MOSCOW, November 29. /TASS/. NATO interprets any steps taken by world powers without its consent as a threat to peace, thus demonstrating its compulsive superiority complex, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Tuesday.
"It looks like everything has gotten all mixed up in the heads of the NATO bureaucrats. Their own actions are only for the sake of peace, peace on earth, we are threatening no one. The actions taken by any other world nations (if not coordinated with NATO) are a threat to peace and humanity," Konstantin Kosachev, deputy speaker of Russia’s Federation Council (upper parliament house), wrote on his Telegram channel, commenting on NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s words that China is seeking to expand its presence in Europe.
Having magnified its own interests and dehumanized the rest of humankind, NATO is demonstrating "its true place in the present-day world as a purely regional structure with an obsessive delusion of global superiority and an illusion of all-permissiveness and the exemption from responsibility for its actions stemming from it - from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan," he noted. "Russia has long disagreed with NATO’s delusions and phobias. I am sure that China doesn’t agree with them either. And I hope that Russia’s and China’s views about it will finally bring Mr. Stoltenberg and his comrades-in-arms to their senses."
Addressing the Bucharest Forum organized by the ASPEN Institute and the German Marshall Fund of the US, Stoltenberg said that China was seeking to expand its presence in Europe by means of controlling critical infrastructure in European states. He called on NATO to make efforts not to let its sustainability and security be threatened by China’s presence.