NATO’s eastern flank

Threats toward Greenland are putting NATO to a test like never before. The stakes are not merely the Arctic, but the credibility of the entire European security system – especially on its Eastern flank. NATO’s measured response to Donald Trump’s…

A week before Christmas, media outlets picked up a warning from German CDU MP Roderich Kiesewetter. In an interview with Germany’s N-TV, he claimed that Russia was “training hundreds of thousands of soldiers who will not be deployed to Ukraine”. According to him, they are stationed in the territory of collaborating Belarus and are prepared to attack NATO in the future. He estimated the number of such troops at between 350,000 and 360,000.