{"id":17258,"date":"2025-09-02T18:54:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=17258"},"modified":"2025-09-02T18:54:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:54:53","slug":"nato-has-outlived-its-purpose-jeffrey-sachs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=17258","title":{"rendered":"NATO has outlived its purpose \u2013 Jeffrey Sachs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The military bloc should have been dissolved after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US economist has argued<\/strong><\/p>\n

NATO has outlived its purpose and should have been dissolved decades ago, prominent American economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs has said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking to RIA Novosti on Sunday, Sachs argued that NATO was initially formed for the sole purpose of countering the USSR and should have been disbanded in 1990 when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev dissolved the Warsaw Pact \u2013 the Soviet-led military alliance that had grouped Eastern Bloc states since 1955.<\/p>\n

\u201cNATO was a treaty to defend against the Soviet Union, which doesn\u2019t exist. So in this sense NATO definitely outlived its role. It became instead a mechanism of US power expansion, which is not what NATO should be,\u201d<\/em> Sachs told the news agency.<\/p>\n

He further argued that NATO\u2019s eastward expansion since 1990 has been \u201cwholly unjustified and contrary to Western promises,\u201d<\/em> referring to assurances given by US officials after the dissolution of the USSR that the bloc would not move closer to Russia\u2019s borders.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sachs stressed that the organization\u2019s enlargement has had no legitimate security rationale and instead deepened divisions on the European continent.<\/p>\n

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Russia has repeatedly condemned NATO\u2019s expansion and has described the bloc as a tool for confronting Moscow which destabilizes Europe by fueling tensions. Moscow has pointed to NATO\u2019s attempts to bring Kiev into the bloc as one of the root causes of the Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n

Sachs also noted that Washington still believes it runs the world, a view he described as outdated and dangerous. He said that this delusion is a \u201csource of danger\u201d<\/em> as the world has become multipolar and new \u201ccenters of power\u201d<\/em> have emerged.<\/p>\n

His comments came ahead of the upcoming Eastern Economic Forum, which is set to take place in Vladivostok from September 3 to 6. The economist is scheduled to participate in a session dedicated to the UN\u2019s development agenda beyond 2030, alongside discussions on international cooperation in a changing world order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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