Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Julianne Smith, director of the CSIS Europe Program, was quoted by Bloomberg, "Rumsfeld Rides Again as Old, New Europe Tensions Shake Up NATO."
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Julianne Smith, director of the CSIS Europe Program, was quoted by Bloomberg, "Rumsfeld Rides Again as Old, New Europe Tensions Shake Up NATO."
The spirit of Donald Rumsfeld is stalking NATO: From the war in Afghanistan to confronting the Kremlin, the U.S. once again has more support from "new" Europe than from "old."
Rumsfeld launched a broadside at France and Germany in 2003, when as U.S. defense secretary he dismissed them as problematic "old Europe" for resisting the Iraq War and said that "the center of gravity" was shifting east, where new allies like Poland had joined in the coalition against Saddam Hussein. [...]
NATO is mired in "a very deep strategic divide" over Afghanistan, says Julianne Smith, Europe program director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "We have a bit of a blame game going on between Europe and the U.S." Read the article
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