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How Toothless Is NATO Over Russia And Crimea?
NBC News ^ | March 18, 2014 | BY ALASTAIR JAMIESON AND ALEXANDER SMITH

Posted on 03/18/2014 9:42:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

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To: Jim Robinson

Well, we should expect the good Lord to humiliate us if we’ve shamefully dropped the ball.


21 posted on 03/18/2014 11:06:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Army Air Corps
Getting involved in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s was a mistake

Something worse than a mistake.It was maliciously perverse.

22 posted on 03/18/2014 11:07:21 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: arthurus

Who wins a feud like that one was, anyhow.

Muslims and (nominal) Christians, with grudges that went further back than Columbus’ voyage.


23 posted on 03/18/2014 11:11:26 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: KarlInOhio
...how we could not look too closely at Saudi involvement in 9/11.

Sixteen of twenty of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi citizens, proving conclusively that Mossad did it.

24 posted on 03/18/2014 11:31:52 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: arthurus
Something worse than a mistake.It was maliciously perverse.

Indeed...Just doing the bidding for our Wahabbist Saudi Masters, to provide a future base for Jihad in Europe.

25 posted on 03/18/2014 11:33:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: arthurus; Army Air Corps
Something worse than a mistake. It was maliciously perverse.

And it was calculated.

26 posted on 03/18/2014 11:34:08 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: TigersEye

“NATO gave up all credibility when it invaded the sovereign nation of Serbia
and forced it to give up part of itself to narco-terrorist Muslim criminals.”

Without the approval of the UN Security Council - exit “the respect of international law”.

“It reinforced that lack of credibility by doing much the same to Libya.”

Without the approval of the UN Security Council, which only approved the montoring of a no-fly zone over Libya - exit “ the respect of international law”.


32 posted on 03/18/2014 11:54:09 PM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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“Joe Biden began a reassurance tour of east European allies Tuesday, promising that the current diplomatic crisis over Russia would leave NATO “stronger and more unified than ever.”~~~

Well, we know the truth is the opposite of what the pathological liars Biden and his boss are, so......”

The last thing NATO European members want is to engage in a military showdown with Russia. So how NATO will be “stronger and more unified than ever”, it remains to be seen.


33 posted on 03/19/2014 12:00:26 AM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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“Obama needs a big distraction from all sorts of things.”

For a man who thinks “Austrian” is a language and that people in Afganistan speak Arabic, and even doesn’t know Europe is a continent, not a country, his sudden interest in a speck of the world map called Crimea, that he couldn’t locate on a map by himself, seems more than suspect.

Doesn’t he some work to do as president in his own country, than worry what’s happening somewhere 7,000 miles away from home?


35 posted on 03/19/2014 12:22:02 AM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: Marguerite

LOL, yeah, most civilized nations seek not to have war. Except Russia.

Trust me. Nato would make quick work of Russian forces.

Russian conscripts are no match for the West’s professional military and technology.


36 posted on 03/19/2014 1:47:26 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Lectio Divina...Adoration...Mass)
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Napoleon Bonaparte would disagree.

USNATO is only good at bombing from above. And with Russia this won’t work.
Once USNATO put troops on the ground, they are f...d.
See Iraq and Afghanistan.


37 posted on 03/19/2014 1:55:18 AM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: Marguerite
Napoleon Bonaparte would disagree

Everyone has their Waterloo.

Napoleon's downfall was caused by the same stupidity as our Waterloos...... A stupid, impatient public driven by a media with all sorts of think tanks or intellectuals with crap for brains. Or so it appears...

It starts with..."We have to go and intervene", and then becomes. "Please make it stop" If you stop the public stupidity, you stop the Waterloos...

38 posted on 03/19/2014 2:08:24 AM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: Marguerite

“Napoleon Bonaparte would disagree.”

Unfortunately, for Russia, carriages and horses are no longer used in battle.

Russia in impotent in modern battle.

The West doesn’t need to fight the weak Russians. This Putin charade will fail over time. It will implode just like the Soviet Union did.


39 posted on 03/19/2014 2:11:05 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Lectio Divina...Adoration...Mass)
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To: Jet Jaguar
We and NATO are out of money.

Not to mention force structure, unless we want to see another Task Force Smith speedbump fiasco.

40 posted on 03/19/2014 2:11:05 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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