhetoric to show a more thoughtful realism and understanding of Russian fears
Independent on Sunday
Sunday, 17 August 2008
One thing is clear in the New Cold War that has sent shivers down spines all over the world. It is that the United States, Britain and the rest of the West will not go to war with Russia to defend Georgia. The question asked by Geoffrey Wheatcroft today, is a pertinent one, therefore. What was the point of inviting the Georgians to join Nato? Nato is, after all, explicitly an alliance of mutual self-defence that commits each member to respond to an armed attack on any other member as if it were an attack on itself.
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