Preparing for the next phase of Putin’s war against Ukraine is the centerpiece of Biden’s NATO meeting this week, amid rising fears of Russian chemical weapons.
Cyber attacks
While there is no doubt the United States would impose grave costs on Russia for any cyber attack that targeted infrastructure Americans rely upon, it's not a given that the entire NATO alliance would respond exactly the same way if there were a Russian cyber attack against an American, non-military target.The Russian flag displayed on a laptop screen with binary code code overlaying.
Smaller nations, like say, Estonia, they may have a harder time convincing members to execute Article 5, Rehman said in a subtle reference to the massive 2007 Russian cyberattack against Estonia that lasted for months and led to a deadly riot. "The Russian army is young and inexperienced and they're sitting on these frozen borders, not knowing what they're doing or where they're going, with their communications down," Rehman told CNBC in an interview Tuesday.An Italian military transport plane lands on the runway as a U.S. Army MIM-104 Patriot anti-missile defence launcher stands pointing east at Rzeszow Jasionska airport, an airport currently being used by the U.S.
Stoltenberg said NATO leaders"would discuss adding four new tactical battalions in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia which would bring the number to eight battalions to reinforce the eastern flank by Ukraine from the Baltic to the Black Sea."
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