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Russia’s Cooperation with Latin America to Counterbalance NATO Expansion – Video

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http://www.undergroundworldnews.com Dahboo7 On Zeekly: http://zeeklytv.com/user/Dahboo77 Russia #39;s defense cooperation with Latin American countries will help...

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Ex-NATO analyst: Ukraine war result of U.S. preventing Russia/EU friendship – Video

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Ex-NATO analyst: Ukraine war result of U.S. preventing Russia/EU friendship
Lieutenant Commander Martin Packard, former NATO intelligence analyst is In the NOW talking about how Ukraine war could have been avoided if proper decisions...

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NATO Secretary General with President of the Slovak Republic, 3 MAR 2015 – Video

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NATO Secretary General with President of the Slovak Republic, 3 MAR 2015
Joint press point with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the President of the Slovak Republic, Andrej Kiska, 3 March 2015, Brussels, Belgium. SUBSCRIBE to NATO YouTube http://bit.ly/NA ...

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Slovakia-NATO Meeting: War in Ukraine and Russian role in the conflict tops the agenda – Video

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Slovakian President Andrej Kiska has met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels, Belgium. Top of the agenda was the war in Ukraine and the role of Russia in the conflict....

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Vladimir Putin wants to destroy Nato, says US commander in Europe Ben Hodges

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He warned that Mr Putin could try to destabilise a Nato member by using a rebel militia as in eastern Ukraine, or other forms of ambiguous warfare.

In the absence of an overt Russian attack, some Nato members could be reluctant to invoke Article 5 of the Washington treaty, under which an attack on one member is an attack on all.

Once Article 5 is gone, our alliance is over, Gen Hodges said.

He called for American tanks to be positioned in countries along Natos eastern flank, as a deterrent to Mr Putin.

Just months after moving its last tanks out of Europe, the US has decided to send some 220 Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles back in response to the Ukraine crisis.

Gen Hodges said he had proposed positioning some of the tanks in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania and Bulgaria.

And the US has already agreed to send troops to Poland and the three Baltic states.

Gen Hodges called for Nato countries to maintain defence spending in the face of the Ukraine crisis.

The chief of staff of the US army, Gen Raymond Odierno, said he was very concerned earlier this week after David Cameron refused to commit to maintaining defence spending at Natos agreed target of 2 per cent of GDP.

But Gen Hodges said he was sure the UK would continue to meet the 2 per cent target.

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Meet NATOs man in Moscow

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KYIV, Ukraine Considering the situation, there was little Robert Pszczel could do to prevent the verbal assault.

For a while, he stood his ground in the state television studio and appealed to Russian viewers sense of reason.

Then a couple of guests as well as the host pounced.

Youre a Pole! one guest cried out lividly. Youre a Russophobe from the outset already.

Shouldering that sort of abuse has become more or less part of Pszczels job these days.

As director of the NATO Information Office in Moscow, hes the chief spokesman of the military alliance there. Amid the worst standoff between Russia and the West since the Cold War, stumping for NATO isnt the easiest of gigs.

Thanks to the crisis in Ukraine, which Russias powerful state media machine has exploited to shore up domestic support for the Kremlin, a wave of anti-Western hysteria has swept over Russia.

Criticizing the Russian government has had deadly consequences. Witness last weekends apparent political assassination of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, an opposition leader painted as an enemy for allegedly siding with the West against Russia.

Its an environment that leaves little room for open discussion.

Russia is a great country, and a great country needs a great debate, Pszczel said in a telephone interview from Moscow. But where is it?

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NATO Deploys Ships to Black Sea for Training with Bulgarian Navy

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NATO ships, assigned to Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2), arrived in the Black Sea on Wednesday to operate and train with ships from the Bulgarian, Romanian and Turkish navies.

The training will comprise simulated anti-air and anti-submarine warfare exercises, simulated small boat attacks and basic ship handling maneuvres, NATO Maritime Command's press service reports.

SNMG2 is led by Rear Adm. Brad Williamson and is composed of flagship USS Vicksburg, HMCS Fredericton, TCG Turgutreis, FGS Spessart, ITS Aliseo, and ROS Regina Maria.

