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NATO expansion into the Middle East, the systematic surrounding of the People's Republic of China, the current state of relations between Russia and NATO and what appears to be broken promises and continued aggression on the part of the US and incumbent President Barack Obama these topics are discussed with Rick Rozoff, a regular Voice of Russia luxury accommodation in florence contributor and the owner of Stop NATO International.
Yeah, that would be the equivalent of somebody out on the street firing at you from a bullet-proof car they can shoot at you and you can t shoot back. It s fought with a lot of dangerous scenarios. And it s viewed with suspicion and with good reason. In recent days the governments not only of Russia, luxury accommodation in florence but of Syria and Iran have spoken out very forcefully about the deployment of the NATO Patriot missiles in Turkey, because the governments of three countries I just mentioned see the potential luxury accommodation in florence of an expansion of the system to the point where it could serve the purpose that I just described.
I m sure their contingency plans for just those two scenarios I don t know what they are. And they have not been publicly luxury accommodation in florence divulged. However, we should remind ourselves at the very special relationship that has existed for almost 20 years between NATO and Israel. Israel is one of 7 members of the special military partnership program set up by NATO, I believe in 1994, called the Mediterranean Dialogue. This is the program to foster both bilateral and collective military cooperation between NATO and 7 countries luxury accommodation in florence in North Africa and Middle East. They are Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan and Israel. But several years ago amongst those 7, Israel was the first to be granted with what s called individual partnership program under the auspices of the Mediterranean Dialogue. That s always been particularly good relationship because of that. NATO Secretary Generals have visited Israel. One of them, the proceeding one, visited Israel immediately after the last dissolve luxury accommodation in florence on the Gaza Strip in Dec, 2008 Jan, 2009. Another curious fact about Israel, - it s the only country in the Middle East, in fact, the only country outside of Europe that falls within the area of responsibility of the Pentagon s European Command, the Chief Commander of whom, currently Admiral James Stavridis, is simultaneously the top military commander of NATO in Europe, that s called Supreme Allied Commander of Europe. By that very fact, the fact that the U.S.-European Command and its commander over lapses with NATO and its top military commander, in fact the two commanders are one in the same person, also indicates the special relationship that exists between NATO and Israel.
What s your prediction for Egypt and for the whole situation in the Middle East with Gaza and Israel and all the Arab Spring countries? They seem to be going in a dictatorial direction, how s that going to affect NATO relations?
Throughout the Arab world there were pretty generous expectations luxury accommodation in florence about the so-called Arab Spring. And people anticipated a complete democratic transformation, but at the end of the day - and we re talking about 1.5 year after the resignation of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and his replacement for a year and a half by what can only be described as a military junta in Egypt in the interim which saw an exacerbation of violations of civil liberties, mass arrests and martial law. What we see now, afterwards, is that Egypt remains another stalwart of NATO s Mediterranean Dialogue military partnership. The government has not even suggested that Egypt move out of that program. Second of all, Egypt continues to get its 3 billion dollars a year in U.S. assistance aid, which is overwhelmingly luxury accommodation in florence military in nature. The Bright Star military exercises that have occurred regularly between the US and Egypt in Egypt have in fact been suspended since the beginning of the Arab Spring. But I have not seen any information that they are not going to be resumed at any point in the future. So, I don t want to say that the more things change, the more they remain the same, but there certainly is no indication now, that in terms of its general foreign policy orientation that the government Morsi in Egypt isn t any different than the Mubarak government.
The big question, of course, is the missile deployment on the Syrian border. And if this were simply an isolated incident we ve just discussed that it s not. It is in tandem with the deployment of the missile radar facilities in Turkey and Israel Turkey this year, Israel four years ago. But we also have to recall that a similar development has occurred twice before, where NATO has deployed the same Patriot missile batteries, though they re more advanced now and have longer range, up to 600km is the latest figure I have seen. This was done in 1991 and in early 2003. In both instances luxury accommodation in florence immediately before military assaults on Iraq. To see the third deployment of NATO Patriot missiles luxury accommodation in florence to Turkey suggests, luxury accommodation in florence if the pattern holds true, that the military action against Syria is planned. But at the very least we know this, and Russian officials have mentioned this most prominently, that with missile enhancement capabilities luxury accommodation in florence they could effectively be used to enforce a no-fly zone over northern Syria. They can now knock out ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and aircraft. And even though the Turkish government and NATO are denying the fact that they intend to use missiles for this purpose, there s no reason why they could not use the deployment luxury accommodation in florence of NATO interceptor missiles luxury accommodation in florence to enforce a de-facto no-fly zone over Syria in the manner luxury accommodation in florence that it was done in Libya last year.
Unfortunately, no. The United Nations permits in its charter, for one or more countries to seek military assistance from an ally if they can portray themselves as in some manner being threatened. luxury accommodation in florence Of course, Turkey isn t threatened by Syria. It s an absurd contention on the part of NATO and the West, as the Turkish government suggests it is. Nevertheless, that s the rubric under which they requested luxury accommodation in florence and now are going to be granted the NATO missile. So, technically, it s not illegal. If missiles are used over Syrian territory to maintain a no-fly zone that s clearly a violation of the sovereignty of Syria and that s violation of international law.
Russia luxury accommodation in florence s certainly been accommodating, very obliging through the NATO-Russia luxury accommodation in florence Council in terms of participating in the Northern distribution network for the transport of nonlethal supplies to Afghanistan, presumably out of Afghanistan in some point in the future. Russia s made the offer for joint interceptor missile defense participation, but NATO has insisted that their program is distinct, and Russia cannot be incorporated in any common luxury accommodation in florence program. So what we see is example after example of the Russian government making overtures and having them refused by Washington and by Brussels. And we also have to realize luxury accommodation in florence the Anti-Ballistic Treaty, the Treaty of Unconventional Forces in Europe and others have been severely jeopardized, damaged because of movement of U.S. and NATO military luxury accommodation in florence hardware into countries that are not covered by the CFE Treaty. I m talking about the Baltic States luxury accommodation in florence and certain Balkan states and the fact that the U.S. is aggressively moving ahead with the interceptive missile system despite repeated luxury accommodation in florence reservations and even warnings by Russia. It seems like the US is not acting in good faith and not terribly interested in cultivating a productive relationship with Russia.
I know the speculation you re alluding luxury accommodation in florence to. The unguarded comment to Medvedev that suggested that he was going to be or could be. A lame-duck presidency cuts both ways. It allows luxury accommodation in florence a well-meaning chief executive to do things he might not do otherwise because he doesn t have to run for reelection, as you mention. On the other hand, as perhaps we saw with the escalation of violence in the Middle East and other activities very shortly after the reelection of Barack luxury accommodation in florence Obama, that it also gives him free hands to do things in the destructive manner, where he s not going to be held accountable either.
A continuation of the same. In terms of geopolitics, let s keep in mind, his first trip overseas after his reelection was to Southeast Asia, where he visited Thailand, where American presidents have visited in the past, but he was in Burma and Cambodia. To the best of my knowledge, it s the first time an American President luxury accommodation in florence had visited Myanmar at all, and perhaps definitely the first time Cambodia in the last 40 years or more and perhaps ever. The emphasis or pivot toward the Asia and Pacific region, which is clearly targeted luxury accommodation in florence against China to rally regional powers luxury accommodation in florence into economic and ultimately luxury accommodation in florence military alliances with the U.S. to isolate and encircle China. What we saw from President Obama, almost immediately after his reelection, is he s staking out territory in Southeast Asia and putting China on notice.
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