Leaders are going to sign off on very substantial changes in nato military posture. The idea is these aren'tjut going to be trip wires that kind of get run over by russian tanks, provoking a bigger response from the united states and others. We're seeing four new battle groups being established in bulgaria, hungary, romania and slovacia. There's also going to be a much bigger pool of high readiness forces in other parts of the alliance.
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