The West needs to keep NATO's door open to new members (Luke Coffey, Al Jazeera)

Recently, Douglas Lute, the US Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, sent shockwaves through much of Eastern Europe when he suggested that NATO would not be taking any new members in the near future. His excuse: because it might antagonise Russia.

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