Of course, today no one wants to know anything about it! You should think about it and draw your conclusions from it
It is the time of great “saber rattling”: relations between Russia and NATO are at a low point. Massive military maneuvers and aggressive rhetoric on both sides, war in eastern Ukraine, a Georgia torn between the nuclear superpowers, no trace of détente dialogue.
NATO wants to remain willing to talk, but seems to be focusing primarily on deterrence: At the Warsaw summit in early July, the alliance will agree that four rotating battalions will be sent to Poland and the Baltics, and the soldiers in Lithuania will be under German leadership. It's about reassuring the alliance partners on the eastern borders. But is that the right strategy? “The risk of military involvement is high,” says retired Bundeswehr general Harald Kujat in a Panorama interview. Former top German diplomat Wolgang Ischinger assesses the situation as “more dangerous than in the Cold War.”
Even Federal Foreign Minister Steinmeier seems uneasy about the spiral of provocation and counter-provocation: he was recently quoted with the astonishing sentence: "What we shouldn't do now is to further inflame the situation with loud saber rattling and war cries." What is important is that the main question is also lost in the debate about the current confrontation with Russia. Was NATO's expansion into the Baltics and the idea of including Ukraine and Georgia in the North Atlantic alliance even right? No one in Berlin, London or Washington seems to be wondering whether the victory of 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union, has been over-indulged. What historical compensation does Russia deserve for the fact that the Red Army withdrew from East Germany and the other states of Eastern Europe without firing a shot? (*) The mantra-like reference to the contracts concluded with Russia in the 90s seems to have blocked the view of the essentials.
Slowly emerging insights into the bigger picture now stand in almost comical contrast to actual policy. Bundeswehr soldiers are taking part in maneuvers in Lithuania and Poland that are intended to “deter” Russia. At the same time, the German Foreign Minister is now warning against “saber rattling” and “war cries”. For a long time, Steinmeier and Merkel thoughtlessly supported NATO policies aimed at weakening and encircling Russia. Now the howling is loud: How are we going to get down from the tree we climbed up?
Saber rattling between NATO and Russia (ARD Panorama | June 24.06.2016, XNUMX)
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