“I am not going to delve into the bloody history of NATO, but you need to know it to understand that the Alliance has been a constant source of dangers, crises and conflicts for many years,” Nikolai Patrushev said in an interview. in the newspaper Argoumenty i Fakty published on April 2. He was speaking ahead of April 4, the date marking 75 years since the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The Secretary of the Russian Security Council highlighted NATO's role in compelling its members to "obediently comply with the implementation of economic sanctions, the 'freezing' of financial assets, the practice of espionage, psychological operations, cyberattacks and to join in actions that compromise the systems of government of states in disagreement with the policies of the Anglo-Saxons.

“All NATO policies are based on instructions from Washington,” he continued. Before adding: “[Washington] uses the Alliance to maintain its armed presence in Europe and demonstrate to its satellites its indispensable nature, to ensure the security of this continent.”

The Alliance “is a de facto party to the Ukrainian conflict and actively participates in the organization of neo-Nazi bombings on Russian territories,” Nikolai Patrushev further denounced. Ukraine indeed attempted several incursions into the Russian regions of Kursk and Belgorod in April. These regions are also bombarded almost daily by Ukrainian forces.

The Russian leader added that the Alliance does not “disdain using terrorist organizations for its own benefit.” These words are full of meaning as Moscow suffered a terrorist attack which left 144 dead on March 22.

Nikolai Patrushev, during the same interview, estimated that the fall of the Soviet Union had been for Westerners only a “step” on the path to the “political and economic weakening of Russia”. A weakening explicitly declared by NATO leaders.

The weakening of Russia as a goal of the Alliance

“NATO is systematically strengthening its military potential on our borders,” noted Nikolai Patrushev. According to the Secretary of the Security Council, the ultimate goal of the Alliance would be to “remove Russia from the political map of the world by dismembering it”. He noted that military spending by NATO members reached 50% of global spending in this area, increasing for the ninth consecutive year and exceeding $2023 trillion in 1.

He also claimed that the technique of encouraging Russophobia and scaring European citizens "with a false 'Russian threat'" was an attempt by their leaders to make them forget the growing internal and economic problems they were facing.

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