by Jim Geraghty
Will Trump really try to withdraw the U.S. from the alliance as Putin menaces the region?
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Left: Soldiers in the Polish Army’s 18th Mechanized Division on a path parallel to barbed wire barriers on the Polish-Belarusian border. Right: Captain Angelika Korkosz, public affairs officer of the Podhale Rifleman Brigade, speaking to American reporters.
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Finland, Latvia, and Poland — Alarmist as it may sound, Vladimir Putin’s Russia is already at war with NATO. The preferred terminology is that Moscow is engaged in “gray zone” warfare, meaning harassment and attacks that always stay just below the threshold for a military response. Apparently, the idea is that peace would be represented by white and all-out war by black.
These days, the gray is looking awfully charcoal.
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Jim Geraghty is the senior political correspondent of National Review.
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Finland, Latvia, and Poland — Alarmist as it may sound, Vladimir Putin’s Russia is already at war with NATO. The preferred terminology is that Moscow is engaged in “gray zone” warfare, meaning harassment and attacks that always stay just below the threshold for a military response. Apparently, the idea is that peace would be represented by white and all-out war by black.
These days, the gray is looking awfully charcoal.
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About the Author
Jim Geraghty is the senior political correspondent of National Review.
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