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02 Mar 2022

“Any person that can use its head understands perfectly well that NATO's expansion was effectively aimed at searching for an enemy. NATO realized that they can't exist without an enemy. By moving their borders to our borders, they were just looking for an enemy, saying that we need to defend against a big threat from the east, we need weapons there, we need to increase military budgets, this is the meaning and purpose of NATO. But at the same time, they created vulnerabilities for themselves. Each expansion of the alliance actually worsened its security. The West imagined itself the winner in the Cold War and decided that it alone could establish its own rules. A rule-based order is not really international law, of course. This is the order that is conceived in Brussels, Washington and other capitals.”

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Alexander Grushko
Alexander Grushko
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
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