{"id":6295,"date":"2015-03-08T08:01:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T13:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6295"},"modified":"2015-03-08T08:01:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T13:01:57","slug":"germany-has-had-enough-with-us-neocons-berlin-stunned-at-us-desire-for-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6295","title":{"rendered":"Germany Has Had Enough With US Neocons: Berlin “Stunned” At US Desire For War In Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany Has Had Enough With US Neocons: Berlin “Stunned” At US Desire For War In Ukraine<\/a><\/h3>\n

While Russia’s envoy to NATO notes that statements by the deputy head of NATO testify to the fact that the leaders of the bloc want to intervene in Russia\u2019s internal politics, and are\u00a0“dreaming of Russian Maidan,”<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Washington has a bigger problem… Germany.\u00a0As Der Spiegel reports,<\/a>\u00a0while US President Obama ‘supports’ Chancellor Merkel’s efforts at finding a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis,\u00a0hawks in Washington seem determined to torpedo Berlin’s approach<\/strong>. And NATO’s top commander in Europe hasn’t been helping either with sources in the Chancellery have referred to\u00a0Breedlove’s comments as “dangerous propaganda.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the view of Russia\u2019s permanent envoy to NATO:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe speech in Riga demonstrates the concern about Russia\u2019s democracy and internal policy. At last, now we know that NATO has a dream, and this dream is a Maidan in Russia,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Aleksandr Grushko said in comment that was tweeted through the Russian representation office in the alliance.<\/div>\n

Grushko referred to the words of NATO’s deputy secretary general, Alexander Vershbow, who had told a conference in the Latvian capital Riga that President Vladimir Putin’s “aim seems to be to turn Ukraine into a failed state and to suppress and discredit alternative voices in Russia, so as to prevent a Russian ‘Maidan.'”\u00a0Both officials used the Ukrainian word \u2018Maidan\u2019 to describe a string of protest actions that eventually turned into mass unrest and the ousting of the legally elected president and parliament.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And as Der Spiegel reports,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0The Germans are not happy.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Breedlove’s Bellicosity: Berlin Alarmed by Aggressive NATO Stance on Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\n

US President Obama supports Chancellor Merkel’s efforts at finding a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis. But hawks in Washington seem determined to torpedo Berlin’s approach. And\u00a0NATO’s top commander in Europe hasn’t been helping either.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Germany Has Had Enough With US Neocons: Berlin “Stunned” At US Desire For War In Ukraine While Russia’s envoy to NATO notes that statements by the deputy head of NATO testify to the fact that the leaders of the bloc want to intervene in Russia\u2019s internal politics, and are\u00a0“dreaming of Russian Maidan,”\u00a0Washington has a bigger […]<\/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":[3986,359,3318,553,561,584,660,694,821,862,865],"class_list":["post-6295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-breedlove","tag-germany","tag-merkel","tag-nato","tag-neocons","tag-obama","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295","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=6295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6296,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions\/6296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}