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Reuters stories from today address the growing role of European Union military forces and the inclusion of non-EU NATO powers in joint endeavors with the EU.
A meeting of EU defense ministers scheduled for tomorrow is expected to approve the U.S., Canada and Norway (not a EU member) joining a project to expedite the transit of troops across the European continent in accordance with NATO demands for such streamlined deployments, which, as the report phrases it, NATO “sees as vital in the event of a conflict with Russia.”
The entire initiative is NATO’s, with the EU, as always, obligingly following suit. The expectation from the EU is that it will use its infrastructure budget to upgrade and modernize bridges, rails and roads to, one is tempted to say, NATOize transportation routes from the Atlantic to the Russian border. The EU has set aside 1.7 billion euros ($2 billion) from its common budget to upgrade military mobility in support of NATO for th
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg held a press conference today, February 15, at the military bloc’s headquarters in Brussels ahead of the February 17-18 meeting of NATO defense chiefs.
As has been its wont for the past decade or more, NATO arrogates to itself the right to address most every issue on the planet; these include, in Stoltenberg’s comments today, such non-military topics as climate change (“NATO should set the gold standard on reducing emissions”).
As Stoltenberg reiterated in his talk, NATO is a political as well as military bloc, and its politics inevitably align with those of the Pentagon, the U.S. State Department, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Union, the World Economic Forum – in short, the conglomerate that is the post-Cold War neoliberal global order.
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Tiraspol to insist on Moldovaâs compliance with commitments made during talks
Immediately after the 2020 election in Moldova, the winner, Maia Sandu, lashed out at Tiraspol with a series of sharp statements, emphasizing that she was against a mild dialogue with Transnistria
CHISINAU, December 11. /TASS/. Transnistria will urge Moldova to comply with its commitments made during the talks mediated by the OSCE, Russia and Ukraine in 2016-2018, Alexander Stetsyuk, a deputy foreign minister of the unrecognized republic of Transnistria, said at the parliament on Friday. In the incoming year, the Transnistrian Republic will proceed from positions of Moldova’s strict compliance with its commitments under the Berlin Plus package. In this context, attention should be drawn to the fact that at a recent meeting of the foreign ministers of the OSCE participating states the statement on Transnistrian settlement, which was supported by the Moldovan side, stipulated the implementation of