{"id":44195,"date":"2022-01-29T20:58:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T19:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/?p=44195"},"modified":"2025-06-29T14:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T12:18:34","slug":"ru-2022-01-29-threat-of-democracy-the-real-security-concerns-behind-russias-lies-about-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/ru-2022-01-29-threat-of-democracy-the-real-security-concerns-behind-russias-lies-about-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"RU 2022.01.29 “Threat of Democracy”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Concerns behind Russia\u2019s lies about NATO<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Russia Portrays itself as the Eternal Victim<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hans Petter Midttun explains<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Russia\u2019s lies about NATO are well-known. Less known are the real security concerns behind them. Hans Petter Midttun explains<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRussia is not facing a military threat, but the threat of democracy. Free nations are based on universal rights, democratic principles, and common values. All of which is in direct conflict with the Russian world and its authoritarian rule. It is this-or<\/em><\/strong>, the possibility that the Russians will want the same, that threatens the Russian elite<\/em>\u201c.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia is waging a hybrid war in the cognitive sphere to confuse and manipulate. It tries to impose its will on us using military force, threats, energy, migration, corruption, and, not least, disinformation. It seeks to create a virtual reality that motivates nations to make decisions that serve Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ambiguity that arises at the interface between threats of military escalation and the hope of a peaceful solution is exploited to complicate our decision-making processes. Disinformation contributes to the difficulty of both political and military responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of Russian disinformation is long, very long. While nearly 40% of all the cases in the EUvsDisinfo database are about Ukraine, many are about NATO. The biggest disinformation of all horrendous claims is the allegation that NATO threatens Russian security. The fact that Russia is making the claim does, however, not make it a truth. On the contrary, a nation that uses information as a weapon can also lie about the threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ultimate lie<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The realities undermine the claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fact 1. NATO is not an aggressor.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It is the defensive alliance of 30 democratic nations. Any decision on military action requires consensus. Where the alliance is arguing for a common strategy to ensure collective defense, it is impossible to imagine that the countries will consider attacking a nuclear power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fact 2. The West does not have hostile intentions towards Russia.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Dmitry Nekrasov<\/strong><\/a> recently dissected the Kremlin\u2019s \u201cmyths\u201d about the West\u2019s hostile intentions. He pointed out that Russia has never been attacked by NATO, not even when it was weak. On the contrary, \u201cduring the period of Russian weakness, the efforts of the West (albeit not as vigorous as they could be) were aimed at preventing chaos, stabilizing, transferring the entire nuclear potential to the Russian Federation, loans, humanitarian aid, etc.\u201d. Even during the Cold War, the alliance focused on containment. An attack on the Soviet Union was never considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO did its best to ensure that Russia did not disintegrate after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1991, NATO\u2019s security challenges<\/strong><\/a> were linked to the \u201cadverse consequences of instabilities that may arise from the serious economic, social and political difficulties, including ethnic rivalries and territorial disputes\u201d, as well as the risk of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fact 3. Russia has no reason to feel insecure: it is already protected by one of the most powerful armies in the world.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In an open letter to the German government, around 70 German experts on Eastern European Security argued <\/a>that \u201cmore nuclear warheads are stored in Russia than in the three NATO nuclear-weapon states USA, Great Britain, and France put together. Moscow maintains a wide range of delivery systems for its thousands of nuclear weapons \u2013 from ICBMs to long-range bombers to nuclear submarines. It has one of the three most powerful conventional armies in the world and a right of veto in the UN Security Council. This makes the Russian Federation one of the militarily safest countries in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian Armed Forces can deter all possible (and unlikely) opponents, so any arguments that Russia faces a military threat from the West are unfounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fact 4. Russia is an aggressor, not a victim.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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