The new President of the United States Biden has been busy purging it for only one month. The influence of the former President Trump has tried to make the "former America" see again. In Biden's view, if we want the United States to return to what it used to be, we must quickly repair the relationship with its allies.
Therefore, the new US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, can't wait to stand up and implement Biden's will. Recently, he united with the defense ministers of 30 NATO allies to convene a high-level meeting. On the one hand, it intends to repair the relationship of allies, on the other hand, it is to take the opportunity to put pressure on allies to deal with the "common enemy."
According to CNN reports, on the 17th and 18th of this month, the defense ministers of the 30 NATO member states held meetings by means of video calls. This is also the first time the new US Secretary of Defense Austin has held talks with allies. At the meeting, he expressed the importance the United States attaches to transatlantic partnership. In addition, he emphasized one point, that is, the era of Trump is over.
In fact, during Trump's four-year term, the NATO allies of the United States have not had a better life. Trump has rightly accused the NATO organization of being "outdated", and has publicly complained on many different occasions, saying that the military expenditures of allies are unevenly distributed, and that the United States has paid too much and other countries have too little burden. During Trump's tenure, the most common thing he did was to threaten allies to increase military expenditures. For many countries, increasing military expenditures meant a heavy burden.
The US Secretary of Defense expressed his stance this time, and he is also showing good wishes to allies. After repairing the relationship, Austin immediately began to put pressure on allies. Austin emphasized that the most important task of NATO at present is to protect the territory of its allies from the so-called "threat." How to protect it?
Rely on deterrence and strong military power, in other words, call on allies to show their muscles. After advocating the so-called "military threat," Austin also rarely talked about trade and technology. He claimed to protect his country's supply chain and technology from "competitors". His intention was obvious, and he left the pot to China and Russia.
Austin made it clear thatPutin, NATO's competitor, will not wait. Although the US government will cooperate with Russia to advance its own interests, in their view Russia is still a powerful threat.
For this reason, the defense ministers also carefully counted the "specific threats" of Russia. Firstly, they believed that the so-called cyber attack was the most worrying; secondly, the defense ministers believed that Russia's public military actions could not make people. Peace of mind. Currently, Russia is intensifying military activities in the northeast of Syria , while the United States still has 900 soldiers there. NATO also reported that there have been several aerial confrontations with Russia in recent days. The United States hype up the Russian threat and threatened its allies in such a way that it hopes that all countries will follow their own footsteps and have no other ideas.
US officials said that the NATO meeting was to send a clear message to Moscow that the United States has returned to the NATO camp and that the United States will lead its allies to challenge Russia.
Faced with the provocation and pressure of the United States and NATO, how could Putin bear it. Recently, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov directly took the shot. He said, if the U.S. government does not abandon its hostile attitude and continues to put pressure on Russia, then Russia must also retaliate and adopt a strategy of actively containing the United States. For this reason, Ryabukov also explained the details of the "containment of the United States strategy."
These policies will include a series of measures such as boycotting sanctions, boycotting US attempts to influence Russia's internal affairs. In addition, Putin will continue to advocate a multi-polar world to resist the rampant hegemony of the United States. The multipolar world is not an abstract concept. It can replace the hegemony advocated by the United States and its allies. For this reason, Russia intends to find more peace-loving countries, unite in the international community, and jointly resist American diplomacy and information aggression, and will never let the United States do whatever it wants.
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