Posted on 01/12/2017 4:10:00 PM PST by annalex
January 9, 2017
President-elect Donald J. Trump
Trump-Pence Transition Team
1717 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Dear President-elect Trump:
We—decision-makers and public figures from across Europe—welcome your election as America’s 45th president. We are eager to work with your administration to sustain our powerful transatlantic Alliance, jointly defending our way of life at a time of great peril.
Russia’s continuing efforts to destabilize Ukraine, and its illegal annexation of Crimea, threaten the peace, predictability and security that Americans and Europeans created together through our victory in the Cold War. We are concerned that the prospect of a new grand bargain with Russia will endanger this historic achievement.
It would be a grave mistake to end the current sanctions on Russia or accept the division and subjugation of Ukraine. Doing so would demoralize those seeking a Euro-Atlantic orientation for that country. It would also destabilize our Eastern neighborhood economically and give heart to extremist, oligarchic and anti-Western elements there.
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As your treaty-bound allies, we appeal to Americans in the new U.S. Administration and Congress to stand firm in the defense of our common goals and interests: peace, Atlantic strength, and freedom. United, we are more than a match for Russia’s ailing kleptocracy. Divided, as we have seen all too clearly in recent years, we are all at risk. For decades, our unified Alliance has been the bulwark of European security. We appeal to our American friends to strengthen, not weaken our transatlantic ties. Ukraine needs support; the frontline states need your constancy and resolve. And most of all, Russia must see that when we are attacked, we grow stronger, not weaker.
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Traian Băsescu Paweł Kowal
Carl Bildt Janusz Onyszkiewicz
Mikuláš Dzurinda Rosen Plevneliev
Mátyás Eörsi Karel Schwarzenberg
Iulian Fota Radosław Sikorski
István Gyarmati Petras Vaitiekūnas
Toomas Hendrik Ilves Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
Rasa Juknevičienė Alexandr Vondra
Ojārs Ēriks Kalniņš
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It would be nice if we knew who they are.
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Crimea? Seriously? Its continuously been a Russian Navy base since 1783 and Catherine the great. It was always delusional to think they would just accept it becoming a NATO navy base.
Got to pay your way!
When are these countries going to quit harboring and pandering to our common enemy—the Islamic fascists—who wish to conquer and dominate every country on the planet?
Dear Europe,
We prefer to avoid entangling alliances.
Sincerely,
George Washington
Nils Daniel Carl Bildt is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He was the leader of the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999
Mikuláš Dzurinda is a Slovak politician who was Prime Minister of Slovakia from 30 October 1998 to 4 July 2006. He is the founder and leader of the Slovak Democratic Coalition and then the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union
Mátyás Eörsi is a former MP, (born 24 November 1954) is a Hungarian politician who was the leader of the liberal Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (ALDE-PACE) Group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). He became a member of the PACE in 1994. On 6 March 2009 the Hungarian government nominated Eörsi to Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
Iulian Fota is former National Security Advisor to the President of Romania. He previously held the position of Parliamentary expert on defence and international relations issues at the PNŢCD Parliamentary Group in the Chamber of Deputies, Parliament of Romania. He has also served as the Assistant to the State Secretary for Defence Policy at the Ministry of Defence, Romania, and as the Head of the Defence Section of the Mission of Romania to NATO and WEU, at the NATO HQ in Brussels. Mr. Fota has been a Senior Adviser in the Department for European Integration and Defence Policy within the Ministry of Defence, Romania, until 2005, when he was appointed as Director of the National Defence College of Romania. The Educational background of Mr. Fota comprises a PhD in Political Sciences achieved at the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, Romania, as well as the graduation of the NATO Defence College in Rome, Italy and of the National Defence College in Bucharest, Romania.
István Gyarmati is an Hungarian political scientist. He is a member of the council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves is an Estonian politician who served as the fourth President of Estonia from 2006 until 2016. Ilves worked as a diplomat and journalist, and he was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in the 1990s.
Rasa Juknevičienė is a Lithuanian politician. In 1990 she was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. Rasa Juknevičienė served as Minister of Defense from 2008 to 2012.
Ambassador Ojars Kalnins was Ambassador to the U.S. and Mexico from January 1993 - December 1999. Prior to his positions at the Embassy of Latvia, he was public relations director of the American Latvian Association (ALA). Ojars Kalnins was raised and educated in the United States, and, once Latvia restored its independence, gave up his U.S. citizenship to become a diplomat. Following his posting as Ambassador, he moved to Latvia and worked as Director of the Latvian Institute www.li.lv from 2000-2010. He is now a Member of the 11th Saeima (Parliament), representing the party Vienotiba (Unity). He is also Chairman of the Saeima Foreign Affairs Committee.
Paweł Kowal is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for Poland Together. He is currently Chairman of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee in the European Parliament.
Janusz Adam Onyszkiewicz is a Polish mathematician, alpinist, politician and was a vice-president of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee from January 2007 until mid-2009.
Rosen Asenov Plevneliev is a Bulgarian politician who has been President of Bulgaria since January 2012. He was the Minister of Regional Development and Public Works from July 2009 to September 2011 as part of the cabinet of Boyko Borisov.
Karel Schwarzenberg, 12th Prince Schwarzenberg and 7th Prince Schwarzenberg, Duke of Krumlov is a Czech politician, former leader of TOP 09 party and its candidate for President of the Czech Republic in the 2013 election
Radosław Tomasz "Radek" Sikorski is a Polish politician and journalist. He was Marshal of the Sejm from 2014 to 2015 and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Donald Tusk's cabinet between 2007 and 2014.
Petras Vaitiekūnas is a Lithuanian politician who was the Foreign Minister of Lithuania from 2006 to 2008.
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga is a Latvian politician who served as the sixth President of Latvia and the first female President of Latvia. She was elected President of Latvia in 1999 and re-elected for the second term in 2003.
Alexandr "Saša" Vondra is a Czech politician, who stepped down from the political scene in 2012. He is a member of Civic Democratic Party.
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Source: Wikipedia mostly. Highlight name, right-click and choose Search Google.
They are not doing that. They are all Eastern European politicians with reasonably tough immigration controls.
It does not make its annexation legal.
These countries are NATO members. They are not asking for a new alliance.
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We have absolutely nothing in common with the socialist pigs of Europe, and they are in no way our “allies.”
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Baloney. Europe is being overrun by Muslims, and they are allowing it to happen.
Mourir pour la Crimée?
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>> “When are these countries going to quit harboring and pandering to our common enemy—the Islamic fascists—who wish to conquer and dominate every country on the planet?” <<
Probably on the “Day of Trumpets,” in the early fall of 2024, when the “governments of men” become “the governments of Yehova.”
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I say screw the European socialists and their muzzy-coddling ways. Trump knows that Putin’s Russia is our best ally in the defense of the Christian, Western values.
Well aren’t you nice. I was criticizing the source,not you.
Many here would have just told me to Google it myself.
Interesting group-—from countries that I have never visited (except Sweden) but several of my kids have been to Czech Republic,Hungary,Poland, and Bulgaria.
Thanks again for your thoughtfulness.
Soros’ friends, flooding themselves with Jihadists and wanting us to do the same. Won’t defend themselves against their actual invaders. Fuck them.
I’d take a wild guess and say it was America and her NATO allies that attempted to destabilize Ukraine in the first place. Would we be alright if Russia tried to put some military bases right next to our border? Probably not.
Regardless of that , I don’t want America to be the world’s police and be caught up in foreign entanglement.
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