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In 1990´s Finland made some clever moves to get Baltic States to NATO and keep US as a security of the Northern Europe.


United States, Germany and Britain pressured the Finnish join NATO in the mid 1990s. Finland did not want to join, as Finland would have had to provide security guarantees for Estonia.

NATO's eastward architect, the US Assistant Secretary of State Ronald Asmus was planning to Denmark to NATO johtoesikuntaa with Finland and Sweden would be taking responsibility for the Baltic defense.

- When was the kind of person that NATO member countries were pushing the old Baltic security of our kontollemme - that Finland and Sweden were the guarantors of security in the Baltic, the former Chief of Defence, Admiral Juhani Kaskeala ret says Iltalehti NATO Extra magazine.

- This idea certainly contributed to the fact that Finland did not want to join NATO, Kaskeala says.

British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd suggested directly by Finland and Sweden to take responsibility for the Baltic countries.

Not realistic

Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari said US Secretary, Warren Christopher, that this is not realistic. The Nordic countries can not guarantee the security of the Baltic. Finland considers that only the US military deterrent enough for precautionary measures to prevent the use of force in Russia.

Solutions culminated in March 1997, when Russian President Boris Yeltsin and US President Bill Clinton discussed in Helsinki. Clinton persuaded Yeltsin to accept NATO expansion to Russia's borders.

Clinton dominated in inverted Yeltsin, who tried to get Clinton secret bilateral promise that NATO is expanding Soviet Union countries, ie the Baltic countries.


Clinton said that they can not just go to the two of us the men's room and colluded to anything, because all that will be the case in public. Clinton kept his cool and made it clear that the Baltic countries would not be left out of NATO.

In the end, Yeltsin handed over the debate, and blurted out: Well, I tried.

Dodge

Discussions have been described verbatim Ronald Asmuksen's book Opening NATO's Door, which appeared ten years ago.

Helsinki meeting in Russia actually had to give in to it, and the Baltic countries join NATO - as it turned out, years later.

This was a big relief for Finland. If the Baltic countries would not be taken to NATO, Finland could be responsible for at least the Estonian defense, while the United States had slipped out of Northern Europe.


Finland made a wise evasive action. Finland refused membership in order to avoid defending Estonia. At the same time Finland contributed to the accession of the Baltic countries and thus forced the United States to guarantee the safety of the Baltic Sea region.

Finland contributed a little easier by the Yeltsin evil mind. The north coast of the Gulf of Finland so far remained non-aligned. The sea route to St. Petersburg would not only NATO's water.




Miksi Suomi sanoi ei Natolle? Tässä syy
 

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Time to reflect why world wars begin in Europe. What is the defective gene in European that he always wants to fight.
Maybe. Maybe not. In Japan, the war went constantly. But Japan wasn't the pinnacle of civilization and kept to herself. All the great war (since the days of Ancient Egypt) began more developed civilization
 

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Both of your countries are less than 1000 years old, and still cannot figure out whether to outbreed or inbreed.

Gabriel, you are a 'frank' named after a jew who lived in jerusalem.

Does anything more have to be said?

Important age in the country or when originated civilization?
 

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Translation from Russian geopolitica doctrine, EU Army should be viewed against this Russian doctrine.

Osnovy geopolitiki. Geopolititšeskoje buduštšeje Rossii ('the geo-political criteria: Russia's geopolitical future') is the Geopolitics of a book, written by Aleksandr Dugin. The book has a great impact on the Russian army, the police and the national consensus on foreign policy elite [1] and it is used as a textbook for the Russian Army General Staff Academy. [1]

Bookmark the second factor is the general staff, the Academy of General Nikolai Klokotov. [1]

Table of Contents [hide]
1 Contents
1.1 Europe
1.2 The United States
1.3 Asia
1.4 South and Central America
2 Sources
Contents [edit | edit the wiki text]

The book states that "[ethnic] Russians battle for world domination" has not ended, and that Russia will remain a "new anti-bourgeois, anti-American revolution in the preparation area." The Eurasian empire will be built in the "common enemy based on Atlanticism rejection of the US strategic control and the Liberals values are "‹"‹for the refusal." [1] Dugin believes intercontinental, "Atlanticist" (America) and "euraasian" (Europe, which is part of Russia's power and sphere of influence ) between the source of the great war ?.

