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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tech Master who wrote (147)	3/18/2003 8:16:46 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 21614

Yes, USA is putting a lot of pressure on the "new Europe" who after a lot of pressure "decided to join NATO", to buy weapons, fighters,etc from USA, but also the promise that USA would buy something from them. That is, the european ones, about to join EU, are put through a "learning experience" they were warned of when eager to join NATO to get some trade going, trading imported weapons for domestically produced goods. Some of them has already gone through a "NATO learning experience" in terms of the cost of those weapons as many have severe problems in terms of state-budgets, taxes, unemployment and inefficient farming, industries. Funny thing that USA came up with the idea to "pressure EU" for a faster approval of Turkey, although Turkey still is in the stage where Turkey must do their own domestic reforms to continue to the next stage of the approval process. (major issue, the "Kurds") However, few of these small nations, just released from the tyranny of the Sovjet, can afford going publicly against USA, especially in terms of trade and figuring out how to pay the weapons NATO demands. The future will tell... Ilmarinen No detailed, local knowledge about thts, except for some ucomics.com