Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko charged, during an interview on Rossiya 24 TV, that the West forgot about its own security interests in pursuit of geopolitical expansion into new areas. “The West imagined itself the winner in the Cold War and decided that it alone could establish its own rules,” the Deputy Foreign Minister said. “A rule-based order is not really international law, of course. This is the order that is conceived in Brussels, Washington, and other capitals.”
As for the North Atlantic Alliance, Grushko argued that the NATO-centric security structure is a road to nowhere. “If you put the interests of security above [all] else, then, a realization must happen in Europe sooner or later that the establishment of this NATO-centric architecture is a road to nowhere, it is simply turning oneself into an object of military planning,” he said. Europe must curb the consequences of NATO intervention in other countries and protect itself from them, Grushko stated. “Europe, essentially, must first and foremost curb, neutralize, and protect itself from the consequences of NATO interventions,” he said.
