... the last 30 years that no one has dared to speak openly about this fact in countries that claim to be part of the ‘community of liberal democracies’. And Georgia is one of those. Especially given that nobody there has abandoned the goal of joining NATO and the EU.
The Georgian authorities are thus taking the liberty of directly contradicting the basic world order imposed on everyone by the Americans. Which is that the laws and norms of the UN apply to everyone except to the US itself. And since ...
... to the current ‘European values’ under American auspices. As mentioned above, the breakthrough of the former ‘outcasts’ into the first echelon does not mean a rearrangement of the elites, but instead the normalization of the newcomers. The EU/NATO framework has a high safety margin to keep the political field within the same parameters. This brings us to the question of whether we should expect any changes in course that would affect Russian interests. So far, the answer is no.
Source:
RT
... Western Europeans that if they do not
“invest fully”
in supporting Kiev, they may end up with a war on their own territory.
It is telling that almost no one in the EU dares to publicly ask whether Moscow is interested in a direct armed conflict with NATO. What would its aims be in such a war? And what price would it be willing to pay? Obviously, even posing such questions could lead to accusations of spreading Russian propaganda.
Our country takes note of provocative statements made by our northwestern ...
It is difficult to imagine that a new system of global and regional security can be based on the “good old” European principles
NATO and the SCO represent two opposing concepts of ensuring international security: through control over the internal politics of the states included in the system, and through intensive diplomatic dialogue between them. We cannot now say with certainty ...
... understands that the price of US security guarantees in the event of a direct conflict, for example, with Russia, is quite small. But the American “security umbrella” for Europe concerns, first of all, European political elites, for whom participation in NATO guarantees that they will never again have to worry that their managerial failures leading to revolutionary consequences, writes
Timofei Bordachev
.
This article is the first part of reflections on the future of international cooperation.
In July ...
... leadership, disciplining previously not-always compliant European and Asian allies. In this sense, the United States has become significantly stronger than it was some four or five years ago, when French President Emmanuel Macron allowed himself to describe NATO as a brain-dead alliance.
After the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, NATO quite unexpectedly acquired two new members that has kept their neutral status for many decades. Incorporation of Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Alliance ...
We are likely to see a rapid horizontal and vertical proliferation of INF-range weapons, and the corresponding risks of escalation
In July 2024, on the margins of the NATO summit in Washington, official statements were made about the
deployment
of U.S. intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles (“long-range fires”) in Germany in 2026, as well as about the launch of the Franco-German-Polish-Italian program for ...
The ICE alliance has more geopolitical and geostrategic rationale than economic
On July 11, 2024, on the margins of the NATO Summit in Washington, the US, Canada and Finland announced a new trilateral consortium—the Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, or ICE Pact—with an explicit intention to challenge Russia and China in icebreaker construction and deployment. It is ...
... part of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. In other words, Serbs were against dividing Serbians from Serbia and Serbs from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Such sentiments continue to be shared to this day. However, under strong pressure from NATO – including a two-week bombardment against the Army of Republika Srpska, after which the Bosniak-Croat offensive against the Republic of Srpska began – Serbs were forced to give up their inital goals and demands. They accepted to remain part ...
... fixated on money issues.
Western Europe’s fears have to do with something else – an uncertainty of a much more general nature. In 2022, the EU bet on America by refusing to take an independent line on the Ukraine conflict. Beyond the rhetoric, NATO’s
“unprecedented unity,”
in practice, means that the course is set by the strongest member state, both militarily and politically. And the Old World did not do this under pressure from its senior partner, but voluntarily, because it didn’t ...
