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NATO Official: Russia Now An Adversary
2014-05-02
[Ynet] After two decades of trying to build a partnership with Russia, the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
 alliance now feels compelled to start treating Moscow as an adversary, the second-ranking official of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said Thursday.

"Clearly the Russians have declared NATO as an adversary, so we have to begin to view Russia no longer as a partner but as more of an adversary than a partner," said Alexander Vershbow, the deputy secretary-general of NATO.
*sigh* Something about the hat to cattle ratio comes to mind, but I just can't put my finger on it...
In a question-and-answer session with a small group of news hounds, Vershbow said Russia's annexation of Crimea and its apparent manipulation of unrest in eastern Ukraine have fundamentally changed the NATO-Russia relationship.
Posted by:trailing wife

#10  * CHINA DAILY > US OPTS FOR [intentionally] INEFFECTIVE SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA | STRATFOR.

versus

Meanwhile, NOT to be outdone by NATO or Vlad ...

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [China.org] US WILL SELF-DEFEAT ITSELF IFF IT CONSIDERS CHINA AN ENEMY.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-05-02 22:48  

#9  They=NATO members
Posted by: P2Kontheroad   2014-05-02 15:28  

#8  How long until Obama tells NATO that the 80s called and wants its foreign policy back?
Posted by: AuburnTom   2014-05-02 15:15  

#7  "They Who, Rusians or US?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2014-05-02 13:28  

#6  When they double their GDP percentage on defense, give me a call.
Posted by: P2kontheroad   2014-05-02 12:27  

#5  Only now?

Been that way for at least a decade. You idiots were too stupid to see it apparently.
Posted by: DarthVader   2014-05-02 12:25  

#4  If the Obama administration's goal was to have a stable-enough foreign policy so as to focus on domestic policy, they are in failure mode. I don't feel them walking off the field, so what is the hail mary or are we in it, with the scalping of business leaders?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-05-02 12:16  

#3  Because who needs NATO without Russia?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-05-02 11:44  

#2  Deputy secretary-general Vershbow swallowing the Mitt Romney rhetoric is he ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-05-02 02:15  

#1  Wehell, the Russians after all are of the Orthdox Church.

lol.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-05-02 01:16  

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