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« Reply #45 on: March 23, 2022, 09:11:19 pm »
Pres. Biden Faces The 'Challenge Of A Generation' In Meeting With NATO Allies
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New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker and retired Marine Colonel Brendan Kearney discuss President Biden’s efforts at the NATO summit this week to keep allies on the same page in support for Ukraine.

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« Reply #46 on: March 26, 2022, 09:36:01 pm »
Be Not Afraid
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Be not afraid.

Under President Biden's steadfast leadership, we will remain united.


Westerners better hope Trump doesn't get re-elected with all this 'democracy is the greatest form of government ever created' hype at every turn!

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« Reply #47 on: March 27, 2022, 05:43:50 am »
On Facebook "Wang Wenbin Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeperson":

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On March 23, 1999 at 22:17, #NATO Secretary-General announced the "initiation of air operations in the Federal Republic of #Yugoslavia."

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« Reply #48 on: April 01, 2022, 12:16:40 pm »
All of Europe's Overlapping Security Alliances Explained - TLDR News
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Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there's been a lot of talk about NATO - the continent's preeminent security alliance. However, NATO is far from the only military alliance on the continent, so in this video we run through some of the biggest and most interesting.

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« Reply #49 on: April 06, 2022, 08:41:35 pm »
NATO must invade Russia ASAP!


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Top US general: Potential for ‘significant international conflict’ is increasing
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The top US military officer told lawmakers Tuesday that the world is becoming more unstable and the “potential for significant international conflict is increasing, not decreasing.”

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin appeared before the House Armed Services Committee in their first testimony before Congress since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The two Pentagon leaders said the threats from both Russia and China remain significant, while they defended the US approach to the war and the flow of arms the US is sending to Ukraine.

Milley said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is “the greatest threat to peace and security of Europe and perhaps the world” in his 42 years serving in the US military, but added it was “heartening” to see the world rally around Ukraine.

“The Russian invasion of Ukraine is threatening to undermine not only European peace and stability but global peace and stability that my parents and a generation of Americans fought so hard to defend,” Milley said.

“We are now facing two global powers: China and Russia, each with significant military capabilities both who intend to fundamentally change the rules based current global order,” Milley added. “We are entering a world that is becoming more unstable and the potential for significant international conflict is increasing, not decreasing.”

Lawmakers in both parties focused at the hearing on the weapons that were being provided to Ukraine, asking whether more could be done as Ukraine has continued to ask for additional capabilities.

“One of the biggest questions we’re going to have in this committee is, ‘How can we do more?’” House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith, a Washington state Democrat, said at the top of the hearing. “How can we make sure we’re doing absolutely everything we can to help them?”

Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama, the panel’s top Republican, said he would support the US setting up permanent bases in eastern NATO countries like Poland and the Baltics in order to deter Russia. Milley said that he would support establishing permanent bases but added that he thought US forces should rotate through them to create a deterrent without incurring the costs of moving family, establishing schools and other measures required when a permanent US base is established abroad.
Entire article: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/05/politics/mark-milley-ukraine-reaction-international-conflict/index.html

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« Reply #51 on: April 07, 2022, 11:11:17 pm »
Expert: Some In NATO Expect Ukraine To Subsidize Russian Gas ‘With Their Blood'
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The West continues to further isolate Russia amid growing evidence of war crimes in Ukraine. The European Union has agreed to ban Russian coal, but is still divided on Russian oil and gas, which remains untouched. Joy and her panel discuss why this needs to change.

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« Reply #52 on: April 08, 2022, 09:20:32 pm »
Finland pursuing NATO membership | NewsNation Prime
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Former U.S. Air Force Assistant Vice Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Richard Newton chimes in on Finland pursuing their NATO membership.

#Finland #NATO


Finland eyes NATO membership, hit with cyberattacks | NewsNation Prime
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As Finland weighs joining the NATO alliance, it was hit by cyberattacks on government websites on Friday. The country also had its airspace breached, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was speaking virtually to members of Finland's Parliament.

#Finland #NATO #Ukraine #Russia #Poland #America #VladimirPutin #JoeBiden #VolodymyrZelenskyy


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« Reply #53 on: April 08, 2022, 10:23:13 pm »
NATO must be ready for the worst case - war | NATO former Commander
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NATO’s former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Richard Shirreff speaks to Times Radio about Putin's war on Ukraine.


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« Reply #54 on: April 11, 2022, 11:58:44 pm »
Did NATO give Putin the green light to commit war crimes? | Tobias Ellwood
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Speaking to Jenny Kleeman and Chloe Tilley, chair of the select defence committee Tobias Ellwood said that NATO was partially responsible for Putin's war crimes in Ukraine.

