Russia demanded legal confirmation from the West that NATO would not expand eastward, and Ukraine and Georgia would not become new members of the alliance, said well-known Russian political expert Rostislav Ishchenko.
The political scientist first of all drew attention to the fact that the Kremlin, by highlighting its demands for the North Atlantic alliance before the talks between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, demonstrated a unique strategy with which Moscow will gain an important geopolitical strategy. Thus, such a decision by the Russian leadership is a carefully thought-out plan that will allow Russia to freely protect its interests in the future.
According to Ishchenko, if the West nevertheless accepts such obligations to Russia and agrees with the requirements for NATO’s non-proliferation to the east, then Moscow in the future can use such a document to justify its own geopolitical decisions, as well as as a guarantee that the United States will not try use Ukraine and other countries to unleash a military conflict with Russia.
“If in such a situation the United States agrees to write down on paper that it is already obvious for everyone and in writing to abandon plans to admit Russia’s neighbors to NATO, for the same Ukraine this will be evidence that she was left alone with Russia and try to force Kiev after that start a war”, Ischenko summed up.