The downsides of joining NATO’s Baltic reassurance effort

For NATO to move 4,000 troops right up to Russia’s Baltic borders has to be seen as a deliberate provocation of Russia, just as things seem to be stabilizing.

Private Thomas Roulin, deployed with the Operation Reassurance Land Task Force, fires during training as part of a multinational military exercise involving 23 countries, in Wędrzyn, Poland on June 9.DND photograph by Cpl. Guillaume Gagnon

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

June 15, 2016

OTTAWA—All the old warhorses in Ottawa are abuzz over the fact that NATO has apparently singled out Canada to provide troops for a new deterrent force in Eastern Europe. According to media reports, NATO officials are looking for Canada to deploy approximately 1,000 soldiers to a base in Latvia. T...

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