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another_liberal

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5. Fascinating . . .
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 07:43 AM
Feb 2015

The creaky old House of Lords, no less, have to be the ones to remind us that:

"For the Russians NATO is seen as a hostile military threat, and successive rounds of NATO’s eastern enlargement have, as the Russians see it, brought it threateningly close to the Russian border. EU enlargement, as it has become conflated with NATO enlargement, has also taken on the aspect of a security threat."
EU and Britain 'sleepwalked' into Ukraine crisis: UK lawmakers bananas Feb 2015 #1
Feb 12: ElBaradei warns the world is "Sleepwalking into self-destruction" bananas Feb 2015 #2
Professor Stephen Hawking: aggression could annihilate the human race bananas Feb 2015 #3
Stephen Hawking: space travel will save mankind and we should colonise other planets bananas Feb 2015 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author goziosskiy Feb 2015 #6
Fascinating . . . another_liberal Feb 2015 #5
But that's not in the Guardian article the OP is about! muriel_volestrangler Feb 2015 #7
True, the emphasis in the report is completely different. They demand more NATO action, not less. freshwest Feb 2015 #18
How to Save Ukraine: Accelerate NATO Military Modernization bemildred Feb 2015 #8
A proxy war between Russia and the West? bemildred Feb 2015 #9
AKEL says EU sanctions on Russia fuel conflict further bemildred Feb 2015 #10
Ukraine's latest defeat confronts West and Obama with costly zero-sum game bemildred Feb 2015 #11
EU to 'reframe' Russian energy ties when time is right - draft bemildred Feb 2015 #12
Rebels promise prisoner exchange as ceasefire stumbles in eastern Ukraine bemildred Feb 2015 #13
Russian, French, German, Ukrainian FMs to meet in Paris Tuesday: Paris bemildred Feb 2015 #14
Poroshenko enacts Security Council's decision on extraordinary measures to resist Russian aggression bemildred Feb 2015 #15
Ukraine's interests suffer from US exclusion from talks with Russia bemildred Feb 2015 #16
. nt bemildred Feb 2015 #17
Putin has seen firsthand how weak-willed and complacent the West has become Blue_Tires Feb 2015 #19
We are more like "stupid and incompetent". We got balls enough for everybody. nt bemildred Feb 2015 #20
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