Military operations are relatively minor. The author believes that the subtle state behavior (Subversion), and destabilize the Russian special departments of disinformation. Operations should be assisted by a loud and strong-hearted public use of the Russian gas, oil and other natural resources exploitation as part of the countries to put pressure [1].

The book mentions the most important goal for the future size of the fin to be. [1]

Europe [edit | edit the wiki text]
Finland should be connected with Russia. Southern Finland should be connected to the Republic of Karelia, and Northern Finland to donate the Murmansk regional government. [1]
Germany should provide effective management policy in most countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Protestant and Catholic countries. Kaliningrad region could be returned to Germany. The book uses the term "Moscow-Berlin axis". [1]
France should be encouraged to Germany with the German-French bloc. Both countries have traditions "conviction of anti-Atlantic." [1]
Britain should be separated from Europe. [1]
Estonia should be included in the German sphere of influence. [1]
Latvia and Lithuania should be granted "special status" Eurasia-Russia in the field. [1]
Poland should be granted "special status" Eurasia-field. [1]
Romania, Macedonia, "the Serbs in Bosnia" and Greece - "Orthodox collectivist East" - will be connected to the "Moscow the third Rome" and rejected "rational individualistic West." [1]
Ukraine should be linked to Russia, because "Ukraine as an independent state, and within some regional objectives presents a high risk throughout Eurasia, and without a solution to the problem of Ukraine is pointless to talk about the continent's politics." Ukraine should be allowed to remain independent, unless it should be secluded island, what would be impossible to allow. [1]
United States [change | edit wiki text]
Russia should use its special forces to the United States within the boundaries of the instability and separatism accelerate. For example, to provoke the "Afro-American racists". Russia should "bring geopolitical disorder in American internal actions, and to strengthen all forms of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, to actively support all state against movements - extremist, racist and sectarian groups to cause instability in the US internal processes. It would also make sense to support the American policy isolationalism." [ 1]
The book points out that Russia will spread anti americanism everywhere: "all main patsy is just the United States"
Asia [edit | edit the wiki text]
China, which pose a threat to Russia, must be possible to a large extent breaking down. Dugin argues that Russia should make Tibet, Xinjiang, Mongolia, Manchuria area of "‹"‹safety zone. [2] Russia should provide assistance to China "in the southern direction - Indochina (except Vietnam), the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia," a geopolitical as compensation. [1]
Russia should manipulate the Japanese policies by providing Kurilian islands of Japan and provoke anti americanism. [1]
Mongolia should be connected to Eurasia Russia. [1][/hide]
 

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@jouni, I doubt that a book by Dugin becomes Russia's official policy. Books are written from populist point of view. State policy is rarely populist, specially in foreign policy.

It will be a mistake to equate USSR policies with Russia's policies.

Only European fools believe that Moscow is pushing events in Donbass. A correct view is that Russia only wanted Crimea; and Donbass is blowback from Crimea. Donbass is happening due to Kiev's high-handedness towards Russian speakers.

I have written repeatedly Russia's hesitation to respond to events in Donbass.

Russia's desire for protection of Russian speakers in Donbass is genuine.

The problem in Europe is that Europeans are brain-washed into believing the American narrative. USA is the aggressor in Ukraine.
 
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A European army is logical aftermath to economic integration. The problem with EU is that economic integration itself is highly flawed - based on corporate policies rather than State policies. This has resulted in lopsided economic situation in different parts of EU. I would argue that EU has failed to transform itself into a 'State' due to inherent contradictions present in Europe. EU is a marriage of convenience and such marriages don't last.
 

