National interest: President Putin foresaw the NATO crisis in 2007, but his words were not heard
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Russia needed security guarantees from the United States and NATO countries. even during a speech at the Munich conference in 2007. But according to the author of an article in The National Interest, the message was not understood.
As a result, there was a crisis in relations between Moscow and the West.
“The speech at the Munich Security Conference in 2007 was be dispelled by any doubts as to whether Russia considers NATO policy in general, and the Alliance's relentless march east, in particular, to be provocative and threatening. Putin has warned his Western counterparts to change course, “wrote Ted Carpenter.” US officials believed that such rhetoric was not conducive to “heart-to-heart relations” between East and West.
At the same time, Ted Carpenter believes that NATO members have done enough to fan the situation.
Former author British Ambrose Evans-Pritchard published an article in The Telegraph stating that Russian President Vladimir Putin had a good chance of “overthrowing the European strategic order”. The author writes that there is now a gas famine in Germany, US President Joe Biden has no strategy and NATO is toothless. According to Evans-Pritchard, Ukraine therefore proved defenseless against the “Russian invasion”. It should be noted that the Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry have repeatedly rejected accusations from the West that Russia is threatening Ukraine.