He said: "We must learn and understand that our timidity, that I spoke of, has actually given Putin the green light, he's recognised that he can exploit how hesitant we've become, not really wishing to cross that line, hiding behind that NATO curtain if you like.

"And therefore, we've actually given Putin free rein to conduct war crimes."

Commenting on General Richard Shirreff's analysis that the West should prepare for war, he said: "We need to be get better as we did in the Cold War, of estimating, assessing and taking risks.

"This is so critical, because as you say the geopolitics of this are far far wider than just Ukraine itself.

"So we need to brace ourselves, prepare ourselves for war in order to defend peace. That's what we need to do now."

Asked whether sending more weapons to Ukraine would escalate the war, he said: "We should be mindful of, but not scared of, not spooked by the fact that he has nuclear weapons, and the fact that Putin keeps mentioning this."

Listen to Tobias Ellwood's interview in full on Times Radio.

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« Reply #55 on: April 12, 2022, 12:37:51 am »
Europe should 'escalate' to win the war with Russia | Riho Terras
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Estonian defence forces' former commander Riho Terras told Times Radio that NATO and European countries should "escalate" the war situation "to get the victory out of this war" and send offensive weapons to Ukraine.

Speaking to Stig Abell and Kate McCann, Riho Terras said: "It isn't about NATO, but at least every single NATO country needs to understand that this war in Ukraine is not about Ukraine.

"This war is about Europe, and about the Western value community.

"And the Ukrainians are fighting actually our war and Putin has very clearly said that it is about fighting NATO, fighting Western countries.

"And Medvedev a couple of days ago said that Putin wants to create a space from Lisbon to Vladivostok."

He added: "I would quote Churchill who said, 'We don't need peace, we need victory', because otherwise this evil will stay around and come every now and then again, with new ideas."


Putin has Western values. Russian leadership just hasn't changed as much from the colonial era when European countries were just as brutal as Russia still is today.

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After a period of political instability between 1598 and 1613, which became known as the Time of Troubles, the Romanovs came to power (1613) and the expansion-colonization process of the Tsardom continued. While western Europe colonized the New World, the Tsardom of Russia expanded overland – principally to the east, north and south.

This continued for centuries; by the end of the 19th century, the Russian Empire reached from the Baltic Sea, to the Black Sea, to the Pacific Ocean, and for some time included colonies in the Americas (1732–1867) and a short-lived unofficial colony in Africa (1889) in present-day Djibouti.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Russia

See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/russia-the-last-colonial-empire/

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« Reply #56 on: April 12, 2022, 11:30:19 am »
Will Finland and Sweden join NATO? | Retired NATO member Jamie Shea
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According to US officials, Finland and Sweden could join NATO as soon as this summer, following Russia's war on Ukraine.

Speaking to Ayesha Hazarika, former nato emerging security challenges deputy assistant secretary general Jamie Shea said: "The more that Russia tried to bully countries in Central and Eastern Europe out of joining NATO, the more fearsome that they became naturally, and therefore, the more they wanted to join the alliance.

"Russia is rather like the sort of pyrotechnic firefighter that constantly is trying to solve a problem that it itself has created."

He added that Finland had been the subject of repeated attacks from Russia in the past few days. He said: "What Finland or Sweden now see is that the security situation in Europe has deteriorated and they see that there is a potential threat to themselves.

"Just in the last couple of days, for example, Finnish airspace has been violated, Finland has been subjected to quite severe cyber attacks on its government institutions, its GPS signals have been jammed repeatedly, and so on."

Jamie Shea also talked about the potential use of chemical weapons in Ukraine by Russia, as well as the response NATO and the West should give to these new attacks.

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« Reply #57 on: April 13, 2022, 08:47:06 pm »
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Within weeks, not months....
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Finland and Sweden could soon join NATO, moves that would likely infuriate Moscow and that officials say would further underscore Russia's strategic error in invading Ukraine. CNN's Nic Robertson reports. #CNN #News


Former intelligence officer warns Putin could force NATO into war | 60 Minutes Australia
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In an exclusive interview with 60 Minutes on the border of Ukraine, former defence planner and intelligence officer with the British Army Philip Ingram says if Putin takes control over Ukraine, NATO has essentially given the ‘bully’ what he wants.


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Re: Atlantic Alliance Drifting Apart?
« Reply #58 on: April 14, 2022, 02:07:20 am »


This is another reason why it is leftists who should want the US to stop being a democracy.

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« Reply #59 on: April 14, 2022, 10:28:03 pm »
Russia issues nuclear threat to Europe
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Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has warned that Russia would deploy nuclear weapons in a new location if a red line is crossed.