Posted on 09/18/2011 9:54:47 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski in a private conversation with US diplomats in 2008 said that Germany protects Russian interests in NATO in return for access to the Russian market.
According to a US cable recently published by Wikileaks, Sikorski, in a conversation with the then US under secretary for global affairs Paula Dobriansky in Warsaw on 23 April 2008 "Wryly commented that many accused Poland of being the US Trojan horse in the EU when it joined in 2004, but there is another Trojan horse in NATO".
The cable went on: "Asked what the US strategy should be towards Germany and Russia, Sikorski responded that Germany appears to have a deal with Russia. 'They'll play with Russia and in return German companies will get hundreds of billions of euros of business there, a pretty good deal'."
Sikorski made the comment after Germany opposed giving Georgia and Ukraine a Membership Action Plan (MAP) at a NATO summit in Bucharest. The NATO decision came shortly before the Russia-Georgia war in the summer of 2008. Several commentators later said a positive MAP decision would have prevented the conflict, which has ended up with Russia occupying two Georgian provinces. …
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Shades of Molotov-Ribbentrop?
And just what happened there hummmm?
after schroeder’s post-office career, who can really doubt this?
Gee, Poland doesn’t like Germany or Russia? How long has this been going on?
What about the recent Exon/Mobil deal with Russia?
That has about as much impact.
Seems like a strange pairing.
This socialist communist scumbag (ex-German prime minister) has been making tens of millions working as Gazprom's salesman to Europe. Hopefully he gets cancer and drops dead before he can enjoy most of his ill gotten gain
I'd say they have their reasons.
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