While the US-led group enforces rigid bloc discipline, the world’s emerging powers extol flexibility
Two events – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pomp-filled visit to Moscow and the 75th anniversary NATO summit in Washington – coincided this week. The coincidence is remarkable because they illustrate two contrasting models for organising inter-state relations. The direction of world politics will largely depend on which of them prevails.
Russian-Indian ...
Moscow joined the NATO’s Partnership for Peace program 30 years ago, but today there is neither partnership nor peace
Russia’s then Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrey Kozyrev signed up to NATO’s Partnership for Peace program in Brussels on June 22, 1994. This marked ...
... food security, and the situation threatens to worsen dramatically.
Source: Reuters
American Interests in the Conflict
From the American perspective, the Ukraine conflict offers several strategic advantages. First, it reinforces US leadership within NATO and demonstrates its military capabilities. Second, the conflict creates a lucrative market for American arms manufacturers, who supply weapons to both Ukraine and NATO allies worried about Russian aggression. This military-industrial complex plays ...
... able to replicate in their interstate relations the practices established to coordinate the efforts of the United States and Europe in suppressing the rest of the world. Among the most successful international organizations of the modern world, the G7, NATO, and the European Union stand out. However, these organizations are highly specific in their objectives and internal structure, aiming to safeguard the special rights of member countries in their relations with other nations. This is why various ...
... deployed in Belarus. Russian non-strategic nuclear forces have recently begun exercises. Nevertheless, Western countries continue to pursue escalation in the Ukrainian conflict, which, if left unchecked, could lead to a frontal military conflict between NATO and Russia and a nuclear war. This scenario can be prevented by further strengthening deterrence - more precisely, by ‘nuclear sobering up’ our adversaries. They must realise that it is impossible to win a conventional war involving the vital ...
The more casualties both sides suffer, the greater the intensity of hostilities and the closer approach to the threshold of nuclear use. In this scenario, there will be no victors.
Is it possible for NATO armed forces to be involved in a military conflict between Russia and Ukraine? Such a formulation of the issue until recently seemed marginal, given the high risks of escalation of the military confrontation between the North Atlantic Alliance and ...
Historians will most likely conclude the ambitious U.S.-led attempt to expand a militarized NATO on the border with Russia was an ill-conceived strategic failure resulting in lives lost and misplaced, and the catapult vital to compel a significant bi-polar alliance between BRICS to counter the once dominant NATO Alliance
NATO seems to be in ...
... sprawling body of the European Union. Now they are one of the main bonds that hold the West together.
Politicians in Europe increasingly talk about the need (if not the desirability) to prepare for a world war, obviously forgetting that if it begins, NATO’s European member states will have no more than several days or even hours to live. But God forbids, of course.
A parallel process is the increasing social inequality. This trend has been growing exponentially since the collapse of the USSR that ...
A societal transformation in Russia that started before fighting broke out in Ukraine in early 2022 now seems irreversible
Two and a half years into its war against the West in Ukraine, Russia certainly finds itself on a course toward a new sense of itself.
This trend actually predated the military operation but has been powerfully intensified as a result. Since February 2022, Russians have lived in a wholly new reality. For the first time since 1945, the country is really at war, with bitter fighting...
... European security architecture would be at best premature, if not completely preposterous. The immediate European security priorities have shifted from promoting an inclusive and comprehensive Euro-Atlantic security system to avoiding a direct Russia-NATO military confrontation and to preventing the military hostilities from
climbing
to the level of a nuclear war [
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]. The rest of the traditional European security agenda is put on a back burner for the time being. One can only hope that this agenda ...
