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Nato Foreign Ministers have ordered in and to civilian and military cooperation with russia and say they are having general staffs quickly devise ways to better protect alliance members. A serious move. Does this signal the end of two decades of cooperation between the u. S. And russia . The alliance into this cooperation after russia moved troops to the Ukrainian Border following its incorporation of the crimean peninsula. It also said it would send advisers to begin training ukrainian forces. Moscow says it has already begun pulling back troops from the Ukrainian Border, but nato sees no evidence of this. Instead, the alliance has announced more assistance for the ukraine and the end of cooperation with russia. Russias aggression against ukraine is the gravest threat to European Security in a generation, and it challenges our vision of europe whole, free, and at peace. Some diplomats have greeted the announcement with more optimism. Germanys foreign minister says it is a positive wor
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