For the citizens of four North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) countries asked which military power they’d want fighting on their side if attacked, the answer was simple—Russia. At the same time, however, China and Russia picked each other, war-torn Ukraine and Iraq split down the middle, while those four members of the US-led Nato—Bulgaria, Greece, Slovenia and Turkey—plumped for Russia. Bulgaria and Greece, for example, see their biggest security threat coming from Turkey. Although Turkey is also a Nato member and so theoretically an ally, its invasion and occupation of Northern Cyprus in 1974 showed that these countries cannot rely on Nato to protect them, so they look to Russia. Similarly, in Western Europe, some Nato members are increasingly looking to other Europeans for security, according to Stoychev.

Source: Mint February 20, 2017 17:59 UTC