LONDON: Yesterday it has notified by a leading think-tank that Nato must not play “Russian roulette” with Moscow as it considers how to respond to Russia’s “disproportionate” use of force in Georgia.
While presenting the annual report, IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies) chief John Chipman said, “The Russia-Georgia crisis … does not usher in a new Cold War,” he wrote in an introduction to the Strategic Survey 2008, the prestigious London think-tank’s annual review of global geopolitical security.
Also he said: “The West must decide whether, given its wider global agenda and the specific need for collaboration with Russia over such issues as Afghanistan and Iran, locking horns with Russia is necessary. Nato must not transform its expansion policy into a game of Russian roulette,”

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