Dismissing President Biden's Statement, Vladimir Putin: Absurd And No Reason To Go To War With NATO

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Source: Kremlin)

JAKARTA - Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed United States President Joe Biden's statement about the possibility of his country's attack on the territory of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), judging him to be unreasonable.

"This really doesn't make sense. I'm sure President Biden is aware of this, it's just an illustration to support his wrong strategy against Russia," he said in an interview with Rossiya-1, as reported by TASS December 17.

President Biden in his petition to Republicans not to hinder additional military aid to Ukraine earlier this month warned that if Russia wins in Ukraine, then Russian leader Putin will not stop and will attack NATO.

The Russia-Ukraine war that broke out in 2022 sparked the deepest crisis in Moscow's relations with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, with President Biden last year warning that a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia would trigger a Third World War.

"Russia has no reason, there is no interest in no geopolitical, economic, political or military interests to go to war with NATO countries," President Putin said.

The US-led NATO alliance was founded in 1949 to provide Western security to the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the region was expanded to include several former Soviet Union countries and the Warsaw Pact.

President Putin has repeatedly cited the expansion of NATO after the Cold War as proof of Western arrogance in dealing with Russia's security concerns.

He said Finland's entry into NATO in April would force Russia to "consist certain military units" in northern Russia near their borders.

It is known, based on Article 5 of the NATO agreement, "The parties agreed that armed attacks against one or more countries in Europe or North America would be considered as attacks against them all".