According to Aleksandr Lukashenko, the President of Belarus, NATO expansion will persist, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, Moldova, Georgia, and Serbia will be “drawn into” the alliance. Lukashenko made this announcement during an extended meeting with the heads of the security forces.
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“The forecasts are not encouraging. The appetite and activism of the Collective West will only increase. Washington and its allies will continue to expand NATO. The situation is more than favorable for them. I will say it directly, without too much diplomacy: almost all European leaders have turned into subjects of the USA. There is no doubt as to whose politics, whose interests dominate the territory of the European Union.
Finland's and soon Sweden's entry into NATO is the next phase of eastward expansion. Bosnia-Herzegovina, Moldova, Georgia, Serbia will be involved in the alliance, and all this will be according to the scenario of Ukraine,” said Lukashenko.
According to him, everyone remembers how the “partnership” political games with the Ukrainian leaders ended: “with the formation of a layer of change agents for the further change of military-political orientation to pro-Western and war. Now they are also playing with Ukraine. The vague prospect of joining the bloc is successfully used by Western curators to motivate and incite the Kyiv authorities to continue hostilities.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin considers NATO expansion to be a direct threat to his country's security and claims that this was the reason for the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022. However, the invasion of Ukraine had the opposite result - Sweden and Russia's immediate neighbor Finland, which had maintained military neutrality for a long time, decided to join NATO.
Joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is Georgia's stated choice. In 2017, Article 78 was added to the Constitution of Georgia, which defines the obligation of constitutional bodies to take all measures within their powers to ensure Georgia's full integration into the European Union and NATO. According to the results of the research published by the National Democratic Institute in December 2023, 79% of the population supports Georgia's entry into the European Union, while 67% support joining NATO.
