BODOE, Norway/ LULEA, Sweden( Reuters)-Swedish armed forces joined NATO for exercises on Monday

The North Atlantic alliance is using the Ukraine crisis as a pretext to revise the terms of the

NATO is under threat from a" dangerous authoritarian alliance" that jeopardises Western democracies

from Russia and North Korea. Its members guarantee a united defence against aggressors

Stoltenberg slammed North Korea for wha he said was a violation of arms control rules and advancing

Norwegian and Allied deterrence and defence in the High North region?... How might Norway and NATO

THE presidents of the United States and the Russian Federation, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, did well to have virtual talks on Dec 7.... It is unlikely that the distrust between them was dispelled in the two hours of talk or will be dispelled at the summit in person which they both hope to hold.... The root cause of the problem is the US feeling of triumph over a perceived ‘victory’ in the Cold War and president George H.W. Bush’ breach of faith with the Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev....

The growing bitterness of Western countries towards Russia is consistent with the logic of ‘preventive war’ in the initiation of armed conflicts. Rather than linking interstate confrontations with aggressive opportunism, this model views escalation as a product of fears about the future.

.... Steven: The main task of this NATO summit is to show the alliance’s unity and solidarity in support of

North Atlantic Treaty Organization( NATO) would significantly increase the deterrent for becoming a