Posted on 09/01/2014 3:51:16 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
GDANSK, Poland: Russia has "effectively severed its partnership" with Europe and wants to establish a new order, German President Joachim Gauck said on Monday (Sep 1).
"We want partnership and good neighbourly relations (with Russia)" but on the condition that Moscow changes its policies and that there is a "return to respect for the rights of nations", Gauck said at a ceremony in Gdansk to mark the 75th anniversary of Germany's invasion of Poland that set off World War II.
Evoking the "miracle" of post-war reconciliation between Germans and Poles, Gauck said he was disappointed with the turn of events in Russia. "We believed and wanted to believe that Russia too, the country of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, could be part of Europe."
"It was a shock when we were confronted with a new conflict on Europe's borders. An armed conflict aimed at establishing new borders and a new order. It's a fact, stability and peace on our continent are once again endangered," he added.
Following the end of the Cold War, "the EU, NATO and major industrialised states developed special relationships with Russia and integrated it in different ways. Russia has effectively severed this partnership," he said.
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, who spoke before Gauck, called for "courage and determination" in opposing "those who threaten the international order, peace and freedom".
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Obama is not the USA. The USA is still the greatest nation in the world despite Obama.
Vladivostok is open year-round.
Vlad the Terrible is out for Mother Russia and uses Chechens to attack Christians where he wants.
When the USA helps Serbia get back Muslim ruled Bosnia and Kosovo and the US no longer supports and defends the Saudis and Gulf Arab kingdoms and Pakistan then you can claim America is better than Russia on Muslim fighting. I have yet to see the US side with Christians against Muslims.
America is at war with muslims all over the world, and has invaded multiple muslim countries. Russia is not at war with any muslim countries anywhere. Russia persecutes and massacres Christians who want freedom.
And Georgia started the war and lost against Russia. Georgia's ex president is now a fugitive from his ex country.
The Taliban was never an American ally.
Georgia never attacked Russia, Russia attacked Georgia unprovoked and ethnically cleansed thousands of innocent Christian civilians. Now Russia is killing Christians in Ukraine.
Your posts are extreme anti-American lies.
You don’t belong here.
The genocidal KGB which Putin was loyal to invented muslim terrorism in the first place and unleashed the islamic terror on the world. Now Putin has resumed Russia’s terrorist activities.
One could think that Germans are simply idiots. Unfortunately, it is more complicated than that.
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