Serious talk about NATO

We don’t really understand NATO and whether it’s the right solution for us. This is especially important to discuss now because Erdogan visited the BRICS summit and wants to join. Türkiye is part of NATO, and all decisions in the alliance are made by consensus. So, when a military power like the Turkish army starts to drift away from NATO, what does that mean for the future of the organization?

At the Warsaw Security Forum, I heard President Duda say that Poland is the backbone of NATO’s eastern flank. I didn’t get a chance to ask him a question, but I wanted to point out that there’s a big gap in this flank with Slovakia and Hungary.

Any Russian attack on Poland or the Baltic states would cause NATO paralysis due to Orbán or Fico. These pro-Russian agents would likely not support a common defense, making the decision to invoke Article 5 impossible.

Given the situation, it’s clear we have very little chance of joining NATO, since decisions are made by consensus and we face many adversaries there. So, we’re trying to join a club that doesn’t want us and that isn’t really capable of doing what it was created to do.

I’ve been consistently pushing for a different approach - one that’s much more effective than NATO: a new military partnership. We have reliable partners like the United States and Britain, and to a lesser extent, France, as well as stronger ties with the Baltic states.

We need to build a new structure outside of the paralyzed NATO, working with those we already have a practical military coalition with.

Why should we join an organization where we’re only interested in the weapons and resources of a few specific countries, while decisions rely on many smaller ones?

I believe our goal should be to create a new military organization focused on defending democracy and freedom. We’re not just facing Putin, we’re up against all the others who oppose us on a values level.

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About the author. Victor Andrusiv, political and public figure, analyst and publicist.

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