{"id":26668,"date":"2017-10-10T07:39:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T12:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26668"},"modified":"2017-10-10T07:39:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T12:39:49","slug":"nato-concerned-by-russias-military-buildup-close-to-our-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26668","title":{"rendered":"NATO \u201cConcerned by Russia\u2019s Military Buildup Close to Our Borders\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2017\/10\/nato-concerned-russias-military-buildup-close-borders-2.html#more-69721\">NATO \u201cConcerned by Russia\u2019s Military Buildup Close to Our Borders\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Secretary-General of NATO said this on October 9th, speaking in NATO member Romania, right across the Black Sea from Russia\u2019s region of Crimea (which had always been part of Russia except for the brief period 1954-2014, when the Soviet dictator arbitrarily transferred Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 \u2014 i.e., the Soviet dictator had made Crimea \u2018Ukrainian\u2019, and only in 2014 was a plebiscite actually held there in order to determine what the people there wanted, and more than 90% chose to be restored to the Russian Government). He said, on October 9th, that NATO is <a title=\"\u201cconcerned by Russia\u2019s military buildup close to our borders\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/406138-nato-launches-force-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cconcerned by Russia\u2019s military buildup close to our borders\u201d<\/span><\/a>, but NATO actually had <i>expanded up to Russia\u2019s borders;<\/i> in no way had <i>Russia<\/i> expanded up to NATO\u2019s borders. NATO\u2019s leader was importantly misrepresenting history, there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In fact, Romania, itself, used to be a member of the former Soviet Union\u2019s Warsaw Pact military alliance of nations, which had been set up by the Soviet Union in response to America\u2019s having established in 1949 its NATO military alliance with Western European nations. After the Cold War ended, on Russia\u2019s side, in 1991, and <a title=\"has been secretly continued by the U.S. Government and its allies right up to the present time\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/09\/how-america-double-crossed-russia-and-shamed-the-west.html\"><span class=\"s3\">has been secretly continued by the U.S. Government and its allies right up to the present time<\/span><\/a>, Romania became a member of the NATO <i>anti<\/i>-Russian alliance <a title=\"in 2004\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_states_of_NATO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">in 2004<\/span><\/a>, under George W. Bush\u2019s Administration. But Bush\u2019s father, President George Herbert Walker Bush, had, as the U.S. President, established, in 1990, the foundation for what NATO now is doing in Romania, <i>against<\/i> Russia \u2014 even though Russia had, in fact, ended the Cold War on its side, in 1991.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO \u201cConcerned by Russia\u2019s Military Buildup Close to Our Borders\u201d The Secretary-General of NATO said this on October 9th, speaking in NATO member Romania, right across the Black Sea from Russia\u2019s region of Crimea (which had always been part of Russia except for the brief period 1954-2014, when the Soviet dictator arbitrarily transferred Crimea to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4394,525,553,694,5510],"class_list":["post-26668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-washingtons-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26669,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26668\/revisions\/26669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}