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Back on track: Russia and NATO resume military ties
Published: 26 January, 2010, 21:14
Edited: 17 March, 2010, 21:36
Russia’s and NATO’s military chiefs have met for the first time since the conflict in South Ossetia. The situation in Afghanistan as well as anti-missile defense plans were among the main topics discussed in Brussels.
I dont know why NATO would even talk to Russia. Russia cannot nor should ever be trusted.
In my opinion, Russia is just the caucasian version of Iran.
Faith Are you talking facts or fiction? Your opinion is very shallow, narrow minded and subjectively focused as history tells us that NATO is the one which cannot be trusted, not Russia.
The truth is Iran is not even half as bad as western media wants us to believe. You should look into for yourself and have an informed opinion instead of just repeating what you have heard. Russia is the last hope for millions around the world as she is the only country that can stop the NWO. Russia is a strong and powerful nation with great leaders, we could only dream of having such leadership the United States right now. Lets prey Russia stands firm for all that is true, good and right. If that happens we are all going to be ok.
Alex, Russia does have the correct principles and the strength to see them through, creating a mutipolar balanced world. However, people need understand us, we see the big picture, we see the whole strategy. Therefore we sometimes can be seen doing things that go against those long term principles and values. That is because we play for the result, we manage goals and we are aware of the practicalities. We will move to get results to fulfill our goals. We may sacrifice and concede things along the way, but we will achieve our goals, the goals you speak of. History has shown we will deal with who we have to, we will concede what we have to, but we will win as we have to, and those overiding principles of a multipolar balance will come about. Then every body wins. It has started already. Some wars are ending, coordination of the world is more widespread, large capital power bases are starting to be atacked. The west and NATO are poles, we deal with all poles, otherwise we wouldn't be multipoar would we!
This is a very good development for Russia!!! First, Russia is expected to sell weapons to Afghan Government and funds for that will be provided by US. Secondly, we all know that the members of Afghan official military will in short terms pass the obtained weaponry onto the Taliban fighters, as they have always been doing. The Talibans will accordingly kill much more American soldiers, as the Russian weaponry is known for being very effective. That means that corpses of US soldiers will begin to flow increasingly to their respective home-places in united states, a development that cannot be bad for the vast majority of countries of the free world, and Russia will make a profit on that. That is what I call a god basis for the NATO-Russia collaboration. Rogozin made a good job!!!
Vladimir - Excellent analysis!!!
USA and NATO are still and all the time aiming at to blockade, to surround and to isolate Russia militarily with the help of its own troops and NATO troops. We can see and feel that warlike US and NATO expansion policy here in Finland as a Russian neighbouring country. Finnish people is and has been strongly against NATO membership. Only about 20 % of Finns are in favour of NATO membership and about 80 % against. That situation has been very stable for years, but when Bush-Rumsfeldt administration started its NATO expansion policy to isolate and surround Russia, our conservative party which had no own and meaningful domestic foreign policy and experience began to work for USA in order to get Finland into NATO. However, the conservative party did not succeed in changing the attitudes of Finnish people despite a very aggressive NATO campaign in Finland. So, about a week ago the Finnish Social Democratic Party announced that during the next 4 years' ruling period it will not support and approve any attempt of joining Finland in NATO. Subsequently, that meant a concrete stop for the conservative party's NATO policy in domestic affairs, but the one who guessed that the conservative party, USA and NATO would give up in Finland, committed a big error. Yesterday the Secretary General of NATO, Mr. Rasmussen from Danmark declared that "if Finland will not join NATO, NATO will join Finland". According to him NATO will widen the partnership so that Finland and Sweden as militarily non aligned countries could become closer to NATO and as a part of NATO's military structure. Those words of Mr. Rasmussen must be understood as a intention to get Finland into NATO outside and in spite of the Finnish own democratic and parlamentary desision making. Of course he couldn't mention that by himself. He must have had support for that announcement from the conservative party and the consecutive foreign minister of Finland.
As usual, Russia is the sucker. Her leaders seem to like being (I don't know if there is a similar say in english. Time en time again, the proof was given that whatever decide America should be the way to do; there is absolutely no SINCERITY involved...Sorry Future Russian Generations ! Your friend: Jean-Claude Meslin
In a precedent comment I talked about sincerity which is the base of all human relations. Let us develop further that subject. We know than when talking to NATO, it is the same than talking to the US Pentagone. So, Be careful ! Recently two topics made me wonder. 1) Mr Peter Lavelle show called: Armed to the teeth. We could notice that 80% of all conventional armaments were made by white peoples' states (USA, Russia, G-B, France & Germany). If we add WMD (weapons of mass destruction) that percentage goes highier. Consequently white humans have always been mankind's troubles-makers. 2) A few days ago, there was a topic: BRIC by BRIC, even adding a S for South-Africa to join. In such an association, white Russians will be quiet minority (around 5%). Consequently: how sincere is Russia in that Union ? Is-it not nicer for Mr Lavrov to talk to Hillary Clinton and for Mr Medvedev to deal with friends from Wall-Street, with former US secretaries of state, or with the "uncle Tom" N-PiPO-Obama (who was just a well conceived plan to full the American people and the whole World) than to Chinese, Indian, Brazilian or South-African decisions-makers. That is the fundamental question to ask if we really want to believe in a new World's governance...Sincerely. Jean-Claude Meslin
Mikhail Troitsky didn’t miss the chance to remind us that NATO is the World’s most powerful political and military alliance and advices Russia to come to terms with NATO or.......