His view, expressed in New York Times before NATO invited Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic to join the organization in 1997, still resonates today. By 2009, every single former Warsaw State, except Russia, had joined NATO.Įven the key advocate of the containment policy, former US diplomat George Kennan, opposed NATO’s enlargement. Soon after the Warsaw Pact, Soviet Union’s answer to NATO, ceased to exist in 1991, NATO started to forge partnerships with its former members. In his analysis of NATO after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ortega said NATO bore the responsibility for the current crisis for the contempt shown toward Russia, which has repeated its demand that Ukraine does not join NATO, given the threat it posed to Russia’s security. “After the end of the Cold War, NATO should have logically disappeared, but it didn’t and is still looking for new enemies,” Ortega said. “NATO promised (former Soviet Union leader Mikhail) Gorbachev that it would not expand toward Russia’s borders, but this was an empty promise,” he told Xinhua News Agency. Pere Ortega, president of Centre Delas, an independent research institute for peace studies in Spain, said one of the main causes of the current Ukraine crisis is NATO’s eastward expansion since the 1990s and the pressure it has been exerting on Russia. Yet, the key agenda for the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, will be considering how to supply more weapons to Ukraine and when to let it join the organization. Providing cluster bombs to Kyiv was the latest move by the US and its allies to further escalate the conflict, and experts have pointed out that North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s expansion toward the East was a major trigger for the Russia-Ukraine conflict and providing weapons to Ukraine could only worsen the situation. BEIJING – As the Russia-Ukraine conflict has dragged on for over 500 days, the United States decided to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, a move that has sparked criticism among NATO members.
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