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Saturday, March 8, 2014

US Policy of Isolating Russia and Expanding NATO Is a Dismal Failure

By Rodrigue Tremblay

Information  Clearing House - March 8, 2014

[NATO's goal is] to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.     — Hastings Ismay, first NATO Secretary-General     

Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.     — James Madison (1751-1836), fourth American President 

March 06, 2014 "Information Clearing House - "Dissident Voice" - - The hazards associated with American foreign policy since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 should appear obvious to all, because it is precisely this policy that has caused the crisis in Ukraine with all its negative consequences for the coming months and years.  President Barack Obama was candid in admitting it on March 3, 2014: “we are indicating to the Russians [that] if in fact they continue on the current trajectory they’re on, then we are examining a whole series of steps — economic, diplomatic— that will isolate Russia.”  Well, it is precisely this desire to expand NATO and to isolate Russia by incorporating all the countries bordering Russia into NATO;  i.e., a strategy of geopolitical and military encirclement of Russia, which has provoked that country when it felt threatened in its national security.  This is easy to understand.  For example, what would the United States do if a hypothetical Russian Empire were to incorporate Mexico or Canada into a military alliance? To ask the question is to answer it. Why is it so difficult to understand that the best way to start a war is to threaten a country’s vital interests?

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