NATO and New Threats

nato and new threats Romania might enhance the US military presence on its territory, according to the NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana

Romania is already hosting US military bases and some elements of the anti-missile shield but the US military presence on its territory might increase, if the country wishes so. It is the assessment of the Deputy Secretary General of NATO, the Romanian Mircea Geoana, motivated by the fact that Russia continues to substantially strengthen its military capabilities in the Black Sea area. Romania, Mr. Geoana has stated, has a very complex geographical position and therefore it has arguments in favour of demanding a greater Allied or American presence in the area.  


Mircea Geoana: "I think we need to come up with a set of arguments, which are quite obvious. On the one hand, we are witnessing an aggressive presence and the presence of an offensive military reinforcement, which the Russian Federation has in the Black Sea and from the Black Sea; and on the other, here, the base in Kogalniceanu is ideally placed geographically and strategically for these expeditionary elements. I am convinced that our leaders, our military, our diplomats know very well these arguments and are convinced that now, or in the coming period, they will use their influence and sophistication to advance our interests as a country."


A former ambassador to Washington and foreign minister in the early 2000s, when Romania joined NATO, Mircea Geoana has given a diagnosis identical to that of the Romanian diplomacy. On June 12th, which is the day of the Russian Federation, the Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu ordered that the Russian ambassador to Bucharest, Valery Kuzmin, be summoned to the ministry's headquarters, where he was informed that mentioning Moscow as a security threat in Romania's new National Defense Strategy should not come up as a surprise.


This is the effect of the 'known behavior' of the Russian side in the region, 'behaviour assessed as destabilizing, including in the common stands adopted at the level of NATO and the European Union."

On the other hand, Mircea Geoana has stated that, although President Donald Trump has recently decided to reduce the number of American soldiers in Germany, it does not mean that the US's presence in Europe will decrease, but only that it will be adapted to new strategic realities. As for China, the NATO Deputy Secretary General has explained that the Alliance is considering Beijing's obvious rise. He has mentioned the risk of distorting competition at global level, when a state buys ideas, skilled people and companies, which are current practices for China. "The Covid-19 pandemic has not eliminated, but amplified the already existing security risks", and "lowering the guard at such a time would be a serious mistake", the NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana has also stated.



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