The creation of NATO in 1949, had been directly premised on Mackinder's hegemonic analysis. It was indeed dedicated to preventing, at all costs, the emergence of a cohesive Eurasian pivot of power centered on Russia and the capability of challenging Anglo-American global hegemony.
Just as the Baghdad railway represented the efforts of Continental Germany, before World War I, to open a trade route to the Arabian Gulf, which would be independent of British naval control a new series of Russian pipelines through the Balkans could potentially offer European Union (EU) diversity of oil supply and a degree of independence from the US via Russia controlled energy sources. In the wake of the Clinton bombing of the Balkans and the Kosovo War, the US had preempted such possible energy independence, imposing NATO and US control over possible pipeline routes and sources.
NATO had been founded during the Cold War era as a provocateur, a regional organization, a coalition of the coerced to 'ensure the security' of US allies in Europe.
The Cuban crisis of 1962, was triggered by US reconnaissance photos showing construction of a Soviet missile base in Cuba, 90 miles from Florida. Such a missile base would give Russia the ability to launch a nuclear strike on the United States within minutes, not allowing American bombers sufficient time to respond.
The Soviet missile installation in Cuba was not a provocation by Russia out of the blue. Rather, it was Russia's response to the earlier Pentagon decision to place its Thor and Jupiter missiles in Turkey, a NATO member dangerously close to Soviet strategic nuclear missiles.
As with Cuba in 1962, so with the color revolutions that began in Eurasia with Georgia, and the failed Rose Revolution and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, were the consequences of aggressive provocations by America, initiated by the NGOs and the gun running operations of NATO.
As stated by Russian strategist and military expert, former Prime Minister under Yeltsin and close advisor to Vladimir Putin in Munich, February 2007: "NATO today is acting on the basis of an entirely different philosophy and doctrine, moving outside the European continent and conducting military operations far beyond its bounds. NATO is rapidly expanding in contravention to earlier accords. The admission of new members to NATO is leading to the expansion of bases that host the US military, air defense systems as well as ABM components."
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"We gave categorical assurances to Gorbachev back when the Soviet Union existed that if a United Germany was able to stay in NATO, NATO would not be moved eastward."
-US Ambassador in Moscow, 1987-1991, Jack Matlock
For Washington and the US military-congressional industrial complex, the Cold War did not end in 1991 with the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact military alliance, along with the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Quite the contrary, the US increased their efforts to push NATO expansion to the borders of Moscow, taking full advantage of the catastrophic economic chaos they had created through the bribery of Russian oligarchs with assets from the stolen gold of the World War II, the Black Eagle Trust and $258 billion in 10yr. US Treasury Bonds that came due in September of 2001.
In February 1990, during high-level talks between Moscow and the US Secretary of State James Baker, the US made Mikhail Gorbachev, the President of the Soviet Union an offer that in exchyfor cooperation on unification of Germany, East and West into NATO, Washington would make "iron-clad guarantees" to Moscow that NATO would not expand "one inch eastward." As with many of its past promises, Washington broke it.
The transformation of Ukraine from an independent former Russian republic to a pro- NATO US satellite was accomplished by the so-called 'Orange Revolution' overseen by John Herbst, appointed US ambassador to Ukraine in May 2003.
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"American meddling and the Color Revolutions are far more subtle" and effective. The $65 million plus went to pro-Yushchenko think tanks, civic organizations, political training, and work with strategically placed professionals, such as journalists and judges. It paid for some questionable exit polls and election monitors, many of them Nazi Ukrainian who were far from impartial."
-Steve Weissman, Pentagon December 2004
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