Friday,
November 14, 2008
Italy
Calls US- E.Europe Missiles Plan
"Provocative"
Just
as the US thought Russia's
establishing Missile sites in Cuba as Not only "Provocative" but
TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE, and brought the world to the brink of nuclear war until
Russia agreed to remove them, The US plan of establishing Missile Sites in
Poland and Czech Republic on Russia's
border is Equally as unacceptable, and stupid if as stated their concern
is Iran. Why not closer sites in Turkey
or Iraq, etc .in addition to
those we have just installed in Israel.
Curiously,
JFK invoked the "Monroe Doctrine" on August 30, 1962 saying that it
means today what it meant to President Monroe that is, that the US opposes all foreign intervention in the Western Hemisphere. If so, is the reverse also true, Non
Intervention of US in European Affairs of even Eastern Hemisphere?
Someone
also explain to me why the US
fought a CIVIL war to prevent Succession, and yet we are attempting to
intervene in Ukraine and Georgia,
that are "breakaway" former Russian states?
Italy Criticises
US over E. Europe Missiles Plan
Senior
Italian politicians have called on Russia
and the U.S.
to end a row over planned missile deployments. Italy's
Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, has appealed
to Washington to shelve proposals for an
anti-missile system in Eastern Europe.
Meanwhile, PM Silvio
Berlusconi has
likened the proposed missiles tthe recognition
of Kosovo:, and the possibility of Georgian and
Ukrainian membership in NATO, ; acts of "provocation against Russia."
In an interview
with Italy?s Repubblica
newspaper, Frattini said Russia
should also show restraint and resist putting missiles in Kaliningrad.
"There is a need to advance the perspective of creating a new world order
jointly with Europe, Russia
and America,"
he said.
Frattini says the incoming American administration
will be more focused on Asia than the current one, and it will not want a new
Cold War with the Russian
Federation. That is why, Frattini
says, there should be no deployment of the ABM system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
He suggested that Washington should
"change the approach" to relations with Russia.
And it wasn?t just the
Italian Foreign Minister joining the debate. Speaking during a visit to Turkey, Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi said he believed Russia
had a number of reasons to be unhappy.
"Let's speak frankly, Russia
was provoked by America's plans to
deploy missile defence elements in the Czech Republic
and Poland, the recognition of Kosovo and the possibility of Georgian and
Ukrainian membership in NATO, " Berlusconi said.
He also called on U.S.
president-elect Barack Obama to avoid stepping up confrontation with Russia.
Berlusconi also said confrontations like this could lead to nuclear war.
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