Fire and fury is the Russian leadership revealing possibly its biggest annoyance with NATO.
“The official’s statements about a “military Schengen” within NATO countries escalated tensions in Europe. The alliance has always considered our country as a conditional enemy, now it considers Russia an obvious enemy, now openly, but this is nothing more than the escalation of tension in Europe, which has its consequences. Such statements by NATO officials emphasize that Europe does not want to listen to Russia’s concerns and take into account the principle of indivisible security,” said the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov.
He emphasized that the approach of NATO military infrastructure to Russia’s borders can only provoke retaliation.
The transfer of military forces can be said to be implemented today with the agreement of the countries that willingly allow the passage of the alliance, it is estimated that the Russian concern concerns Hungary and Turkey, which are two friendly countries adjacent to Moscow.
NATO considers the conflict in Ukraine a profitable investment
This is how the presidential press secretary commented on the statement of the head of the NATO Logistics and Logistics Command, Alexander Solfrank, about the need to create a “military Schengen”, a zone of free military transit.
According to the NATO general, alliance forces face obstacles in the form of national regulations when moving troops and ammunition. Czech President Petr Pavel said earlier this week that NATO considers Russia to be the number one threat in Europe.
The Kremlin responded to this that today it is not Russia that threatens Europe, but Europe that threatens Russia, since it is controlled by the United States and is a member of NATO, which is moving with all its forces towards the Russian borders.
Russia targets Balkans and Black Sea
Russian President Vladimir Putin has a staff plan for a simultaneous attack on NATO, focusing on the Balkans and the Black Sea, if the negotiations between the two sides, which are already on a razor’s edge, do not succeed.
The periphery of Europe has turned from a ring of friends to a ring of fire
Through Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, its military intervention in eastern Ukraine, and its use of energy, cyberspace and other media as political tools, Vladimir Putin has delivered a clear three-pronged message:
(1) hard power matters;
(2) Borders in Europe can still be changed by force.
(3) Russia intends to expand the arena of competition to disrupt and damage the critical functions of other societies.
China’s economic reach, its rapid technological progress and growing military capabilities, its global diplomacy adjusted to very different rules, and its enormous resource needs make it a world-class challenger.
Its investments in strategic industries and ports, its challenges to global publics and its pact with Russia, which includes cooperation in weapons and naval exercises in the Mediterranean and Baltic Seas, have “brought” it to Europe itself.
In addition to these challenges, Europeans question the US commitment to the Alliance. The Biden administration has an opportunity to use the current Strategic Concept review to reassure America’s allies about remaining U.S. power, build new unity, and update NATO’s tasks and tools for an era of disruption.
