Posted on 05/21/2016 7:53:41 AM PDT by darkwing104
This week NATO Foreign Ministers agreed to build-up forces to contain what they see as a more aggressive and unpredictable Russia. This will be the biggest build-up of NATO forces since the end of the Cold War, its purpose, to contain Russia with a defensive posture.
"Deter and Dialogue"
The NATO strategy is to move more troops into eastern European countries to reassure allies they will not be abandoned if Russia should decide to repeat operations that created the Ukraine crisis. In a press conference, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg told reporters: "We will discuss how NATO can do more to project stability...and at the same time address how NATO can continue to adapt to a more assertive Russia to find the right balance between defense and dialogue." Secretary of State John Kerry was said to be encouraged that NATO is pursuing a defensive posture on its eastern flank.
"NATO is open to a political dialogue with Russia but we will refrain from business as usual until the Minsk agreement [is] fully implemented," Kerry added. Under the Minsk agreement Russia must end support for separatist pro-Russians in eastern Ukraine and withdraw its soldiers and military equipment from the country. In return the European Union and the United States must remove sanctions against Russia. This is unlikely to happen soon, however, because of continuing conflicts in the region. Washington wont admit it but the drop in oil prices due to fracking hurt Russia more than the imposed economic sanctions.
Mutual suspicions
Prior to Russian intervention, Ukraine got NATOs attention after years of complacency after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Islam is a far greater cultural threat than Russia. NATO in fact now appears to have become a tool of Islam, and we will see this more in the future.
The Winds Of war....
How about this: Invite Russia to JOIN NATO and abide with all of the cooperative rules, and be finished with the Cold War?
Is NATO doing this to keep Poland and Hungary and perhaps Austria from forming a buffer “third way” coalition or to protect them? It does seem that eastern European countries need more protection from encouraged Muslim invasion than they do from Russia.
Agreed. NATO/EU are doing a bang up job of destroying themselves from the inside with Islamic hell awaiting them in the future.
NATO is pleased to announce that NATO, the NWO/IMF Crony Capitalist Banksters, The Sunni Muslim World Caliphate, The Neo NAZI coalition, Barack Obama and George Soros have united in an effort to defeat the White Christian Russian Axis, and ..
These days, NATO is almost always on the wrong side. They LOVE Muslims.
if anything I think NATO wants to settle muslims in the “intermarium” as a dumping ground and cultural buffer for muslim encroachment on Russia from another direction.
we must be clear now on what is happening in Europe, UK. They are no longer in the business of defending traditional Christian culture. The Pope has declared his churches version of Christianity a conquestor on par with Islam, and has given the OK for surrender.
Kiindness is alays taken for weakness by hoodlims and by leftwingers.
NATO is doing this because Poles and others keep asking for it. No one wants to suffer a Russian invasion.
There are almost no Muslim immigrants in Eastern European countries. Muslims go to Germany and Sweden because they get welfare there. Eastern Europe does not pay much welfare. Czech Republic recently gave asylum to some 90 Iraqi Christians and the Iraqis took the first bus to Germany. Police caught them and they were deported back to Iraq.
I realize that Muslims are mostly going to Europe to cherry-pick which country they want to live in. What I’m suggesting is that the EU leadership will force their ill-conceived enabled Muslim invasion on those poorer eastern European countries. Look what happened to Greece when its leaders didn’t have the courage to break free!
I see the new Greek leaders as irresponsible commies who caused this mess themselves. They attempted to blackmail Europe by threatening to crash the Greek economy, but in the end it turned out they were bluffing anyway so all they achieved was a lot of time wasted and relations ruined.
Greek commies were given billions of dollars of other people’s money and they still whine.
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