Anders Fogh Rasmussen told Newsweek that despite Trump's public condemnation, increased U.S. activity has helped the alliance become stronger than it was at the start of the president's term.
Rasmussen suggested that the new administration has every chance of making progress. However, he warned that Zelensky and his team must"avoid naivety when it comes to Russia."
Then NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is pictured speaking to reporters at the NATO Summit on September 4, 2014 in Newport, U.K."I think they should be open-eyed in their approach to Putin and to Russia," he warned.
The Russian strategy produced mixed results. Those in unoccupied Ukraine have been pushed towards Europe, achieving"exactly the opposite" of what Moscow wanted, Rasmussen said. But Putin knows full well that NATO and the European Union have no wish to import unsolved border disputes into their organizations.
Both Ukraine and Georgia are still working towards achieving the criteria required for future NATO membership. Predictably, Russia has responded by accusing NATO of provocation andRasmussen dismissed Moscow's protests."It's not NATO that is pushing for this enlargement, it's Ukraine and it's Georgia," he said."It's for them to decide whether they will apply.
The alliance must also look to new regions to ensure collective security, Rasmussen believes, specifically Asia and the Arctic.."First and foremost, NATO is a transatlantic alliance, but I think we should remind ourselves that if a NATO ally—for instance the U.S.—is attacked by North Korea or China, then the question is will the U.S. request assistance from its allies?"melting Arctic ice
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