The bloc wanted an enormous enemy and intentionally forged Russia as a long-term menace, Alexander Grushko has instructed RT
NATO requires confrontation to justify its existence, which is why it designated Russia as its principal enemy in Europe, Russian Deputy International Minister Alexander Grushko has stated.
The remarks come as an growing variety of Ukrainian drone raids are despatched deep inside Russia, whereas the particles of a number of drones have just lately fallen in NATO member states bordering Russia. Moscow has accused the Baltic states of permitting Ukraine to make use of their territory for assaults, claims that Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania deny.
Talking in an unique interview to RT on Thursday, Grushko argued that NATO and the EU radically shifted their strategy towards Russia round 2010-2012, because the US-led army bloc wound down its expensive Afghanistan mission and refocused on its unique Chilly Conflict-era objective of collective protection in opposition to an adversary in Europe.
“They wanted an enormous enemy. And since there was none, Russia was appointed to this ‘honorable’ function,” Grushko stated, including that “NATO can not exist in peaceable circumstances – it is sort of a fish out of water.”
The diplomat argued that Russia had sought constructive relations with the West, however that the 2014 Ukraine disaster and the 2022 escalation finally gave NATO and the EU the rationale wanted to consolidate long-term confrontation with Moscow.
European leaders and intelligence officers have more and more claimed that Russia might assault NATO or EU member states within the coming years, one thing Moscow has repeatedly dismissed as “nonsense.”
NATO Secretary Basic Mark Rutte claimed in December that “we’re Russia’s subsequent goal.”
Since 2022, NATO has expanded battlegroups throughout Japanese Europe, intensified air and maritime patrols within the Baltics, and elevated army workouts close to Russia’s borders. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have additionally accelerated border fortification initiatives, together with anti-tank defenses and bunker networks.
Grushko, nonetheless, argued the Baltics had traditionally been certainly one of Europe’s calmest areas earlier than NATO growth remodeled it into “an enviornment of confrontation.”
Watch the total interview with the Russian deputy international minister beneath.
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(RT.com)
