How to measure the success of this week\u2019s NATO Summit in Ankara? By GDP or by opinion polls? The allied will to fight back to back is no less important than material defence readiness. Russia knows it better than most.<\/p>\n
The expected focus is on industrial outputs. This can be delivered even as the Alliance\u2019s institutional cohesion is at a moment of flux. Above all, the Summit will test the political resolve \u2013 whether Western leaders can still project unified purpose and unambiguous strategic intent.<\/p>\n
The clearest signal is coming from Central and Eastern Europe. Polish Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski, citing intelligence of an imminent Russian \u2018provocation\u2019 timed to coincide with the gathering, put it plainly \u2013 \u2018We know your plans, so do not try it.\u2019 It is essential that others will keep up with the message at the gathering, not chicken out.<\/p>\n
Moscow is plainly intent on spoiling the occasion. Over the weekend Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reframed what Russia still calls its \u2018special military operation\u2019 as a de facto war against the collective West. \u2018Behind Kyiv stand Berlin, Paris, The Hague, Oslo and, unfortunately, Washington,\u2019 he said according to Interfax, accusing all of guiding the Ukrainian army to target Russian forces.<\/p>\n
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