Ukraine Crisis Gives NATO Alliance New Purpose - ABC News
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Crise ukrainienne, énième cure de rajeunissement de l’#OTAN.
With a deafening thunder, the first NATO AWACS surveillance plane pierces the milky morning sky over Germany’s Geilenkirchen base, on its way to monitor the skies above Ukraine.
Listen very carefully, and you can also hear the NATO alliance roaring back into the geopolitical arena.
Quite a turnaround for a 65-year-old military organization increasingly condemned by many as a costly anachronism.
The crisis around Ukraine “is providential from the point of view of NATO,” said Nick Witney of the European Council on Foreign Relations. “It gives it a new lease on life.”