The “indivisible alliance” that NATO is trying to impose violates the principle of global security, the defense minister has said
The Western alliance is now seeking to expand the current, self-provoked European conflict to Asia, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu claimed while speaking at the Beijing Xiangshan Forum, China’s biggest annual military diplomacy event, on Monday.
“Having orchestrated an acute crisis in Europe, the West is now looking at potentially spreading it to the Asia-Pacific region, and what’s more, in several directions,” Shoigu said.
The minister stressed that the direct involvement of the nuclear-armed states in the confrontation will amplify “strategic risks.”
Shoigu noted that lately the West has been actively pursuing the possibility of deploying its military to the region, on the premise of creating “a joined Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific security alliance,” which would justify the presence of NATO…