{"id":1600,"date":"2025-08-12T00:23:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:59:41","slug":"nato-gambling-on-fascism-to-pressure-russia-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/nato-gambling-on-fascism-to-pressure-russia-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO gambling on fascism to pressure Russia \u2013 Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bloc chief Mark Rutte\u2019s call to not recognize territorial changes is part of a policy to support revanchism, the Foreign Ministry has said<\/strong><\/p>\n A recent call by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte not to recognize new Russian regions is just another\u00a0\u201csystemic subversion\u201d<\/em> tactic employed by the West in its attempts to exert pressure on Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said in a commentary for Izvestia newspaper.<\/p>\n Speaking to\u00a0CBS on Sunday,\u00a0Rutte\u00a0insisted that NATO members \u201ccan never accept \u2026 in a legal sense\u201d<\/em> that four former Ukrainian territories officially became part of Russia following a series of referendums in September, 2022.<\/p>\n Ukraine has refused to recognize the change and still lays claim to all the regions as well as Crimea, which joined Russia in a 2014 referendum following a Western-backed armed coup in Kiev.<\/p>\n The NATO chief drew parallels to the US approach to the Baltic States between 1940 and 1991, when they were part of the USSR.<\/p>\n Washington hosted \u201cembassies\u201d<\/em> of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia during that period to show it does not see them as parts of the Soviet Union. According to Zakharova, the NATO chief has fallen back to the old Western practices of supporting \u201cfascists\u201d<\/em> and \u201crevanchists\u201d<\/em> as a form of pressure on Moscow.<\/p>\n