Shadowboxing: ‘Russian Bogeyman’ is NATO’s Last Chance to Stay Afloat
SputnikNews.com
10.05.2016
NATO is dying of pointlessness, investigative journalist Seth Ferris writes, adding that at the root of the Alliance’s effort to present Russia as a “bogeyman” lay the organization’s waning hope to stay afloat.
Following NATO’s embarrassing failures in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan, the alliance is shifting its focus from the MENA (the Middle East and North Africa) region to Eastern Europe: the Western allies are preparing to deploy about four thousand troops in Poland and the Baltic states, investigative journalist and political scientist Seth Ferris writes.
“Like the League of Nations and French Community before it, NATO is dying of pointlessness. It won’t survive unless it can find a higher purpose — and having failed to do so, its only option is to demonize Russia, the enemy everyone grew up with, regardless of what it might actually be doing,” Ferris notes in his article for New Eastern Outlook.
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