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"NATO is under American thumb”
Published: 04 December, 2009, 19:32
Edited: 18 September, 2010, 01:51
TAGS: Arms, Military, NATO, Georgia, Kosovo, Russia, Politics, Europe, USA
John Laughland, Director of Studies at the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation in Paris shared his views on NATO-Russia missile defense and other topics with RT.
The analyst said that the initiative to explore the possibility of joint Russia-NATO-US missile defense shows that NATO simply follows the US policies in the field. Apart from that, he talked about the possibility of Allied Forces’ withdrawal in 18 months, and disagreements between Russia and NATO on the recognition of newly-appearing states, namely South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Kosovo.
"NATO is losing massively in Afghanistan. The announcement that 30,000 more American troops will be sent there, thousands more of British troops as well, shows that the problem is absolutely intractable. They say this is an exit strategy, they say that they want to get out in one and a half years – we'll have to wait and see,” John Laughland said.
“And I think that they have looked at the issues closely and they have realized that this confrontation with Russia is doing them no good at all. And as they stare defeat in the face in Afghanistan, they need to get Moscow on their side somehow. So I think this is a symbolic attempt to do that. I don't, incidentally, believe that the missile shield itself will even lead to anything substantial. But it is, yes, a symbolic development in terms of relations between the West, between NATO and Russia.”
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To Thomas from "HELL". President Eisenhower 'speech to warn Americans and the rest of the World was made on January 1961; not in 1957. Until 1981, America had to deal with the Viet-Nam war, Watergate and the consequences of those two events. The control of the US-NATO consorcium's government and the making of the materialist-military priorities was done by that creep Reagan who gave the keys to his MIC cronies (including that useless AMD which has already costed 300 billions $ to the US taxpayers). He received a great help from his friend: the CIA pope: Jean-Paul 2. Luckily, they are now, both in HELL. They have left us in a terrible mess and it is up to peoples like you to objectively analyze the situation and repair the mess made by a voting naive US society. Sincerely...JCM
Sarah, Your succint postings concerning the American tendency to pool countries committed to American ideology into NATO, is an incontrovertible truth. And as would be rememberred , The WARSAW PACT was founded as a direct response to the aggressive post war anti -Soviet , anti - communist posture of NATO. Consonant with the yearning of the people for peace , understanding and cooperation the Warsaw pact constitution which was adopted in 1956 stated the objective of ensuring that science , mutual economic cooperation , socialist education will be used first and foremost to foster peace among member states and to deliver nations in accordance with the UN Charter from the horrors of war. In contrast, it will be recalled that in regards to Eastern Europe a strategic policy arm of NATO called COCOM was founded in November 1945 on the USA's initiative precisely to restrict western trade with the USSR and Eastern Europe .At every stage subsequntly, COCOM (NATO Coordinating Committee), included all the NATO countries plus Japan. Its paramount objectives were to compile lists of commodities whose export to the socialist countries are banned, to consider applications from member countries to deliver such banned items and to supervise the observance of its export restrictions.Incredibly enough, banned were not only commodities designed for military use, but also purely civilian products of the metal working, power and engineering machinery industries , and so on.Thus NATO served through COCOM as an instrument of technological war which the WEST, and Primarily the USA waged against the socialist countries, against the interest of mankind, against RUSSIA primarily. By wooing other countries with promises that they would supply them with advanced technology and by threatning to suspend such deliveries should they decline to follow its dictates, Washington binds its allies to the policy of tying their economies more firmly to its domination. Right!
NATO is certainly a totalitarian organisation with no regard for legality (surely Yugoslavia has not been forgotten?). It is an enemy of all national sovereignty and a front for the expansion of the US Empire. I think involvement with it by Russia should be circumspect. There is no really good justification for the continued existence of NATO.