Search: NATO,Conflicts (4 materials)

On a New Global Order and its Nuclear Dimension

... post-Soviet Russian strategy in this part has always been somewhat less clear to me, but despite periodic bursts of tension between Moscow and Washington (the Balkans, Iraq, etc.), until very recently, the scenario of a military clash between Russia and NATO was considered unlikely, and the corresponding ideas of using nuclear weapons during local or regional conflicts with the United States they were not detailed, at least not publicly. Today, as it seems to me, the situation offers various scenarios for the possible use of nuclear weapons, but they have little in common with both the clear NATO strategy ...

30.05.2023

Sailing Into Troubled Waters. Russia Counters Britain in the Black Sea

... ground, in the air, or at sea—would push Moscow to defend what it cannot give up without losing its self-respect. This would almost inevitably lead to clashes and casualties, which would carry the risk of further escalation. Should this happen, Russia-NATO confrontation would deteriorate literally to the point of brinkmanship, a truly bleak scenario. Red lines, of course, are not there to be accepted, merely acknowledged. No one in Moscow expects the West to accept Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea ...

02.07.2021

How to Make Peace in Ukraine Five Years After Minsk II

... stability and economic development. This achievement is particularly spectacular, given the long history of Austrian-Italian conflicts and even wars. Andrey Kortunov: “Ukraine-Gate” and Russia What Would It Mean for Donbass? Italian Prime Minister ... ... themselves organic parts of a greater European family of nations. This is despite the fact that Austria, even now, is not a NATO member and only joined the EU in 1995, 24 years after the agreement on South Tyrol had been reached. Neither country had ...

15.01.2020

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