La cumbre de la OTAN se centrará en qué hacer con Rusia

Genevieve Signoret

Política y geopolítica

El día de mañana los líderes de las naciones pertenecientes a la OTAN participaran en una cumbre en Gales. La reunión, en un principio planeada para discutir la salida de las fuerzas de la OTAN de Afganistán, estará centrada en el conflicto ucranio y la posición de la organización frente a Rusia.

Como preámbulo a la cumbre les compartimos las siguientes lecturas:

• NATO flexes its muscle memory (The Economist). Mr Putin has given NATO a shot in the arm just as its relevance was being questioned, and not for the first time. The reaction to Mr Putin’s aggression has so far been mostly economic, with sanctions successively tightened. But it was immediately clear (…) that NATO would have to respond too. That meant providing immediate reassurance to the alliance’s most vulnerable frontline states, while getting all 28 members to agree on the nature of the threat to Europe’s security and the measures needed to counter it.
• Mr Putin’s wake-up call (The Economist). The fighting in Ukraine, which Vladimir Putin further escalated this week by sending Russian forces over the border, provides a sombre backdrop to the NATO summit in Wales. (…) The timing was originally meant to coincide with the end of combat operations in Afghanistan in January. (…) But the summit’s main task, thanks to Mr Putin, is a return to NATO’s old business: ensuring that when it pledges to defend its members, it can do so.
• Russian aggression sets stiffest test of NATO resolve in 20 years (FT$).  (…) what matters most, say Nato-watchers, is whether President Barack Obama can pull the alliance together and restore members’ faith in one another. A key figure in that task will be Angela Merkel, the German chancellor (…). Mr Putin “will see each and every weakness in Europe as an opportunity to prevent a consolidation” of the alliance, says Mr Niblett. “The Russians have used politics most effectively,” he adds, warning that at this summit Nato needs to take back the political initiative.
• Nato rapid reaction force to be ‘ready at very short notice’ (FT$). A new “spearhead” rapid reaction force comprising 4,000 troops deployable within 48 hours is to be the centrepiece of plans to bolster Nato’s military flexibility in response to Russia’s belligerence in Ukraine.