A soldier with a NATO flag. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 4The United States violated post-Cold War promises to Russia not to expand NATO and did not apologize for it, writes the Chinese newspaper Global Times. The author of the article believes that Washington and its allies accepted the collapse The USSR and the socialist bloc as their victory and the beginning of a new world order in which they will begin to dominate. American political scientist Francis Fukuyama called these events “the end of history.” “The United States subsequently broke its promises to post-Soviet Russia that NATO would not expand,” the publication says. conflict situation between the parties.
"It is a logical feature of the theory of international relations, as the leading scholar John Mearsheimer repeats, in which one country wants to trap and surround with a hostile military alliance, which is a direct path to conflict. The West does not apologize for this, believing that it has the right to do so according to the logic of "the end of history", says the GT columnist.
The publicist noted that Western expansion provoked Euromaidan in Kyiv, causing a wave of anti-Russian nationalism, which became the beginning of a geopolitical struggle for the future of Ukraine. that the situation in Ukraine will become the «funeral» of US hegemony «The United States and its allies, in their pride, refused to compromise, launching a chain reaction of events leading up to today,» the author concluded. On February 24, Russian units launched a military operation in Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal of the operation in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.