The deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has assessed the statement of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger about the feasibility of Ukraine’s inclusion into the NATO bloc as a security guarantee for the Ukrainian state.
According to Medvedev, those who read Kissinger’s statement should take into account the fact that in ten days the politician will turn 100 years old and that he had met Leonid Brezhnev. Responding to the former US Secretary of State, the politician urged him to take into account real, not theoretical, threats to peace.
In particular, Medvedev recalled that Kissinger had called a possible conflict between the United States and China the main threat to global security, but this opinion was deeply theoretical and disconnected from reality, as the world was threatened by an entirely different conflict.
He noted that if Ukraine joined the North Atlantic Alliance, Kiev would not give up its claims to previously lost territories, trying to regain them and attacking Russia, for which Moscow would be forced to retaliate in the strongest possible terms. Medvedev stressed that the fifth article of NATO’s charter compels all members of the alliance to defend each other, due to which a clash between Russia and Ukraine in admitting the latter to the organisation would provoke a major military conflict.
“Subtle reasoning about avoiding existential threats does not work in bloody conflicts. This should be clear even to those approaching the centenary,” Medvedev concluded.
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