{"id":205651,"date":"2022-02-28T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=205651"},"modified":"2022-02-22T05:52:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T05:52:45","slug":"russias-security-threats-to-increase-if-ukraine-joins-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/02\/russias-security-threats-to-increase-if-ukraine-joins-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Security Threats to Increase if Ukraine Joins NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subtitle\">\n<blockquote><p>21 Feb 2022 &#8211; <em>Today Russian leader Vladimir Putin noted that the security threats would increase if Ukraine joins NATO.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_205652\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/putin.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205652\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-205652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/putin-300x170.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/putin-300x170.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/putin.webp 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-205652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Putin said that the threats to Russian security will increase if Ukraine joins NATO. Feb. 21, 2022. Photo: Twitter\/@LeChouNews<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Russian President, Vladimir Putin, exposed on Monday that if Ukraine joins NATO&#8217;s bloc, as a consequence, the threats to Russian security might increase significantly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Russia faces such a threat as Ukraine&#8217;s admission to the North Atlantic Alliance, to NATO, then the threats to our country will increase many times,&#8221; noted the Russian leader.<\/p>\n<p>He made a recall on Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty &#8220;from which it is clear that all the countries of the alliance must fight on the side of one of their members if one Ally is considered as under attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Putin stressed that Russia had been told that some country members of the bloc do not approve of Ukraine&#8217;s admission to the alliance.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/AHawkenes\/status\/1495846585183395844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1495846585183395844%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telesurenglish.net%2Fnews%2FRussias-Security-Threats-To-Increase-if-Ukraine-Joins-NATO-20220221-0012.html<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, a document was ruled, which allowed Ukraine and Georgia to become a member of the North Atlantic Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no answer to my question &#8220;why have you done it?&#8221; Under pressure from the US &#8211; that&#8217;s the answer,&#8221; said Russian Putin.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ckeditor-em\">\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Nn2k8SZSKC0<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Related<strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Russia-Set-to-Recognize-Donetsk--Luhansk-as-Independent-States-20220221-0010.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia Set to Recognize Donetsk &amp; Luhansk as Independent States<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Russias-Security-Threats-To-Increase-if-Ukraine-Joins-NATO-20220221-0012.html\" >Go to Original &#8211; telesurenglish.net<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 Feb 2022 &#8211; Today Russian leader Vladimir Putin noted that the security threats would increase if Ukraine joins NATO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":205652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[1778,1035,91,253,961],"class_list":["post-205651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlight","tag-conflict-analysis","tag-eastern-europe","tag-nato","tag-putin","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}