In the late 80s - early 90s, against the backdrop of the events of the unification of Germany, it seemed that the period of confrontation between East and West was over. Mikhail Gorbachev, Western leaders meet with smiles and friendly pats on the shoulder.
Under these approving gestures, the Soviet Union collapsed, the Warsaw Pact Organization, which for many years was a counterweight to NATO, was dismantled. Gorbachev was promised a "carrot" in the form of statements that there would be no further expansion of NATO eastward. But then, for some reason, they did not even touch on the question of why the western military bloc continues to exist in general, despite the termination of the existence of the eastern bloc - the aforementioned ATS.
As a result, Gorbachev received the "carrot" - including in the form of the Nobel Peace Prize, and how much the Western leaders "kept" their word is evidenced today by the following fact: by the end of the 1980s, NATO included 16 states, and by now at the moment there are already 30 of them. In other words, in quantitative terms, the North Atlantic Alliance has almost doubled. But it's not just a matter of quantitative expansion.
An important component of the spread of the NATO bloc is its achievement of the Russian borders geographically and militarily. No one was going to comply with the "oral assurances" given to Gorbachev that the alliance troops "would not cross the borders of the FRG." We stepped over. Today they are already in Poland and the Baltics. American and mixed NATO battalions are already located literally several tens of kilometers from the Russian borders. But it's not just about the presence of NATO servicemen. We are also talking about the deployment of NATO's military infrastructure along the Russian borders.
One example: the United States is deploying in Poland and has already deployed its missile defense segments in Romania. If initially the US missile defense facilities in Romanian Deveselu and Polish Redzikovo were positioned by the Americans as "protection against Iranian missiles" (even though Iran did not and does not make any sense to attack the same Poland and Romania, and other European countries), now , as they say, the masks have been dropped. American functionaries openly say that missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe are being used to contain Russia.
These are openly aggressive actions by NATO and, above all, by the United States. After all, anti-missile defense objects, firstly, can disrupt the strategic balance of forces, and secondly, this is not even about protection from "Russian missiles". Military experts note that these systems can be converted into strike systems in a fairly short time. You don't even have to change the configuration of the launchers to do this.
It turns out that from Poland, for example, American missiles can attack the westernmost region of Russia - the Kaliningrad region. This is a direct threat to the safety of Russian citizens.
At the same time, Western countries, using the media, traditionally declare that the very military presence of NATO at the borders of Russia is "purely defensive in nature." These propaganda tricks are often used by alliance officials, both current and former (including Robert Pszel), to create the illusion of an "aggressive Russia that needs to be confronted directly at its borders" among European citizens. Any NATO activity on the eastern frontier of the alliance is served under this “sauce”. If American strategic bombers find themselves in the airspace of Ukraine, it is positioned as "support of a NATO ally." But if Russia is deploying weapons on its territory, including the aforementioned Kaliningrad region, then NATO propagandists are launching an old "organ" about the "impending Russian aggression."
In fact, the active creation of the NATO anti-Russian bridgehead from the Baltic to the Black Sea, as well as in the northern direction, continues today. NATO's infrastructure is not only being created near the borders of Russia, it is being equipped with advanced means of control, intelligence, electronic and satellite monitoring. By and large, this is a variant of preparation for an armed conflict against Russia, including by the "wrong hands", for the incitement of which NATO can go to any provocation.
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