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Washington’s new moves in Europe unnecessary
Mar 09, 2020 15:28The new US-led ‘Defender-Europe 20’ exercise, which is months long and lasts from February until July, involves 20,000 US troops - more than those of all its NATO allies put together, and more than at any time in the past quarter-century. Although US officials do not say it is designed to counter an alleged Russian threat, the demonstration of US force capability comes after years of piecemeal reinforcements of NATO's eastern flank following Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014.
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High time for NATO’s end for the sake of global peace
Dec 13, 2019 14:15"NATO is the cause of the new arms race with Russia, including upgrading of nuclear arsenals. Therefore, the sooner it is disbanded the better for world peace and stability, since a relic of the cold war shouldn’t be reconfigured to prolong the US domination of Europe, or to pick up fights with Russia, China, and the Resistant Front of the Muslim World, or to launch suicidal space wars."
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NATO no longer serves American interests
Dec 10, 2019 20:07Quite simply, it makes no sense for U.S. taxpayers to subsidize the defense of nations capable of defending themselves. Shared interests will continue to justify military cooperation. However, the alliance as today constituted no longer serves American interests.
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Sultan shines in the court of the Dragon King
Jul 13, 2019 16:46The Turkish president looks set to buy Russian missile defense system in defiance of US and NATO, and through gradual shift from Europe, is tying his cart to China and Russia.
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The G20 Summit in Osaka: The war of all against all
Jul 05, 2019 09:03World leaders gathered in Osaka, Japan Friday for the G20 summit amid the relentless promotion of trade war, protectionism and militarism. Andre Damon, National Secretary of the US-based International Youth and Students for Social Equality, has more on this under the heading “The G20 Summit in Osaka: The war of all against all.”
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NATO is just a scam to funnel money to US arms manufacturers
Apr 20, 2019 07:35NATO's aggregate military budget is 20 times larger than Russia's. If NATO's purpose is defensive, that isn't very efficient. But what if NATO exists to siphon off money from its allies for the purchase of American weapons? Perhaps that is closer to the truth.
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Outdated NATO, an obsolete tool of the fading US empire
Apr 13, 2019 21:23American designs to militarize the world through instruments which are no longer of any use, are bound to fail. In this regard, Kayhan International has published a Viewpoint Column, titled: “Outdated NATO, An Obsolete Tool of the Fading US Empire”.
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Unpopular NATO turns 70, has the organization reached its retirement age?
Apr 08, 2019 11:23Like a snake shedding its skin, NATO is attempting to rebrand itself in an effort to remain of service to the US Empire, greatly expanding its remit as it did after the fall of the Soviet Union, says Scottish academic and writer Alan MacLeod, the author of book “Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting”, in his article for MintPress, titled: “Unpopular NATO turns 70, has the organization reached its retirement age?”
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1st Int’l Confab against US/NATO bases addresses militarism
Dec 03, 2018 17:25Unlike so much political discourse in the US, which is obsessed with the quixotic character of President Donald Trump, an international conference on US/NATO bases pierced the distracting fog to focus on continuity of US militarism regardless of who sits in the Oval Office.
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NATO hypocrisy's twilight zone
Oct 07, 2018 14:33What a week it's been for trying to tolerate hypocrisy and hysteria from the United States and its NATO partners.