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NATO ‘failing to adjust’ - envoy
Published: 16 November, 2011, 17:40
Edited: 17 November, 2011, 07:02
Russian ambassador to Nato Dmitry Rogozin (AFP Photo / JOHN THYS)
TAGS: Military, NATO, Russia, Politics, Europe
NATO is not adjusting to a post-Cold War reality. That is according to Russia’s envoy to the bloc after the session of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels on Wednesday.
Dmitry Rogozin said Russian officials face a “complete lack of understanding” from NATO on major European security issues and cited NATO’s extremely reactionary desire to keep Cold-War treaties in place.
“We were also surprised that NATO officials persist in clinging to a treaty that is long dead, instead of recognizing the reality that there is no threat whatsoever to the West from the East.” Rogozin said.
The Russian envoy also said some European participants at the council session wanted to build trust between Russia and NATO, to which Rogozin replied that the best exercise in this respect would be NATO’s refusal to develop military plans against the Russian Federation. This was President Medvedev’s suggestion at the Lisbon Summit one year ago, but Rogozin noted that NATO had yet to respond to it.
“What kind of partners are we if NATO is making military plans against Russian cities and Russian people? And this cannot be left without reciprocal measures on our part,” Rogozin stressed. Russia side had again proposed a fresh start with NATO but that only when the bloc gives up its military plans against Russia will it be possible to discuss other forms of cooperation.
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@Marzipan6 (unregistered) November 17, 2011, 14:14
You did not notice that you wrote about status quo of a state instead of a state and its relations with neighbors. Relations that determine the security of the state.
Canny but pure demagogy.
Regards
Marzipan6 We do not want to imagine if the Third Reich won WWII because the scenario is too painful and shocking. But in the Baltic countries though they act as though the fascists were the winners in WWII or at least should have won the war. More urgently, today, neo-fascists are on the march again inside and outside Germany. However, the Russians cannot just complain—the Russians must do something concrete and significant to halt the fascists’ march toward the East.
To NWO: it is easy to repeat Stalin's slurs. Answering the substance of my post is harder, and you have not tried to explain how the hypothetical Germany that I described differs from the actual post-Soviet Russia, or why our attitude towards the one should differ from our attitude towards the other. But don't let that get you down, because no one else can, either. Including P202. To whom I point out that Russia's unsatisfactory relations with its neighbours are a direct consequence of its almost complete failure to deal with its Soviet legacy.
It's interesting to trace the origins of NWO's Nazi slur. Stalin represented Estonia as a legitimate part of the Soviet Union, not as a conquered and illegally occupied foreign country. The Red Army had been brainwashed into the official view, and thought they were returning to liberate the Soviet homeland. They couldm't understand why Estonians didn't want not a bar of them, or why Estonia looked, sounded and behaved like a foreign country. Stalin's politruks made sure that the actual reason didn't occur to them, namely, that it WAS a foreign country.
Moscow had to find another reason to explain Estonians' absolute resistance to all things Soviet, so they simply slandered them by calling them Nazis -- Nazis fought Russians, Estonians fought Russians, therefore Estonians are Nazis.And the slur stuck. Although not even Stalin's liemasters or their latter-day successors have tried to explain why a supposedly enthusiastically new Soviet republic of 1940 turned out to be allegedly enthusiastic Nazis in 1941, why they bitterly fought against Russians' return in 1944, but thereafter became happy and enthusiastic little Soviets again in 1945, supposedly stayed that way till 1991 when they couldn't get out from under the Soviet yoke quick enough, and subsequently equated the Nazi occupation of their country with the Soviet occupation, and equally condemned both.
A hard one, that, isn't it.