Tag: Eastern Europe
The United States and its NATO allies need to stop the flow of weapons to Ukraine and let the Kiev regime know that it must negotiate a peace settlement with Moscow.
Despite promises made to Gorbachev at the end of the Cold War, NATO has incorporated almost all of former Soviet allies establishing its military facilities along Russia’s border. NATO forces have encircled the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, home to Russia’s only ice-free port on the Baltic Sea. In addititon, the West has instigated “color revolutions” in the former Soviet republics targeting Russia-friendly regimes. Still, the West refuses to recognize Russia’s security concerns as legitimate.
War is cruelty on a level most of us can’t process. But even more cruel are those who orchestrate it and then run away and hide the moment the knife is drawn from the sheath.
As the first waves of at least 2,000 US troops began arriving in Poland at the start of this week as part of the mission to bolster NATO’s ‘eastern flank’ amid Washington fears that Russia is poised to invade Ukraine “any day now” – the Western military alliance says its mulling a longer term military presence in Eastern Europe.
