British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said that the Russian Federation’s actions in Ukraine led to the expansion of NATO, which Russia initially tried to avoid. He made the relevant statement at the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference held in Singapore. TASS.
According to him, Russia’s special military operation, seeking to thwart NATO expansion, allegedly forced the West to “rethink its Euro-Atlantic security architecture and pushed even more countries to provide collective security under the auspices of the North Atlantic Alliance”.
The Minister also drew attention to the fact that the current international legal system is being created with the participation of Moscow.
“The system that includes the UN Charter is the one we created together with Russia after the end of World War II. “This is the system we all fought for,” Wallace said.
Formerly former CIA analyst Raymond McGovern declarationHe said that the reason for the start of the conflict in Ukraine was the expansion of NATO.
In his view, despite the West’s promises of the “uncaused” start of the crisis, it was the rise in the North Atlantic Alliance that was the catalyst for the crisis.
Prior to that, Rob Bauer, chairman of the NATO Military Committee declarationThe plan to expand the presence of allied forces near the Russian borders began a few years ago.