Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Russia furious so knowing the demeanor Ukraine will be a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Moscow is said to have stationed thousands of troops near the Ukrainian border to prepare to attack.
Russia is worried that its neighbor will enter NATO. Why a country led by the President Vladimir Putin afraid of Ukraine joining NATO?
The Coordinator and Senior Analyst for Political Security at the Indonesia 2045 Laboratory, Andi Widjajanto, said that Russia wanted to ask for guarantees from Western countries and NATO regarding Ukraine’s status in the military alliance.
“One of the main reasons for the deployment of 130,000 troops to the Ukrainian border is that Russia wants to ask for guarantees from Western countries that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO,” Andi said when contacted. CNNIndonesia.comWednesday (16/2).
Russia is concerned that Ukraine’s entry into NATO will pose a threat to their territory.
“But what Russia is worried about is that they have a very long border, tens of kilometers, and it is feared that Ukraine will become NATO’s front to destroy Russia,” said Teuku Rezasyah, an International Relations (HI) observer at Padjadjaran University, to CNNIndonesia.com on January 27. then.
“NATO has the potential to build missile installations in any part of Ukraine, so that it has the potential to attack Russia,” said Rezasyah when interviewed by CNNIndonesia.com, Wednesday (16/2).
In line with Rezasyah, Andi said that the expansion of NATO to Ukraine has the potential to make the alliance have direct military power with the Russian border.
Andi also mentioned that there are three strategies of the United States and Western Europe which Russia considers to make Moscow increasingly isolated.
“First, the expansion of membership of the NATO alliance to the former members of the Warsaw Pact and the former Soviet Union. Second, the expansion of economic liberalization through the European Union mechanism. Third, the wave of democratization in Central and Eastern Europe that has replaced pro-Moscow political regimes with other regimes. “Andi said again.
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