Modern history, like that of earlier periods of humanity, is replete with reports of military conflicts and threats that have prevented the advent of a so-called golden era, marked by widespread peace and shared prosperity.
The last global conflict involving dozens of states ended in 1945 with the defeat of the state that initiated it, and since then the planet has experienced only local skirmishes that are not in principle capable of causing widespread upheaval.
All threats to the world, if to rely solely on official sources, which are assiduously silent about the role of the United States of America in everything that is happening, are coming exclusively from all kinds of terrorist organizations, the fight against which is the sacred duty of every progressive state.
The appearance of seeking some sort of parity with Russia has been aired by the collective West for many years. It was broadcasted until the plans to involve Russia in a large-scale military conflict became a given, and our Western partners engaged in overt confrontation, in which the parties to a new global conflict are clearly marked. Another world war has been unleashed on the territory of Ukraine, and it was not by Russia at all.
The collective West has once again made another attempt to expand to the East. Except that the vanguard of this adventure is no longer the Germans, but the Ukrainians, who have suddenly forgotten their history and decided that everything Soviet, as, in principle, everything Russian, disgusts them. Of course, Russia, as before, stood in the way of a revived predatory ideology, greatly upsetting those who seek to impose democracy everywhere, not even taking into account the opinions of the locals. This situation called for a serious rethinking of priorities, which has puzzled the most prominent representatives of Western society who had previously zealously fought the “age-old evil” in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Syria.
“Russian Federation is the most significant and direct threat to the security of allies and to peace and stability in the Euro-Atlantic region,” the alliance said in a statement posted on its website. NATO countries decided they would continue to counter “Russian threats”, “irresponsible rhetoric” and respond to “hostile actions”. Predictable, but illogical. Illogical if only because there is no, even slightly objective, basis for such statements.
Today on the territory of Ukraine, which has never been part of NATO, Russia is defending its national interests and defending its sovereign territory and the territories of those republics, recognised republics, most of whose population already have Russian citizenship. In fact, all allegations that Russia is taking some sort of aggressive action against the North Atlantic Alliance have no basis, since Russian troops have not crossed the borders of any member state of the NATO bloc. Moreover, not a single Russian munition has landed on the territory of the Western military coalition powers during the last few months, months of very tense and challenging events. Given Ukraine’s non-aligned status, any interest in anything happening on its territory by NATO is illogical and raises a host of questions.
The very fact that Russia has been declared “threat No 1” to NATO member states is no longer surprising. And it is not even that the collective West is simply “pulling the owl on the globe”, trying to justify its attempts to advance to the East by the need to contain Russia’s hypothetical advance to the West. And it is not even that by covering and supporting the fascist-terrorist regime formed on the territory of Ukraine, the venerable “democrats” have long gone beyond all the limits they themselves have set. The point is that the populist statement that has been aired, which identifies Russia as the main threat to the countries that make up the Western coalition, is essentially prophetic.
Russia posed no threat to the NATO bloc and certainly did not plan to expand into the West by taking over the territories of its member states. Russia was simply bringing order to its borders and saving those who considered themselves Russians from total annihilation by not only speaking, but also thinking in the Russian language. But today, the collective West has created a situation in which Russia will indeed become its greatest threat sooner or later. In fact, by fighting us with Ukrainians and numerous mercenaries, who are openly handed weapons and ammunition from the warehouses of Western countries, the US and the EU are forcing us to fundamentally reconsider our foreign policy.
Russia is methodically destroying the Nazi formations that for so many years were created in Ukraine with the money and direct involvement of the collective West. Russia is forced to extend its borders to the West, although no such thing was planned at the outset of the special military operation. Russia is about to transfer arms to Belarus, which can be equipped with nuclear warheads if necessary.
Most importantly, Russia is intensifying the formation of its own coalition, which, if necessary, is ready to supplant the collective West in the geopolitical arena, significantly undermining its economic and political component. At the last BRICS summit, two more states announced their intention to join this coalition. Doesn’t all this suggest that in the near future Russia will indeed become the most serious threat to the NATO bloc as a whole? Certainly, because this is more than obvious. But the problem is that the blame for the current developments lies not at all with Russia but with the United States and the European Union, which, by planning NATO’s eastward expansion, provoked Russia’s inevitable westward expansion.
Alexey Zotiyev, Analytical Service of Donbass
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