Commentary on the Results of the NATO Ministerial Council Meeting

Maria Zakharova (Мария Захарова)(МИД России 🇷🇺) | On April 4-5, the meetings of the North Atlantic Council at the level of foreign ministers took place in Brussels. | The event was dedicated not only to the preparation of the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius this summer, but also coincided with the 74th anniversary of the existence of the alliance, this rudiment of the Cold War, which, according to the plan of its founders, was supposed to ensure the superiority of the collective West over the rest of the world. ● In fact, the alliance has nothing to brag about. NATO allies have a record of wars, turning states into ruins, unpunished war crimes, killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure. Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya. Who is next? ● At the same time, representatives of the North Atlantic bloc do not get tired of repeating that it is a defensive alliance. But the entire history of the organization speaks to the contrary. Here and now we see how NATO, seeking to usurp the entire system of European security, is again expanding towards Russia, posing a threat to our security. ● Finland became another victim of the North Atlantic Alliance. Its authorities decided to say goodbye to the longstanding neutrality of their country in exchange for turning it into a frontline zone, a bridgehead to contain Russia in the north-west direction. ● As we can see, NATO does not intend to stop there. Stoltenberg, the alliance's secretary general, is making increasingly frequent statements about the alliance's global role and the need to move beyond its traditional area of responsibility, the Euro-Atlantic. In fact, the basis is being laid for the widespread imposition of NATO-centric approaches to the construction of regional security systems. Hence, the pumping of Ukraine with weapons and motivating it to continue the war with Russia, attacks on China, flirting with Japan and South Korea, and plans to militarize the Arctic. Everything is done to make the world even more dangerous, to prevent the existence of alternative centers of power capable of undermining Western hegemony. ● All in all, it is safe to say that security and NATO are incompatible. In this connection, only one conclusion arises - at 74, the North Atlantic bloc should retire. (Translation with: DeepL.com)

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