02.12.2025 | 18:15
Euromoney Names Ameriabank Armenia’s Best Bank for Real Estate for the Second Year in a Row
The situation is tense between Russian and West, and a war may break out any time – pundit
POLITICS
14.12.2021 | 12:25
America is striving for a one-polar world, therefore, it is consolidating its partners, especially Great Britain, but also Western and Eastern Europe, says Alexander Rahr, a renowned analyst and former adviser to the German government, when asked by Factor.am to comment on the recent escalation between the United States and Russia, and as a result, the meeting between US Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin.
“Russia and China are its opponents, who are in favor of a multi-polar world. “China is America’s main adversary, and Russia is Europe’s adversary. From time to time, the situation gets tense here or there or in the Asian region,” Rahr says.
In this light, he drew special attention to the Ukrainian issue, noting that the situation here is extremely dangerous.
“A war may break out start accidentally or not accidentally. Unfortunately, this is how it should be viewed. Biden and Putin wanted to avoid it by holding a meeting,” he says.
Rahr says that that there is a deadlock here: Russia wants the West to guarantee that NATO will not expand at the expense of Ukraine or Georgia.
“In 2008, the West decided to accept Georgia and Ukraine in NATO at some point. At the Security Council meeting in 2007, Putin called on them not to cross the ‘red line’ and reach the post-Soviet states,” says, Rahr, adding that the West has said it will do it in any anyway, as the former Soviet countries are sovereign, they can decide where to be.
“This is a struggle for supremacy, for increasing the influence of the West. Historians will later talk about that. But now the situation is very dangerous, a war can break out with any provocation,” he says. “After the meeting with Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin said that security issues were discussed.”
Rahr says he does not believe that Putin and Biden could have also discussed the Nagorno Karabakh issue at that meeting because it is far from Europe.
“Europe needs to first deal with other issues that are closer to it: the Western Balkans, the Russian-Ukrainian problem, etc. That’s why I think that the Nagorno Karabakh problem is dealt with by Russia and Turkey, and then at some point, maybe China will join. It must be accepted soberly. I do not see any other option,” Rahr concludes.
