American magazine: NATO has no reason to intervene in the crisis around Crimea
Kiev, March 19 (Navigator, Mikhail Ryabov) – The American magazine “CounterPunch” writes that NATO has no reason to increase its military groups in Europe, since the crisis in Ukrainian-Russian relations has not created “any threat to any NATO member at all” .
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In particular, the media recalls that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is using reconnaissance aircraft in Poland and Romania “to monitor the Ukrainian crisis” in order to “strengthen ongoing assessments of the consequences of this crisis for the security of the Alliance.”
“But there is no threat to any NATO member at all,” the magazine emphasizes. – There is no crisis affecting the need for a redundant military group. The current dispute between Russia and Ukraine has nothing to do with any NATO country. But their bilateral problem led to the deployment of US squadrons of F-15 attack aircraft in Lithuania and F-16 attack aircraft in Poland.”
The magazine also recalls that the Pentagon sent a guided-missile destroyer to the Black Sea: “Not that this seems like a big threat, because the last American frigate in the Black Sea ran aground.”
According to the magazine, tensions have now been increased deliberately. “But someone was going to order NATO to start a war because the people of Crimea held a democratic referendum and voted to join Russia. This is what the people of Crimea want, the authors of the article are sure. “And what right does NATO or anyone else have to dictate otherwise to them?” What does all this fuss mean?
“Simply put, this is about trying to stop Russia from prospering and expanding its interests, which have been an American goal for a very long time,” CounterPunch concludes.
According to the media, “The Cold War never ended in the United States. “It never ended—at least not for the United States and NATO,” the article says. – And now that there is an internal problem in Ukraine, emboldened by US support for the rebels who overthrew their president (a nasty piece of corruption, of course, but elected freely and honestly), it is obvious that the Cold War is alive and well and alive in the Pentagon and headquarters. NATO apartment."
Arguing why NATO needs countries such as Poland, Romania and even Georgia, because “Russia has not become a threat to any of them,” the magazine explains: “But Russia can pose an economic threat to the United States, especially since it was prosperous thanks to cooperation with the European Union in the provision of gas, oil and coal. And, who knows, perhaps a much broader economic union between Russia and greater Europe could have emerged. This had to be avoided at all costs.”
Thanks to the need to prevent such a scenario, “NATO has reinvented itself at the behest of Washington.” “According to NATO, there is now a new mission - expanding the world through a strategic security project... This is not a mission of choice, but a necessity. The Allies neither invented nor desired it,” the magazine confidently writes.
As a result, Alliance members are now involved "in a provocative military confrontation that could be dangerous to world peace." “Let’s hope for all of our sakes that they don’t run aground,” CounterPunch concluded.
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