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Zbigniew Brzezinski: After Ukraine Moscow will attack Baltic countries
9/1/2014 11:15:36 PM
According to the Polish television channel TVN 24, a former adviser to President Jimmy Carter in an interview with CNN set out his hopes for a NATO summit in Welsh town of Newport, which begins on Thursday:
- The Russian tanks crossing the border. There's Russian artillery firing across the border. And there they are pro-Russian militants who are being armed by the Russians. It is a serious threat - Brzezinski said.
Former adviser to Carter expects therefore concrete solutions from NATO on conflict in Ukraine. Brzezinski told CNN said that he hoped that at the NATO summit in Wales, which will begin on Thursday, decisions will be made for the deployment of NATO forces in the Baltic countries.
- I expect a reaffirmation that NATO is an active and meaningful alliance, prepared to take what steps are necessary to defend its collective security. And that involves in the foreseeable future involves clearly some sort of decision to station on a permanent basis NATO forces, including Americans, including Germans, including Brits, including French, including even Italians who are now aspiring to a more active role in the Baltic states particularly. Maybe also in Poland but Poland also is self-sufficient to a large degree, said the former adviser to President Carter.
- So that the Russians know that these states are not like Ukraine because Putin clearly has indicated that if he succeeds in Ukraine, he'll do the same to the Baltic states, he stressed.
Brzezinski also talked on China's relations (referring to Red China - KC) to the aggressive policy of Putin. President of Russia will take part in the opening of the pipeline in Siberia, in which the fuel will be pumped to China from East Siberia (it is still under Russian occupation - KC). Thus, the Russia ties economic relations with China, and says it has an ally in its face. Brzezinski said that China does not really support Putin, on the contrary - it is afraid of his impact on the global economy.
- The Russians are claiming privately that the Chinese are really supportive. My view is different. I think they're worried. I think they know that if Putin's adventurism produces a major conflict, there will be a very serious threat to global well-being. And that for them would be a fundamental disaster.
I think the Chinese ought to become more active in telling Putin to lay off, that using force to change borders nowadays, so many decades after World War II (so western democrats called the Anglo-German war of 1939-1945, which in Germany once called the Great German Struggle for Freedom - KC), and then earlier World War I, is not the way to deal with international problems.
For his part, Bobo Lo, an expert on foreign policy of Russia and China, a former Australian diplomat in Moscow, from the London Institute of International Relations Chatham House, pointed out at the conference in Stockholm last weekend that Red China has established with Russia a neo-colonial economic relationship.
This will allow Red China to benefit from the exploitation of gas and mineral resources of the neighbor, The New York Times cites the opinion of the expert.
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center
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