75 years of NATO, now direct conflict with Russia, why the fire of war is not stopping

The Kremlin said Russia and NATO are now in direct conflict. The US-led alliance celebrated its 75th anniversary on Thursday. Successive waves of NATO’s eastern expansion are a commitment from President Vladimir Putin, who went to war in Ukraine two years ago with the stated aim of preventing the alliance from getting closer to Russia’s borders. Instead, the war has emboldened NATO, which has expanded again with the entry of Finland and Sweden. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that in fact relations have now reached the level of direct confrontation.

He said NATO was already involved in the conflict around Ukraine (and) is moving toward our borders and expanding its military infrastructure toward our borders. Putin has repeatedly said that Russia was betrayed by the West after the Cold War as Moscow’s Warsaw Pact alliance broke up but NATO moved eastward, taking in former Pact members and the three Baltic states that were part of the Soviet Union. Were. The West rejected that version, saying NATO was a defensive alliance and joining was a democratic choice for countries that had shaken off decades of communist rule.

NATO says it is helping Ukraine fight for its survival in the face of Russian aggression, and has provided Kiev with advanced weapons, training and intelligence. Russia says this actually makes NATO a party to the conflict. Putin said in February that a direct conflict between Russia and NATO would mean the planet is one step away from World War III.