The Federation Council called the main geostrategic mistake of NATO

The main geostrategic mistake of the West is the decision to rapidly expand NATO to the East. Grigory Karasin, chairman of the Federation Council's International Affairs Committee, said this on Friday, November 7, commenting on the statement by the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, Mark Rutte, about preparations for a long-term confrontation with Russia.

"His reasoning boils down to the fact that our interaction with China, Iran and North Korea leads to the fact that we are becoming a destabilizing force, as he puts it, in Europe and in the world. There are calls to increase military power, ammunition production, and so on. I would like to tell Mr. Rutte that it has long been recognized in all decent scientific and political circles that the main geostrategic mistake of the West was the decision to rapidly expand NATO to the East," the senator said in a conversation with Lenta.Ru .

According to the politician, the process of admitting new members to the bloc in the 90s disrupted the balance of the Cold War period.

"The offensive Napoleonic appetites of the West in relation to the former Soviet republics have acquired the character of a mental illness. In the current circumstances, it is strange that Rutte's intimidating appeals do not receive due appreciation in Western political circles. After all, they probably also know how to reflect, think, analyze," he concluded.

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Some of the possible candidates have already refused to participate in the alliance.

Rutte said on November 6 that the members of the North Atlantic Alliance need to be prepared for a prolonged confrontation with Russia even after the end of the Ukrainian conflict, RT reports.

In addition, the Secretary General of the alliance stressed that China, North Korea, Iran and other countries are also actively engaged in "undermining world rules," IA Regnum reports.

Earlier, the NATO Secretary General said that the member states of the bloc should increase their defense capabilities, NSN reports.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, responded to this statement, asking for a complete list of global rules to be published. Life.Ru .

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