NATO is providing the organisational structure to devise, formulate and execute the new strategic concepts to that end. It further reckons China’s stated “ambitions and coercive policies” as systemic challenges to its interests, Euro-Atlantic and global security and values. Is NATO then undergoing a basic paradigm shift; graduating from a Euro-Atlantic regional alliance/organisation into one with global dimensions, ambitions and pretensions? In the current Ukraine war, the US is applying its well-known Strategy of Off-shore Balancing, yet again. Any kinetic war between two of the world’s mightiest military-nuclear-missile powers, technological giants and economic behemoths will unleash an unmitigated Armageddon on the entire world!
