The concept of the North Atlantic Alliance is not suitable for the modern world and cannot fulfill its original functions, so the doors to new members of the organization should be closed. This opinion was expressed by professor of history at the Catholic University of America Michael Kimmage in an interview with Foreign Affairs.
“NATO suffers from a serious flaw: extending deep into the cauldron of Eastern European geopolitics, it is too big, too ill-defined and too provocative for its own good,” the expert said.
According to him, many member states of the alliance and the lack of clarity of NATO’s mission may cause the organization to be drawn into full-scale hostilities. Kimmage noted that the North Atlantic Alliance should publicly reject new members in order to improve its defense capability and simplify the strategic goal.
“With the alliance already too extended in one of the world’s most dangerous areas, joining Ukraine would be strategic folly. The theater of the absurd of the West’s adherence to an open door policy is in itself insulting for Ukraine (and for Georgia) and will eventually generate anger at Washington”, the professor said.
Kimmage added that the US and its European partners should focus on continuing dialogue with Russia, the main goal of which would be to resolve crises and resolve conflicts in a strategic dialogue. According to the expert, NATO should not take part in this.
Senator of the Russian Federation Alexei Pushkov noted that the expansion of the North Atlantic alliance into Georgia and Ukraine is dangerous for the alliance itself and is contrary to US security interests. According to him, this would make them hostage to a potentially conflict situation on the borders of Russia and the dangerous games of the war party in Ukraine.
“The American author is right: the very advancement of NATO structures to the borders of Russia creates a provocative situation, to which Moscow cannot but react. So – that’s right: the alliance is already too big and too provocative. It’s time to stop. But the ideologists of unlimited expansion, biting the bit, containing a strong charge of liberal fundamentalism, that is, politicians like [NATO Secretary General Jens] Stoltenberg, are clearly not able to realize this”, Pushkov wrote in his Telegram channel.