NATO headquarters building in Brussels. Archive photoWASHINGTON, 25 Aug. The existence of NATO is one of the great tragedies of the entire Western civilization, such an opinion was expressed by the former Senator from the US state of Virginia Richard Black in an interview with RIA Novosti. «I think that one of the great tragedies of the Western civilization was that NATO did not cease to exist at the same time as the Warsaw Pact,” Black said. “At a certain time in the past, NATO was a positive force, but now it has turned into a destabilizing element in international relations,” he added. also called «terrible» the further expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance through the entry of Finland and Sweden into it.
