Kremlin says Russia and NATO are now in “direct confrontation”

Reuters, April 4, 2024

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Russia and NATO are now in “direct confrontation”, the Kremlin said as the U.S.-led alliance marked its 75th anniversary on Thursday. NATO’s successive waves of eastern enlargement are a fixation of President Vladimir Putin, who went to war in Ukraine two years ago with the stated aim of preventing the alliance from coming closer to Russia’s borders. Instead, the war has galvanised NATO, which has expanded again with the entry of Finland and Sweden. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters:

“In fact, relations have now slipped to the level of direct confrontation.”

NATO was

“already involved in the conflict surrounding Ukraine (and) continues to move towards our borders and expand its military infrastructure towards our borders”,

he said. Putin has repeatedly said that Russia was cheated by the West in the aftermath of the Cold War as Moscow’s Warsaw Pact alliance was disbanded but NATO moved eastwards by taking in former pact members and the three Baltic states that had been part of the Soviet Union.

Comment

NATO is a military alliance of thirty-two European and North American countries that constitutes a system of collective defence. Essentially NATO is a defensive alliance that means any country in NATO can call on others if they are attacked. NATO in reality is a defending itself against Russia.

The map above shows how NATO has pushed ever eastwards and has taken in some nations that were once part of the USSR itself! It has now moved right up to the borders of Russia. It is one of the reasons Putin launched his attack on Ukraine as Ukraine sought NATO membership (and still does). Russia will not subjugate Europe- NATO is too strong. Russia will move south to Israel.

Bible quote

And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.  He shall enter also into the glorious land [Israel] , and many countries shall be overthrown: (Daniel 11:40-41)

Weekly World Watch, Andy Walton