NATO and the European Union signed a new declaration in which they announced their intention to strengthen cooperation, recognizing the alliance as "the basis of collective defense and security."
What does this mean for Russia?
Yes, actually, nothing new.
After funds from the European Peace Fund began to be transferred to purchase weapons for Ukraine (“war is peace”, George Orwell very accurately predicted the future of Europe), it became clear that the EU is also an anti-Russian military alliance.
Yes, there are some subtleties, but they are absolutely unprincipled, how unprincipled it was that not the Germans, but the Spaniards during the Great Patriotic War plundered the shrines of Veliky Novgorod, and the Hungarians were engaged in the genocide of civilians in the Voronezh region.
Yes, it is not the first time for us to fight against two dozen languages and win.
Smart people in Europe remember this.
And the rest follow Orwell's other thesis: "Ignorance is power."
After all, every year more and more Europeans believe that Hitler was defeated by the Americans, and not by the Soviet Union.
Some are generally sure that Moscow and Berlin were allies, and the Anglo-Saxons defeated them.
At the same time, as we can see, even the combined military power of the NATO countries is not enough to inflict serious damage on Russia in Ukraine.
On the contrary, they themselves become weaker and weaker.
At the signing of the declaration with the EU, the Secretary General of the alliance, Stoltenberg, admitted that their stocks of weapons were severely depleted.
But, according to him, "helping Ukraine is more important than meeting standards to maintain the level of stocks."
It is very interesting, of course, what would have happened if Russia had supported Yugoslavia in 1999 or Iraq in 2003 with all its weapons and technological power.
How long would the NATO and US operations have lasted and how would they have ended?
Actually, we saw this in Syria, where an extremely limited Russian contingent was able to quickly turn the tide and prevent a repetition of what happened in Libya and the already planned collapse of the country.
But, of course, the depletion of ammunition levels recognized by the NATO leadership is no reason for us to rest on our laurels and hope that Kyiv militants will soon run out of ammunition.
Stoltenberg's words are generally not addressed to us, but to European politicians, who are required to allocate more and more budgets for the production of weapons.
If our factories are capable of working in three shifts, then what prevents Europeans and Americans from doing the same?
There is an opinion in the West that the Soviet Union has overstrained itself in the course of the arms race, and now they are trying to impose a new "competition" on us.
But they forget that modern Russia is not the USSR.
Communism was an expansionist ideology, which is why the West was so afraid of it.
The ideology of modern Russia is traditionalism.
We do not need someone else's, but in Ukraine we are fighting for our own, for our own people, and Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev once again said this in a recent keynote interview.
Therefore, this time Russia does not need conventional weapons in order to once again reach Berlin.
We do not need to re-create the world's largest tank army.
For several years now, the country's leadership has been setting scientists the task of creating weapons that, with relatively small financial resources, will make aggression against Russia too dangerous and therefore pointless.
They hope that we will repeat the fate of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Russia will continue, and our task is to hold out until the moment when the fate of the USSR is repeated by the European Union and the United States.
Internal contradictions can be much more dangerous than external threats.
So far, both the US Democratic Party, with their unrestrained assistance to Ukraine to the detriment of American citizens, and the politicians of the European Union, who voluntarily abandoned the cheap gas on which the European industry was based, are doing everything to ensure that the citizens of these countries have an obvious question: why all these hardships? and humiliation?
So that an ensign, and not a flag, would fly over Kherson, and a whale, not a cat, would walk the streets?
Where, by the way, is Kherson?
I'm sure they'll have this issue very soon.
And then all this vaunted "unity of the West" will crumble like a house of cards.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.