Read: France under Macron: All Citizens Can Criticize the Republic Except MuslimsAfter three years in which the most discriminatory laws of the Fifth Republic were enacted and anti-Islam and anti-Muslim hostility turned into a state policy, “immigrants, Islam, and Muslims” were at the forefront of the propaganda during the election campaigns.
While President Erdoğan called on NATO to take concrete action instead of merely uttering words to deter the Russian aggression, he also criticized practices such as firing a Russian conductor in Germany and banning Russian literary works in Italy in the name of sanctions against Russia.
Read: How the Ukraine War Will Give China More LeverageOn the other hand, Ukraine seems to have accurate and timely intelligence by NATO member states.
One after another, they spun a series of dubious and contradictory geopolitical projects—The Global War on Terror, democratizing the Greater Middle East, the pivot to East Asia, joining maritime zones to form an imaginary Indo-Pacific theater, and, through it all, the steady expansion of NATO into post-Soviet territories.
has a treaty obligation to protect Japan should the country be invaded, whereas there were never any concrete assurances of protection or even NATO membership to Ukraine (publicly at least).
The first group of states are the ones that became NATO members after 1997, that were once the former “Allies of the Soviet Union” and that proceeded with their democratic transition.
Above all, it appears that Putin is considering compensating for his country's conventional weakness vis-à-vis NATO with Russia’s massive nuclear weapons.
Although NATO has no obligation to extend its nuclear umbrella over Ukraine, the moral outrage over a Russian nuclear attack on Ukraine – which had voluntarily given up its nuclear arsenal during the 1990s – could lead to a NATO nuclear response.
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Scholz's statements that Germany wants to allocate €100 billion of its budget to the the Bundeswehr, Germany’s armed forces and to comply with the 2% GDP benchmark for NATO is of historical significance.