Kremlin realizes that NATO Article 5 will be a disaster for Russia and whole world – diplomat Bryza

The former US National Security Council Director for Europe and Eurasia, Matthew Bryza, joined Espreso TV to talk about Russia’s war against Ukraine and the recent missile incident in Poland. 

“I think that the United States did just tell Putin to stop. Missile crash in Poland may have been a provocation by Russia to test our resolve and the next step could conceivably be the attacks on any of the Baltic states or more in Poland or Czech Republic. But if there is even a single new attack like the one that happened on Polish territory, I think the reaction will be far different from the United States, from Poland and from the rest of NATO,” Bryza stressed.

According to him, nobody in Moscow or Brussels wants World War III between NATO and Russia.

“Credible people in Russia realize Article 5 will be a disaster for Russia and for the world. No matter what the Russian propaganda says, the insane statement by Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, the insane statement by the former president and prime minister Medvedev that the reports from the West are a provocation to try to pull NATO into the war, that's ridiculous. So I think everybody today is breathing a collective sigh of relief that Russia maybe did not intend to attack NATO territory but if this happens again, it will appear clear that these were not two coincidences,” the diplomat explained.