NATO Towards Russia: Playing With Matches on Potential Tinderbox
SputnikNews.com
02.12.2015
In the wake of the recent escalation of tensions between Russia and Turkey and, de facto, between Moscow and NATO, experts consider if the rhetoric of a hot war between Russia and the West is not “before time?” Political analyst Ian Kearns believes the situation actually reminds “playing with matches in a woodshed.”
In the current situation, the “Turkish shoot down of the Russian warplane could be described as a match falling on a potential tinderbox,” he wrote in an article for Newsweek magazine.
“Thankfully, the Russian response has so far been confined to the diplomatic and economic domains, and Turkey says it is in favor of de-escalation. There is, however, no room for complacency. The situation is ripe with potential for escalation, all the more so because what happened over Turkey is but one example, albeit a very dramatic one, of a much wider problem in Russia’s current military relationship with the West,” the article reads.
However the author admits that there still remains “a fundamental political disagreement between Russia and the West.”
“On the Russian side, a growing number of national security officials appear to believe Western policy is aimed at overthrowing President Vladimir Putin and weakening the Russian state,” he reasons.
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