NATO is not Alone Anymore

After the Warsaw Pact dissolved, NATO has been considered to be an unrivalled alliance for nearly a decade.

However, some changes in the international system have recently given birth to a rival for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) remains a reality, and the existence of which, the international society has trouble accepting.

The SCO, whose main founders are Russia and China, is developing day by day and is increasingly causing concern in the West. Moscow, constantly harshly opposed to NATO expanding towards the east in the frame of the project Cooperation for Peace, has in recent times changed this attitude. Russia, understanding that the SCO will counterbalance NATO, continues to develop its relationships with the organization.

Leonid Ivashov, a former radical commander and Communist Party leader Gennadi Zuganov, have forgotten NATO’s constant threat of attack in the past. The "NATO danger" is no longer mentioned even by extreme nationalist leader Vladimir Jirinovski or new style politician Dmitriy Rogozin.

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