Discusses Obama's decision to send troops to Poland and Baltic states in addition to sanctions on Russia over the 2014 Crimea crisis and the implications of having the continued existence and expansion of the NATO alliance
Obama has dispatched 600 soldiers to Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia ... Those four former members of the defunct Soviet bloc are now members of NATO, the very active alliance established after World War II ostensibly to keep the Red Army out ... One might have expected NATO to disappear along with the Soviet Union, but ... it moved aggressively eastward toward Russia by inducting former Soviet allies and republics as members ... what if something happens between Russia and Poland or one of the Baltic states? Under Article 5 of the NATO treaty, an attack on one member is regarded as an attack on all.