Die Qualität der Sophisten wird schlechter und schlechter. (Carl Bildt)
Ist wohl doch besser Mearsheimeer einfach zu deplattformen, wie die Hoover Institution sieben gegen niemanden am 06.03.2022.
Ich darf zusammenfassen. Die Ukraine sehnte sich nur in die EU, nicht in die Nato - desshalb hat man die Nato Mitgliedschaft in die Verfassung aufgenommen, aber EU Flaggen zum Euromaidan mitgebracht. Russland fürchtete sich nur vor der ökonomischen Kraft einer Ukraine, die der IMF einfach nicht und nicht kommen sehen wollte, nicht vor einer Aufnahme in die Nato. Putin hat mit einer Annexion der Krim reagiert - weil ihm sein Militärstützpunkt egal war und er so neidisch auf die baldige ökonomische Stärke der Ukraine war die zur EU wollte…!
Carl Bildt:
“They are not members of ukraine, and no one has… - of Nato [correcting himself]”
Die erneute Bestärkung des Commitments 2021 die Ukraine in die Nato zu holen wird einfach ignoriert.
Deborah Haynes (Sky News)
So, there’s a couple of questions dealing with Russian activity in the Black Sea over the last few years and currently, and one person asks in particular what additional steps, do you see NATO taking to increase stability in the Black Sea, and also across the Balkans.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
While NATO has been and still is absolutely very much present in the Western Balkans, first of all we have new members from that region, over the last few years, we have demonstrated that NATO’s door is open with getting new members like North Macedonia and Montenegro, that’s important, but we also work with partners in the region, and we have still the KFOR mission in Kosovo. So we are present, we have a history, and we have a responsibility to continue to help stabilize the region. In the Black Sea we have increased our presence. Three of the littoral states in the Black Sea are NATO members: Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania. We have more air policing and more naval presence. We have more exercises, and again the NATO 2030 agenda is also about how can we invest more in deterrence and defense activities, including in the Black Sea region.
And then we have two very important partners, Georgia and Ukraine. And we are stepping up the cooperation with them, including helping Ukraine with developing their naval capabilities. I visited Odessa, some time ago when I saw how NATO trainers helped to educate Ukrainian cadets and naval personnel, and we’re also working with Georgia on Black Sea security.Deborah Haynes (Sky News)
Actually on Georgia there’s a question here, saying that we’ve heard many times that NATO’s doors are open to Georgia. When exactly will these… will this door open, and can Georgia expect a roadmap in the nearest future?
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
I expect that NATO Allies today will recommit, confirm the decisions we have taken before.
Not least that at the Bucharest Summit, where we stated clearly that Georgia will become a member, but we didn’t provide any dates, and we will not provide any dates today, either.
Our focus is on the reform, our focus is to continue to support Georgia in modernizing their defense and security institutions, and the message is that, of course, NATO’s door is open, we have demonstrated that over the last couple of years with Montenegro and North Macedonia joining. The other message is that it’s only for the aspirant country, Georgia, and the 30 allies to decide on enlargement of our Alliance. Russia has no right to interfere in that process. It’s a sovereign right of any country to decide his own path including what kind of security arrangements he is going to be part of.
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69. We reiterate the decision made at the 2008 Bucharest Summit that Ukraine will become a member of the Alliance with the Membership Action Plan (MAP) as an integral part of the process; we reaffirm all elements of that decision, as well as subsequent decisions, including that each partner will be judged on its own merits. We stand firm in our support for Ukraine’s right to decide its own future and foreign policy course free from outside interference. The Annual National Programmes under the NATO-Ukraine Commission (NUC) remain the mechanism by which Ukraine takes forward the reforms pertaining to its aspiration for NATO membership. Ukraine should make full use of all instruments available under the NUC to reach its objective of implementing NATO principles and standards. The success of wide-ranging, sustainable, and irreversible reforms, including combating corruption, promoting an inclusive political process, and decentralisation reform, based on democratic values, respect for human rights, minorities, and the rule of law, will be crucial in laying the groundwork for a prosperous and peaceful Ukraine. Further reforms in the security sector, including the reform of the Security Services of Ukraine, are particularly important. We welcome significant reforms already made by Ukraine and strongly encourage further progress in line with Ukraine’s international obligations and commitments. We will continue to provide practical support to reform in the security and defence sector, including through the Comprehensive Assistance Package. We will also continue to support Ukraine’s efforts to strengthen its resilience against hybrid threats, including through intensifying activities under the NATO-Ukraine Platform on Countering Hybrid Warfare. We welcome the cooperation between NATO and Ukraine with regard to security in the Black Sea region. The Enhanced Opportunities Partner status granted last year provides further impetus to our already ambitious cooperation and will promote greater interoperability, with the option of more joint exercises, training, and enhanced situational awareness. Military cooperation and capacity building initiatives between Allies and Ukraine, including the Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian Brigade, further reinforce this effort. We highly value Ukraine’s significant contributions to Allied operations, the NATO Response Force, and NATO exercises.
