Failures to establish stability by internal interventions in Iraq and Libya (and Afghanistan) are proof of that old strategy today... if it doesn't work why do it all again??
Madrid summit shows that NATO returned to Cold War-era schemes — Russian diplomat
MOSCOW, July 1. /TASS/. The result of the NATO summit in Madrid have demonstrated that the alliance has returned to the Cold War-era military security schemes, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said on Friday.
"I think that the key conclusion we can draw is that in Madrid NATO has completed an evolution somersault in its development after its establishment in 1949 and has returned to its roots, i.e. to the Cold War-era military security schemes," he said at a meeting of the Valdai International al Discussion Club.
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On June 16, as part of the business program of the SPIEF-2022, the Valdai Discussion Club held a special session titled “Self-sufficiency and cooperation: features of the modern political economy”.
The Valdai Club has emphasised many times in its reports that globalisation, in the form in which it emerged in the 1980s, has ceased to exist. Today we are witnessing two parallel, although in many respects contradictory trends. On the one hand, the destruction of the interconnectedness of the world and the transformation of globalisation, and on the other hand, the need for cooperation even where it is politically impossible to continue it.
”The Cold War ended, but it did not end with the signing of a peace treaty with clear and transparent agreements on respecting existing rules or creating new rules and standards. This created the impression that the so-called ‘victors’ in the Cold War had decided to pressure events and reshape the world to suit their own needs and interests.“
. . .The United States always told its allies: “We have a common enemy, a terrible foe, the centre of evil, and we are defending you, our allies, from this foe, and so we have the right to order you around, force you to sacrifice your political and economic interests and pay your share of the costs for this collective defence, but we will be the ones in charge of it all of course.” In short, we see today attempts in a new and changing world to reproduce the familiar models of global management, and all this so as to guarantee their [the US’] exceptional position and reap political and economic dividends.
But these attempts are increasingly divorced from reality and are in contradiction with the world’s diversity. Steps of this kind inevitably create confrontation and countermeasures and have the opposite effect to the hoped-for goals. . ."
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According to the Russian diplomat, this U-turn began long before the beginning of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, somewhat at the turn of 2012 and 2013, "when NATO passed a principled decision to end its mission in Afghanistan." Notably, the alliance agreed back then that it was not for action in the changed security situation, he added.
"All of its military interventions, starting from Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Libya, let alone Iraq, although most of the NATO countries also took part, and finally Afghanistan, led to results, to put it mildly, contrary to the expectations. And back then, NATO plunged into a discussion again: if the policy of expansion has largely exhausted its resource, the geopolitical space has been developed, the European Union and NATO have merged to a larger extent in military terms, interventions are void, what else is to be done? And a principle decision was made to move toward giving priority to article 5 of the Washington agreement again and to begin getting prepared to confrontation with a comparable enemy, including a possible high-intensity conflict," Grushko said."
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