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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RMF who wrote (376776)4/13/2008 1:46:28 PM
From: Rarebird  Read Replies (1) of 1576889
 
<<The next President has to go to the Europeans and say "We're sorry that the last IDIOT got all of us into this mess, but we need to work together to extricate ourselves." He/She has to tell them that we will NOT unilaterally decide who should be in NATO and which countries we will "unilaterally" put missile defense systems into.>>

President Bush went too far in trying to get Ukraine and Georgia into NATO. In doing this, he broke NATO apart. There is now a European pillar inside NATO, a pillar strong enough to deflect and even stop the Bush Administration. By this action, Germany and France with 11 European NATO members in alliance have carved out what amounts to a European NATO which now guards Europe's interests.

What President Putin and Russia gained here was the establishment of the final forward borders of the NATO alliance. These are geopolitical and geo-strategic borders that will NOT include Ukraine and Georgia. Concretely, what Russia gained was its continued strategic access to its old historical naval base of Sevastopol. That maintains Russian naval supremacy over the Black Sea and its access to the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The exclusion of Georgia from NATO maintains Russia supremacy over the Caucasus - and its oil.

The great value here is that the NATO break up undermines the foundation of the US Empire.
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