Yesterday, during a briefing in Latvia's capital Riga, NATO Gen. Philip Breedlove said that NATO and the United States are switching their defense doctrine from assurance to deterrence in Eastern Europe in response to a “resurgent and aggressive Russia." Breedlove added that “We are prepared to fight and win if we have to ... our focus will expand from assurance to deterrence, including measures that vastly improve our overall readiness,” Breedlove said following talks with Baltic region NATO commanders.
Stephen Bryan, Asia Times, March 4, 2023:
US-NATO response to fall of Bakhmut is likely an assault on Crimea, which in turn will spark Russian attacks on Eastern Europe
"New deliveries of special types of long-range ammunition to Kiev are the first signal. The second is the publicized switch by Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland to favoring a refocus on retaking Crimea in a new Ukrainian offensive.
“[W]e will support Ukraine for as long as it takes. Ukraine is fighting for the return of all of its land within its international borders. We are supporting them, including in preparing a next hard push to regain their territory…Crimea must be—at a minimum, at a minimum—demilitarized.”
By WARWICK POWELL | China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-07-29
The ongoing chaos that seems to be the defining characteristic of US domestic politics sets the backdrop for the attempts of the United States to reassert its hegemony across the world through the global expansion of NATO. US political chaos reflects a political economy that is failing to meet the aspirations of the US people, let alone enable the US to recover its position as the unparalleled global military hegemon.
Paul Rogers, 9 September 2010 The annual report for 2010 of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, a leading establishment think-tank, raises the prospect of a shift in western policy in Afghanistan.
Mary Einbinder, Dec 2011: "In A Brief History of Neoliberalism, David Harvey, a geographer and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at CUNY, portrays the process of globalization through an economic perspective. Harvey describes the gradual shift throughout the global market towards economic and social policies that progressively gave an increased liberality and centrality to markets, market processes, and to the interests of capital. Harvey sets his analysis in the context of the rise of neoliberalism.
"Regeringsskiftet 1976 påverkade inte den svenska utrikespolitiken nämnvärt. Det gjorde däremot den sovjetiska ubåten U137 som år 1981 gick på grund i skärgården. De följande förvecklingarna och ubåtsjakterna, som varade mer än ett decennium, utnyttjades
‘There was no promise not to enlarge NATO’
Robert Zoellick, the U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the end of the Cold War, says Vladimir Putin’s claims about Ukraine are part of a disinformation campaign
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pressuring European diplomats to cease any talks about Ukraine joining NATO, according to a member of Rada (the Ukrainian parliament), Oleksiy Goncharenko. This is no minor politician. The son of a former Odessa mayor, he is a member of the Ukrainian Permanent Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The allegations were publicly made in a series of texts posted in his Telegram channel (in Ukrainian). He wrote: “Unfortunately, there will be no NATO [for Ukraine]. Forget about it – it won’t happen.” Goncharenko claims that “several sources” in Washington told him the topic of Ukraine’s accession to the Atlantic Alliance “annoys the US elite” and even “after war” the country should not expect it.
Felet ligger inte i säkerhetspolitikens innehåll i sak, inte heller i västsamarbetet, utan i hemlighetsmakeriet. Det har under sex decennier utvecklats till en form av nationell livslögn, som förvandlat demokratin till en illusion – allt för att det socialdemokratiska partiet ensamt ville dra de politiska fördelarna av neutralitetspolitikens goodwill. Peter Bratt, journalist och författare
Jag har hittills inte sett att Nato förstått situationens fulla allvar. Andrej Illiaronov intervjuad i SvD 29 mars 2014 Men skulle verkligen EU-landet Finland hotas? – Det står inte på Putins agenda idag eller i morgon. Men om Putin inte stoppas tidigare så kommer frågan att väckas förr eller senare. Putin har ju sagt flera gånger att bolsjevikerna och kommunisterna gjorde stora misstag. Han skulle mycket väl kunna säga att bolsjevikerna 1917 begick förräderi mot ryska nationella intressen genom att ge Finland självständighet.