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NATO Trains New 'High Readiness' Task Force

With many countries in Eastern Europe on edge over increased military activity, NATO has decided to form a new fighting force designed to respond swiftly in the face of threats.

The Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) will include about 5,000 troops, primarily from France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain, with maritime, special operations and aviation units.


The "spearhead force," as NATO describes it, is meant to give the rest of the 30,000 service members in the NATO Response Force (NRF) time to mobilize.

NATO Defense Ministers decided to create the high-readiness force "In light of the changing security environment to the east and south of the Alliance's borders," the coalition said on its website.

The force is in the midst of part one of a training exercise dubbed Operation Noble Jump. Having begun on April 1 and concluding on April 10, the exercise includes missions in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands, and marks the first time that the forces will practice rapid "orders to move," NATO officials said.

The second part of Noble Jump will occur from June 9 to June 20 at the Zagan Military Training Area in Poland, officials said. It will be followed by Trident Juncture 2015, a military exercise in Italy, Spain and Portugal from October 21 to November 6.

Air Force General Philip Breedlove, the commander of US European Command and supreme allied commander of NATO operations, has repeatedly said that the entire NRF needs to be ready. He said at a forum in Brussels last month that NATO is not just establishing the high-readiness task force, but also working to speed up how the rest of the response force moves.


Breedlove told the House Armed Services Committee in February that Europe will be the primary contributor of land forces for the high-readiness task force, but the US must contribute some troops to help with cohesiveness.

United States troops have spent years training with the NRF since it was established in 2003.

Last month in Latvia, US Marines joined troops from Lithuania, Luxembourg, Canada and Germany for a five-day training assignment. The Marines took part in the Black Sea Rotational Force, which cycles through the Baltic region regularly for training assignments on Russia's western flank.

NATO Trains New 'High Readiness' Task Force / Sputnik International
 

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Russia Creates Powerful New Military Branch to Counter NATO

Russia has created a new military branch, the Aerospace Forces, by merging the Russian Air Force with the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces, TASS reports. The $60 billion reorganization appears to be a direct response to the perceived increased risk of NATO air and missile attacks on Russian soil — in particular, the United States military’s Global Strike program has the Kremlin worried.

The new service branch, officially called the Aerospace Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, became operational on August 1, according to Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.

“On August 1, the Russian president signed decree No. 394 on appointing the Colonel-General [Viktor Bondarev] as the commander-in-chief of the Aerospace Forces, Lieutenant-General [Pavel] Kurachenko as chief of the Main Staff and first deputy commander-in-chief of the Aerospace Forces, Lieutenant-General [Alexander] Golovko as deputy commander-in-chief of the Aerospace Forces and commander of the Space Forces,” Shoigu said.

The Aerospace Forces will be subdivided into the air force, air and missile defense troops, and space forces. “Now the single command unites aviation, air defense and anti-missile defense troops, space forces and means of the armed forces,” according to the defense minister.

The new service branch will be responsible for launching and operating intelligence/nuclear missile warning satellites, as well as coordinating air and missile defenses, next to having control over one of the largest air forces in the world along with its conventional weapons arsenal.

“The formation of the Aerospace Forces by combining the Air Force and the Aerospace Defense Force is the optimal option for improving the system of the country’s aerospace defense,” Shoigu emphasized. In detail, the minister laid out the benefits of the merger during a short presentation to press representatives:

This makes it possible, in the first place, to concentrate in a single command the entire responsibility for formulating military and technical policy for the development of troops dealing with tasks in the aerospace sphere and, secondly, to raise the efficiency of their use through closer integration and, thirdly, to ensure the consistent development of the country’s aerospace defense.

However, Russia’s Strategic Rocket Forces, the service branch controlling all of Russia’s land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, will remain a separate entity directly under the orders of the General Staff. “It is an incomplete integration,” according to Maxim Shepovalenko, a former Russian military officer and analyst at the Moscow-based Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies who was quoted in the Moscow Times. “Compared to the U.S. Air Force, which wields both the sword and the shield, we will be incorporating only the shield,” he added.

