NATO poised to escalate Ukraine tensions

[unhappycamper]

http://atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-090914.html



NATO poised to escalate Ukraine tensions
By John Feffer
Sep 9, '14

WASHINGTON - The NATO summit that took place at the end of last week in Wales was supposed to celebrate the end of a long, draining war in Afghanistan. But with the presidential election still up in the air in Kabul, NATO couldn't enjoy its "mission accomplished" moment.

Instead, the assembled ministers took steps to accelerate two new conflicts, one on its borders and the other in the distant Middle East.

NATO members have certainly not welcomed either the growing confrontation with Russia over Ukraine or with ISIS over the future of Iraq and Syria. But these developments have nevertheless provided the transatlantic alliance with greater purpose and cohesion than it has experienced in years.

The war in Afghanistan, after all, was not just costly in terms of money spent, lives lost, and objectives unmet. It also opened up various rifts in the alliance over strategy and resources.

[DetlefK]

1. F**king warmongers at NATO want to provoke a war with ISIS!!!11!

NATO uses any cheap excuse to bomb someone.

And NATO has to stop with the military aid it sent to Ukraine AND it must immediately withdraw its unmarked troops fighting there. NATO of course denies that it has troops in Ukraine, but why should we believe them? They want to split Ukraine and swallow the western half to install their unelected junta!

[unhappycamper]

2. Here's a good one:

Last night (All In With Chris Hedges) had a story that Obama is asking $5 billion for Iraq 3.0.



Who's paying for it? We The People have already coughed up our $50 billion of sequestration money for this year. Put it on the National Creadit Card?

Think blue.

[840high]

3. Thanks.