La amenaza rusa
Alberto Illán se preguntaba hace un par de días a quién quiere amenazar Rusia con el anuncio de sus nuevos misiles nucleares: pues básicamente, a todo lo que se mueve.
Putin es el presidente que celebró su elección con el lanzamiento de tres ICBM's. A partir de ahí, podemos esperar cualquier cosa. Sobre los nuevos misiles habría que ver si realmente es algo tan nuevo o una simple actualización de sus arsenales. Hay quien dice que todo ha sido una manipulación de las palabras de Putin (esta fuente cogida con muchas pincitas). También lo cita el New York Times:
Russia's new nuclear missile system is purely defensive and part of the country's program to upgrade its military, Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov said.
Pero la cuestión es que hay gente que se siente amenaza por Rusia, con o sin armas nucleares. Y estos son principalmente nuestros nuevos socios europeos. En el newsletter del LYMEC (European Liberal Youth) del pasado agosto se publicó un artículo de Thomas Kibasi, vicepresidente de la organización, que analiza este tema:
The Fears of New Europe
The appearance of a seeming new axis of Paris-Berlin-Moscow to act as a counter to American belligerence has worried many in the Eastern Europe. Their fears have been compounded both by NATO's debilitation and by Jacques Chirac who condemned their open support for America as "a good opportunity to shut-up".
Leaders in Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest and elsewhere in the East are still very mindful of the threat of
the Russian 'menace'. French, German and Belgian efforts to block support for Turkey, a fellow NATO member, racked up the level of anxiety. If the Alliance was unable to effectively invoke its Article 5 for Turkey, then could it not respond in an equally timid fashion to a Russian threat to Poland, Lithuania or Estonia? In Western Europe, having won the Cold War, we may well regard Russia as no longer of such great strategic significance; nevertheless, fears in the former USSR states may be symptomatic of a different perspective but are very real.
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In the future, if the United States once again finds its will obstructed within NATO by the French and Germans, then it is a very real possibility that NATO will cease to exist. It is conceivable that a different new transatlantic alliance will emerge that ignores 'Old Europe'.
¿Manía persecutoria porque hace relativamente pocos años que se libraron del yugo soviético? ¿O amenaza real y tangible?
