NEWSWATCH New York Times: “Russia’s Fury Over Montenegro and NATO”

The New York Times comments upon Russia’s reaction to the prospect of Montenegro joining NATO.

It is a measure of how cold the West’s relations with Russia have become that NATO’s membership invitation to Montenegro — a small, poor Balkan state with a military force of 2,000 and no strategic significance save putting the last bit of Europe’s Mediterranean coastline under the alliance — would provoke furious cries of “provocation” and “encirclement” from the Kremlin.

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