Comment: Trump, Russia, And The End Of NATO?

Military chiefs from the twenty-nine NATO member countries are in Brussels today.

Their advice will prepare the ground for next month’s meeting of Alliance Defence ministers.

Then, as now, Russia is likely to be the main focus of discussion.

Only this week the Royal Air Force scrambled Typhoons to intercept two Russian bombers when the aircraft were spotted over the North Sea close to UK airspace.

Such incidents have risen sharply and so too has the tension since Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

Moscow’s suspected involvement in the Ukraine conflict is another of NATO’s concerns; the Kremlin has ordered an upgrade of Russian military capabilities.

Its nuclear stockpile is to include new more powerful intercontinental ballistic missiles, which has unnerved Eastern allies on Russia’s border.