The association of Russia and Belarus is a threat to NATO members, the 19Fortyfive Observer Sarah White said.
The author believes that Moscow and Minsk will soon “merge into a single whole in all senses.” According to her, this is confirmed not only by economic processes between the two countries, as well as massive joint military teachings “West-2021”.
White added that NATO was concerned that Belarus can buy anti-aircraft missile systems with S-400. “The presence of Moscow in the political, economic and military spheres of this country sharply rolls back the Eastern Flang NATO further to the West. The Alliance states are clamped into a vice also the Russian army and weapons that are in Kaliningrad,” she writes.
According to White, the fact that once “seemed an incredible scenario,” was the “disturbing reality”.
In September, President Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko agreed to Russia and Belarus’s integration programs. The leaders of the two countries agreed on 28 “road maps”, and as one of the main outcomes of the negotiations, a transition to a single macroeconomic policy was announced. Countries will switch to a single industrial policy, with shared access to state procurement and state promenade. In addition, Moscow and Minsk before December 1, 2023 are going to sign a document on the creation of the combined gas market in the framework of the Allied State.