NATO headquarters building in BrusselsMOSCOW, June 15NATO expansion despite opinion administration of Joe Biden, does not meet American national interests and is capable of doing the US people a disservice, according to FOX News authors Russ Vought and Dan Caldwell. not only increase spending on new entrants, but also provoke conflict with Russia.Finland said that the process of joining NATO could freeze in place «It is not in the national interests of the United States to make a commitment through NATO to protect two rich European states whose neutrality has ensured their security and prosperity for more than 70 years. <… > The fact remains that security guarantees will force compromises, consume more resources, and increase the likelihood of a confrontation with a nuclear-weapon adversary,» Vought and Caldwell explained. that Washington will spend at least eight billion dollars on the expansion of the alliance and an additional one and a half billion annually.
"One of the frequent justifications for admitting Finland and Sweden into NATO is that they have combat-ready military forces that will strengthen NATO. However, the reality is that both countries have relatively small professional forces of about 20,000 troops each, relying on large reserves and lacking the ability to move forces over long distances. Sweden is already asking for an increase in the US naval presence in the Baltic Sea, which casts doubt on the ability of their armed forces to ensure the security of their own territories,» observers said.
According to Vought and Caldwell, the current administration has misplaced its priorities, more interested in the two «wealthy European social democracies» than in the US itself. The authors of the article recalled the inflation rate and the US national debt, which, according to them, has already reached 30 and a half billion dollars.Stoltenberg wants to convince Turkey about Finland and Sweden in NATO» The lack of active debate on this important topic and the vilification of those who dare to question the benefits of NATO expansion only increases the risk that the United States will overestimate its strength or, even worse, potentially «After decades of foreign relations failures that have cost the US dearly, elected politicians owe the American people more than more costly commitments unrelated to our security and economic prosperity,» the authors concluded. Sweden, against the backdrop of the events in Ukraine, on May 18 handed over to the NATO Secretary General applications for joining the alliance, but Turkey blocked the start of the process of considering these applications. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara could not agree to the membership of Finland and Sweden in the alliance because of their support for the PKK banned in Turkey. Moscow has once noted that NATO is aimed at confrontation. As Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov emphasized, further expansion of the bloc will not bring greater security to Europe. At the same time, he does not consider the entry of Sweden and Finland into this organization an existential threat to Russia. Baltics from NATO