![]() Once again, nuclear-armed superpowers face off across the wide expanse between the Baltic and the Black seas.Īt the same time, arms control deals from the cold war era, such as the INF Treaty that banned cruise missiles with a range of 500-5,500km, and the Open Skies agreement, which allowed Russia and Nato members to conduct reconnaissance flights over the other’s military sites, have been torn up. Today, eastern Europe is more militarised than at any time since the height of the cold war. In the space of a few weeks, it has instead forged an unprecedented level of unity in response to its original adversary: Moscow. Scrambling for relevancy after the ignominious retreat from Afghanistan and riven with divides between European allies with vastly different views of its future role, the alliance had earmarked 2022 for a reboot to follow the US pivot towards Asia and the threat from China. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has wrenched Europe and Nato back to a scenario that it thought it had consigned to the past. A Norwegian F-35 scrambles to intercept an unidentified Russian aircraft that appears off the coast of Finland.Īs battle rages in Ukraine, Nato allies along the alliance’s eastern flank have collectively embarked on the most significant - and rapid - military deployment in the history of modern Europe: a state of alert and readiness short of war, but also far from peace. US missile batteries scan the skies of Slovakia. ![]() Elite French special forces troops keep watch on Romania’s Black Sea coast. British Challenger 2 tanks prowl the Polish countryside.
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