Wed Jul 26, 2023 – 7:35 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) –– With the NATO summit having concluded with no new guarantees to Ukraine, a fresh perspective is emerging in the West on the nature and purpose of the alliance.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in the wake of the Second World War. Ostensibly created solely to counter the Soviet threat of invasion into Western Europe, its true purpose was stated by its first secretary general, the British Lord Ismay, appointed in 1952.
NATO was founded “…to keep the Americans in, the Germans down and the Russians out.”
What this phrase means, and how its significance plays out today, does much to explain the background to the ruinous proxy war in Ukraine.
Promises, promises
The eastward expansion of NATO has caused serious consternation in Russia, along with accusations that promises have been broken. As the Soviet Union crumbled, its then leader Mikhail Gorbachev was assured by U.S. and European leaders that the Western military bloc would not encroach on the Russian sphere of influence.
The recent NATO summit took place in one of the three Baltic republics immediately neighboring Russia. Yet this
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