NATO Exists To Solve The Problems Created By NATO's Existence by Caitlin Johnstone published on 2022-12-01T03:00:56Z The recent push to expand NATO in Ukraine along with nations like Finland and Sweden as justified by "Russian aggression" is a good example of what professor Richard Sakwa has called the “fateful geographical paradox: that NATO exists to manage the risks created by its existence.” As the late scholar on US-Russia relations Stephen Cohen explained years before the Ukraine crisis erupted in 2014, Moscow sees NATO as an "American sphere of influence," and the expansion of NATO and NATO influence as expansion of that sphere. It reacts to this with hostility just as the US would react to China or Russia building up aggressive military alliances on its borders, and arguably with vastly more restraint than the US would. Reading by Tim Foley. Genre News & Politics Comment by Devamitta The truth Caitlin lays out in this essay is so readily apparent to anyone paying attention outside the sphere of Western corporate media, which no longer, and for many years, no longer pretends to be anything except a mouthpiece for Western hegemony. You don't need to read Russian sources to come to this conclusion. Insiders within the US empire have spoken the danger of NATO expansion for decades. People like George Kennan, architect of US stragety against the USSR after WWII; Jack Matlock, the last US ambassador to the USSR: the late Russian scholar Stephen Cohen; present CIA director and former ambassador to Russia (2008); geopolitical Realpolitik advocate John Mearsheimer; all have warned and predicted the out come of NATO expansion for decades. Unfortunately. the uni-party neocon ideology and the psychopaths who run US foreign policy have no counterforce in US politics. The election of Trump (and Obama for different reasons) has made this possible. 2022-12-05T13:48:53Z
