Cooperative clash between Russia and NATO

-DR. ABDUL RUFF COLACHAL 

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The so-called Cold war may have ended long ago, but the real  threat to human survival from the US led NATO  and  their  never ending conflicts with arch enemy Russia have not  disappeared.   

Sept-11 hoax brought a weakened and demoralized Russia closer to USA and NATO close for the firs time in decades and each tries to get maximum from the other.

For years now,  since the collapse of Soviet and communist system in East Europe, Russia has been demanding on the Americans  to dismantle the NATO as there is  no real threat to the West from communism now.  But when USA and its European allies rejected the suggestion outright, Russia began demanding a full membership in NATO. West continues to reject the Moscow demand though NATO has been using the Kremlin to support the NATO terror wars in Islamic world.

And Russia since the Sept-11 has been cooperating with NATO in Islamic world targeting Muslims so as to get the NATO support in return for Russian attack on the Chechens who have been, since the  disintegration of Soviet Union 1991, Russia is not happy that it could not divide the US-EU alliance on capitalist imperialism, though Moscow is also following the footsteps of western capitalist system.

Yet, Russia resents US efforts to make it part of  NATO  empire without assigning the veto power in NATO that would indirectly restrain USA. Not just that.  Washington doe snot consider Russia equal to any of the major West European nations. 

While the USA is deploying the European component of its worldwide anti-missile shield, irritation from the Russian side is building up, spilling  their fight over to other international issues. 

Since 2011 the European missile defense problem has been in the limelight during the Russia-EU summits. Moscow has continually insisted on legally binding guarantees that US missile defenses based in European countries are not aimed at the Kremlin, and that Russia would be allowed access to sensitive aspects of the system. However, so far the Russian position has been pretty much ignored, despite Moscow’s threats to take countermeasures and even to stop cooperation with NATO on anti-defense in Europe altogether. USA and NATO  treats all threats from the Kremlin as being a usual bully to get some favors from them. 

At the latest Brussels summit, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen discussed the Euro missile shield issue once again and announced after the negotiations that they are ready to search for solutions. They sides noted the importance of the implementation of principles of genuine equality and indivisible security proclaimed in the founding documents of the Russia-NATO Council and approved by the chiefs of state. 

It appears, NATO could persuade  Moscow to  see reason and play second fiddle for NATO to contain and end Islamic rise. Since Russia is too worried about Chechnya issue which remains a major foreign policy issue of  the Putin regime even since he rose to power in Russia in 2000. Now it  has to oblige the NATO, failing which  the NATO would support the Chechnya in its  struggle for  freedom  from the Kremlin. And hence thy expressed their readiness to carry on the search for solutions to the missile defense problem, to build up confidence and predictability in military political affairs and to ensure the steady growth of cooperation in response to common risks and security threats – terrorism, sea piracy, natural and man-made catastrophes, as well as in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The concept for a European missile defense shield was originally floated by the Bush regime, which planned to base long-range missile interceptors in Poland, smack on the Russian border, together with a sophisticated radar system in the Czech Republic. Although  US President Obama, upon entering office seeking to reset the  its Russian ties, initially shelved the Bush program under pressure from Russia, he then quickly announced a land- and sea-based system missile defense system for Europe. 

Hawkish Bush, who floated the theory of rogue states in order to  prepare for military attacks on them, was in fact targeting both Russia and Iran as the worst  examples to prove his fanaticism , but due to updated intelligence assessment that proved Iran’s missile capabilities were far less than feared, He thought of a very cautious attitude to Russia. 

The European missile defense shield should be fully operational by 2018 and it appears that the western terror alliance is willing to take the chance of alienating Russia over the system, possibly even sparking some kind of arms race in the region.

The Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space believes that in building a missile defense system on Russia’s doorstep, the USA is not about defending Europe against “rogue states”:

Bush wanted these machines be ground-based, put right into Poland and Romania, while there are radars going into several places and then there would also be sea-based. The USA is putting these missile defense systems on navy destroyers that are going to be sent into the Mediterranean, into the Baltic, into the Bering and Barents Seas. 

So clearly the US intention is to encircle Russia in as many ways as possible so that it begins to fear America and NATO. 

Similarly, like the  missile shield, the nuclear disarmament Russia finds  the USA and NATO are  not serious to tackle the resolve the world's  deadliest  problem humanity  has been fearfully facing  for quite some time now. 

USA (NATO) - Russia collaborative  conflicts, however, confuse the fearful humanity as it is vulnerable to fall victims to their  regular global mischief. .