An all-out war would bring an end to NATO, Dmitry Trenin writes in an op-ed for RT
The belligerent stance of European NATO members risks triggering an all-out war with Russia that could spell the end of the bloc, Dmitry Trenin, president of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), wrote in an op-ed for RT.
Trenin argued that European elites are seeking “Russia’s destruction as a major power,” rather than simply deterrence, as during the Cold War. They are using the Ukraine conflict as a convenient opportunity, he said.
“The European NATO leaders’ enormous deficit of modern strategic culture – unsurprising after the eight decades of having delegated their security to the United States – and their blind Russophobia, a result of deep-seated vintage European racism and the real or perceived grudges against Russia piled over the last five centuries, have put Europe on a direct collision course with Russia,” the expert warned, adding that this strategy essentially “means war.”
Trenin argued that the “fundamental flaw” of this calculation is the “belief that Russia would rather accept defeat, degradation and disintegration than use the arsenal which it currently possesses.”
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