The NATO maritime force has considerable sea-control, anti-submarine and anti-air warfare capacities.

The deployment is in full compliance with international conventions and at the invitation of the Bulgarian, Romanian and Turkish governments.

Williamson said that he was looking forward to enhance interoperability with the navies of the Black Sea Allies.

This scheduled visit, is in support of training and assurance of Black Sea Allies, which would serve as preparation for any mission NATO might be required to undertake.

SNMG2 will return to the Mediterranean Sea later in March, where it will resume patrols contributing to maritime situational awareness in the region.

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Estonia's pro-NATO Reform party wins vote

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TALLINN: Estonia's governing pro-NATO Reform party came top in parliamentary elections on Sunday (Mar 1), fought amid concerns over a militarily resurgent Russia, but analysts warned that forging a coalition would be challenging.

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves is expected to ask Reform chief, outgoing Prime Minister Taavi Roivas, to build a coalition on the basis of the 30 seats his party won in the 101-member parliament.

The centrist Reform party lost three seats, according to the official results. Meanwhile the opposition pro-Kremlin Centre party was up one seat to 27 and the outgoing Social Democrat junior coalition partners down four to 15.

"Reform will be able to form a government ... (but) coalition talks might be complicated," leading Estonian political commentator Ahto Lobjakas told AFP, noting increased volatility with six parties now in parliament, up from the previous four.

The parliamentary newcomers are a free-market liberal party and an anti-immigration conservative party, who secured 15 seats between them.

"In terms of Estonia's pro-Western orientation, commitment to EU, NATO, all this will remain and possibly become more pronounced," he added, describing the entry of the two newcomers as a swing to the right.

Moscow's annexation of Crimea last year and its meddling in eastern Ukraine have galvanised the European Union, including eurozone member Estonia where a quarter of the 1.3 million population are ethnic Russian.

Military manoeuvres by Moscow on Estonia's border just days ahead of the vote further stoked deep concerns in Europe that the Kremlin could attempt to destabilise countries that were in its orbit during Soviet times.

NATO is countering the moves by boosting defences on Europe's eastern flank with a spearhead force of 5,000 troops and command centres in six formerly communist members of the alliance, including one in Estonia.

"If they (the Russians) come in here, Estonia can't do anything ... I'm not sure NATO will help us out," Pyotr Sirotkin, a 25-year-old student at Tallinn University, told AFP as he cast his ballot in the capital.

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NATO spending down despite Russia tensions: think-tank

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Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:49

BRUSSELS: Many NATO member countries are spending less on defence despite promises to boost their budgets in the face of growing tensions with Russia, a think-tank said Thursday.

The European Leadership Network looked at figures for 2015 from 14 NATO members to see if they meet pledges made at a summit of the US-led military alliance last September.

All 28 NATO nations vowed to reverse a steady decline in defence spending and increase expenditure levels to two percent of annual economic output within 10 years.

"Despite concerns over Russian aggression in Ukraine and political commitments made at the NATO Wales Summit in September 2014... many are failing to live up to the commitments made," the think-tank said.

The tiny Baltic state of Estonia was the only country expected to spend 2.0 percent of gross domestic product on defence this year, London-based ELN said.

Six countries -- Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, the Netherlands and Romania -- are due to increase military expenditure but will not meet the target, while France is on course for a flat defence budget between 2014 and 2015.

Britain, Germany, Canada, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria are all set to cut defence spending, the think-tank said.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has repeatedly urged cash-strapped member nations to boost funding to meet increases in defence spending by Russia.

Russia's alleged involvement in Ukraine -- which the Kremlin has denied -- has sparked fears in NATO that Moscow could target the alliance's eastern European members.

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NATO Today – Cold War, Soviet Union, Red Square, Leonid Brezhnev 27610 HD – Video

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NATO Today - Cold War, Soviet Union, Red Square, Leonid Brezhnev 27610 HD
Produced in the early 1980s during the Cold War , this film shows the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also known as NATO, including footage of many diffe...

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