“Some European powers, like Germany, have been counseling restraint, anxious not to aggravate the crisis and jeopardize their energy supplies from Russia.”
Oh what a tangled web we weave.
Russia is mocking NATO - and I guess rightfully so. NATO is showing itself to be nearly as irrelevant as the UN.
And why in the world would Russia have a representative to NATO? I always thought that NATO was organized as a defense AGAINST Russia and it’s aggression...
Bring our troops home and let NATO defend Europe. Maybe George Washington had the right idea afterall. Those ninnies don’t want to be free.....
It’s obvious now.....Russian troops have not had the sensitivity and diversity training that American Troops have had.
Well... at least the “nuclear threat” has dropped, huh?
If NATO is not careful, it could begin to give isolationism a good name again in this country.
If we rely on NATO, it’s going to be another UN/Iraq scenario. In other words, at the request of non-combatants, we’ll wait until the enemy has gotten strong enough to cost us (that is, the US) billions of dollars to uproot. NATO and the UN are about on the same level nowadays.
If anyone is going to do something, it has to be the people who have an immediate motivated self interest such as Georgia, Ukraine, Poland and the rest of the former Soviet states and territories who want to remain "former" and don't want history to repeat itself. Europe is lost unless or until they feel threatened enough to act...and by then it'll be too late, just like it was twice last century. The lesson they seem to have learned is to surrender until someone like the US saves them.
Just this morning, I was looking for a place to insert reference to the flick "The Mouse that Roared." I figured Russia would sooner or later equate itself to that flick and story. Description: An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose.
BTW: It's a comedy.
If the above is what Mr. Rogozin has said, this tells me Russia has begun to feel the pinch.