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The West’s war games with Russia . In other words, it’s Russia that is causing the problems, that has destabilised Ukraine, that looms large and menacing over the EU’s eastern frontier. When asked if the EU was going to relax its sanctions against Russia, you could sense just how deep is the fear and suspicion of Putin in European Council president Donald Tusk’s rebuttal, rich as it was in allusions to the 1. The comparison with appeasement . As Putin himself said, to think that Moscow poses a military threat to NATO members and its allies is . And while many Western pundits and politicos like to believe that that is precisely what Putin is – .
Yes, Russian forces are clearly involved in the so- called rebel- controlled eastern region of Ukraine. And, yes, Russian armed forces have helped Bashar al- Assad’s Syrian regime roll back ISIS and also attack numerous Syrian rebel groups.
But these actions are not those of a power- crazed military aggressor; they’re those of a nation state with relatively clear strategic interests, chief among them being the protection of its borders, and beyond that, preserving regional stability. Russia is not so much driving conflicts as it is responding to them – responding to the West’s unspooling of the Middle East, responding to NATO and the EU’s various entreaties to the Baltic states, and responding, above all, to the transformation of Ukraine from a long- term ally into a EU- ified, and NATO- encouraged, antagonist. If any state, or alliance of states, is a destabilising and disturbing force here, it’s not Russia; it’s the blundering coalitions of NATO and the EU. After all, it was NATO and the US that decided to revoke assurances made to Russia in 1. Soviet Union collapsed, Western powers, in the form principally of NATO and the European Community, would not expand to the east — they’ve been doing precisely that from the mid- 1. Between 1. 99. 9 and 2. NATO incorporated such Eastern Bloc stalwarts as Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Latvia.
In 2. 00. 8, the Bush administration then made half- baked promises to Georgia and Ukraine, stating that they, too, . Not to be outdone, the EU matched NATO in its march eastwards, with its 2. Eastern Partnership scheme, which was designed to integrate Ukraine into the EU, and therefore separate it from the Russian economy. Over the past two decades, then, Russia has experienced NATO and the EU as aggressive and unpredictable forces, getting ever closer to its borders, and depriving it of its old allies and client states.
View of the entrance to a marketplace reduced to rubble as a result of a German aerial attack. Warsaw, Poland, September 1939.
Even the rhetoric of NATO and the EU is expansionist, aggressive and, ultimately, threatening. A 2. 01. 2 NATO strategy document had a crusading element to it: ? And Russia- baiting pundits think Putin is the one with quasi- imperial dreams. This same expansionist, mission- like zeal was apparent in NATO’s post- summit communique issued this weekend, where it spoke of how Russia was threatening .
But in practice it provides NATO and the EU with a dangerous, destabilising expansionist trajectory. Because to realise this goal entails the transformation of existing geopolitical reality, pulling those states once in Russia’s orbit into . It is a recipe not for peace, but for conflict.
Little wonder that former Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, a man well- versed in old- school Cold War diplomacy, was shocked by the NATO summit: . They only talk about defence, but in fact they are preparing an offensive.’And who can blame him? NATO troops are now set to be stationed in Baltic states, and EU leaders are still desperately continuing their attempt to pull Ukraine into their own economic and political structures. And, worse still, it seems to be driven by something akin to Little Europeanism, an aggressive, divisive elite sensibility in which Russia is being traduced as a global threat to peace and security. If NATO and the EU are the forces of peace and stability, who needs warmongers? Tim Black is a spiked columnist.
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