Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180712:00:27:00
Comes on to the political scene in moscow. let's talk about 2008 and the bucharest summit in which nato membership is raised for georgia and the ukraine. the georgian war comes soon after that. and in 2014, the big issue on the agenda with the ukraine was whether it was going to move closer to europe and the eu. >> professor desch, right now, do you believe nato plays an important role in the protection of western europe? certainly latvia, estonia, front line states certainly believe it does. do you believe it does? >> well, i understand why they believe it does. i'm not sure that all european...