
2017-5-28 13:01 |
27. 05. 2017 - 11:17 It’s crucial that all our citizens – particularly young people who have grown up in times of peace – understand what NATO is and what we do. Our continued success depends on our citizens understanding the essential role that NATO plays in our security, on which our prosperity is based.
We will remain fully transparent and proactive in explaining our essential work to the outside world. — NATO, May 22, 2017 STRATFOR’s observations about Libya in September 2012 included the withering and accurate comment that “NATO simply didn’t understand or care about the whirlwind it was unleashing” when it went to war on Libya in March the previous year, but it is unfortunate that the US-NATO military alliance has been so successful in its propaganda intended to convince the world at large that its yippee-shooting jamboree in Libya was a successful intervention in the cause of peace and stability. — CounterPunch, October 2, 2015 Corruption Is Killing Ukraine’s Economy — Forbes, October 14, 2016 According to the Headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, its “two official languages are English and French,” although it makes selected press releases available in other languages, which is pragmatic and understandable in some circumstances. But when the subject of an official NATO notification is “NATO Secretary General to address the European Parliament” and the languages used to inform the world of this important event are English, French and Ukrainian, it has to be asked why the last was considered necessary rather than, say, German, Spanish or Turkish. It is equally intriguing that the media handout on the occasion of the visit to NATO HQ by US Defense Secretary, General James Mattis, on February 15 was published in the same languages. One wonders how many Ukrainians were involved in the visit by General Mattis (he who nauseatingly considers that “it’s fun to shoot some people”) — and what the reasoning behind the language deal might have involved. Ukraine is not a member of the US-NATO military alliance that was formed in 1949 “to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization of their peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule . . . .
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