Tag: NATO

Beijing Offers Dialogue With NATO After Alliance Identifies China as Threat

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Beijing Offers Dialogue With NATO After Alliance Identifies China as Threat

On Tuesday, China said it hopes to engage in dialogue with NATO after news of a new report from the alliance that identifies China as an emerging threat. Hua Chunying, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry, said Beijing does not practice coercion and intimidation as the NATO report suggests.

20 YEARS OF TALKING WITH US PRESIDENTS HAVE BEEN A WASTE OF RUSSIAN BREATH

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

“HELLO BILL, THANK YOU BILL, GOODBYE BILL” – 20 YEARS OF TALKING WITH US PRESIDENTS HAVE BEEN A WASTE OF RUSSIAN BREATH

The release of the White House records of telephone and face-to-face conversations with Putin from 1999 to 2001 ought to have begun a decade ago, according to the archive notes at the Clinton presidential library. But declassification was delayed until 2019; public release was postponed until last month.

Clinton’s conversations with Yeltsin, and the opinion of Yeltsin which Clinton shared in secret with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, were revealed at the start of 2016. They told each other Yeltsin was an ingratiating fool whom they could rely on to do what they wanted so long as his health held. When it didn’t, they were happy to see him out of the way by staging, as they planned, his succession by Victor Chernomyrdin. That regime-changing scheme failed; read the story in the Clinton-Blair papers here.

Defense Sectary Visits Hawkish Atlantic Council to Announce US Troop Buildup on Russia Border

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Defense Sectary Visits Hawkish Atlantic Council to Announce US Troop Buildup on Russia Border

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper visited the notorious Atlantic Council, funded by a who’s who of weapons makers and despotic regimes, to announce that the US would not, indeed, be withdrawing troops from Germany but sending them to Russia’s border instead.

Years after they fought in Afghanistan, US troops watch as their children deploy to the same war

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Years after they fought in Afghanistan, US troops watch as their children deploy to the same war

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Trump undercuts his national security adviser on troop withdrawal

President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement on Wednesday night, just 90 minutes before the vice presidential debate, that the remaining U.S. troops in Afghanistan “should” be home by Christmas.