http://original.antiwar.com/craig_murray/2014/09/05/nato-an-idea-whose-time-has-gone/
....”in the sphere of power (influence)”.....
In the past dozen years, the armed forces of NATO countries, whether operating under the NATO banner or in related ad-hoc coalitions, have killed many hundreds of thousands of people. Of those hundreds of thousands of people, only a few hundred at most ever had any connection to any attack on a NATO country.
Hillary Clinton Quote:
“We do not believe in the concept of “spheres of influence.”
Hilllary Clinton stated in response to reporter Question of Russia...(note year).... June 2010:
“....about the relationship with Russia.....We’re beyond the Cold War... We want to get beyond the notion that European diplomacy and security is a zero-sum game and that countries in Central Europe need to choose whether they’re going to be pro-Russian or pro-American.
Indeed, one of the things we’ve said about the relationship with Russia is that when we have a better and the United States has a better relationship with Russia, that is actually a benefit to countries in Central Europe because they don’t feel obliged to choose or orient one way or another. And it certainly applies to Ukraine.
http://www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/rm/2010/143769.htm
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