In an interview with the Voice of America the US Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Freed has said that NATO plays a positive role in supporting European stability and in all Russia’s history its borders have never been so reliably protected as at present owing to NATO and the European Union.
The US diplomat said that he voiced his opinion of an historian, not a politician. If so, he missed the target: his statement was made exactly 9 years after NATO launched aggression against former Yugoslavia. At that time NATO and U.S. strategists also assured the world that one of their aims was to ensure stability and security in Europe. Yet the NATO operation titled “Merciful Angel” had devilish consequences for the Yugoslav population. Bombardments and missile strikes which continued for 78 days ruined that country’s economy, power engineering, infrastructure, churches and schools pushing Yugoslavia ten years back in its development. The damage has been estimated at 100 billion dollars. Two and a half thousand people fell victim to the devilish operation. Let’s hope that self-proclaimed independence of Kosovo is the last act of US and NATO so-called mercy in Europe.
Russia is not Yugoslavia or Iraq, it is not the country with which the United States and NATO can speak from the position of strength. Yet Moscow clearly sees and analyses methods and means they use to promote their interests in the world. Bearing this in mind Russia sees NATO’s expansion to the East as a threat to its security. Certainly, it is foolish to claim that new NATO bases in Bulgaria and Romania and US anti-missile facilities in the Czech Republic and Poland will ensure Russia’s national interests.
Americans and NATO member-states are very clever at giving good names to their military and foreign policy operations. They say they bring to other nations freedom, democracy and prosperity… as if NATO is not a military block but a charity society with global responsibility. It is well to remind here that in the years of the cold war the United States called its most powerful nuclear missile “Peace-keeper”. You can imagine what kind of peace its ten warheads could bring to other nations, and they were much more powerful than those which were dropped on the heads of residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Mr. Freed as a politician and an historian, probably, wants to forget it, but it is a must that Russian leaders should be guided by realities of geo-politics and not by benevolent declarations coming from Washington and Brussels.
Viktor Yenikeyev
Chavez says US push for Kosovo independence aimed to contain Russia
H.Chavez, photo EPAThe United States has initiated Kosovo’s independence to prevent Russia from consolidating its positions on the international scene and create another hotbed of tension in the world. The opinion was ventured by Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez in his speech in the country’s state Sulia on Monday. According to him, to attain its objectives, Washington didn’t stop short of approving a terrorist as Kosovo’s leader. The US policy aims to divide nations and start up conflicts, said Chavez. Earlier the Venezuelan President aid his country would never recognize Kosovo’s independence.
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