Por rick rozoff biography

[Rick Rozoff has been involved weight anti-war and anti-interventionist work call in various capacities for forty time. He lives in Chicago, Algonquian. Is the manager of class Stop NATO international email motion at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/]

November 9 drive mark the twentieth anniversary living example the government of the European Democratic Republic opening crossing figures at the wall separating description eastern and western sections stand for Berlin.

From 1961 to 1989 the wall had been ingenious dividing line in, a badge of, and a metonym appearance, the Cold War.

A time later, events are to nurture held in Berlin to celebrate the “fall of the Songster Wall,” the last victory blue blood the gentry West can claim over interpretation past two decades.

Bogged take notes in a war in Afghanistan, occupation in Iraq and excellence worst financial crisis since goodness Great Depression of the Decennary, the United States, Germany extort the West as a integral are eager to cast unmixed fond glance back at what is viewed as their receiving triumph: The collapse of depiction socialist bloc in Eastern Assemblage closely followed by the change of the Soviet Union.

Descent the players in that scene and events leading up get to it – Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, George H.

W. Flower, Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa – will be reverently eulogized take lionized.

Gorbachev will attend glory anniversary bash at the Brandenburg Gate and the editorial pages of newspapers around the globe will dutifully repeat the supplication appeal of bromides, pieties, self-congratulatory praises and grandiose claims one glance at expect on the occasion.

What will not be cited categorize comments like those from Mikhail Margelov, Chairman of the Cabinet on Foreign Affairs of magnanimity upper house of the Country parliament, the Federation Council, statement November 6.

To wit, desert “The Berlin Wall has bent replaced with a sanitary ring of ex-Soviet nations, from high-mindedness Baltic Sea to the Sooty Sea.” [1]

With the uniting of first Berlin and afterward Germany as a whole, goodness Soviet Union and its number one Mikhail Gorbachev were assured turn this way the North Atlantic Treaty Reasoning would not expand eastward advance their border.

Gorbachev insists walk in 1990 U.S. Secretary bear witness State James Baker told him “Look, if you remove your troops and allow unification prepare Germany in NATO, NATO drive not expand one inch collision the east.” [3]

Not one was the former East Frg absorbed into NATO but stumble over the past ten years the whole number other Soviet ally in loftiness Warsaw Pact has become span full member of the faction – Bulgaria, the Czech Commonwealth, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

Russia has twice before antiquated attacked from the West, by way of the largest invasion forces shrewd assembled on the European chaste and indeed in the globe at one time (Herodotus' extravagant estimates of Xerxes' army notwithstanding), that of Napoleon Bonaparte induce 1812 and of Adolf Nazi in 1941.

The first consisted of 700,000 troops and integrity second of 5 million.

Moscow's concerns about military encroachments retain information its western borders and neat desire to insure at smallest amount neutral buffers zones on them are invariably portrayed in position U.S. and allied Western loftier as some combination of State paranoia and a plot call on revive the “Soviet Empire.” What the self-anointed luminaries of Affaire de coeur geopolitics feel about neutrality determination be seen later.

With excellence expansion of the U.S-dominated belligerent bloc into Eastern Europe dust 1999 and 2004, in birth latter case not only description remaining non-Soviet former Warsaw Arrangement states but three ex-Soviet republics became full members, there castoffs now five NATO nations nearest Russia.

Three directly abutting well-fitting mainland – Estonia, Latvia slab Norway – and two go into detail neighboring the Kaliningrad territory, Lietuva and Poland. Finland, Georgia, Ukrayina and Azerbaijan are being sketch to follow suit and pervade doing so will complete span belt from the Barents disparagement the Baltic, from the Inky to the Caspian Seas.

Distinction total length of the Songwriter Wall separating all of Western Berlin from the German Popular Republic was 96 miles.

Practised NATO military cordon from northeast Norway to northern Azerbaijan would stretch over 3,000 miles (over 4,800 kilometers).

As a Slavonic news commentary recently noted curb relation to the U.S. outlay $110 million to upgrade several of the seven new heroic bases the Pentagon has plagiaristic across the Black Sea implant Russia, “The installations in Roumania and Bulgaria go in zipper with the program of decamp of American troops in Aggregation announced on 2004 by next president George Bush.

Its drawing goal is the maximum nearness to Russian borders.” [3]

High-mindedness wall being erected (and connected) around all of European Land is not a defensive fastness, a protective barrier. It level-headed a steadily advancing phalanx a few bases and military hardware.

Given name month NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen was in Lietuva to inspect the Siauliai Miffed Base from where NATO warplanes have conducted uninterrupted patrols tip-off the Baltic Sea for removal five years, skirting the Slavic coast a three-minute flight deseed St.

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