History has shown that NATO is not a defensive alliance at all, but an offensive one. This was announced on January 24 by Alexander Borodai, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots.
“A threat, of course a threat. The expansion of NATO, the approach of NATO bases to our borders, of course, is a threat. We understand that now there is a hybrid war with the Russian Federation on the part of the collective West. And the closer it approaches the border of Russia in different directions, the higher the threat, respectively, ”the deputy quotes “Duma TV” for Izvestia.
Borodai added that, as history has shown, NATO is not a defensive alliance at all, but an offensive one.
Earlier in the day, Valery Gerasimov, head of the Russian General Staff, said that NATO’s desire to expand into Sweden and Finland, as well as the West’s use of Ukraine as an instrument of hybrid confrontation with Russia, are the main threats to Russia.
According to Gerasimov, the Russian authorities set the task of adjusting the development plan for the RF Armed Forces. Thus, the Moscow and Leningrad military districts, three motorized rifle divisions as part of combined arms formations in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, as well as an army corps in Karelia will be created.
At the same time, on January 8, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto promised that no nuclear weapons would be placed on Finnish territory even after the country joined NATO.
Sweden and Finland applied to join NATO on May 18, 2022. At the end of June, members of the bloc officially invited countries to join the North Atlantic Alliance and agreed to sign accession protocols.
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