Unipolar world: why the UK is promoting the idea of ​​​​creating a “global NATO”

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss called for a "global NATO".

She came up with this idea before an informal meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the countries participating in the North Atlantic Alliance in Berlin.

“It is important that we focus on a global NATO.

Because while protecting Euro-Atlantic security, we also need to pay attention to security in the Indo-Pacific region,” Truss said.

Truss made a similar statement on April 27 at an Easter banquet at the Mansion House, the residence of the Lord Mayor of the City of London.

She called the choice between Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific security a false choice, emphasizing that both are necessary in the modern world.

“We need a global NATO.

When I say this, I don't mean to expand membership to countries from other regions.

I mean that NATO must have a global vision, a readiness to tackle global threats,” the head of British diplomacy explained.

In this regard, she noted the importance of working with allies such as Japan and Australia to ensure the protection of the Pacific region.

"We must ensure that democracies like Taiwan have the opportunity to defend themselves," the minister said.

She also argues that the current global security architecture has failed.

“Let's be honest.

The architecture that was designed to guarantee peace and prosperity did not work in Ukraine.

The economic and security structures developed after World War II and then after the Cold War lost shape,” Truss said.

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At the same time, she called trade and economic policy one of the levers for the formation of a new “fair” world order, calling on all countries to “play by the rules” in order to have access to global markets.

Developments for the future

Liz Truss announced her views on NATO's future strategy ahead of the bloc's summit in Madrid, which will be held at the end of June.

It should adopt a new strategic concept for the North Atlantic Alliance.

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, at a press conference following an informal meeting of the foreign ministers of NATO member countries, said that the basis of the alliance and the core of its concept is defense and deterrence, including Russia.

“I can say with confidence that this will be fully reflected in the (new. -

) strategic concept,” TASS quotes him as saying.

At the same time, Blinken avoided answering the question of whether the United States is among those bloc countries that call for building relations with Russia, guided solely by the principle of its containment.

He also did not comment on the status of the Russia-NATO Founding Act, without specifying whether Washington considers it to be invalid.

Greater specifics on this issue were presented by German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock.

Speaking to reporters, she said that the responsibility for the elimination of channels of dialogue with Europe and NATO lies with Russia, which allegedly unilaterally broke the agreement.

Recall that the Russia-NATO Founding Act was signed on May 27, 1997 by Russian President Boris Yeltsin and then NATO Secretary General Javier Solana.

This document regulates relations between Russia and the countries of the alliance.

It also spelled out a mutual rejection of confrontation and aggressive measures.

However, since the signing of the treaty, NATO has violated it more than once, and since 2014, ties between the parties have been effectively severed.

"Neo-colonial division of the world"

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also spoke about NATO's global ambitions on May 14 at the 30th Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy.

According to him, the idea is now being held that NATO, as the vanguard of the community of democracies, should replace the UN in matters of world politics, or at least subordinate it to itself.

To do this, the concept of “order based on rules” is being introduced, which, however, no one has seen, discussed or approved, the minister added.

However, these "rules" do not provide for either democracy or pluralism even within the collective West, the head of Russian diplomacy stressed.

“We are talking about the revival of strict bloc discipline, the unconditional submission of the “allies” to the dictates of Washington,” Lavrov explained.

As an example of world players who are increasingly losing their sovereignty in favor of the United States, he cited the countries of the European Union, which is gradually merging with NATO in security matters.

The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry also recalled that initially, during the Cold War, the "line of defense" passed along the Berlin Wall, but since then it has repeatedly shifted to the east.

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“Now they are telling us ... that NATO has a global responsibility for solving security problems, primarily in the Indo-Pacific region.

That is, the next line of defense will be shifted, as I understand it, to the area of ​​the South China Sea,” Lavrov said.

In this regard, he noted that today the question is whether the future world order will be fair and polycentric or "a small group of countries will be able to impose a neo-colonial division of the world on the international community."

In the interests of the USA

According to the leading expert of the RISS Research Coordination Center Sergey Ermakov, Liz Truss's arguments about the global nature of NATO meet the "political order" of the United States, which is trying to achieve comprehensive leadership.

“Accordingly, the idea of ​​a “global NATO” implies that the alliance expands its geography, area of ​​responsibility, that is, it also takes up the region in which China has interests.

And containment of the PRC will be one of the key issues at the upcoming summit in Madrid, ”the analyst explained in an interview with RT.

He also noted that the trend towards endowing the block with global functions manifested itself back in 2012 at the summit in Chicago.

Then the members of the alliance focused on promoting the principles of partnership, the policy of expansion and the involvement of new countries that are far beyond the borders of the bloc into the NATO orbit.

At the same time, in reality, according to Yermakov, NATO is unable to ensure the security of even Europe.

“On the contrary, the alliance undermines the security architecture, which is fraught with new military conflicts in the region.

And the reason is that NATO is extremely selective about such a universal principle as the indivisibility of security, which they have pledged to observe,” the expert explained.

In turn, Pavel Feldman, deputy director of the RUDN Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasts, suggested that, in the understanding of the head of the British Foreign Ministry, global NATO should finally establish a unipolar world, which Washington is striving for so much.

“That is, all countries will eventually have to simply place American and British military bases on their territory and thus lose their military-political sovereignty,” he said in an interview with RT.

At the same time, he noted, it is unlikely that all members of the alliance will support such an ambitious proposal.

One of the opponents of this idea, according to Feldman, may be Turkey, which is cautious about such initiatives, soberly assessing all the risks and costs.

Moreover, the United States is now actively trying to drag its allies into a confrontation with China, actually unleashing a hybrid war against it, since China, along with Russia, stands in Washington's path to global hegemony.

“But this does not mean that Washington will not find a way to push the course for expansion if it nevertheless begins to implement this idea.

And if he takes this step, it will radically change the functionality of the alliance and may cause resistance from other world players who do not agree with the unipolar world order.

Perhaps this will push them to close their eyes to their own differences and also form an alliance, ”Feldman admitted.