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Category Archives: NATO
NATO Dating: Decoding the Gen-Z relationship trend – WION
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NATO Ally Fears Russian Invasion and Possible ‘Defensive’ War – Newsweek
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Erdogan Ally Links Sweden’s NATO Bid to Gaza War in New Hurdle – Bloomberg
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A key partner of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threw fresh doubt on NATOs Nordic expansion after conditioning his support for Swedens accession on permanent peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Devlet Bahceli, leader of the Nationalist Movement Party whose support gives Erdogan a majority in parliament, said we look coldly upon Sweden entering NATO, the Turkgun newspaper reported in an interview on Friday.
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‘Ukraine will become a member of NATO when all allies agree, and conditions are met’ Biden – Yahoo News
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Ukraine will become a member of NATO, Joe Biden assured at a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Dec.12.
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I'm very proud about how strong and unified NATO has become and now it's even larger, said Biden.
NATO will be in Ukraine's future, no question about that. But we as we said in Vilnius, Ukraine will become a member of NATO when all allies agree, and conditions are met. Right now, we have to make sure that Ukraine wins the war, he said.
G7 leaders outlined a long-term commitment to supporting Ukraine's defense needs in Vilnius, said Biden.
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NATO’s Strategy Of Constructive Anarchism Fuels Endless Wars OpEd – Eurasia Review
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The ongoing war in Gaza reveals the futility of trying to solve a crisis without addressing its root causes. The US approach to crisis resolution has relied on harsh military and coercive methods to deal with various security-strategic and political challenges. The American international order has a simple rule: any change and transformation that creates a new game, a new plan and a new international order must be achieved by an all-out war. However, recent events such as the withdrawal from Afghanistan, NATOs expansion in the east and Russias provocation of war in Ukraine, the attempts to trigger a war with China over Taiwan and the naval blockade of this rival country, the unresolved wars and crises in different regions, and the latest Israeli aggression on Gaza, all indicate a grand strategy: NATOs constructive anarchism.
NATOs constructive anarchism strategy has several aspects. The first one is the undermining of international organizations that were supposed to provide multilateral solutions and security guarantees. For example, the United Nations Security Council has lost its ability to build a global consensus on a common threat to global peace and stability and has become a venue for rivals to veto each others plans to end wars and ensure security. This signifies the end of the collective security system, where no security phenomenon, war, or peace is seen as a common interest of all, and there is no single interpretation of any crisis that aims to resolve it. In this situation, if an international order is defined as a written or unwritten agreement among its parties to protect it and accept its common norms and values, we can confidently say that we are in a period of disorder and pervasive anarchism. In this period, we face not one order, but multiple overlapping and competing orders, and instead of multilateralism at the global level, we see intersecting coalitions and alliances that cannot reach a single agreement.
The second aspect is that in this situation, the US is not interested in resolving issues through international organizations and rules. Instead, Washington tries to align their NATO allies and use their combined military force to fight and maintain the current order. In other words, in a strategy based on constructive anarchism, the goal of the US military campaign is not to create a new order but to preserve the existing one. In this case, NATOs constructive anarchism aims to eliminate three competitors: ideologically asymmetric groups that oppose the status quo; Russia, which is weakened by the war in Ukraine and could be fully dominated after Putins fall; and China, which is the main rival of this order.
Meanwhile, the occupation of the Palestinian lands and the disregard for the two-state solution have led to the Gaza war. This is an unsolvable crisis that aims to weaken the Islamic-Arab countries, destroy the Palestinian resistance groups, and eliminate the Israeli problem in the Islamic world. On the other hand, on the Ukrainian front, the strategy of constructive anarchism has successfully dragged Russia into a costly war of attrition, and the Americans claim that the goal of the war is to end Russias military power. Russia, which is NATOs buffer zone with China, and its fall could pave the way for NATOs global strategy, which is seen by Western strategists as the downfall of China. Meanwhile, the Chinese are well aware of the completion of the puzzle that outlines their demise. In this scenario, peace is not a priority.
The escalation of these wars shows that the Americans and their allies do not benefit from peace and their desired order cannot be achieved peacefully. Therefore, they are implementing a new strategy to eliminate their opponents rather than contain and control them. In this strategy, NATOs constructive anarchism tries to revive the previous order based on fear and violence with a new form ofthe chaos and the tools of war.
The deployment of NATO fleets following the Americans in the Mediterranean and the Middle East and the opening of a new front in the Middle East along with Europe has made war the norm of the current situation, a war which, according to the White Houses usual practice, is synonymous with American peace. This is where we do not have a single and inclusive global peace, but a fragmented and contested peace among the Americans, Russians, and Chinese, which is vetoed and collapsed every time in a meeting. A peace that does not bring order, but is replaced by war. The wars that are creating a NATO out of disorder.
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NATO Raises Concerns Over Proposed Menthol Ban With Federal Officials – CSNews Online
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WASHINGTON, D.C. After indicating that it will not publish final rules to ban menthol cigarettes and characterizing flavors in cigars until at least March 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to face opposition from a variety of sources. This time, the pushback is coming from the National Association of Tobacco Outlets (NATO).
Last week, NATO met with representatives from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Executive Office of the President, the FDA and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to advocate that the final rulings not be published.
