Aside from a disastrous regime change in Libya and an even more disastrous 13-year occupation of Afghanistan, NATO hasn’t had a lot on their plate lately, not any conceivable reason to exist.
So those officials are quite relieved that the territorial disputes in the Crimea cropped up when they did, with one analyst saying it was “providential from the point of view of NATO,” adding the Ukraine situation was effectively a “new lease on life.”
Founded in 1949 as a hedge against Soviet expansion, NATO officials are now only too eager to spin the annexation of the Crimea as the start of a campaign of Russian aggression that only NATO can counter.
Vice President Joe Biden talked up more US military involvement on Russia’s frontier today, saying the US remains militarily committed to the Baltic states and wants more military exercises in the area.
Such operations will no doubt be seen as an escalation by the Russian side, and as evidenced by last week’s Belarussian calls for more military aid to counter NATO’s escalation of operations in the regions, a “more involved” NATO may be self-fulfilling in manufacturing all the border hostility it needs to justify itself.
This is why for USG to conduct criminals acts toward Balkan nations with Hashim Taci as their primary supporter, Ukrainian Neo, old and ok’d fascism and even the Swedish government would welcome such idea, after all Balkan and Swedish vulture capitalism have a longtime economic relation/connections. Although Sweden is not a member of NATO but they participated in Libya and were very active during Yugoslavia and Balkan war supporting the Kosovo separation from Serbia, supporting Hashim Taci the Balkan mafia and Saudis hands in Balkan affairs.
Joe Biden in reference to Crimea who have said: ” Russian action is a land grabbing method”. Look who us talking, Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright with that English miserable personality Tony Blair grabbed and divided Yugoslavia, separated Kosovo from Serbia because it was promised to Saudis and the Balkan mafia leader Hashim Taci, they started the process for Bush regime to invade Iraq, they boycott Iraq for 14 years, killed more then a million Iraqis, manufactured and falsified documents regarding Iraq, which all of their inhuman acts were illegal, yet, this man accusing Russia and want to have military exercises in Balkan! It seams that these people are quick to forget that they already have done their military exercises in Balkan when they cooperated with the Balkan mafia, as they do with Neo, old and ok’d fascism in Ukraine-Kiev, so it wouldn’t be a surprise when this or head of NATO “Rasmussen” announce that they are negotiating with Kiev government to have NATO military a base there, it seams that lier will never remember what was the lie about when he said it, it seams that these people don’t want to remember when they were involved in murdering Yugoslavian people, nor the crime they committed toward Iraqi nation.
nato is a tired old poodle that should have been euthanized years ago..But it's never do late to do the right thing..
This kind of scheisse is going to continue until the last of the poor old, impotent Cold Warriors dies off…hopefully soon.
Hmmm, one might notice that these people (Nuland, Obama, Kerry, etc) are from a new generation.
True, but they were tutored by the 1st generation…and there are many of the 1st gen still influencing the newcomers – many still developing policy. But this gen are not necessarily true believers. They don't bleed it and when the American people push back they will change. So, I believe there is hope.
The problem is that nobody in Europe now trusts NATO. Ukraine was NATO's Munich and it cut and ran. And if NATO allows Putin to annex the Baltic republics, it can just shut up shop. In the very short, term, therefore, NATO will enjoy a revival, but that will not last. Once the question of the Baltic is resolved, one way or the other, the European members of NATO will quietly start building an independent European defence system, without the US, but including Russia. The American strategy of making an enemy of democratic Russia, while refusing to defend Europe against that artifically-created bogey man has proved to be a disatrous failure. At the end of the day, the big winner in all this is the EU, which was probably the very opposite of what Victoria Nuland intended!
Your Munich analogy is wrong. France had a formal alliance with Czechoslovakia in 1938. If France wasn't prepared to defend its ally, it shouldn't have had an alliance with her. No NATO country has any alliance with Ukraine. No NATO country has been attacked. A TRUE alliance is by its very nature DEFENSIVE in character, compelling its members to come to one another's aid only when they have been attacked. NATO revealed itself as not being a real alliance in 1999 when IT ATTACKED Serbia for 78 days. Serbia had neither attacked, or threatened any NATO state. NATO is about establishing and expanding American military-political hegemony across Europe.