India, April 19 -- Poland is now the Chair of the European Union. It is seeking to build a huge defence infrastructure along the Russian and Belarus borders called the 'East Shield'.

NEW DELHI: Today, an expanded NATO appears to be less secure than the old NATO, which was set up against feared aggression from the former Soviet Union. The expected peace dividend from the Soviet disintegration and end of the Cold War has proved to be transitory. In fact, insecurity in Eastern Europe, Balkans and Scandinavia has persisted more pronouncedly for more than a decade now and specifically from the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia. The Russia-Ukraine war initiated by Russia in 2022 was fiercely resisted by NATO under the leadership of US Presid...