It would be “catastrophic” for the United States, the UK, or other NATO countries to get embroiled in Ukraine, a British defence minister has warned, stressing the importance of minimising the risk of miscalculation. Russia has demanded that NATO must never allow Ukraine to join the alliance, and has amassed an estimated 130,000 troops along the border with Ukraine, though Moscow has insisted it has no intention to invade. Writing in The Times of London, UK minister for the armed forces James Heappey stressed that NATO is a “defensive alliance” and that it must be “careful” not to play to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s narrative that NATO is expansionist and set on threatening Russia. Heappey acknowledged that, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, NATO has deployed beyond its borders to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Balkans, etc. But he argued that “these are all very different from offering the collective …
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