(ANSA) - MOSCOW, MARCH 26 - The idea of creating a 'global NATO' with the participation of the Asia-Pacific countries recalls the military alliance of the Axis powers at the time of the Second World War, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview broadcast by the Rossiya-24 television channel and taken up by Interfax.
"What are the United States doing? - he said -. They are creating more and more alliances. And this gives Western analysts, Western political analysts a reason to say only that the West is building new 'axes'. It is Western analysts, not us, who to say that the West is starting to build a new axis similar to the one created in the 1930s by the Nazi regime in Germany,
In 2022, NATO approved a new concept of strategic development, Putin said.
"And right there he said that NATO intends to develop relations with the countries of the Asia-Pacific region", mentioning New Zealand, Australia and South Korea as future partners in a 'global NATO'.
"The UK and Japan even signed an agreement on mutual opening, in other words on establishing contacts and developing relations in the military sector, at the beginning of the year, I think in January," Putin said.
In short, an alliance which, according to the Russian president, follows the balance prior to the Second World War.
(HANDLE).
