Sunday, February 19th., 2017
‘NATO should adapt to various challenges like Russia & ISIS’ – alliance’s ex-chief Rasmussen to RT
NATO should face its own inherent challenges first.Wash
itself away from the polluted basics, trainings, sterile mind-fixings it
has been imbibed into and contemplate with clear eyes in Humanity's future just around the corner.The
know-how, the scientifique, technologique, administrative, operative
abilities of the originally courageous personnel will then be trully
appreciated and valued by the society while covering real, not fakely created, needs .
Personnel's distorted, tortuous, compulsive labyriths of compartmentalized hearts, minds and concepts, funnel-drugged in the various Labs, Camps and Dirty War Fields are not useful in themselves and produce no 'healthy fruits ' in their own lives, let alone society.
On the contrary, they overall enslave them and create sad and unfortunate imbalances in the majority of personalities involved and their surroundings.
They need to consume 'assorted vice-lie-hypocricy-crime-bigotry mixtures' in order to keep up their own maintenance and satisfy the military-industrialist-jesuit-banking morbid affair that they image and serve.
They do not need that any more.We do not need that anymore.
Maria L. Pelekanaki
Personnel's distorted, tortuous, compulsive labyriths of compartmentalized hearts, minds and concepts, funnel-drugged in the various Labs, Camps and Dirty War Fields are not useful in themselves and produce no 'healthy fruits ' in their own lives, let alone society.
On the contrary, they overall enslave them and create sad and unfortunate imbalances in the majority of personalities involved and their surroundings.
They need to consume 'assorted vice-lie-hypocricy-crime-bigotry mixtures' in order to keep up their own maintenance and satisfy the military-industrialist-jesuit-banking morbid affair that they image and serve.
They do not need that any more.We do not need that anymore.
Maria L. Pelekanaki
Russia indeed poses a “challenge” to NATO, but of a different
kind than ISIS terrorism, the alliance’s former chief Anders Fogh
Rasmussen told RT. He believes NATO should adapt to the various threats
but ultimately deal with them from a “position of force.”
The
military alliance does not compare Russia with Islamic State (IS,
formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorism since it does not measure whether one
threat is worse that another, but deems them both as “challenges,” NATO's former Secretary General told RT on the sidelines of the annual Munich Security Conference in Germany.
“I don’t think we should rank treats. I consider Russia a
challenge, I consider the Islamic State a challenge, and they should be
addressed in different ways. That’s actually the essence of this, that
NATO should adapt to be able both to address territorial challenges as
well as challenges from overseas like terrorism.”
The so-called “territorial challenges” which NATO faces according to Rasmussen are apparently tensions along Russia’s borders, namely the Ukraine unrest and concerns over Moscow’s potential “aggression” across other Eastern European states. Rasmussen believes the tensions are Moscow’s own strategy; to set its own borders ablaze to keep NATO out, and not a result of the bloc's expansion into post-Soviet countries.
“It is Putin’s strategy to keep conflicts in the near neighborhood similarly or frozen, because he knows if that he can keep these conflicts similarly or frozen then he will keep his neighbors dependent on the Kremlin and economically weak, and he will prevent them from seeking Euro-Atlantic integration with NATO and the European Union,” Rasmussen said.
To prevent Russia from pursuing this alleged “strategy,” NATO should do its best to implement the Minsk agreement, which is rather confusing since Russia itself has constantly been calling the warring sides of the Ukrainian civil war to stick with this deal for the past two years.
“This is also the reason why we should focus on the implementation of the Minsk deal. And the ultimate goal should be to restore full Ukrainian control with the eastern borders,” Rasmussen said.
While NATO is refusing cooperation with Russia, it is ready for “dialogue,” and Rasmussen fully supports the US approach to talks with Moscow from a position of strength and even refers to a “very successful” Cold War experience.
“Dialogue is always good. But I think any dialogue should take place from a position of strength, and that’s exactly what Vice President Pence also stressed today. He said 'Peace through strength.' And the same did president Reagan in the past, and very successfully. He said ‘we will need a stronger US to make sure that the Russians understand that we’re sincere.’”
But according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, political dialogue and diplomacy do not make any sense without the resumption of military cooperation.
“NATO’s expansion has led to an unprecedented level of tension over the last 30 years in Europe,” Lavrov said in Munich, rejecting the idea of such “dialogue.”
“What kind of relationship do we want with the US? One [based on] pragmatism, mutual respect, and an understanding of special responsibility for global stability,” the Russian FM stated.
READ MORE: Lavrov: NATO expansion led to tension in Europe unprecedented in last 30 years
The stealthy approach of “dialogue from a position of strength” seems to even apply to Washington’s own allies, whom the US has pressured to contribute their “fair share” of 2 percent of GDP on maintaining NATO.
But Rasmussen says this call should not be treated as a threat. “We should consider this statement from the US not as threat but as a welcome opportunity how can we, Europeans invest more, not only economically but also politically into transatlantic bond.”
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The so-called “territorial challenges” which NATO faces according to Rasmussen are apparently tensions along Russia’s borders, namely the Ukraine unrest and concerns over Moscow’s potential “aggression” across other Eastern European states. Rasmussen believes the tensions are Moscow’s own strategy; to set its own borders ablaze to keep NATO out, and not a result of the bloc's expansion into post-Soviet countries.
“It is Putin’s strategy to keep conflicts in the near neighborhood similarly or frozen, because he knows if that he can keep these conflicts similarly or frozen then he will keep his neighbors dependent on the Kremlin and economically weak, and he will prevent them from seeking Euro-Atlantic integration with NATO and the European Union,” Rasmussen said.
To prevent Russia from pursuing this alleged “strategy,” NATO should do its best to implement the Minsk agreement, which is rather confusing since Russia itself has constantly been calling the warring sides of the Ukrainian civil war to stick with this deal for the past two years.
“This is also the reason why we should focus on the implementation of the Minsk deal. And the ultimate goal should be to restore full Ukrainian control with the eastern borders,” Rasmussen said.
While NATO is refusing cooperation with Russia, it is ready for “dialogue,” and Rasmussen fully supports the US approach to talks with Moscow from a position of strength and even refers to a “very successful” Cold War experience.
“Dialogue is always good. But I think any dialogue should take place from a position of strength, and that’s exactly what Vice President Pence also stressed today. He said 'Peace through strength.' And the same did president Reagan in the past, and very successfully. He said ‘we will need a stronger US to make sure that the Russians understand that we’re sincere.’”
But according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, political dialogue and diplomacy do not make any sense without the resumption of military cooperation.
“NATO’s expansion has led to an unprecedented level of tension over the last 30 years in Europe,” Lavrov said in Munich, rejecting the idea of such “dialogue.”
“What kind of relationship do we want with the US? One [based on] pragmatism, mutual respect, and an understanding of special responsibility for global stability,” the Russian FM stated.
READ MORE: Lavrov: NATO expansion led to tension in Europe unprecedented in last 30 years
The stealthy approach of “dialogue from a position of strength” seems to even apply to Washington’s own allies, whom the US has pressured to contribute their “fair share” of 2 percent of GDP on maintaining NATO.
But Rasmussen says this call should not be treated as a threat. “We should consider this statement from the US not as threat but as a welcome opportunity how can we, Europeans invest more, not only economically but also politically into transatlantic bond.”