Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov whereas talking to Sky News Arabia stated that Russia considers NATO enlargement a ‘red line’. Russian president Vladimir Putin in direction of the tip of 2021 and in his discussions with varied European leaders additionally highlighted that Russia is not going to take evenly the inclusion of Georgia and Ukraine into NATO.
While Ukraine pushes for becoming a member of NATO whereas keeping off Russian forces in the interim whereas being outgunned, US ambassadors to Russia and former secretary of state Henry Kissinger earlier warned on a number of events that NATO enlargement would create tensions between Russia and the US in addition to Russia and the remainder of western Europe.
Jack Matlock whereas talking to information company Democracy Now earlier in February stated that NATO enlargement would set off an arms race. While talking to the information company Matlock highlighted that the Soviet collapse was not due to the western strain however on account of inside points which led to its fall.
“If you start piecemeal expanding NATO, you are going to — without including Russia — you are going to once again precipitate a buildup of arms and a competition, an armed competition. There was no reason to do it at that time,” Matlock informed Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman. He additional added that at that time of time Russia was not threatening any japanese European nation. He additionally highlighted that the final Soviet Russia premier Mikhail Gorbachev accepted the method of democratisation of the japanese European nations.
Matlock whereas writing for a weblog Responsible Statecraft known as the enlargement of NATO a strategic blunder. He additionally stated that if Russia’s considerations of not together with Ukraine and Georgia in NATO had been thought of the disaster may have been averted.
Kissinger’s Warning
Henry Kissinger, the previous secretary of state of the United States, whereas writing for the Wall Street Journal in 2014 following the annexation of Crimea identified that Ukraine can not act as an outpost for both events however {rather} ought to act as a bridge between the West and Russia.
He stated that Ukraine is an inalienable a part of Russia’s historical past and identification – related however in various levels to what Russian president Vladimir Putin claimed in his speech earlier than the so-called ‘military operation’ in Ukraine.
“To treat Ukraine as part of an East-West confrontation would scuttle for decades any prospect to bring Russia and the West — especially Russia and Europe — into a cooperative international system,” Kissinger wrote for the Wall Street Journal.
Kissinger additionally steered that Ukrainian independence is a comparatively new concept because it has been solely 20 years that the nation is unbiased and power-sharing between each Ukrainian talking west Ukraine and Russophone japanese and southeastern Ukraine ought to share energy to raised govern their nation.