Similarly, increasing the number of the UN Security Council permanent members by adding countries like India, Japan, and Germany, could only increase the risk of confronting more vetoes and further stack the system in favor of certain members.
According to the official statements made by some EU member states on different occasions, Germany has received 715,000 Ukrainian refugees, the Czech Republic 330,000, Bulgaria 270,000, and Italy 120,000.
Read: Can NATO Bypass the Security Complex Mentality?Finland learned a particularly painful lesson in the wake of the Soviet Union’s attack on the country in the 1939-40 Winter War, and the subsequent alignment with Nazi Germany to remedy those territorial loses in the 1941-44 Continuation War, which proved to be disastrous.
The global economic stability is also endangered by conflict, as many European nations, particularly Germany, depend on Russian natural gas for their energy needs.
Read: Dependent on Russian Gas: Europe Must Reconsider Its Energy SecurityFor example, Hungary and Germany seemed hesitant to ban Russian oil and gas imports, citing that “measures targeting Russia’s lucrative oil and gas exports were a red line.
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.
Many European Union countries including Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania, Romania, Denmark, France, Latvia, and the Netherlands, have declared their intention to increase their annual defense expenditures.
Read: Iran’s Bitter Choice and the Russia-Ukraine WarRussia faced criticism from the E3 (France, Germany, and the UK) in a joint statement which accused it of exploiting JCPOA negotiations to secure assurances unrelated to the agreement, which Ned Price, the spokesperson for the U.
The statement of Deputy Chairman of the National Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev after Germany's decision to stop Nord Stream 2 epitomizes this notion: "Welcome to a brave new world where Europeans will soon pay 2,000 Euros for a thousand cubic meters of natural gas.
Read: How Germany's Foreign Policy Changed towards Russia after the War in UkraineFaced with isolation by most of the international community, it is likely that Russia will attempt to mitigate the impact to its economy by offering increased arms transfers to North Korea as barter trade for access to North Korea’s untapped mineral wealth, hence portending the likelihood of North Korea acquiring a more modern conventional arsenal that the ROK will have to take seriously in light of its declining fertility rate.
Principally, there exists the energy issue for members of NATO that are in the European Union (especially Germany), worrying Europe due to lingering uncertainties.
Read: How Will the New China-Russia Gas Deal Affect the Ukraine Crisis? Russian dominance over Western energy markets In the 1960s, when Western Europe had begun to import gas from the Soviet Union, it was Western Germany that imported Soviet gas first.