Nato expansion - Montenegro
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34981973

Small fry maybe but another swipe at Putin I'd say.

Re: Nato expansion - Montenegro
 

Well Yugoslavia was never in the Warsaw Pact, however anything that makes Vladimir Putin wonder why people don't want to be in his gang has got to be good. Or rather, makes the Russian people wonder why it is that their country under Putin isn't so popular.

Re: Nato expansion - Montenegro
 

Does Montenegro have some sort of strategic advantage to NATO?

Re: Nato expansion - Montenegro
 

Only in as much as it makes another point to Putin maybe. :shrug:

I don't buy the argument that this will make the Russians stop and think about what their leader is up to. Everything he does seems to go down quite well with his public as he stokes up the anti-west rhetoric in order to shift the point of blame for Russia's economic problems. I tend to think the more the west pressures Russia, the more Putin uses that to his advantage, relying on blind nationalism to obscure common sense.

Re: Nato expansion - Montenegro
 

It seems to be a scary time to start poking Putin by announcing this.