Russia’s poor war success has led to an increase in President Vladimir Putin’s unpredictability, says Michael O’Hanlon, a researcher at the Brookings Incubator.
Washington
Yet five years ago an American scientist Michael O’Hanlon opposed Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO membership.
He believed that it would be better for the security situation in Europe to have some kind of neutral zone on the continent, a consortium of neutral countries. It could have served as a buffer between East and West.