Sergey Shoigu reiterated that the shifting nature of warfare “towards the aerospace sphere” has made the reorganization necessary, although he pointed out that the actual aviation and air defense control in military districts will remain unchanged for the time being.

“General command of aerospace defense will continue to be exercised by the General Staff and directly by the main command of the Aerospace Forces,” Shoigu said.

http://thediplomat.com/2015/08/russia-creates-powerful-new-military-branch-to-counter-nato/
 

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Russia Creates Powerful New Military Branch to Counter NATO

Russia has created a new military branch, the Aerospace Forces, by merging the Russian Air Force with the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces, TASS reports. The $60 billion reorganization appears to be a direct response to the perceived increased risk of NATO air and missile attacks on Russian soil — in particular, the United States military’s Global Strike program has the Kremlin worried.

The new service branch, officially called the Aerospace Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, became operational on August 1, according to Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.

“On August 1, the Russian president signed decree No. 394 on appointing the Colonel-General [Viktor Bondarev] as the commander-in-chief of the Aerospace Forces, Lieutenant-General [Pavel] Kurachenko as chief of the Main Staff and first deputy commander-in-chief of the Aerospace Forces, Lieutenant-General [Alexander] Golovko as deputy commander-in-chief of the Aerospace Forces and commander of the Space Forces,” Shoigu said.

The Aerospace Forces will be subdivided into the air force, air and missile defense troops, and space forces. “Now the single command unites aviation, air defense and anti-missile defense troops, space forces and means of the armed forces,” according to the defense minister.

The new service branch will be responsible for launching and operating intelligence/nuclear missile warning satellites, as well as coordinating air and missile defenses, next to having control over one of the largest air forces in the world along with its conventional weapons arsenal.

“The formation of the Aerospace Forces by combining the Air Force and the Aerospace Defense Force is the optimal option for improving the system of the country’s aerospace defense,” Shoigu emphasized. In detail, the minister laid out the benefits of the merger during a short presentation to press representatives:

This makes it possible, in the first place, to concentrate in a single command the entire responsibility for formulating military and technical policy for the development of troops dealing with tasks in the aerospace sphere and, secondly, to raise the efficiency of their use through closer integration and, thirdly, to ensure the consistent development of the country’s aerospace defense.

However, Russia’s Strategic Rocket Forces, the service branch controlling all of Russia’s land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, will remain a separate entity directly under the orders of the General Staff. “It is an incomplete integration,” according to Maxim Shepovalenko, a former Russian military officer and analyst at the Moscow-based Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies who was quoted in the Moscow Times. “Compared to the U.S. Air Force, which wields both the sword and the shield, we will be incorporating only the shield,” he added.

Sergey Shoigu reiterated that the shifting nature of warfare “towards the aerospace sphere” has made the reorganization necessary, although he pointed out that the actual aviation and air defense control in military districts will remain unchanged for the time being.

“General command of aerospace defense will continue to be exercised by the General Staff and directly by the main command of the Aerospace Forces,” Shoigu said.

http://thediplomat.com/2015/08/russia-creates-powerful-new-military-branch-to-counter-nato/
Leaked plans of the new fighter for Aerospace forces....

 

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On 24 July, a technical agreement was signed on the functioning of the joint brigade "LITPOLUKRBRIG" (Lithuania,Poland, Ukraine). In the first phase the team will consist of three national battalions. Upon completion, the team should consist of 4.5 thousand people. Most of the brigade's soldiers will be from Poland.
 

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On 24 July, a technical agreement was signed on the functioning of the joint brigade "LITPOLUKRBRIG" (Lithuania,Poland, Ukraine). In the first phase the team will consist of three national battalions. Upon completion, the team should consist of 4.5 thousand people. Most of the brigade's soldiers will be from Poland.
Nice catchy name.......................... ;)
 

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