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I think the question that needs asking is, why is the corpse of NATO being revived into a military alliance directed against Russia? Membership for the Ukraine and Georgia? A look at the map of the Black Sea Coast leads me to ask What The FCUK? Inviting those two countries into NATO can no way be considered as anything but a hostile act, tantamount to Canada and Mexico having been invited into the Warsaw Pact. Thankfully, at least one country in NATO chose not to reignite the Cold War. And cold it would be. Hint: where will Germany and Ukraine get their natural gas? The burning fields of Iran?
Then there's the official line from Yesterday's Washington Post, bemoaning the fate of these fledgling democracies, Ukraine and Georgia, as if they were post-war Latvia and Estonia, fer chrissakes, to Stalinist Russia. Western elites will ruin the world yet. Probably, any day now.
You mean NATO wasn't always a military alliance against Russia?
The question is what threat Russia poses now that justifies reviving NATO's corpse. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
Anthony
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
And clearly you know all this much better than I do, Migeru. I just wonder why the western public is so intensely stupid or indifferent as to tolerate this reflexive reversion of their "alliances" into 19th century Great Game policies. Yet more evidence that the NeoCon dream of repealing the 20th century is close to realisation.
That aside, we would likely see a reversion to the Great Game way of doing geopolitics anyway, because we are moving into an era where the global conditions are favourable towards that kind of strategy. In fact, the only people who don't seem to have realised this is the Atlanticists, who seemingly can't or won't accept that in a multi-polar world there is no real reason that Europe can't set itself up as an independent power in a way that were precluded during the bi-polar and uni-polar worlds of (the second half of) the 20th century.
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