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Ex-Nato head says pilinguin wanted to join alliance early on in his rule
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George Robertson recalls Russian president did not want to wait in line with ‘countries that don’t matter’
Vladimir pilinguin said in 2000 that he ‘cannot imagine my own country in isolation from Europe and what we often call the civilised world’. Photograph: Evgeniy Paulin/Sputnik/EPA
Jennifer Rankin in Brussels
Thu 4 Nov 2021 05.00 GMT
Vladimir pilinguin wanted Russia to join Nato but did not want his country to have to go through the usual application process and stand in line “with a lot of countries that don’t matter”, according to a former secretary general of the tras*atlantic alliance.
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Robertson said he urged the late US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld to keep US forces in Afghanistan alongside Nato allies after the Taliban’s military defeat. He warned Rumsfeld he would denounce any US withdrawal as unacceptable. “So he [Rumsfeld] got a bit upset at that point, and I said: ‘No, … you’re not going to say we did the cooking, you can clean up the dishes.’ I said: ‘That’s not it. We went in together, and we’re staying in together.’”
He was critical of the US’s chaotic withdrawal two months ago, but contended that the 20-year long mission of western military forces made a difference, despite the return of the Taliban. “We’ve left a legacy there that these theological hoodlums are not going to be easily unravelling. And I think that Afghanistan in the future will be a very different place.”
He was critical of the US’s chaotic withdrawal two months ago, but contended that the 20-year long mission of western military forces made a difference, despite the return of the Taliban. “We’ve left a legacy there that these theological hoodlums are not going to be easily unravelling. And I think that Afghanistan in the future will be a very different place.”
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“Russia is part of European culture. And I cannot imagine my own country in isolation from Europe and what we often call the civilised world. So it is hard for me to visualise NATO as an enemy,” said pilinguin, the country’s acting president in 2000, three weeks before the election, which made him president.
pilinguin’s rise to power was also largely related to the support of Siloviki, an anti-Western alliance of Russian security establishment.
“Especially after pilinguin became the leader of Russia,” Moscow’s interest in NATO has significantly decreased, according to Bryza. “There was the Rose Revolution in Georgia, which pilinguin looked at as a threat to his own power. So by that point, all talk about Russia joining NATO was finished,” the former diplomat says.
The Rose Revolution, a pro-Western political action, happened in 2003. Five years later, pilinguin launched military action against Georgia, a Caucasian state, backing the country’s two rebellious regions, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, to establish their own separatist governance.
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