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Russia asked the US to withdraw NATO from Eastern Europe (Nightmare scenario for Albania and Kosovo)

2025-02-20 21:57:13Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Russia asked the US to withdraw NATO from Eastern Europe (Nightmare scenario for
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Financial Times: Moscow's demand during talks in Riyadh was rejected, but allies fear Donald Trump could allow the restoration of the former Soviet bloc

Russia used the first round of talks with the US to end the war in Ukraine to demand the withdrawal of NATO forces from the alliance's eastern flank (which includes Albania), raising concerns in European capitals that the Trump administration might agree to this proposal to sign a peace deal. (NATO has set up a military base in Kuçova, where a former Soviet military base once existed.)

Cristian Diaconescu, the Romanian president's chief of staff and national security and defense adviser, said on Wednesday that the US delegation rejected Moscow's request, but that there was no guarantee that Washington would not eventually make this concession to Vladimir Putin.

"As I understand it, the situation can change from hour to hour or from day to day," Diaconescu told Antena3 television, in a reference to Donald Trump's harsh criticism of the Ukrainian leader and his concessions made to Russia even before the talks began.

Diaconescu also stressed that the Russian delegation at the talks in Riyadh earlier this week "failed to convince the Americans" of a withdrawal from NATO and that the visit of the leaders of the United Kingdom and France to Washington next week will try to convince Trump not to give in to this demand.

However, concessions to Moscow by the Trump administration in recent days – from excluding Ukraine from NATO membership to promising to normalize US relations with Russia – are making governments in eastern states nervous.

The Russian president has long sought to restore Moscow's sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, according to the agreement reached by the US, Great Britain and the Soviet Union at the end of World War II at the Yalta peace conference.

The withdrawal of NATO forces from former Soviet and communist bloc countries that joined the alliance in the late 1990s was one of Putin's main demands on the US before launching his all-out attack on Ukraine in 2022.

Romanian President Ilie Bolojan met with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Wednesday and emerged with a conviction that European leaders in their contacts with the US will emphasize the need to be included in any security agreement affecting the region, Diaconescu said.

The current situation is "extremely complicated and serious," Diaconescu added. "You can bet that we will fight until the last minute so that this does not happen."

He warned younger generations of Europeans who had never experienced life behind the "Iron Curtain" that this moment could represent a return to the "gates of hell."

Sandu-Valentin Mateiu, a Romanian defense analyst and former naval commander and intelligence officer, said Europe was once again at a historical crossroads. "Europe knows the lesson of 1938," he said, referring to the Munich Pact that gave Adolf Hitler part of Czechoslovakia but failed to stop World War II.


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