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September 02, 2025
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US Economist Jeffrey
Sachs
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The
military bloc
should
have been dissolved
after the
collapse of the Soviet Union,
the US
economist has argued...
NATO has
outlived its purpose and should have been dissolved
decades ago, prominent American economist and Columbia University
professor
Jeffrey Sachs believes.
Speaking to
RIA Novosti on Sunday, Sachs
argued that NATO was initially formed for the sole purpose of
countering the USSR and should have been disbanded in 1990 when
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev dissolved the
Warsaw Pact, the Soviet-led
military alliance that had grouped Eastern Bloc states since 1955.
"NATO was a treaty to defend against the
Soviet Union, which doesn't exist.
So in this sense NATO definitely outlived its
role. It became instead a mechanism of US power expansion,
which is not what NATO should be," Sachs told the news agency.
He further argued that NATO's eastward expansion
since 1990 has been,
"wholly unjustified and contrary to Western
promises",
...referring to assurances given
by US officials after the dissolution of the USSR that,
the bloc would not move closer to Russia's
borders...
Sachs stressed that the organization's
enlargement has had no legitimate security rationale and instead
deepened divisions on the European continent.
Russia has repeatedly condemned NATO's expansion and has described
the bloc as a tool for confronting Moscow which destabilizes Europe
by fueling tensions.
Moscow has pointed to NATO's attempts to bring
Kiev into the bloc as one of the root causes of the Ukraine
conflict...
Sachs also noted that Washington still believes it 'runs the
world,' a view he described as outdated and dangerous.
He said that,
this delusion is a "source of danger" as the
world has become
multipolar and new "centers of
power" have emerged.
His comments came ahead of the upcoming
Eastern Economic Forum, which is set to take place in
Vladivostok from September 3 to 6.
The economist is scheduled to participate in a
session dedicated to the UN's development agenda beyond 2030,
alongside discussions on international cooperation in a
changing World Order...
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