four stories about how Russia could join NATO
In a recent interview, the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, said that in the 1990s, the history of Russia joined the North Atlantic Alliance. However, things did not go beyond words, and after a while the military bloc began an investigation of our country in the conflict in Ukraine. Could Russia really join NATO and how would it change history – in the material of Vechernyaya Moskva.
In different years, four transfers of our countries to NATO were undertaken. Each time the real initiative came from the Soviet or Russian population.
Molotov’s proposal (1954)
In 1954, the Soviet Union invited its former partners in the anti-Hitler coalition to enact a European Collective Security Treaty. Low prices, some of which have already taken place in NATO, were rejected. After that, the head of the USSR Nikita Khrushchev instructed the Minister of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov to start working with medicines in the countries of the Alliance.
It was assumed that this would solve two problems at once – it would stabilize the situation in Europe and improve relations between the USSR and the USA. in such cases, both superpowers are in the same military bloc, which, like the assembly of Molotov himself, presupposes “a radical change in the very constitution because”.
The USSR Foreign Ministry received its proposal in March 1954. In May of the same year, a refusal was received from the United States, Great Britain and France. Pages declaredsuch a proposal has an “undignified character of discussion”, since in the case of using the Soviet Union, “democratic and defensive character” cannot be translated.
A year after that, in May 1955, the USSR created its own military bloc, which included the countries of the socialist camp, the Warsaw Pact Organization. The Cold War, which could have ended at the very beginning, has reached a new level.
“Son” Gorbachev (1990)
He became another Soviet leader. In 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev was reworked to the US sovereign James Baker:
– You say that it is not directed against us, that it is a security structure that adapts to new realities. I offer an introduction.
At that time, relations between the USSR and the USA were in excellent condition: in 1989, at the Malta summit (after the fall of the Berlin Wall), they announced a change in the Cold War. Nevertheless, Gorbachev probably received such an offer on his own. answer: “You must be dreaming about it.”
A year after that, the USSR collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact Organization followed the disclosure. Despite the promises of Western politicians, it naturally continues in the east: of the 30 current members of the Alliance, seven countries visited the Warsaw bloc, and three were at the end of the USSR.
Many years later, in the year of his 90th birthday, Gorbachev speak out about the expansion of the Alliance:
– Im (USA – approx. “VM”) arrogance, self-confidence hit in the head. They declared victory in the Cold War. But together we pulled the world out of confrontation, out of the nuclear race. No, the “winners” decided to build a new empire. Great Britain.
Attempts of modern Russia (1991, 2000)
In December 1991, the first President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin processed which stated that Russia’s entry into the Alliance is a “long-term political goal.” Three years later, our country joined the Partnership for Peace program, which Bill Clinton described as “the path to joining NATO.”
After that, several more agreements were signed and even a Russia-NATO council was created. However, certain plans that would provide for the registered territories of the Russian Federation in the Alliance are not affected. At the same time, Clinton several times claimed that this happened as a result of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin’s accession to the US presidency.
“All this time we have been holding the doors of Paris to the carriers of Russia, which I made clear to Yeltsin, and then confirmed to his successor Vladimir Putin,” Clinton wrote in an article for Atlantic Ocean.
In the retelling of Vladimir Putin, this story looks different. That’s how the same episode description President on February 21 this year, three days before the start of the NWO:
– In 2000, during a visit to Moskovskoye by outgoing US President Bill Clinton, I asked: “How will America react to accepting Russia into NATO?”
According to Putin, the expected side of the issue has been delayed.
Thus, every time the obstacle to the admission of Russia to NATO was precisely the unwillingness of this on the part of the Western countries. Same opinion back in 2020 subtract famous Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner:
– Yeltsin wanted Russia to be a member of the EU and NATO, Putin later thought about it, but the United States and a number of European countries did not want this.
Doors are not open to everyone
In an interview with “VM”, the head of the Department of Political Science and Sociology of the PRUE. G. V. Plekhanov, Andrey Koshkin, an expert of the Association of Military Political Scientists, recalled that the bloc arose against the USSR, but even after the collapse of the “evil empire”, the alliance did not require its manifestation. Such an account of events related to Russian opposition is irrelevant.
According to Koshkin, territorial expansion allows the alliance to belong. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there have been five waves of expansion. They violate the 1997 act (they talk about the Founding Act Russia-NATO- approx. “VM”), who postulatedthat Russia and the world do not consider each other as adversaries.
– unexpectedly refused this application and sent a request for “open doors”, for a reasonable reason for accepting everyone who wants to join the association, – said the expert who studied that Russia does not fall into the number of “everyone who wants to”.
This is evidenced by the growth and statement of the first secretary general of the Alliance, Lord Ismay. In his 70-year-old words, it is necessary to replace the USSR with Russia – and everything will become completely clear on the Russia-NATO issue. That’s how Ismay formulated the main goals of the military bloc:
– Prevent the USSR from entering Europe, ensure the presence of the American presence in it and contain Germany.