NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow announced today that the alliance intends to open a new military training center in the Republic of Georgia by year’s end, threatening to add to NATO-Russia tensions.
Officials say this is part of an effort to strengthen both their relationship with Georgia and the nation’s military capabilities. Georgia’s military was largely destroyed during the brief 2008 Russo-Georgian War.
Since that war, which led to the de facto secession of the Republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia from Georgia, Georgia’s efforts to join NATO have been more or less permanently on hold, with the alliance generally not accepting nations whose national boundaries aren’t under their direct control.
With the ongoing Ukraine Civil War, NATO is pushing for a build-up in Eastern Europe, and planning to set up a number of new units across the Russian frontier to “confront” Russia, and the move to build up Georgia’s military seems to be a continuation of that trend.
NATO don't want peace. They never stop.
With the dissolution of the USSR the reason for NATO's existence ended. Time to dissolve it and let the EU pay for it's own defense. The US has better things to do with their taxpayer dollars.
NATO should indeed have been dissolved, but it wasn't. It was turned into what it was never intended to be: an anti-Russian alliance. Russia applied to join and the European members wanted it to join, but the US vetoed that. The US needed NATO as a legal pretext to keep troops and military equipment near to Israel and that hasn't changed and since Europe refused to let it be turned openly into an alliance for the defence of Israel, a new bogeyman had to be manufactured. Essentially, the message to the US is beware of what you wish for! Since the US created the problem, winding up NATO now would just be the usual "victimise the victims" strategy of Putin's American supporters. Once Putin has been dealt with, a new European defence system can be put in place with Russia as part of it (the Russians are, after all, the most numerous of all the European peoples) but Putin has gone too far and I cannot see how the US can now anbandon Europe without discrediting itself as Israel's protector. Do you really think the Israel Lobby is going to let that happen?
The US has already discredited itself because it is Israel's protector and benefactor…when you lay down with dogs you're going to wake up with fleas.
It's unfortunate that the tax payers don't have much of a say these days. But getting back to NATO, sometimes when your opponent gives in and requests a compromise in which you're clearly coming out ahead of your opponent, you see it not so much as a gain, and never so little as a successful mediation. It's the grand prize of finding an inherently fatal weakness in your opponent's position. Now you're fully confident that you must just squeeze him more and more until there's nothing left of him.
The inevitable consequence of Putin's conduct. By the way, the 2008 war was caused by, not the cause of, South Ossetia's secession, which occurred much earlier.
NATO would be wise to remember the sharp response delivered by Putin to their earlier failed intervention in Georgia. And this recent adventure in Ukraine is beginning to turn out very badly for Poreshenko and Ukraine. Putin will make a point of crushing Ukraine covertly, or overtly if necessary, just as he did in Georgia. The U.S. and the EU have zero leverage on Putin with respect to Ukraine.
NATO proved them selves in Yugoslavia a truly criminal organization that can't be trusted to play by any agreed upon rules . A kind of enemy that you can not negotiate with because you can't trust anything they say or agree too . The only way to deal with such a enemy would be to destroy it cut off its head . Russia and China realize this the only questions left is when and where and How . NATO should have ended when the Warsaw pact ended . Now NATO plans on taking over the world using lies , trickery , coupes and revolutions . NATO hopes to avoid getting into a full blown nuclear war . They wish to start little revolutions and than use their powerful propaganda machinery to accuse the other side of gross human rights violations . And than send in their powerful air force to prevent the human rights violations allowing the side they wanted to take over to win . Putin was right when he said stop playing these little baby games . If NATO wanted to fight Russia they should say so and have came to the Black sea in 2008 . Now NATO wants to come back to Georgia and rebuild all the military equipment Russia just destroyed . Why ? What does Georgia need military equipment for ? Who is Georgia going to attack next time ? If Germany should attack Georgia ? don't worry Russia will help them . Russia did not take over Georgia , Georgia is completely free to do what ever they want . But if Military equipment in Georgia is going to be used to attack Russia or South Ossetta again you can expect it to be removed again fairly quickly . None the less these are baby games of foolishness Just what is NATO hoping to accomplish ? A full blown nuclear war , President Bush announced the United States now claims the right to strike first to prevent a war . Sure enough 3 or4 yrs latter Medvedev claimed Russia also had went on a strike first agenda to prevent a war . These policies really does not matter much because both countries claim enough fire power to completely destroy the other country after they have been destroyed . None the less I think the country that strikes first to prevent the war would probably come out a little better .