Four Eastern European defense ministers discussed the transatlantic community's need to respond to Russia's intervention in Ukraine today, joining NATO's deputy secretary general, Alexander Vershbow, at a conference on Europe's future sponsored by the Atlantic Council.
Barry Pavel, director of the council's Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, moderated the discussion, asking whether the West is focusing on tactics and just reacting to Russian actions, or whether it might strategically use the crisis as an opportunity to build European security in new ways. Pavel asked the panelists to address what NATO should do in Europe's south and east, and how the West should respond to Ukraine's needs.
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