The upcoming NATO summit in Estonia is expected to focus heavily on new military buildups for the alliance, with a buildup in Eastern Europe expected to be finalized, including commitments for new bases in Poland and the Baltic States.
The deployments underscore rising tensions between NATO and Russia, with many in the alliance having designs on a new Cold War, and seeing such deployments as a way to further that narrative.
The other topic of discussion is expected to be ISIS, with claims of a “threat” posed by the Islamists to Turkish territory, after years of Turkey letting them use their southern border as a staging ground for attacking Syria.
With alliance-wide involvement in the occupation of Afghanistan on the decline, NATO is looking for new conflicts to justify their continued existence. With the US already on its way to a full-scale war with ISIS, expanding the war to cover the whole of NATO could give them a major, open-ended battle to fight.
Instead of keeping its words towards Russia,NATO expanded.USA destabilized the whole world,It is good for the us military complex.NATO is a short distance player.They isolated Assad,created an hystery about Russia.it will have a very high cost in the fight against international terrorism. The ukrainian conflict could have been stopped very long time ago if people like Obama and Barosso did not mix their personnal hate toward Putin and Russia and international affairs.
Anyone have any details on the new requirement for NATO members to stump up 2% of their GDP towards said organization?
See the following article at Salon.com.
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/30/hundreds_protest_…
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"Nato's Barbarism"
Editorial by James Bissett, former Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia, in the National Post, Toronto, Canada, May 31, 1999
"It may be some of our Nato leaders are not old enough to remember that the founders of the United Nations had lived through two cataclysmic world wars in less than 20 years. They had witnessed the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs. Those who drafted the United Nations framework for world peace and security did so in the conviction of one simple truth, that if mankind were to survive it had to learn at all costs to put an end to war and to learn to settle disputes by peaceful means.
To their everlasting shame, our Nato leaders have chosen war over peace in Kosovo. They have abandoned diplomacy in favour of bloodshed. They have taken us back to the Cold War and the arms race. They have smashed the framework of world security. They have guaranteed that we will start the new century as we did this one, with killing and carnage. They have left us with a terrible legacy. With six months to go before the millennium, they have taken us back to barbarism."
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/99/05/NPost010699.htm…
Justice Party National Platform
3. Restore our Commitment to Civil and Human Rights.
f. Affirm the commitment of the United States to refrain from ever again engaging in a war of aggression as that crime has been prohibited by the Kellogg-Briand Treaty, the United Nations Charter, and the Nuremberg Principles.
http://www.justicepartyusa.org/platform
When the user collapsed in 1989 the new Russian government was assured that NATO would not quote:"expand one inch further to the east" . Friendly cultural and trade relation ensued for the next Twenty years. But NATO did not follow up on its promis and expanded further eastwards. They even installed a missile defence system in Poland under the pretext to intercept missiles from Iran (an other blatant lie). The current Kiev regime was the result of a bloody coup d'état by far right fascists an Neo Nazis, who over the years still commemorate their collaboration and serving in the German Waffen SS with a big parade. For pictures of these parades visit my blog http://www.contraviewing.blogspot.com. So who is the aggressor here. What would America have done under similar circumstances?
When the user collapsed in 1989 the new Russian government was assured that NATO would not quote:"expand one inch further to the east" . Friendly cultural and trade relation ensued for the next Twenty years. But NATO did not follow up on its promis and expanded further eastwards. They even installed a missile defence system in Poland under the pretext to intercept missiles from Iran (an other blatant lie). The current Kiev regime was the result of a bloody coup d'état and hence illegitimate .