Formed in 2001, its members include China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. In this case the most important reaction is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an organization that embraces one quarter of the world’s population, from Eastern Europe to North Asia, from the Arctic to the vast steppes and mountain ranges of Central Asia. The alliance has encircled Russia with NATO allies and bases, has added troops to the stale-mated war in Afghanistan, is preparing to open shop in the Pacific Basin, and is increasingly sidelining the United Nations.īut politics is much like physics: for every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction. NATO will soon begin deploying in Poland and the Czech Republic anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems that are supposedly aimed at Iran, but which the Russians charge really target them. It is now an expeditionary alliance that is sending its forces across the world to help secure a future of freedom and peace for millions.” “NATO,” President Bush told the gathering, “is no longer a static alliance focused on defending Europe from a Soviet tank invasion. George Bush and Hamid Karzai at Bucharest Nato summit The alliance approved membership for Croatia and Albania, and only French and German opposition prevented the Bush Administration from adding the former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia.ġ. The Cold War may be over, but you would never know it from April’s NATO meeting in Bucharest.
What the world got was not security but the Cold War, dozens of brushfire conflicts across the globe, and enough nuclear weapons to destroy the earth a dozen times over.
In response, the Soviets formed the Warsaw Pact. and Britain led the campaign to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) a deterrent to a supposed Soviet attack on Western Europe. In response, France, England and Russia formed the Triple Entente. Thus, Germany formed the Triple Alliance with Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire to counter the enmity of France following the Franco-Prussian War. In practice they tend to do the opposite. Military alliances are always sold as things that produce security.
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