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“The times of peace are over, the post-war era is over. We live in new times - in the pre-war era; for some of our brothers, this is no longer even the pre-war era, but the period of full-scale war in its most cruel version,” Tusk said.
Only if NATO agrees it happened. Nations just have to find pretext or plausible deniability to avoid escalation – which they will when the alternative is inevitably nuclear escalation.
Russia is proving that the systems of NATO are highly vulnerable to a bad faith and cynical actor’s aggression. NATO needs to change to prove Russia wrong. And the USGOP, among others, are proving him highly right.