Estonia’s Pro-NATO Ruling Party Claims Victory in Parliamentary Polls – Video

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Estonia #39;s Pro-NATO Ruling Party Claims Victory in Parliamentary Polls
Estonia #39;s ruling center-right pro-NATO Reform party claimed victory late Sunday in parliamentary polls dominated by security concerns from a militarily resurgent Russia. Unofficial results...

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France: ‘Ceasefire fragile, but seems to be holding’ – NATO’s Jens Stoltenberg – Video

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France: #39;Ceasefire fragile, but seems to be holding #39; - NATO #39;s Jens Stoltenberg
"The ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is fragile but seems to be holding", NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said after a working visit to meet with French President Hollande, in Paris Monday...

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NATO, Russia trade accusations

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RIGA, Latvia NATO and Russia exchanged heated language reminiscent of Cold War days on Thursday with accusations of sinister geopolitical plotting and human rights abuses flying across an increasingly deep divide.

NATOs top U.S. civilian official, Alexander Vershbow, said Thursday that an angry, revisionist Russia was stopping at little to re-establish its clout in Europe, including redrawing borders by force to achieve its goals.

Vershbow, the alliances deputy secretary-general, told a conference in Latvia that President Vladimir Putins 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, referring to the Ukraine uprising which ousted Moscow-ally Viktor Yanukovych as president last year.

He rattled off a litany of harsh accusations against the Kremlin.

Under Putin, Vershbow said, Russia has developed a new form of hybrid warfare, combining military intimidation, disguised intervention, the covert supply of weapons and weapon systems, economic blackmail, diplomatic duplicity and media manipulation, with outright disinformation.

In Moscow, Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov blasted the West for trying to enforce its will on others and cast Russia as an enemy. He condemned NATOs decision to create command and control centres in the Baltic states and three other eastern allies, and to upgrade a headquarters unit in Poland calling those moves a clear signal that the alliance views Russia much as it once did the Soviet Union.

Antonov said that while attending the recent Munich security conference he was struck by mad, paranoid talk about Russias coming military onslaught. Western countries are building new divisive lines, he said. Russia has been picked up as a target.

Russias permanent representative to NATO, Alexander Grushko, said the alliance is dreaming of a Russian Maidan.

The European Union and NATO have been harshly critical of Russias involvement in the standoff in eastern Ukraine and the annexation by Moscow of the Crimea peninsula.

The 28 EU nations have imposed a series of sanctions against Moscow, including visa bans and asset freezes on top Russian officials, with Antonov being the latest addition to the list. Moscow rejects NATO claims that it has designs on its neighbours, countering that it the West that is using the Ukraine crisis to try to expand the alliance further east.

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Tanks and Tactics: NATO Exercises Send Message to Putin

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PABRADE, Lithuania On a desolate plain where Soviet tanks once prepared for a possible invasion of Western Europe, American troops are training to deter Moscow from another invasion.

Through a dense smokescreen, soldiers of the Second Cavalry Regiment advance amid intense gunfire on the imaginary positions of a NATO enemy. On their flanks are fellow NATO soldiers from Lithuania where the war game is being held who just a quarter century ago would have been enemies, as Lithuania was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.

The U.S. and NATO are ramping up their deterrence capabilities against any Russian threat to Europe's borders and this joint exercise is aimed squarely at Russia. NATO is drawing a red line in the three Baltic states, all of them alliance members, with a message to Moscow: "Don't cause trouble here and don't try to invade!"

American Stryker armored vehicles speed across the churned ground; later this year they will be replaced in Lithuania by Abrams main battle tanks and another rotation of American troops will arrive.

U.S. Army Capt. Russell Moore, who is leading the troops involved in the current exercise, said the war games show not just that the "the U.S. is willing to stand with all of its NATO alliance partners It shows that we're strong, Europe is strong and there's a collective defense ready to defend against any foreign aggression."

Lieutenant Evaldas Milkintis, his Lithuanian comrade, agrees.

"We feel safer training together," he said. "We're trying to be ready to react to any threat from outside."

Lithuania has good reason to feel threatened. It was ruled by Moscow for decades until the end of the Cold War and doesn't want to be ruled by Vladimir Putin now. That's why the small nation has watched with growing alarm as Ukraine's borders were torn up by Moscow-backed fighters.

To its west is the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, home to Russia's Baltic warships. And in the skies above the Baltic Sea, it watches Russian warplanes test NATO's responses.

Lithuania has become one of Russia's main adversaries because it has sent military help to the Kiev government.

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Barbie Conspires With the NSA: Wacky Conspiracy Roundup For Feb 24, 2015 – Video

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In this week #39;s Wacky Conspiracy Theory rant, I travel from Dubai to the Peruvian Amazon to your living room to see what #39;s on the minds of various geniuses an...

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