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NATO Actions Destablizing Europe

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On July 5, two days before the NATO summit, the United States and Georgia signed a security deal to strengthen the former Soviet republic's defenses against Russia as it waits to join NATO.

Georgia had been promised a path to NATO membership in 2008 but that has not materialized due to NATO's reticence to attempt to add Georgia while Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two breakaway regions of Georgia, have been occupied by Russian forces since a brief war in 2008. Secretary of State Kerry stated...

"On security, our partnership is unwavering. The Georgian people have chosen a Euro-Atlantic future and the United States remains committed to helping the Georgian people attain that goal. The United States remains steadfast in its support of Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity."

Kerry thanked Georgia for its large commitment of troops to the NATO support mission in Afghanistan." He said the NATO promise that Georgia will eventually join the transatlantic alliance would be repeated in Warsaw, a statement that did not go well with the Russian government and apparently did not go well with some NATO countries as neither Georgia nor the Ukraine were accepted into NATO membership at the 2016 summit.

Alternative NATO Conference

The Alternative Conference on NATO was sponsored by the international NO TO WAR, NO TO NATO organization, and five Polish peace and social justice organizations. As many as 150 persons attended the Alternative Summit including international guests from 12 countries including Germany, Belgium, UK, Spain, France, US, Russia, Czech Republic, Bosnia, Sweden, Norway, Finland.

Piotr Ikonowicz, Social Justice Movement Poland and one of the Polish organizers, said that NATO propaganda against Russia scares people and makes ultra nationalism easier in Poland. He reminded the conference of Poland's participation in the CIA prison torture program and that Poland had sent troops to Iraq.

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Ann Wright is a 29-year US Army/Army Reserves veteran, a retired United States Army colonel and retired U.S. State Department official, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. She received the State Department Award for Heroism in 1997, after helping to evacuate several thousand (more...)
 
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