Fresh off his meeting in the Vatican, where the Trump women annoyed the liberal modernist pope by dressing far too catholic, Donald Trump arrived in Brussels for a showdown with the bought and paid for career Eurocrats expecting him to carry on the trans-atlanticist flame and keep open the US money spigots filling their troughs.
Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump spoke of NATO being obsolete. He spoke of the organisation as being a disproportionate financial burden on the US and that it was not effective at fighting the real threat of the 21st century; international terrorism.
Now though, Trump has met with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and the US President is apparently convinced otehrwise.
Speaking next to Stoltenberg, Trump said:
NATO head Jens Stoltenberg – repositioning for potential dialogue between Russia and the US.
21st Century Wire says…
It’s too early to celebrate any real change in policy, but this week’s latest statement by NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg might be signalling a slight change of tact by NATO, no doubt influenced by the arrival of a new US Administration that appears determined to alter the previous Obama trajectory of antagonisation, provocateuring and permanent war-footing with Russia.
A day after Trump-Putin talk, NATO officials issue a flurry of statements.
By Brian Cloughley | CounterPunch | October 28, 2016 At the branch office of the Pentagon’s US-NATO military alliance in Brussels there is a never-ending whirl of activity and apart from provoking Russia by announcing an aggressive military surge around its borders, its latest achievement was to have Belgium issue “a commemorative stamp depicting the […]
(ANTIWAR) A day after reports NATO was soliciting even more ground troops for their deployment into Eastern Europe, officials are reporting “progress” in recruiting more troops from more member nations to participate in the deployment, intended to be around 40,000 troops along the Baltic states, near Russia’s border. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg claimed to have been […]
An exposé on the expansionist agenda of NATO which shows no intention of slowing down!
We travel to people and places important to us. If somebody looked at our travel itineraries over time, it would not be difficult to discover our priorities, our likes and dislikes, our beliefs and fears, the general pattern of how we live our lives and what we think about.
Mark Urban is the diplomatic and defence editor of BBC’s Newsnight that goes by the strap-line: “This is where the global struggle for peace and security gets incisive, informed, coverage.”
He has just written and headlined with “US remains reluctantly tied to global security role” – categorised under US/Canada.
Urban’s article starts with.
“Russian aggression” – the bad faith mantra of dishonest brokers
The principle Nazi ideological prop that secured massive financial and political support from Germany’s leading industrialists was the Communist and Soviet threat. The main Nazi military drive, absorbing two-thirds of its best troops, was directed eastward at conquering and destroying Russia. The ‘Russian Threat’ justified Nazi Germany’s conquest and occupation of the Ukraine, the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, with the aid of a substantial proportion of local Nazi collaborators.
