NATO agrees on stronger eastern flank against Russia

Deutsche Welle ^ | 02/10/2016 | [mz/jil (AP, dpa)]

[Olog-hai]

Defense ministers from NATO countries agreed on Wednesday to a plan that would see the military alliance strengthened in Eastern European countries feeling at risk of aggression from Russia.

The "enhanced forward presence in the eastern part of our Alliance," as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg put it, is designed to "make clear that an attack against one ally is an attack against all allies, and that the alliance as a whole will respond." ...

[dp0622]

enough to stop a surge?

[StoneWall Brigade]

Ping

[stocksthatgoup]

Oh great! We are going to defend Turkey! /s

[ETL]

Russia Ramping Up Military Drills to Cold War Levels, NATO Says

Feb 5, 2016 - FoxNews.com

Russia has stepped up its military maneuvers to a level unseen since the height of the Cold War, according to a new report released by NATO Thursday.

Jens Stoltenberg, the alliance's secretary general and author of the report, noted that Moscow has conducted at least 18 large-scale exercises over the past three years, "some of which have involved more than 100,000 troops."

Those exercises included several simulated nuclear attacks against NATO allies and partner nations ..."

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/02/05/russia-ramping-up-military-drills-to-cold-war-levels-nato-says.html

[ColdOne]

Russia protects Christians.......NATO/teamobama not so much?

[ETL]

From Investor's Business Daily, Jan 2012:

Obama To Betray Missile Defense Secrets To Moscow

Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 9, 2012 | IBD staff

Appeasement: From ObamaCare to recess appointments, honoring the Constitution has not been an administration hallmark. But when it comes to betraying secrets to mollify the Russians, it becomes a document the president hides behind.

It was bad enough that the 2012 defense authorization bill signed by President Obama set America on a downward spiral of military mediocrity.

He also issued a signing statement, something he once opposed, saying that language in the bill aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on the U.S. Standard Missile-3 - linchpin of our missile defense - might impinge on his constitutional foreign-policy authority.

Section 1227 of the defense law prohibits spending any funds that would be used to give Russian officials access to sensitive missile-defense technology as part of a cooperation agreement without first sending Congress a report identifying the specific secrets, how they'd be used and steps to protect the data from compromise.

The president is required to certify that any technology shared will not be passed on to third parties such as China, North Korea or Iran, that the Russians will not use transferred secrets to develop countermeasures and that the Russians are reciprocating in sharing missile-defense technology. ..."

"In his signing statement, Obama said he would treat these legal restrictions as 'non-binding' and that 'my administration will also interpret and implement section 1244 (sic) in a manner that does not interfere with the president's constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs and avoids the undue disclosure of sensitive diplomatic communications.'

Betraying our secrets is easy for a president who betrayed allies Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Moscow.

Poland was to host ground-based interceptors such as those we've deployed in California and Alaska, with missile-tracking radar deployed in the Czech Republic.

Obama pulled the plug when Moscow objected. Never mind, he said, we have a better approach: a four-phase plan that calls for using three versions of the Navy's Standard SM-3 interceptor missile that forms the backbone of its Aegis missile-defense system.

The fourth phase consists of a missile still on the drawing board scheduled for deployment by 2020, a version of the SM-3 called the Block IIB. It would intercept hostile missiles in the "early intercept" phase before an enemy missile could release its warheads and decoys. The Russians want the SM-3's secrets, and Obama appears to be willing to turn them over.

The president wants to save the New Start Treaty, which the Russians have threatened to abandon if we try to fully implement President Reagan's dream of defeating a nuclear missile attack.

Russia has unilaterally asserted that any qualitative or quantitative improvement in U.S. missile defenses would be grounds for withdrawal from the treaty.

Read More At Investor's Business Daily:
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/010912-597158-obama-gives-russia-missile-defense-secrets.htm#ixzz3jXmMbVwY
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March 2012...

"Obama was talking with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev when neither of them realized that their conversation was being picked up by microphones. Here is what they said:

Obama: "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it's important for him to give me space."

