With the end of the term of Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO has a new secretary-general, and one who is decidedly less hawkish, and more open to reconciliation with Russia after months of rising tension.
The new chief, former Norwegian Premier Jens Stollenberg, says he believes there is no reason that NATO should consider its own strength a contradiction to a positive relationship with Russia.
How accepting the NATO hawks will be to Stollenberg, who in his youth was an anti-NATO protester, at a time when many of them, the US in particular, are looking to ratchet up their hostility toward Russia.
If he can keep the rest of the alliance on board, however, his history of success at brokering compromises could allow for a pretty quick rapprochement with Russia, and save the alliance members from the mounting expense of military buildup along the Russian frontier.
If this guy's for real look for him to end up like Strauss-Kahn or possibly even with a bullet in his head.
The idea of a Norwegian, probably the most puritanical and straight-laced of all the European peoples, ending up like DSK is rather funny. And the point I made in reply to Rick30 also applies here: he got this job because the US wanted him to.
Doesn't sound like Stollenberg will keep his job for long. Glad to see that pathetic jerk Rasmussen gone. What job are the masters of the universe rewarding him with for his years of being a whore?
His term is 4 years. He was Angela Merkel's choice and, of course, no one can be appointed to this post if the US opposes them. The idea that he might be some sort of "dissident" is nonsense.
Russia is a whore who is in bed with Israel and US against the rest. Russia sold Libya, Iran, Syria and more for concessions from the war criminals in washington and Tel Aviv. Putin has not given the S-300 to neither Iran or Syria. Russia is working closely with US and Israel 'against' ISIS, the US-Israelis 'bad' terrorists to redraw the ME map for the interest of Israel. Don't trust Russia.
What concessions might those be? Sanctions?
To — expose Russia
But surely, this is not a matter of trust as that pre-supposes that our working class has no ability to tell fact from fiction, which would burn up all of our emotional capital fearing that all is hopeless.
A better way, between Russia and Empire USA may our public grasp the reality that by far is Russia the better of two evils, for the Western corporate rich have all their sock-puppet politicians gearing up their war machines for to plunder all of Russia’s natural resources and turn it into a Gaza wasteland in spades.
Dissolve NATO. Let Europe and Russia work out their stuff themselves.