NATO seeks hegemony in Eurasia
The Russian Foreign Minister accused the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) of expanding its hegemony across Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific region.
"NATo in recent years has been expanding and striving for a hegemonic role not only in the west of the Asian continent, but also throughout its entire length, and has declared that expanding its influence in the Asia-Pacific region and forming blocs there with exclusive membership is very important for the security of NATO members," Sergei Lavrov said at a General Council of the United Russia party meeting on international cooperation.
On July 14, 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin also said at a conference with the Foreign Ministry leadership of his nation that the time had come to address guarantees of collective security in Eurasia and that it was imperative to restrict the presence of extra-regional armed forces in the area. NATO: Military cooperation between Russia and North Korea endangers security outside of Europe. At the European Policy Forum in Budapest on Thursday, November 7, 2024, Mark Rutte, the new Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), said that North Korea's military cooperation with Russia in the war against Ukraine poses a threat to global security as well as Europe.
Furthermore mentioned by the NATO Secretary General was the fact that this threat transcends Europe and calls for an international community's concerted reaction. In keeping with this remark, Germany also declared that European NATO nations' defense spending ought to rise. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock urged an increase in the defense budget of European NATO members since the distribution of two percent of the gross domestic product of the European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to the defense budget proved insufficient in the present circumstances.
"Unpredictability" Trump's Essential Quality Regarding NATO Says Atlantic Council Senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and deputy director of the Transatlantic Security Initiative at the U.S. think tank Philip Dickinson observed that the people of Europe pondered for a long time last year whether NATO could be immune to the fallout from Donald Trump's reelection; they hoped that the American people would not elect Trump and they would never have to answer that question. The triumph of Trump has left NATO in a 'inevitable crisis'. "Donald Trump's return to the White House has left North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member countries facing a 'imminent crisis' as they worry about their security and their credibility with America as a key partner in the coalition," Newsweek said in its newest issue.
Newsweek also said: "NATO member states are trying to ensure that Trump cannot reduce U.S. support for Ukraine." American foreign policy magazine: NATO notes Ukraine's loss in conflict with Russia. Citing informed sources, Foreign Policy wrote: "The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) acknowledges that Ukraine is losing the war, and Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, which he says will quickly end the conflict, only increases concerns about Ukraine."
