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Posted on 04/20/2026 6:25:44 PM PDT by McGruff
Russia’s foreign minister delivered a prosecution of the American-led world order from Turkey’s annual diplomacy forum over the weekend. Sergey Lavrov called NATO an “aggressive bloc” and the rules-based international system a slogan that “never existed.” He said the war the U.S. and Israel launched against Iran was “a plan to control the oil through the Strait of Hormuz.”
Hours earlier, NATO’s deputy secretary-general told the same forum that Europeans and Canadians must now take primary responsibility for their own defense. Radmila Shekerinska said alliance credibility depends on action, not words.
The three-day Antalya Diplomacy Forum, with an estimated 6,400 participants from 150 countries around the world, underscored the NATO member’s growing role as a bridge connecting the West to a skeptical Middle East, Asia and Africa — and this year, the international conference came just two months before Ankara hosts its first NATO summit.
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Such great pleasure we take in watching NATO melt.
NATO is represented by girlie men and masculine women.
It was up to the Europeans to get involved.
2026 is going to be one for the history books. This looks to be positions being made and new alliances formed. The precursor to more conflict. You know what they say, a war economy is a prosperous economy.
“Hours earlier, NATO’s deputy secretary-general told the same forum that Europeans and Canadians must now take primary responsibility for their own defense.”
Donald Trump has been telling them that for a decade ...
Rots a Ruck doing that though: no money remaining for defense after the expense of supporting millions of domestic and foreign freeloaders, plus some of those countries are having trouble keeping the lights on right now ...
NATO was no longer needed when the USSR collapsed. The EU is now more dangerous to the US than Russia is.
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Ukraine seems to holding the Russians back pretty well.
Ending the Ukrainian/Russian conflict would allow NATO military stocks to build back up.
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