Will NATO have a showdown with Russia?
After World War II, NATO was originally established to confront the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union was not alone at that time, and the Soviet Union established the Warsaw Pact with Poland and other small countries in the Eastern European sphere of influence under its control. Therefore, from the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO and the Warsaw Pact, as the two largest military blocs in the world, confronted each other in the Cold War in the hinterland of Europe. Everyone knows the later script, first the upheaval in Eastern Europe, and then the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Warsaw Pact ceased to exist and the Soviet Union gradually disintegrated. Russia, which inherited the main body of the Soviet Union, has become a new target for NATO's defense. In the past 30 years, after several rounds of eastward expansion, NATO has continued to absorb the Eastern European countries of the former Warsaw Pact, gradually extending the NATO front line to Russia's doorstep. Recently, in the Nordic direction, with Sweden and Finland joining NATO one after another, NATO has expanded to 32 member states, so in the direction of Eastern Europe, in addition to its small ally Belarus and the warring Ukraine, NATO has almost tightly surrounded Russia's western border! So will NATO's eastward expansion end up in a showdown with Russia?
In fact, NATO, through Ukraine, has already had a showdown with Russia to some extent. It's just that this is a very rudimentary showdown stage! This is evidenced by the continuous flow of military aid that NATO has concentrated all its forces on Ukraine. The purpose of NATO, led by the United States, is simple: it wants a Russia that continues to be weakened, not a complete demise of Russia. Moreover, Russia has a nuclear arsenal on a par with the United States. NATO is not so stupid to die with Russia!
In addition, within NATO, there are already 32 member states, and in terms of national strength, the United States is the only one that can control the existence of NATO, followed by Britain, France, Germany, Italy and other European France, and the bottom is a number of small European countries; In terms of geography, the United States and Canada are the farthest away from the European continent, and the European continent is also divided into Western Europe, Central Europe and Eastern Europe, of which the Eastern European countries are closest to Russia, and most of these countries are former Warsaw Pact countries. France, Germany, Italy, and other countries in Central and Western Europe, after the lessons of the two world wars, are actually unwilling to go to war with Russia in their hearts. At present, the countries that like to make trouble the most are mainly the United States, the leader of NATO, and its follower, the United Kingdom. So we can see that NATO is strong. However, the outside is strong and the middle is strong, and the internal interests are different and contradictory!
Although there is a mutual defense treaty within NATO, the small countries within NATO still have no sense of security. To put it mildly, even if Russia beats NATO, such as Lithuania and Poland, then NATO, led by the United States, really dares to stand up for Poland?All-out war with Russia?Just think about it!
So on the whole, will NATO have a showdown with Russia?It mainly depends on the United States, Britain, France, Germany and other big powers!But at the moment, the United States and Britain do not dare to have a showdown with Great Russia, and France and Germany do not want to have a showdown with Great Russia!How can such a large-scale war between NATO and Great Russia be fought?Under the edge of Russia's bright sword spirit, what NATO can do is just a small conflict like Ukraine!This is NATO, which is useless!