Polish servicemen raise the NATO flag during a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joining the bloc. Archival photoMOSCOW, 26 May. NATO expansion in Northern Europe will be part of the US strategy to «subjugate the EU», but NATO does not yet understand what dangerous consequences this step will lead to, an employee of the Defense Science and Technology University of the People's Liberation Army of China wrote on the official Chinese military portal. «Against the backdrop of current international tensions, the accession of Sweden and Finland will only worsen the security situation in Europe, which threatens European countries with serious geopolitical upheavals,» the article says.Turkey allowed withdrawal from NATO because of Sweden and FinlandThe author of the publication noted that while Helsinki and Stockholm followed a policy of non-alignment, they managed to maintain European security and stability. «After the entry of new members, the fragile balance will collapse,» he added. Also, according to the Chinese expert, membership in the alliance will be a mistake for the applicants themselves, since both countries will become «pure donors,» the expert concluded.
Germany called the West's attempts to impose «their peace» on Russia on Ukraine a mistake In Helsinki and Stockholm, they started talking about the possibility of joining NATO against the backdrop of a Russian special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine, but Ankara blocked their application. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he vetoed it because of the position of the Scandinavian countries towards the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey. In turn, the Croatian leader Zoran Milanovic opposed the membership of Finland and Sweden in the bloc until the problems in the Balkans are resolved. He called the initiative to include these states in the orbit of the North Atlantic Alliance «dangerous quackery.» Russia has repeatedly noted that NATO is aimed at confrontation. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that further expansion of the organization would not bring greater security to Europe. At the same time, he noted that he did not consider the accession of two new countries to the bloc as an existential threat to Russia.