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NATO is a past matter – Russian scholar
Published: 24 October, 2010, 03:25
Edited: 26 October, 2010, 11:48
TAGS: Military, NATO, Nuclear, Obama, Politics, Afghanistan
NATO has no future and today we have to re-think European security anew to switch to other forms of interaction between Russia and the EU, insists Viktor Kremyenuk, Deputy Director of the U.S. and Canada Institute.
“We are trying to pave this way while NATO is dividing Europe and Russia for various reasons,” explains Viktor Kremyenuk. “It is unlikely [for Russia] to join NATO: it is too big and is quite self-sufficient in military terms, Russia does not need NATO and its guarantees, it will be very well to do without them, but it means that for a certain period of time is going to be split into NATO members and non-NATO countries – namely Russia. That is going to create unnecessary tensions. Therefore, I think that the very decision to expand NATO was poorly thought through and not very reasonable in its timing,” he concluded.
Russia will definitely become a WTO member because “it is a more serious matter than just an economic issue.”
All recent American Presidents promised Russia to help it to become a WTO member, but since their promises never came true because of the conservative US Congress – Russia will search for different solutions and form trade zones with its partners unilaterally.
If the US Senate decides to humiliate American President Barack Obama and defeat the START nuclear arms reduction treaty, which is well balanced and serves the American interests as well as Russia’s, this would mean a great loss for Obama, since there were excessive expectations for his presidency and he failed to deliver the “change’ miracle he was expected to and now his polls are falling.
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NATO's expansion may not be so much politically motivated as it is bureaucratic: Like other public sector organisations, NATO's budget and importance is largely set by its size and therefore, the number of member states. The Georgian assault on South Ossetia helped remind several NATO members that signing treaties was not just a political exercise but could get their countries sucked into regional disputes in support of questionable aims. There is some degree of acceptance amongst NATO members that America is the only NATO member who can spend huge sums on defence and that this makes their presence necessary. However, whilst the newer NATO members tend to be quite pro-American, the situation for other members tends to vary with the attitude of the government of the day. The French in particular are very wary of US involvement in Europe and together with the Germans, often promote the idea of converting NATO to be an EU organisation in which the USA and other non-EU states would not participate. The major sticking point for this idea is that, whilst Turkey is a member of NATO, they are unlikely to join the EU for the foreseeable future and that some EU members are neutral, with no military affiliations. Putin has the right idea though: Russian military hardware built to NATO standards might be a popular option for NATO members looking to constrain their defence spending.
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