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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Well, I would too tbh.
Europe is an absolute idiot.
Silly us, we thought it would ALWAYS be 1946. This is the end of Pax Americana and the return of the old animosities which begat the two most devastating wars in the history of Man.
Russians are idiots!
The only 12-months open Russian Navy port is in Crimea.
I do not consider that idiotic. The Russians have been contending with Muslims along the Black Sea’s shoreline for a long, long time.
Uh . . . Murmansk, Kaliningrad (on the west).
Kaliningrad... Russian colony?
Russians are barbaric opportunists who care not one hit about anyone else not Russian
Great town, if you are into that post-Soviet stuff. The women are cute and friendly, and let you buy them drinks. (Just don’t let them invite you to their place, because you will meet Boris and Igor . . . who will knock you over the head and take your passport and wallet).
Your post is spot on.
About time you figured this out, sherlock.
Russia is not contending with muslims, they are murdering their Christian neighbors, just like the Soviet EVIL EMPIRE did. Russians are stupid and evil.
Lol...what?
And maybe we should be caring a lot more for Americans?
They always play in the emo blood shed meme... Much like Hamas never accepting peace because the organ depends on Israel shedding their blood in counter attack in order to bring world sympathy or “blame the capitalist” mantra.
I think Russism as a mental disorder resembles the Munchausen Syndrom.
I don’t know.
Culturally speaking, they don’t seem like idiots.
Conversely, culturally speaking, Europeans are suicidal maniacs.
Kind of like us.
Obama said all the same stuff plus that he would side with muslims if he had to make a choice. He also flipped to support the muslims in the war on terror. All in all he, therefor the u.s., is worse than putin. Putin is scummy. Obama IS scum itself.
Why would Russia want to associate with a bunch of socialist douchebags? (My how the times have changed...)
One only has a partnership with Russia when they are of equal or greater strength.
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