https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_status_referendum,_2014
Russia didn't invade Crimea. There were 20,000 troops were based there as they had been for a century. NATO’s promise not to expand and move forces eastward was trashed by Obama's warmongers.
Henry Kissinger on NATO's Kosovo war:
“The rejection of long-range strategy explains how it was possible to slide into the Kosovo conflict without adequate consideration of its implications … The transformation of the NATO alliance from a defensive military grouping to an institution prepared to impose its values by force … undercut repeated American and allied assurances that Russia had nothing to fear from NATO expansion.”
NATO has not only become costly and not serve U.S. interests (besides giving the perfumed princes an all-expenses-paid European vacation), but it has become very dangerous and destructive. American military for America. Not Davos.
Btw, that term “perfumed princes” comes from The late Col. David “Hack” Hackworth, one of the most highly decorated American soldiers in U.S. history. As an aside, and something I mentioned on FR before, I used to correspond with Hack via email. Hack was doing research on McCain, whom Hack thought was a fraud and scumbag. I was trying to get a family friend— a combat pilot who was in the Hanoi Hilton w/ McCain— to go on record with what he had told us about McCain at social get-togethers. He declined. He was a GOP state official and ended up backing McCain/Palin in 2008. Disappointing, but this is an honorable man and I respect his decision. I will never relay what he told us in confidence. But at this point I don’t think anyone needs further proof of what McCain is about.
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