BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK ||| POLITICS
You can thank NATO's Secretary General Mark Rutte for stirring up that old cold-war feeling once again: Rutte said yesterday that:
China could push Russia to attack NATO countries to divert the bloc's attention from the Indo-Pacific region. If Beijing decides to attack Taiwan, it is highly likely that it will use Russia to strike Europe.
Rutte explained that the United States, while defending NATO territory in Europe, is also protecting its own interests in Asia. According to him, the US cannot be safe unless the Atlantic, Europe, and the Arctic are also secure.
The NATO Secretary General suggested that China might use Russia to divert US attention in Europe so that it can focus on capturing Taiwan. Rutte believes that Americans and Europeans should not be "naive about this."
"If Xi Jinping would attack Taiwan, he would first make sure that he makes a call to his very junior partner in all of this, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, residing in Moscow, and telling him, 'Hey, I'm going to do this, and I need you to to keep them busy in Europe by attacking NATO territory,'" he explained.
Rutte considers this scenario one of the most likely in the future. He identified two measures necessary to deter the Russians and Chinese. The first is to make the prospect of attacking NATO so suicidal for the Kremlin that it would never agree to it.
"And second, working together with the Indo-Pacific — something President Trump is very much promoting. Because we have this close interconnectedness, working together on the defense industry, innovation between NATO and the Indo-Pacific," the NATO Secretary General added. [Source]
It would be a crazy and inconsistent move for Russia to attack a NATO country while still engaged in a war with Ukraine.
At what point is NATO conjecturing fear mongering or is he telling the truth?
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