In its meeting with federal officials, NATO argued publication of the rulings would:
It also argued that licensed and regulated retailers, like NATO's members, sell tobacco products responsibly and are in compliance with all laws and regulations, which already prevents youth access to menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.
In October more than a year after theFDA first announcedits intention to ban menthol the group submitted a final product standardthat would prohibit the use of menthol in cigarettes, roll-your-own tobacco and heated tobacco products to the OMB for final review. This is step eight of the nine-step federal rulemaking process.During the review process, OMB evaluates whether to clear the rule for final publication or send it back to FDA for further review.
During the review process, the Administration and federal agencies evaluate the rules and meet with interested stakeholders to consider policy arguments around the cost and benefits of the rules, among other topics.According to OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs website dashboard, OMB has taken or scheduled more than 50 meetings through Jan. 11, 2024, with tobacco retailers, manufacturers, wholesalers, trade associations, policy groups, tobacco control organizations and other stakeholders.
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The FDA's Center for Tobacco Products has stated that finalizing these rules remains a top priority for the agency.If these rules are finalized, they will likely not be effective for at least one year following publication.This effective date could be further delayed if the rules are challenged in court by the industry, NATO reported.
The FDA previously targeted August 2023 for publication of the final rules.
NATO is a national trade association organized to enhance the common business interests of all tobacco retailers, and to monitor and assist members in responding to tobacco-related legislation on the local, state and federal levels.
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NATO scouts for defense startups with help of three Boston women – The Boston Globe
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In the US, several initiatives have been launched to help the armed services connect and contract with startups working on promising technologies. But, Murray explained, If only the US does this, are the other allies going to be left behind? Can we level up the rest of NATO?
In laying the groundwork for the new NATO programs, Murray said, NATO officials visited organizations around the world that were set up to support startups, including MassChallenge, a startup competition based in Boston, MITs The Engine venture capital fund and startup incubator, and an Air Force backed startup accelerator program, AFWERX, which operated in Boston for several years. They also spoke with investors at IQT, a venture capital fund affiliated with the CIA, which has a Waltham office.
NATO, headquartered in Brussels, likes acronyms. So, its startup scouting and funding activities have introduced two new ones: DIANA, the Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic, and NIF, the NATO Innovation Fund. Both will hunt for startups developing so-called dual use technologies those that may have applications in both business and the world of government and military entities.
The DIANA accelerator posts challenges to attract startups with a specific focus; among the initial challenges was one focused on energy resilience, which includes ways to supply power that would not be disrupted by natural disasters or cyber attacks. (About 1,300 startups applied for the first round this year, Murray said.)
The startups chosen for the accelerator each receive a grant of 100,000 Euros about $108,000 access to testing centers located in NATO member countries, and six months of mentorship and training as they develop their products. Some of that activity will take place at five accelerator programs in NATO countries. One of those is MassChallenge.
MassChallenge CEO Cait Brumme said the NATO startup founders will be able to choose which of the five sites they feel will be most helpful. The program will run from January through June of next year, after which the startups will be eligible for a second round of grant funding. (Participating entrepreneurs dont have to give up any equity in their company in either of the first two rounds.)
MassChallenge worked with MIT and Starburst, an aerospace-focused accelerator program, to develop a curriculum for the startups that will be used at all five of the sites, Brumme said. The curriculum focuses on topics such as understanding what dual-use is, how you work within the NATO context, and how you navigate Department of Defense entities, she said.
Another Bostonian, Bernadette Johnson, spent 2023 in London helping DIANA sort through the 1,300 applications and choose the 44 winners. Johnson is a longtime executive at MITs Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, which develops technology for national security.
The NATO Innovation Fund is set up separately from DIANA, although it may in the future invest in startups that participate in the accelerator program. Murray, a dual citizen of the US and United Kingdom, serves as vice chair of that fund.
Its first pool of capital, one billion Euros, came from 23 NATO member countries not including the US. The three biggest contributors were the UK, Germany, and Italy.
While any startup based in a NATO country is eligible for the Diana program, the NIF will only invest in startups located in the 23 countries that put money into the fund.
The US did not contribute to the first NIF fund fund, but may invest in subsequent funds, said Murray, the associate dean at MIT. The NIF will invest in the early years of a startups life what is called seed or Series A investing and will look for investment opportunities not just in well-established ecosystems like London and Amsterdam.
The NIF is an effort to take the traditional VC model and adapt it to this extremely important mission and purpose supporting defense, security, and the resilience agenda in todays very complex geopolitical world, Murray said.
Among the NIF investors is Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky, who is based in London. In terms of areas where NIF is hunting for potential investments, he said, one major trend that we see is the use of drones in recent conflicts, and more specifically, in Russias war against Ukraine. The fund is also interested in approaches to defend against biological threats and cryptography that will be able to keep data secure once powerful quantum computers are deployed to break codes.
The fund hasnt yet made its first investment, Schneider-Sikorsky said, but that should happen imminently.
NATO was created in 1949 to counter the threat to European democracies from the Soviet Union. As the organization approaches its 75th birthday next year, NIF and Diana are two experiments in sourcing technology and supporting startups that will be worth watching.
Scott Kirsner can be reached at kirsner@pobox.com. Follow him @ScottKirsner.
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