NATO states are prepared for a potential military conflict with Russia, says NATO Military Committee Chair Rob Bauer in an interview with ArmyInform. Bauer says that NATO understood the change in the security situation as early as 2014, after the Russian occupation of Crimea. Since 2019, NATO states have begun to return to collective security: they have changed their defense strategy, operational planning, and forces needed to carry out all these tasks. “Now we all understand that in returning to collective security, time is not on our side. Because the enemy decides when and where they attack…