WSJ: Whole NATO Coalition Preparing For War

The alliance aims to ‘prepare allies to fight shoulder-to-shoulder.’

One of the most fundamental disagreements in NATO is the inconsistency in the views of the member countries of the Alliance on threats, which include terrorism and Russia's actions, reports The alliance aims to ‘prepare allies to fight shoulder-to-shoulder.’.

According to the publication, NATO planners believe that a ‘direct Russian invasion’ of one of the Alliance's member countries is unlikely in the near future, but the bloc has once again begun preparing for a coalition war.

In the short term, NATO fears that Russia ‘could provoke conflict in neighbouring countries, encouraging local Russians to do so and using tensions as a pretext to intervene, as the Kremlin did in eastern Ukraine a decade ago’.

Now, preparing for 'war by the whole coalition’ is once again a NATO priority, so the Alliance aims to ‘prepare allies to fight shoulder-to-shoulder,’ the newspaper specifies.

According to the WSJ, the Alliance recognises that NATO member states are facing serious differences of opinion on the reality of the threat from Russia. For example, politicians in Turkey and other member states along the Mediterranean Sea are more concerned about local conflicts and illegal migration than the threat of the Russian invasion.