{"id":284935,"date":"2024-04-05T06:55:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T06:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=284935"},"modified":"2024-04-06T05:49:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T05:49:38","slug":"kremlin-says-russia-and-nato-are-now-in-direct-confrontation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=284935","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin says Russia and NATO are now in &#8220;direct confrontation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reuters \u2013 April 4, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Russia and NATO are now in &#8220;direct confrontation&#8221;, the Kremlin said as the U.S.-led alliance marked its 75th anniversary on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>NATO&#8217;s successive waves of eastern enlargement are a fixation of President Vladimir Putin, who went to war in Ukraine two years ago with the stated aim of preventing the alliance from coming closer to Russia&#8217;s borders. Instead, the war has galvanised NATO, which has expanded again with the entry of Finland and Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: &#8220;In fact, relations have now slipped to the level of direct confrontation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NATO was &#8220;already involved in the conflict surrounding Ukraine (and) continues to move towards our borders and expand its military infrastructure towards our borders&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Putin has repeatedly said that Russia was cheated by the West in the aftermath of the Cold War as Moscow&#8217;s Warsaw Pact alliance was disbanded but NATO moved eastwards by taking in former pact members and the three Baltic states that had been part of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>The West rejects that version, saying NATO is a defensive alliance and joining it was a democratic choice by countries that had shaken off decades of Communist rule.<\/p>\n<p>NATO says it is helping Ukraine fight for its survival in the face of Russian aggression, and has provided Kyiv with advanced weapons, training and intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Russia says that makes NATO de facto a party to the conflict. Putin said in February that a direct conflict between Russia and NATO would mean the planet was one step away from World War Three.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/russia-nato-relations-level-direct-confrontation-kremlin-says-2024-04-04\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin aide Dmitry Peskov says Russia and NATO are now in \u201cdirect confrontation\u201d, which is another way of saying we are only a few steps away from open military conflict.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":148439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284936,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284935\/revisions\/284936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}