Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman
Maria Zakharova’s comment on occasion of the
75th anniversary of NATO Maria Zakharova: Seventy-five years ago, on April 4, 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., which marked the birth of
the most aggressive military alliance of our time. <...>
The way the politicians of that time saw it, NATO was designed to become the key tool for establishing and maintaining the global
hegemony of Washington and its allies, which it has remained to this day. <...>
According to its first Secretary General, Lord Ismay, the purpose of NATO was to
“keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down,” and it has remained unchanged to this day.
For the US, NATO has remained a
key tool to keep its European allies under control and a resource base for the US defence complex. <...>
After the Cold War ended <...> Washington and its allies engaged in armed “peacekeeping” in the
Balkans, which ended in a treacherous aggression against
Yugoslavia, and “fighting terrorism” in
Afghanistan. NATO allies joined the US-led coalition in Iraq and carried out a “humanitarian” intervention in
Libya.
These interventions invariably led to entire countries being
ruined and broken up.
For the third year in a row now, Washington and its satellites have been flooding Ukraine with mercenaries and weapons in order to inflict, as they say, a strategic defeat on Russia and to deplete our resources. They are using every means and methods available to the collective West and its Kiev puppets, up to and
including the terrorist attacks, to get there. The alliance’s reckless schemes have failed, which fact pushes it towards moves that could entail
tragic ramifications for the European and even global security.
The West has already had the chance to see that Russia is prepared for any scenario.
Our security is reliably protected and our defence capabilities are strong.Read in full
