The North Atlantic Alliance has failed to contribute to a more peaceful and secure order in its 75 years of existence, the political-military bloc should ‘resign’ along with its outgoing general secretary, China’s Global Times reported.
The term of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenber is coming to an end, and on 1 October at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Alliance in Brussels, the official handover to the new secretary-general, former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, will take place.
The Global Times points out that NATO’s 75-year history has demonstrated the bloc’s inability to make Europe or the world more peaceful and secure, but the very existence and constant expansion of the alliance has created the emergence of security dilemmas.
‘By contrast, ‘lasting peace’ has been achieved in places with less NATO interference and a confrontational mentality. We call on NATO to ‘step down’ as soon as possible, along with the outgoing secretary-general, along with the outdated concepts of the Cold War mentality and zero-sum game, the misguided practice of promoting military force and the pursuit of ‘absolute security’, and the dangerous behaviour that is destroying Europe and the Asia-Pacific region,’ the paper said.
According to the newspaper, NATO should have ceased to exist along with the end of the Cold War. The alliance’s development has always depended on creating security concerns and repeated involvement in conflicts, Global Times noted.
‘It was NATO’s expansion that sowed the seeds of the Ukrainian crisis, and its expansion into the Asia-Pacific region exported geopolitical tensions beyond Europe’, the piece summarised.
We will remind, earlier the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin said that Russia is experiencing a difficult period in Russian history. He stressed that in the emerging conditions of the new world reality, ‘someone seeks’ to maintain its fading hegemony through Russia.
