... Norway having lifted some of its earlier limitations on NATO’s use of the Northern Norwegian coastline. Being a predominantly continental military power, Russia cannot hope to defeat NATO in a large-scale conventional naval war, but it can try to deny NATO forces access to the Russian Arctic while maintaining secure access to the Northern Atlantic for the Russian Navy.
The nuclear dimension is different. The Russian Northern Fleet is the largest, the most advanced and the most strategically important fleet in the Russian Navy....
... the German Green Party: it has transmogrified from a peace-loving, environment-loving movement to a warlike anti-Russian party. It is bizarre that a youngish woman, Annalena Baerbok, a Green, is German Foreign Minister, doing all she can to promote NATO’s anti-Russia agenda. Most undiplomatically, another leader, Kaja Kallas, the EU foreign policy chief, said on
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after the Trump-Zelensky confrontation: “Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader.” Many are entitled to think that her ...
... president is going to sacrifice Paris for the sake of Berlin? It seems that it is time for the French ‘deep state’ and the French people to get rid of idiots from important positions.
But no one is attacking Western Europe. We are responding to NATO’s long-standing military and political aggression. The best way to ensure broader European security is to respect Russia’s interests and even to be friends with it. But so far the pygmies at the top of Europe have failed to realise this. It is time to change or defeat them
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RT
... White House empty-handed, without even a damage limitation plan to think about. The future of bilateral relations between the United States and Ukraine remains unclear; the same can be said about the future of the US engagement in the settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. It is up to psychologies to conclude at what exact point in time the conversation got really out of hand and what triggered the evident deviation of the meticulously prepared event from the official protocol, but the results ...
The breakdown of private Russia-NATO diplomacy increases the risks of a terrible event
The ongoing standoff over Ukraine is increasingly becoming a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO, raising serious concerns about the risk of nuclear escalation.
In this new phase, both ...
... legitimacy by its participants. By recognising each other’s legitimacy, the largest European powers – Austria, Britain, Russia, Prussia and royal France – directly or indirectly acted together against the internal enemy, i.e., a potential revolution against ... ... integration has been developing in such a way as not to pose a significant threat to the monopoly of the national elites on power.
NATO, as the most organised and effective military alliance in history, serves as an example of how significant for cooperation ...
... the Montreux Convention provisions remain in their frozen state even today [Sotnichenko, 2010: 227]. Turkey, frightened by the USSR’s claims, embarked on a course to join a Western military alliance, which eventually led to its admission into the NATO. The pressure exerted by the USSR was perceived by Turkey through the prism of its historic antagonism with Russia (“The fear of a possible capture of the Straits by Russia was ingrained in the consciousness of all classes in Turkey”, the US Ambassador observed
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. Turkey’s track for pursuing diplomacy with the Soviet Union thus began its long journey ...
... and what the stakes in this war are.
How likely do you think it is that a military or diplomatic solution can be achieved, or do you see a greater risk of the conflict spiraling into something even larger with Ukrainian forces receiving more advanced NATO weaponry and entering Russian territory?
Making guesses is not my job. What I want to say is that we have been trying to extinguish this crisis for more than a decade, yet each time we put to paper agreements that suit everyone, Kiev and its masters would backpedal. This exactly ...
... elite nationalism was fully supported by the West and flourished, especially under the hypothetical ‘security umbrella’ of NATO. The Georgian state, on the other hand, had to grow up the hard way.
Finally, Georgia has a relatively good geographical ... ... the early days of independence, Tbilisi hoped to sell its territory for the US to use as a military base for missions against Russia and Iran. Now the Georgian authorities are using their geography for peaceful purposes, becoming a kind of bridge between ...
... to the current ‘European values’ under American auspices. As mentioned above, the breakthrough of the former ‘outcasts’ into the first echelon does not mean a rearrangement of the elites, but instead the normalization of the newcomers. The EU/NATO framework has a high safety margin to keep the political field within the same parameters. This brings us to the question of whether we should expect any changes in course that would affect Russian interests. So far, the answer is no.
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RT
