The grey zone and global nato

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THE GREY ZONE AND GLOBAL NATO


25.09.2024

Aleksandr Dugin
The United States is striving to maintain its global hegemony and is forming new alliances around the world. In September 2021, the Eastern alliance AUKUS was created between Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. Now strategic defense cooperation with the United Arab Emirates has been announced. The desire to strengthen the West-Islamic World axis by formalizing a US strategic relationship with the UAE is something completely new, but not unexpected.

Lately, Biden is seeking to formalize the hegemonic structures of the United States. This includes strengthening NATO structures in Europe, which is directly directed against Russia, as well as the creation of the AUKUS alliance. Another problem is the expansion of the "Quadrilateral Security Dialogue" (QUAD) in Southeast Asia, directed against China. This alliance formed by the American hegemon and Australia, a direct satellite of the West, is an outpost to which occupied Japan and India, a large independent state-civilization, have joined.

Now the West has begun to build a formal alliance in the Middle East by turning to the countries that it finds most influential: Saudi Arabia, the UAE and other Islamic countries, which are also gravitating towards the BRICS and Russia. Biden has begun to take unprecedented steps in order to remove many emerging countries from the path of multipolarity.

In fact, these actions are unprecedented. The West's relations with its partners in the Islamic world have always been informal. Yes, there has always been oil and certain diplomatic agreements, but the fact that the West has begun to give wings to global NATO, as an attempt to counter the formation of a multipolar world, is, of course, something completely new on a strategic and geopolitical scale.

Of course, this is a response to the BRICS. The West is trying to get certain countries that have joined the BRICS (in particular India and now the UAE, which officially joined the BRICS as of early 2024) to come over to its side. This is the West's response to Turkey, a NATO member, requesting to join the BRICS.

The confrontation between the unipolar world and the multipolar world is escalating. Some countries are becoming geopolitical frontiers that can simultaneously belong to NATO (Western hegemony) and to multipolarity. This is a very interesting phenomenon, as it implies the emergence of an intermediate zone between multipolarity and unipolarity, a place where both sides have influence.

All this is reminiscent of the laws formulated by classical geopolitics: the "civilization of the land" and the "civilization of the sea" oppose each other most intensely precisely where they directly collide, namely in the Outer Crescent (Rimland). The only difference is that there is no single “earth civilization,” but there is a “distributive earth civilization,” a distributed Heartland, in which the countries of the multipolar world, as well as the West itself, can become independent poles.

All this is a very interesting process and we should follow it closely. Of course, this has been a direct blow against the Russian elite, which sees the UAE as a kind of “gray zone” for interacting with the West. The West wants to eliminate that possibility, and therefore including the UAE among its main partners is an extremely aggressive act in every sense. It means an attempt to bring the UAE under direct control of the West.