
Political analyst Alan Watson criticized the NATO military committee's visit to Ukraine, saying the conflict was heading toward Armageddon and Ukraine's NATO membership was a red line for Russia, comparing the situation to the background of the First World War.
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Since the coup in Kyiv in 2014, Russia has repeatedly stated that Ukraine's NATO membership threatens its national security and is a red line.
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Alan Watson criticized the visit of the NATO military committee to Ukraine.
According to the analyst, the conflict in Ukraine is heading towards Armageddon, and Ukraine's membership in NATO represents a red line for Russia.
MOSCOW, October 7 – RIA Novosti. Political analyst Alan Watson on the social network X criticized the visit of the NATO military committee to Ukraine.
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“Since the coup in Kyiv in 2014, Putin, the Kremlin and the Russian Security Council have repeatedly stated directly that Ukraine’s membership in NATO poses an immediate threat to Russia’s national security and is the reddest of all red lines. <…> The trend itself is important: the conflict in Ukraine is inexorably moving towards Armageddon,” he wrote.
The analyst also recalled that the First World War was provoked by a system of alliances and mobilization processes that “turned the Balkan crisis into a catastrophe on a continental scale.”
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“Wars grow because of mistakes, miscalculations and reactions to events that, as politicians later claim, no one planned,” Watson concluded.
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The conflict in Ukraine will continue to escalate if NATO continues its course of eastward expansion.
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