With the Madrid NATO Summit, Russia is now formally recognized as a threat in NATO strategic doctrine, ending years of Lithuanian effort to persuade other NATO members that the threat was real despite skepticism from countries that did not experience Soviet occupation.
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“we found it very complicated for so many years actually to persuade our colleagues in NATO that the threat is real and now we see the Madrid Summit uh conclusions where it is written black on white that Russia is a threat”
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Battlegrounds w/ H.R. McMaster | Lithuania: On the Frontline of European Security— Hoover InstitutionCreated: 8/11/2026, 4:44:48 AM
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