Crimea’s annexation may have energized NATO, but it empowered the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Crimea’s annexation may have energized NATO, but it empowered the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory R. Copley, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The change in the political balance in the Black Sea region which took place on March 18, 2014, with the re-accession of Crimea into Russia, was not profound in terms of any of the normal arbiters of strategic power. Nonetheless, it changed the equation not […]