If the findings of a new Pew poll are to be taken seriously, one ought to think twice about buying that second vacation home in one of the Baltic states or the Polish countryside. According to Pew, although the public in eight sampled NATO nations largely blame Russia, Putin, and the Ukrainian separatists for the security crisis in Eastern Europe, only the United States and Canada register a majority who would support responding with military force were Russia to attack a NATO ally. Despite the solemn and perfectly clear treaty commitment, less than half of those polled in Germany, Italy, …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research