According to the published mandate of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), they are supposed to find PEACEFUL RESOLUTIONS to disputes as noted below from their own website:
MILITARY – NATO is committed to the peaceful resolution of disputes. If diplomatic efforts fail, it has the military power to undertake crisis-management operations. These are carried out under the collective defence clause of NATO's founding treaty – Article 5 of the Washington Treaty or under a United Nations mandate, alone or in cooperation with other countries and international organisations.
https://www.nato.int/nato-welcome
But now, according to their own generals, they are pushing for war with Russia, instead of negotiating peace.
Senior NATO Official Says There Will Be A Hot War With Russia
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/senior-nato-official-says-there-will-be-hot-war-russia
"A high ranking NATO official has stated that people in Europe should prepare for a full on war with Russia sometime in the next two decades."
Admiral Rob Bauer, chairman of Nato’s Military Committee, told reporters following a meeting of Nato defence chiefs in Brussels that governments need to start putting preparations in place, and that civilians will need to be mobilised on a large scale. [IMAGINE]
In order to provoke Russia:
"NATO will launch its biggest military exercises in decades next week with around 90,000 personnel set to take part in months of drills aimed at showing the alliance can defend all of its territory up to its border with Russia, top officers said."
Now is this not plain foolishness and war-mongering? Just when the conflict in Ukraine should be ended. here come the "smart" NATO generals telling the world
"We do not want peace. All we want is war and more war." This will ensure that the West squanders its wealth and its people on useless wars. And NATO wants to involve civilians in their war games.
NATO was relevant as long as the Soviet Union existed. Once the USSR collapsed, there should have been a total re-examination of what should be the role of NATO (if any). Russia under Putin was never a threat to Western Europe. Indeed Russia was supplying oil and gas to European countries.
When Russia annexed Crimea, Ukraine was not a member of NATO. Therefore NATO could not technically get involved with Russia. At the same time, the countries bordering the western border of the Russian Federation are not in the North Atlantic --in fact very far from it. Therefore (1) Finland, (2) Estonia, (3)Latvia, (4) Lithuania, (5)Ukraine and (6) even Poland, owed it to themselves that after 2014, they would form their own defense alliance and set up a strong deterrent to Russia along its western border (Belarus is a staunch ally of Russia so it would not be a part of this). Even the Scandinavian countries (Norway, Sweden, and Denmark) could have joined this defense alliance, since Russia's Kaliningrad faces them. They could have easily avoided NATO altogether, and thus NATO could not have provoked Russia. But NATO's offer to include Ukraine and Sweden into their membership became a threat to Russia.
Way back in February, 2022, there was a chance of avoiding the war in Ukraine altogether. A peaceful settlement would have meant that Ukraine would lose some territory to Russia. But Russia could have been put on notice that any threat to Ukraine after that would bring down the full force of NATO. But no, Biden and all the Western political leaders hoped to destroy Russia through a proxy war, and they have all miserably failed, after wasting billions of dollars.
"US officials reportedly assess that Ukraine will have to fight a long war and continue efforts to secure as much security assistance as possible for Ukraine before 2025 while expecting that positional fighting may continue in Ukraine until 2026."
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-conflict-updates
