NATO headquarters building in Brussels. File photoMOSCOW, May 30.The United States and other NATO members are in a state of invisible war, which has turned the alliance into a «fair of interests,» Gao Jian, a scholar at the Shanghai University of International Studies, told the Global Times. The publication drew attention to the situation with the entry into the union of Sweden and Finland. The accession to the organization of the Scandinavian countries was actually blocked due to the position of Turkey, which demanded the extradition of representatives of the PKK and the lifting of restrictions on the sale of weapons. At the same time, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic earlier demanded equal rights for Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, so that Zagreb would agree to the membership of Stockholm and Helsinki in NATO. Zagreb and Ankara decided to use the alliance for their own interests, but the United States itself does the same, the publication notes. . The reason for this situation is the bloc's inability to satisfy the interests of all members. Gao Jian, in turn, announced the transformation of NATO into a fair of interests, the participants of which are fighting against US hegemony in order to achieve their own goals.
In Norway, they said that they were not supplying weapons to Ukraine of their own free will. «The expansion of NATO membership will further weaken the consensus within the bloc. Deals of different members due to different interests will bring instability to NATO,» the scientist said. He explained that the organization itself will will create difficulties for itself, with which it will have to fight. Turkey has blocked the start of consideration of the application for Finland and Sweden to join NATO. President Erdogan said that Ankara cannot say «yes» to Stockholm and Helsinki, because it cannot believe their assurances about relations with representatives of the Kurdistan Workers' Party banned in Turkey. If Turkey agrees, NATO, according to Erdogan, «will not be a security organization, but will become a place where there will be many representatives of terrorists.» Countries cannot be accepted into the alliance without the unanimous approval of all its members. Russia has repeatedly noted that NATO is aimed at confrontation. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that further expansion of the alliance would not bring greater security to Europe, NATO has an aggressive character. At the same time, he noted that he did not consider the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO an existential threat to Russia. for Turkey
