... In Asia, there is no alliance of powers for which the struggle with Russia would mostly determine foreign policy, and the United States, although actively present in the region, does not have organisational and spatial resources there comparable to NATO.
Under these conditions, the region neighbouring southern Russia presents the most room for foreign policy manoeuvring. This includes relations with the states of the Middle East and those which belong to the “southern belt” of former Soviet ...
... Kosovo taking shape as a multinational country. However, this outcome is now hardly likely, as Pristina treats Serbs as a minority. Belgrade, for its part, cannot accept a monoethnic Kosovo.
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden is a champion of NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia in 1999 and the course that led Kosovo to proclaim independence in 2008. Belgrade expects its dialogue with Washington to become more rational and draw on respect and recognition of standing agreements if Donald ...
... level of practice.
The idea of Eurasian security inevitably raises questions about other related projects. Sergey Lavrov, during his visit to Beijing, directly linked the need for a new structure with the problems of Euro-Atlantic security built around
NATO and the OSCE.
References to the Euro-Atlantic experience seem important for two reasons. First, the Euro-Atlantic project is distinguished by its high level of institutional integration. In fact, it is built on the basis of a military alliance (NATO) ...
... withdrawal, over reliance on the Russian bogeyman, and Washington’s tilt to Asia make for shaky foundations
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is celebrating its 75th anniversary – the founding documents were signed in Washington this week in 1949. NATO is so firmly embedded in the international landscape that even its decisive transformation at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s did not shake its position.
In theory, the bloc should have been retired, having fulfilled its mission of defending the ...
On April 3, 2024, the international multimedia press center of the Rossiya Segodnya media group hosted a roundtable discussion “NATO: 75 Years at the Forefront of Escalation,” marking the 75th anniversary of the alliance’s founding
On April 3, 2024, the international multimedia press center of the Rossiya Segodnya media group hosted a roundtable discussion “NATO: 75 Years ...
... itself and its place in the world
When President Vladimir Putin, back in February 2022, launched Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, he had specific, but limited objectives in mind. It was essentially about assuring Russia’s security vis-à-vis NATO.
However, the drastic, expansive and well-coordinated Western reaction to Moscow’s moves – the torpedoing of the Russo-Ukrainian peace deal and the mounting escalation of the US-led bloc's involvement in the conflict, including its role in deadly ...
... in August 2008, that a precedent was set for revising the Belavezha accords, whereby the borders between the newly emerged post-Soviet sovereign entities were based on the dividing lines between the former Soviet republics. In essence, the process of NATO expansion was halted in this region because of the emergence of new post-Soviet states. Although, as the recent
visit
of Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to Baku, Tbilisi and Yerevan showed, the movement in this direction has not stopped....
... highlighted the recent warnings by the GUR chief, Kirill Budanov, and outgoing US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland about
“unpleasant surprises”
awaiting Russia in the near future.
As a result, Russia’s own warnings about striking airfields in NATO countries if they are used by the Ukrainian Air Force, and about wiping out French (or any other NATO) troop contingents if they are sent into Ukraine, are acquiring more credibility. Escalation of the conflict, which heretofore has mostly been driven ...
This month, the whole world remembers the unprovoked attack which the United States and Western European countries launched against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia for international politics was that it was a collective attack, perpetrated by a large group of Western countries, against a sovereign state, and marked the watershed between a time when a peaceful world order could ...
... as victors in the last World War and all, without exception, possess military resources that are unattainably superior to those of other members of the international community. What can we say about such strong and “established” institutions as NATO, the G7 or the European Union? In the first case, we see a real unification of military capabilities, in the second - economic power.
BRICS is not based on the balance of power of the main participants, as was the case with the most successful alliances ...
