https://www.economist.com/international/2022/02/12/how-russia-has-revived-nato https://www.economist.com/international/2022/02/12/how-russi... > Since then, ho

https://www.economist.com/international/2022/02/12/how-russia-has-revived-nato https://www.economist.com/international/2022/02/12/how-russi... > Since then, however, NATO has revived admirably. Under President Joe Biden America sounded the alarm about Russia’s build-up and co-ordinated the Western response. “Putin has single-handedly given NATO a vitamin injection,” says Wolfgang Ischinger, chairman of the Munich Security Conference, an annual transatlantic talkfest that begins on February 18th. NATO’s three decades of angst about its role after the end of the cold war has been dispelled. Having performed “out of area” operations in the Balkans and counter-insurgency in Afghanistan, it is going back to basics: the territorial defence of allies. The theological rivalry between institutions in Brussels over whether the EU should have an autonomous defence capability has for the moment been stilled.