With tensions growing on the border between Russia and Ukraine, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic has announced that Zagreb will pull its troops out of NATO contingents stationed in the region should the situation spiral into a full-scale conflict. Bulgaria also says, ‘don’t include us. We’ll not be sending troops to Ukraine.’
Ukraine’s defence minister has raised the spectre of one of the European Union’s major concerns, large scale migration, amid American lurid and unproven claims that Russia is planning an invasion of his country.
Washington provokes a war to supercharge the Military Complex feeling the pinch since defeating in Syria, Afghanistan and the stalemate in Libya.
Thousands of ethno-nationalist Ukrainian nationalists have taken to the streets in Kiev on the country’s Defenders Day, a public holiday, under the flags of the Azov and Right Sector nationalist organisations, among others. Video
For over two weeks, corporate media – the keyboard government plays on, has been beating the war drums to justify throwing Ukraine to the wolves when the US positions to justify a Ukraine-Russia conflagration.
As the price of natural gas and other forms of energy skyrocket in Europe, Hungary has inked a deal with Russia’s Gazprom to ensure a stable and cost-effective energy supply for the next 15 years.
Over the next 15 years, long-term Russian gas supplies to Hungary will avoid transit through Ukraine, a key point behind Monday’s agreement reached by the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller in St. Petersburg.
UKRAINE is the largest country in Europe with its unique Slavic culture pivotal to the Aryan branch of the Teutonic and Celtic family of ethnicities. Ironically, the only period during the 20th Century when Ukraine blossomed to its potential was during the Brezhnev era and onwards.
The case of Afghanistan shows that United States military support can be withdrawn, and allied nations such as Ukraine must take heed of that lesson, says an expert on Ukrainian affairs.
The unforeseen consequences of NATO’s rout and retreat from Afghanistan hot on the heels of their being expelled from Iraq and Syria is concentrating collective minds across Western and Central Europe. As the EU disintegrates and awareness that NATO defence is a risible fantasy more and more nations are seeking non-EU/US alliances.
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