- President Barack Obama unveiled a $1 billion U.S. security plan for eastern Europe aimed at allaying fears over a resurgent Kremlin and the escalating pro-Russian uprising in ex-Soviet Ukraine
- Poland’s first free elections will put both the country and the rest of eastern Europe on a path out of Moscow’s orbit and attend toward democracy and growing prosperity.
- “Our commitment to Poland’s security as well as the security of our allies in central and eastern Europe is a cornerstone of our own security and it is sacrosanct,” Mr. Obama said after inspecting a joint unit of U.S. and Polish F-16 pilots
- NATO states such as Ukraine and Georgia will work with United States and the Western alliance and build their own defences.
- The seven-week pro-Russian insurgency in Ukraine’s eastern rust belt grew only more violent after Mr. Poroshenko swept to power
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/us-security-plan-for-eastern-europe/article6080235.ece
Exams Perspective:
- Missile Defence Shield
- U.S. security plan for eastern Europe
- NATO
- Ukraine Crisis