Medvedev: "Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you ..."

Obama: "This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility."

Medvedev: "I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir."

"This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility." That statement tells us much about the president's mindset.

The specific mention of missile defense is worrisome enough. Mr. Obama has retreated from the missile defense plan that was negotiated with European allies during the George W. Bush administration. Apparently, he is signaling Moscow that he intends to retreat further. The clear implication from the president's comments is that he cannot tell the American people before the election what he plans to do after the election.

In addition, there is the phrase "on all these issues," implying more is at stake than just missile defense."

Article: Obama plans double cross on missile defense
When it comes to keeping America safe, we shouldn't be too flexible:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/29/obama-plans-double-cross-on-missile-defense/print/
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[ETL]

From the campaign trail, 2008...

Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs

February 29, 2008 :: News
MissileThreat.com

A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense.

The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:

Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.

First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[i.e. not win it]

Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

I will not weaponize space.

I will slow our development of future combat systems.

And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.

Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.

You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.

Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090412030633/http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp

"MissileThreat.com is a project of The Claremont Institute devoted to understanding and promoting the requirements for the strategic defense of the United States."

[Iron Munro]

They are being invaded by muslim terrorists intent on turning them into Islamic countries but want to gin up the Cold War with Russia again.

[ZULU]

Oh my! Won’t that make Putin ANGRY, Eurowussies?

[laplata]

They are being invaded by muslim terrorists intent on turning them into Islamic countries but want to gin up the Cold War with Russia again.

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Excellent point. And the Muslims haven’t gone on a rampage yet.

[Navy Patriot]

Barack, you are cunning, sacrificing Americans so Islam and the Army of the Caliphate can grow strong and refreshed!

[faithhopecharity]

Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, UK, Netherlands etc... are being invaded(thanks to traitors selling out their countries)........ invaded by millions of Islamics mostly bent on conquering Europe and the ‘infidel’ Christians once and for all

those troops are badly needed at home to defend the (sold-out) citizens of Germany, France, etc.....to expel the IslamoNazis ASAP....

those troops don’t need to be sent to provoke some sort of war with Russia

[Honorary Serb]

There have really been two NATOs—Truman’s NATO and the clintons’ NATO.

Truman NATO was defensive—against communism and the Soviet Union.

The clintons’ NATO resulted from the transformation of the old NATO by the clintons and their vile anti-Christian allies. It was based on breaking the promise that George HW Bush made to Russia when they agreed to allow German unification—NO expansion of NATO to Russia’s borders!!!!

The clinton administration started in 1993, and has NOT YET ENDED!!!! NATO has been used for all sorts of anti-Christian, clintomite (neo-con and liberal interventionist) mischief, from the bombing of Serbia to the current support for a hyper-aggressive, neo-Ottoman, islamist Turkey!!!!

NATO should be abolished!!!! The current obama/clinton policy toward Eastern Europe, Russia, and Turkey can lead to World War Three!!!!

Trump is right that the Ukrainian conflict should be handled between Russia and Germany. All the other candidates (including Sanders) belong to the War Party!!!!

[Olog-hai]

Trump really said that a modern-day Molotov-Ribbentrop ought to be allowed?

You do know that Clinton handed off control of NATO to the EU, I take it?

[StoneWall Brigade]

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[Honorary Serb]

Since there is neither a Nazi Germany nor a Soviet Union, Trump did nothing of the kind!!!!

clinton did NOT hand control of NATO over to the EU—remember Wesley Clark and Madeline Albright, etc.? And NATO has since acted “out of area”—in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. etc.

[DoughtyOne]

[Olog-hai]

That wasn’t the only time Russia and Germany made agreements that were to the detriment of their mutual neighbors. There were also the Treaty of Rapallo of 1922 and the Economic Agreement of 1925.

[cva66snipe]

NATO nations in Europe will end up begging Russia to deal with their immigration problem for them. Any moves by NATO on Russia and Islamics will see it as opportunity to increase their civil unrest.