National Defence committee  I think it will be difficult to achieve without Russia's consent because they hold veto powers at the UN and they can really dictate what they want to do. They could force themselves into that mission in whatever way they wanted to portray themselves, and I don't see how the UN c

National Defence committee  Yes. It's going to be difficult because we don't know what the Russians' intentions are. They stopped in the Donbas region. At this time next week they could be somewhere else. We don't know what they're going to do. The fact that NATO was inactive and didn't really stop them fro

National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  Every day we—the west and NATO, I'll just combine the two—do nothing except on the political levels, which probably none of us will ever know about at that particular time, they are getting more and more adventurous, and they will do more and more. They have the power to do that.

National Defence committee  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for inviting me here today. Russia is becoming progressively more paranoid, as a considerable number of ex-Soviet bloc countries have applied for membership in either the EU or NATO. This is unnerving Russia, as it needs to maintai