Turkish edition: Russia should be admitted to NATO instead of the United States
Brussels hosted a regular NATO summit, at which the defense ministers of the alliance countries again discussed Russia's "aggressiveness" and ways to defend against it. However, behind the confrontation with Russia, NATO is trying to hide its main problem - disunity within the bloc, writes the author for the Turkish edition of Sabah.
The NATO bloc, created to confront the Soviet Union and neutralize the threat to the "democratic countries" first from the USSR and then from the Warsaw bloc countries, lost its very purpose of existence in the early 90s of the last century due to the collapse of the main enemy. Subsequently, the countries of the former socialist camp themselves joined the alliance. Currently, there is no Soviet threat, and in order to justify its existence, NATO invented a new enemy - Russia.
At the same time, many countries of the bloc have excellent relations with Russia, and terrible ones within the alliance. As the author notes, there are more disputes within the bloc than fighting external threats.
He cites relations between Turkey and the United States as an example. The author is convinced that Washington supports Turkey's enemies, while being the main one in the alliance. In addition, Turkey and Greece, which are NATO members, are almost at war and there is enough spark to ignite it.
On the other hand, Turkey has excellent relations with Russia, which, according to NATO, is the main enemy of the alliance. This does not prevent Ankara and Moscow from conducting a constructive dialogue and establishing cooperation in various fields.
In the author's opinion, it makes sense to create a new military-political NATO bloc, compatible with modern world conditions, into which Russia must certainly enter. And in order to eliminate instability in the Middle East, Israel must also be admitted there. But the United States should not be admitted there, there will be no stability with them, he sums up. A sort of NATO bloc without the United States, but with Russia. Original proposal ...
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