In short, all Nato forces deployed into Eastern Europe must be returned to their home bases and the two missile defense sites in Poland and Romania dismantled.
This is the demand that will drive future Russian relations with the West. Rather than acceding to Russia's demands, Nato has been doubling down on the reinforcement of its eastern flank, dispatching additional forces to Poland, Romania, and the Baltics.
In response, Russia will create an analogous situation to what transpired in Belarus, namely the forward deployment of powerful Russian military formations in what will be, for all practical purposes, a militarized buffer zone separating Nato from Russia proper, with the exception of the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
The resulting standoff will closely resemble the Cold War, where Nato and Soviet-led Warsaw Pact forces faced off across the frontier separating East and West Germany.
This is the new reality that the world woke up to on Feb. 24 - a Cold War that the West neither wanted, predicted, nor is prepared to undertake.
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