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Vladimir Putin trying to destroy NATO
Vladimir Putin trying to destroy NATO
Russian President Vladimir Putin trying to destroy NATO: US commander. The commander of the United States army in Europe has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of seeking to destroy NATO, and accused Russia of having 12,000 troops inside eastern Ukraine. Speaking to military and political leaders in Berlin, Lieutenant-General Frederick “Ben” Hodges said Russia could seek to use the sort of “hybrid warfare” seen in eastern Ukraine against a NATO member to test the alliance. “I am sure Putin wants to destroy our alliance, not by attacking it but by splintering it,” he said. He warned that Mr Putin could try to destabilise a NATO member by using a rebel militia as in eastern Ukraine, or other forms of “ambiguous” warfare. n the absence of an overt Russian attack, some NATO members could be reluctant to invoke Article 5 of the Washington treaty, under which an attack on one member is an attack on all. “Once Article 5 is gone, our alliance is over,” General Hodges said. In Ukraine, the US strategy was to “raise the cost for President Putin” by supporting Ukrainian government forces, General Hodges said. Europe and the US have been divided over American proposals to arm Ukrainian troops. “We could give Ukraine 1,000 tanks and they would never invade Russia. No one expects Ukraine to defeat Russia, that’s not the point,” General Hodges said. “We have to raise the cost for Putin. Right now he has 85 per cent domestic support. But when mothers start seeing their sons come home dead – when the price goes up – domestic support goes down.” A planned US mission to train Ukrainian troops has been put on hold to give the current peace process a chance to succeed. “If you don’t believe Russia is directly involved in Ukraine now, you’ll never believe it. You don’t want to believe it,” he said. He accused Russia of seeking to establish control of the mouth of the Danube, which would give it a stranglehold over the economies of south-eastern Europe, and called for US tanks to be positioned in countries along NATO’s eastern flank as a deterrent to Mr Putin.
good riddance to all those organizations. un, nato, cfr, all other bodies that destroy the sovereignty of each nation. globalization is not a good idea. not with their track record of slavery and subversion. we need to renationalize all our banks for a starter. the goal being to abolish usury and the party system. and to feed, clothe and cure and house every person on earth. naturally grown food and water that has been distilled and is absent of harmful chemicals. no poisons in our environment. hemp is what we need to return to. we can make this a garden of eden again if greed and corruption weren’t rampant.
You mean NATO is trying to destroy Putin