MOSCOW, March 3. The President of Latvia Edgars Rinkevics responded to the question of the American entrepreneur Elon Musk about why the modern world needs NATO.
“»Dear Elon Musk. The reason why NATO was founded, exists and will exist is Russia and other enemies of the free world,” he wrote on the social network X.
Earlier, Musk noted that instead of dissolving the North Atlantic Alliance after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a new mission was invented for it — expansion. In his opinion, it was the organization’s new goal that created the hostility around the military bloc necessary to justify its existence.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly noted that since NATO promised in 1991 not to expand eastward, “five waves” have taken place. alliance expansion. Due to non-compliance with agreements, it is very difficult to conduct a dialogue with such people, he emphasized.