Europe, NATO, and perhaps even Trump’s America as well are attempting to seize geopolitical compensation through dangerous parallel escalation in Eurasia for their collective defeat in the NATO-Russia Ukrainian War they provoked and prolong. As the inevitability of defeat of the NATO-Ukrainian axis in the NATO-Russia Ukrainian War began sinking in among the leaders of NATO and Ukraine – a process that has been going on far longer than is generally appreciated – Western leaders moved to win gains in Russia’s self-declared sphere of interest far afield of Ukraine. The opportunities for such parallel escalation represented far more safe options than escalating NATO’s efforts in Ukraine, which could unintentionally lead to a dangerous, potentially apocalyptic armed conflict with nuclear-armed Russia. Instead of taking on that risk, Washington and Brussels sought to make gains elsewhere at Russia’s expense as a way of mitigating any popular political backlash against the folly of NATO’s provocation and senselessly continuing war efforts in Ukraine and the grand failure in achieving the declared goal of leveling a ‘strategic defeat’ on Moscow. Those efforts focused on NATO’s and Russia’s norther Scandinavian/Baltic Sea flanks and their southern flanks in the South Caucasus. Soon the strategy of parallel escalation itself risks going too far, posing the kind of escalatory ladder that raises the specter of a larger NATO-Russia conflict.
NATO Expands Northern Scandinavian and Baltic Sea Flank ………
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About the Author –
Gordon M. Hahn, Ph.D., is an Expert Analyst at Corr Analytics, www.canalyt.com. Websites: Russian and Eurasian Politics, gordonhahn.com and gordonhahn.academia.edu
Dr. Hahn is the author of the new book: Russian Tselostnost’: Wholeness in Russian Thought, Culture, History, and Politics (Europe Books, 2022). He has authored five previous, well-received books: The Russian Dilemma: Security, Vigilance, and Relations with the West from Ivan III to Putin (McFarland, 2021); Ukraine Over the Edge: Russia, the West, and the “New Cold War” (McFarland, 2018); The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin: Global Jihadism in Russia’s North Caucasus and Beyond (McFarland, 2014), Russia’s Islamic Threat (Yale University Press, 2007), and Russia’s Revolution From Above: Reform, Transition and Revolution in the Fall of the Soviet Communist Regime, 1985-2000 (Transaction, 2002). He also has published numerous think tank reports, academic articles, analyses, and commentaries in both English and Russian language media.
Dr. Hahn taught at Boston, American, Stanford, San Jose State, and San Francisco State Universities and as a Fulbright Scholar at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia and was a senior associate and visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Kennan Institute in Washington DC, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), Akribis Group.