The alliance has described Russia as the biggest threat to peace. They are also not stopping Moscow’s attacks on its ally. However, there is no regular army in the eastern part.
A British soldier on a NATO mission last May on the border between Estonia and Latvia.
One day in the spring of 1997, the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, held the hand of his President Boris Yeltsin’s beard. The leaders of NATO countries and governments, the President of the Russian Federation and the Secretary General of the Western military alliance had just signed the so-called NATO-Russia Founding Act. In Paris at the Élysée Palace it was exciting. “The world that my predecessors dreamed of and worked for for fifty years is now gone,” Clinton said. “This document,” said Yeltsin, “will contribute to stability throughout Europe and beyond the borders of this continent.”