Posted by seumasach on December 23, 2008
So it’a OK for the US to set up missile systems in countries neighbouring Russia, but not OK for Russia to sell missiles to countries bordering countries the US has invaded.
22nd December, 2008
U.S. officials say they want answers from Russia on whether it is selling advanced surface-to-air missiles to Iran. The U.S. insists such a move could threaten American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Posted by seumasach on December 21, 2008
20th December, 2008
Press TV ~ Moscow offers to retreat from renovating its nuclear arsenal, but wants President-elect Obama to shelve the missile shield plans in return.
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Posted by seumasach on December 20, 2008
WASHINGTON, December 19 (RIA Novosti) – The United States and Ukraine have agreed on strategic partnership in economic development, energy and defense aiming to strengthen Kiev’s potential as a NATO aspiring state.
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Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2008
William F. Engdahl
9th December, 2008
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ministers in Brussels have decided to ignore the wishes of the United States and delay the admission of Georgia and the Ukraine, in effect indefinitely, in what the George W Bush administration is sheepishly trying to claim is a positive “compromise”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on December 3, 2008
2nd December, 2008
Ukraine is moving to soothe relations with Russia as Nato loses interest in offering rapid membership of the alliance.
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Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2008
9th October, 2008
NASHVILLE: The US presidential candidates assailed Russia on Tuesday, with Democrat Barack Obama saying Moscow had engaged in “evil” behaviour and Republican John McCain saying it was “maybe” an evil empire.
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Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2008
Unfortunately for Obama, much more useful to McCain. Obama, remember, is the “peace candidate” and beating war drums will not strengthen his base. In addition his Brzezinski inspired anti-Russian programme is of the covert, Soros type. That agenda is now in shreds and McCain is leading the New Cold War.
Andrei Tsygankow
4th September, 2008
The United States presidential candidates increasingly present Russia as a threat in their campaigns. Republican Senator John McCain is clearly thriving on the recent Georgia-Russia war. Escalation in the Caucasus has been lobbied by McCain since at least 2003, and he is now exploiting the conflict to his full advantage.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2008
SEVASTOPOL, September 1 (RIA Novosti) – The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dallas, which arrived on Monday morning at the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol where Russia has a naval base, has refused to go ashore amid anti-NATO protests, customs officers said. (U.S. Coastguard cutter Dallas enters Sevastopol Harbor – video)
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Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2008
BERLIN, August 30 (RIA Novosti) – The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has accumulated evidence pointing to “numerous wrong decisions” made by Georgian leaders that led to a military crisis with Russia, Der Spiegel said on Saturday.
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Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2008
Russia will not be isolated because it protected its citizens and upheld its peacekeeping mission, the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said. In an interview on German TV, Putin suggested that if Russia had not responded to Georgian aggression, there could have been a tragedy along the scale of what happened in the former Yugoslavia.
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2008
Jordanian left writer Nahid Hattar says in an op-ed in AlArab alYaum the new confrontation between Russia and America will have an impact on Arab affairs, resulting from greater Russian militancy, and he lists some of the areas where he thinks there could be changes: (1) Russian destruction of a Georgian airbase was a warning to America against attacking Russian ally Iran over its nuclear program; (2) Syria will be strengthened in its relations with Israel and with Lebanon; (3) moreover domestically, Syria will probably become less captive to the privatization/capitalist movement; (4) and it won’t be possible to talk any more about disarming Hizbullah or altering the internal Lebanese dynamics. And Hamas will be stronger.
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