Russia's Defense Minister warns of potential direct conflict with NATO in the coming decade, citing the alliance's evolving doctrines and ongoing support for Ukraine.
Russia 's defense minister Andrei Belousov has warned of a direct conflict between Moscow and NATO within the next decade. He made the comments at a defense ministry meeting on Monday. Russia is keen to disrupt, weaken or even divide NATO and one way of encouraging that might be to convince the U.S. that war is coming with the alliance in Europe and to ask America if it wants to be dragged into it.
This especially matters as Trump's incoming administration forms its policies toward NATO and Russia. The Kremlin and its propagandists may have portrayed Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine as a proxy battle between NATO and Moscow. But, so far the alliance's military assistance for Kyiv to fight Moscow's aggression has been calibrated to avoid escalation and the prospect of a 'hot war', especially given the nuclear threats issued by the Kremlin. Putin last month upped Moscow's nuclear rhetoric after the U.S. allowed Kyiv to use longer-range ATACMS to strike inside Russia, formalizing changes to his country's nuclear doctrine which lowers the threshold for atomic weapons use. Along with the nuclear threat, NATO members such as Germany and the Baltic states have accused Moscow of hybrid attacks and said after the Ukraine war, Moscow could then make a move on countries in the alliance. During a Russian Defense Ministry meeting with Putin on Monday, Belousov spoke about a possible confrontation between Russia and NATO due to the latter's changes in its doctrines at the alliance summit in Washington, D.C. in July. Belousov also said that in the war in Ukraine, Russian forces had advanced on all fronts and aimed by next year, to fully conquer the Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Donetsk regions, which in 2022 Putin had declared annexed by Russia, although it does not completely control them. At the same time, Putin blamed the U.S. for escalating the conflict
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