Russia-NATO: tango between understandings and clashes. Towards a “Cuban” solution?
Defining the NATO-Russia relationship as “Tormented” is almost trivial in this historical phase. Russia is willing to fight in order to stop NATO's “Salami Policy”, that is, the advance towards, if I enter, the borders of the Eurasian federation in small progressive steps, similar to cutting and eating slices of a salami.
So relationships evolve like tango: a little forward, a little back, but with the doubt, in this case, of who is leading the dance. On the one hand, after the latest direct talks, Biden assured Putin that "There is no NATO guarantee" on Ukraine and that there are no prospects, not even in the medium term, of the entry of Kiev and Georgia into the Atlantic alliance, from other provocations continue, whether intentional or not, against Moscow. The Russian government's press spokesman, Peshkov , complained about the strengthening of NATO forces in Greece and the transit of armaments through the port of Alexandropouli. At the same time, a Ukrainian warship has “tested” the maritime borders around the disputed Crimea.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov sent a warning on Thursday, saying that amid mounting tensions in Ukraine, Russia and the United States could end up in a situation similar to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. of comparisons that avoids a negative escalation in relationships.
"You know, it could really get to that point," he replied when asked by a reporter if things could escalate to the levels of the Cuban missile crisis with Washington and NATO on the Donbass. "If the counterparts fail to understand us and continue to do what they are doing, we may wake up at some point to see something similar, (to the Cuban crisis) if that is what further developments suggest." "It would be a total failure of diplomacy, a failure of foreign policy," Ryabkov added. "But there is still time to try to reach an agreement based on reason".
What NATO does not understand is that Moscow cannot accept hostile strategic forces at its borders, just as Kennedy could not accept Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962.
So, if you want solid positive relations between the West and Russia, the solutions can simply be either not having strategic weapons on the border with Moscow, or not having hostile, but friendly or alliance relations. Otherwise, we are marching towards a military confrontation which, however, will have a halt to NATO expansionism as a result:
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