brussels, ukrainian security analyst hanna shelest and from virginia, ian brzezinski, a former us deputy assistant secretary of defense for europe and nato. hello, welcome to the programme. the nato summit in madrid will go down as a major turning point. today, the alliance extended a formal invitation to finland and sweden that when ratified will extend nato s border with russia by more than 800 miles. alongside that, the alliance has outlined its new strategic vision, which puts a more muscularfocus on the defence of nato s eastern flank. the high readiness forces will be expanding seven fold to more than 300,000 troops. president biden has announced there will be a new permanent us base in poland, the first time the americans have had a standing force so close to russia s border, and he will also send two additional american destroyers to join the european fleet. we re going to approve a new nato strategic concept and reaffirm the unity and determination of our alliance to
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