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26Oct

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NATO, Russia

Is NATO Preparing for War on Russia?

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman Bilateral Russia/US relations are dismal – so far confined to a war of words, risking things turning hot. Hostile US actions include: deploying US-led NATO forces close to Russia’s border – breaching the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE -1991), limiting conventional military equipment in Europe; staging provocative military exercises in bordering countries, rehearsing belligerence against the Russian Federation; notably using Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland as training grounds for US-led NATO wars; preparing for hybrid and conventional war on Russia; inventing and hyping a nonexistent “Russian threat;” abandoning the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty; breaching the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force...

26Jun

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NATO

Ending NATO, a Monstrous Institution

NOVANEWS By Karel van Wolferen • Unz Review Their anxiety about the future of NATO, recently on full display again when the American president was in Europe, could not be bettered as a measure of the incapacity of Europe’s top politicians to guide their continent and represent its populations. Through its provocations of Moscow, NATO systematically helps increase the risk of a military confrontation. By thus sabotaging its declared purpose of preserving collective security for the countries on either side of the Atlantic, it erases its fundamental reason for being and right to exist. Grasping these facts ought be enough to fuel moves aimed at quickly doing away with NATO. But it is terrible for more and easily overlooked reasons. NATO’s survival prevents the political entity that is th...

18Mar

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Europe

Brussels, NATO, and the Globalists: In Total Disarray

NOVANEWS By Phil Butler – New Eastern Outlook The EU, NATO, and the western alliance have utterly failed the people of eastern Europe. The unrequited love of former Soviet bloc nations is slowly turning to scorn. The Euromaidan and ensuing civil war have laid bare an ideological and cultural divide ages old. With Brussels and NATO reeling from recent events, the fear mongering used to leverage aligned nations is losing its effectiveness. A meeting in between Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Moldova’s former PM and current head of the Socialist party, Zinaida Greceanîi in Moscow reveals the general eastern shift to Russia. While the world watches and waits on the next fantastical Donald Trump moment, the Russian administration continues to mend fences and to create new bonds of...

11Mar

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Europe, Russia, USA

‘We Must Have Control of the Sea’: Ex-NATO Chiefs Urge North Atlantic Build-Up

NOVANEWS The UK Ministry of defence A new report calling on NATO to increase its presence in the North Atlantic Ocean in response to Russia's growing military strength is a baseless attempt to spread fear, Nikolai Topornin told Radio Sputnik. © AFP 2017/ AREF KARIMI New Petition Claims Italian NATO Deployment to Russian Border Unconstitutional A new report published by the London-based Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think tank calls on NATO to reinforce its naval activity in the North Atlantic, citing the increasing strength of the Russian navy, in particular the Northern Fleet.The report, which contains chapters written by former NATO commanders James Stavridis and Philip Breedlove, recommends that NATO extend its naval presence in the North Atlantic too. Breedlov...

3Mar

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Europe, Russia, USA

NATO’s scaremongering about ‘Russia threat’ to Baltic States ‘is all about money’

NOVANEWS The US security establishment is trying to justify its existence, says Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Peace Institute, commenting on a new report which lists how NATO can help the Baltic States counter Russian ‘hybrid warfare.’ The American global policy think-tank, the RAND Corporation, published a report that claims NATO should do more to counter the potential Russian threat and strengthen the Baltic countries’ forces. The US government-funded body issued a report titled “Hybrid Warfare in the Baltics: Threats and Potential Responses.” The document raises concern over “Russian use of “hybrid warfare” best understood as covert or deniable activities, supported by conventional or nuclear forces, to influence the domestic politics of target countries.” The author of the report...

11Jan

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Germany

Germans protest NATO troop deployment

NOVANEWS Press TV Scores of people have staged a protest in a northern German port city against the deployment and transport of NATO troops and weapons through the city. The protest was held in the port city of Bremerhaven on Saturday. US military hardware, including 87 tanks and 144 Bradley fighting vehicles, were docked in the port city a day earlier for eventual transfer to NATO member countries in Eastern Europe to enhance what was described as “deterrence against possible Russian aggression.” The protesters marched through the city, holding signs and banners that read, “No NATO deployments! End the militaristic march against Russia!” and “Out of NATO.” “I am here to explain peace to Russians, because I am afraid of new wars… and this big maneuver is one that quite scares me, and...

29Nov

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Europe, Lithuania

4,000 NATO troops take part in Lithuania’s largest exercise near Russia’s border

NOVANEWS RT Eleven NATO countries have sent 4,000 troops to Lithuania, the largest Baltic nation, to participate in this year’s Iron Sword exercises. The war games are meant to test the country’s ability to rapidly deploy a large number of troops. The exercise, which started on Sunday and is set to last till December 2, involves training at two separate sites in Lithuania. “This time poses new unexpected challenges before our military. We have to prepare units and their commanders to efficiently respond to conventional military threats,” General Waldemar Rupšys, the head of Lithuania’s Land Forces, told journalists ahead of the exercise. This year’s Iron Sword maneuver, which is the third and, by far, largest held so far, involves almost 4,000 troops from the US, the UK, Germany, Cana...