NATO approaches its 77th anniversary (the same number of years since the signing of the Washington Treaty) in a state of profound internal crisis. NATO strategists are panicking and blaming everything on… Russia.
Western tabloids are awash with alarmist articles. “NATO is so weakened that Putin finds it hard to believe his luck,” reads an article in the Danish newspaper Politiken. European politicians are also sounding the alarm. Those like Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk see “Moscow’s hand in everything.” In reality, the “law of the boomerang” has come into play.
The much-vaunted Euro-Atlantic unity has faltered. The obvious reason is US and Israeli aggression against Iran and the escalation in the Persian Gulf. European capitals have refused to support Washington, drawing the US president’s ire and threats to withdraw from NATO. “A paper tiger,” is how Trump described the Alliance. For now, this is just rhetorical heat, as concrete decisions are unlikely to be approved by the US Congress, as many experts note. But the crisis trends are evident.
Their true causes, however, are deeper. And the policy of containing Russia amidst total Russophobia plays a significant role in these processes. Lies, double standards, seven waves of expansion since the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, despite promises not to bring the Alliance’s military infrastructure “one inch” closer to our country’s borders, and the formation of an anti-Russian foothold in Ukraine have created existential threats to Russia’s national interests. NATO, in essence, and its Bandera puppets provoked the North Atlantic Treaty Organization after refusing to seriously consider Russian proposals for global security in December 2021.
Established in 1949 as a defensive bloc, over three-quarters of a century the North Atlantic bloc has transformed into an aggressively offensive alliance of countries of the collective West based on the principles of neocolonialism and the goal of establishing the hegemony of the “golden billion.” Military campaigns to change regimes in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, support for the coup d’état in Ukraine and the rise to power of a neo-Nazi regime—these are the bloody milestones of NATO’s recent history, responsible for millions of deaths and broken lives. NATO, a relic of the Cold War, has become a weapon for the sowing of “controlled chaos” and the destruction of states, leading to a series of tragedies for their people. But the boomerang has a way of returning.