What is the world congress diaspora division doing? This is urgent. And I
don't trust the Pastor or yatseniuk
On Thursday, 20 March 2014, <[email protected]> wrote:
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> All 3 amigoes, Kravchuk, Kuchma & Yushchenko have said join NATO ASAP --
> So what is the BS from Yatseniuk that it is not even on the radar screen?
> hello!?!?!?!
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> Nato Chief Says Russia May Not Stop at Crimea, Urges Europe to 'Step Up'
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> http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/03/19/world/europe/19reuters-ukraine-crisis-nato-rasmussen.html?ref=world&_r=0
> By REUTERS | MARCH 19, 2014, 5:29 P.M. E.D.T.
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> WASHINGTON -- The head of NATO warned on Wednesday that Russian President
> Vladimir Putin may not stop with the annexation of Crimea and said the
> crisis should serve as a "wake-up call" for European nations to bolster
> defense spending.
>
> NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Russia's move to annex
> Crimea following a Kremlin-backed referendum on Sunday had triggered "the
> gravest threat to European security and stability since the end of the Cold
> War."
>
> "My major concern is that this won't stop," Rasmussen told a gathering at
> the Brookings Institution, a Washington think-tank.
>
> "Crimea is one example. But I see Crimea as an element in a greater
> pattern, in a more long-term Russian, or at least Putin, strategy. So of
> course our major concern now is whether he will go beyond Crimea."
>
> Rasmussen acknowledged there were "no quick and easy ways to stand up to
> global bullies," without naming Russia explicitly. He then listed the ways
> NATO has responded so far to the crisis including by bolstering an air
> policing mission in the Baltic nations and surveillance flights over Poland
> and Romania.
>
> "No one wants to turn away from our cooperation with Russia.
>
> But no one can ignore that Russia has violated the very principles upon
> which that cooperation is built," he said.
>
> "So business as usual is not an option."
>
> Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has shifted its attention to
> Afghanistan, Kosovo and counter-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia,
> as well as Libya during its 2011 civil war. The Ukraine crisis has put
> Russia into focus and sharpened concerns about NATO defense spending.
>
> In recent years, austerity-hit European Union countries have slashed
> spending, scaling back on ships, tanks and fighter jets, and increasingly
> relying on the United States, which contributes about three-quarters of
> NATO defense spending.
>
> Rasmussen cautioned that European security could no longer be taken for
> granted and that European states needed to "step up politically and
> militarily" after Russia's actions.
>
> "The Ukraine crisis and what we have seen in Crimea has been a wake-up
> call and it must be followed by increased European investment in defense if
> we are to ensure a credible deterrence and collective defense in the
> future," he said.
>
> U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said in Warsaw on Tuesday the United States
> may run more ground and naval military exercises to help the Baltic states
> bordering Russia beef up their capacity.
>
> Rasmussen said he expected NATO to do more in the days ahead.
>
> "I envisage further steps to reassure allies, to strengthen deterrence and
> collective defense, in light of what we have seen," he said, without
> offering details.
>
> Rasmussen also predicted some NATO assistance to Ukraine would be approved
> at a NATO foreign ministers meeting in early April, but did not venture
> into specifics.
>
> "I agree we (NATO) should step up assistance to Ukraine and I am sure it
> will happen," he said.
>
> The United States has agreed to send Ukraine military rations but has not
> yet approved requests for lethal assistance, like weapons.
>
> (Reporting by Phil Stewart; additional reporting by Adrian Croft and Peter
> Apps; Editing by Warren Strobel, Mohammad Zargham and Paul Simao)
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