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!

Source: The Nation July 19, 2022 02:36 UTC