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We stand in solidarity with our valued partners Ukraine and Georgia.
And we will continue to support their reforms, bringing them closer to NATO.
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Sixth, we will substantially step up training and capacity-building for partners. From Ukraine and Georgia to Iraq and Jordan.
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NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu:
Ok we’ll go to Interfax Ukraine. Second row here.Interfax-Ukraine (Iryna Somer):
Thank you, Oana. Secretary General, Ukrainian leadership has quite high expectation, regarding membership action plan. But as far as I see from the Summit communiqué here, we are not there yet. After this summit, what will be your main message for Ukrainian leaders, and for Ukrainian people? Thank you.NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg:
My main message is that NATO stands in solidarity with Ukraine. We provide a strong political support to the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine. And we provide practical support, and we are stepping up our practical support, both within the NATO context but also bilaterally, from different NATO Allies. I had a bilateral meeting for instance with [Prime Minister] Justin Trudeau of Canada and of course, Canada is one of many Allies who are providing bilateral support to Ukraine. And in the communiqué, in the decisions we have taken today we have reiterated our decisions on, that NATO’s door is open on the decision we made back in the, at the Bucharest Summit in 2008. And also that we will step up, and we will do more to help Ukraine, and also Georgia, as another aspirant country to focus on reforms that will move them closer to NATO and Euro-Atlantic integration.NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu:
Ok, we’re going to CBC. Fourth row. Thanks.CBC News (Murray Brewster):
Secretary General, Murray Brewster with CBC. Thank you for taking the question. Following on what was asked about Ukraine and the Membership Action Plan, do you actually ever foresee any circumstances under which Russia would allow Ukraine to join NATO uncontested? And separately, I wanted to ask whether or not there was unanimity among Allies that China itself is a security threat?NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg:
I think it’s extremely important to underline that every nation has the right to choose its own path. And that includes also what kind of security arrangements it wants to be part of, including whether it wants to be part of, a member of NATO or not. So the message is that it is for Ukraine, and the 30 Allies, to decide when Ukraine can become a NATO member. Russia, of course, has no say. Because they cannot veto what neighbours can do. We will not return to an age where we had spheres of influence, where big powers decided what small neighbours could do. And I very often use my own country Norway as an example. Norway is a small country bordering Russia. Of course, Russia -- or the Soviet Union-- disliked that we joined NATO back in 49, 1949. But, since Allies at that time were so strongly in favour of accepting also small neighbours of Russia into the Alliance, of course, Norway was accepted. As the Baltic countries or as Montenegro and North Macedonia, recently. So, this is about fundamental principles of accepting the right of every nation to decide, it’s for the 30 Allies, and Ukraine to decide when Ukraine is ready for membership.
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NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu:
Thank you. We’ll now go to Iryna Somer from Interfax Ukraine.Iryna Somer (Interfax-Ukraine):
Thank you, Oana. Secretary General, can you please tell us a little bit more than you already said, what can we expect from the upcoming Summit for partners country particularly for aspirant countries, Ukraine and Georgia. Thank you.NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg:
Ukraine and Georgia are two highly valued partners. We provide both political support, and practical support, to Ukraine and Georgia. I think it is important that we continue to strengthen the partnership with these two highly valued partners. And this is important, not least because these partners have been subject to Russian aggressive actions. Georgia, in 2008, and still they occupy part of Georgian territory, and we see the same in Ukraine with the illegal annexation of Crimea and, and continued destabilization of Eastern Ukraine.I spoke yesterday with President Zelenskiy, and that was a very good conversation. I reiterated NATO’s strong support to [Ukraine’s] territorial integrity and sovereignty. And also, that I expect NATO leaders to reaffirm the decision on the NATO policy on Open Door, which has been a major success, helping to spread democracy and freedom across Europe. And the Summit will demonstrate NATO’s enduring support to Georgia and Ukraine, and their Euro-Atlantic aspirations. The focus is on reform, and we will continue to help and support them in implementing these reforms.
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Das Whitepaper bezüglich der strategischen Beziehungen der US zur Ukraine im November 2021 in dem unzweideutig klargestellt wurde, dass es das Ziel der US sei die Ukraine zur Nato zu holen wird vollständig ignoriert.
Guided by the April 3, 2008 Bucharest Summit Declaration of the NATO North Atlantic Council and as reaffirmed in the June 14, 2021 Brussels Summit Communique of the NATO North Atlantic Council, the United States supports Ukraine’s right to decide its own future foreign policy course free from outside interference, including with respect to Ukraine’s aspirations to join NATO.
1. The United States and Ukraine intend to continue a range of substantive measures to prevent external direct and hybrid aggression against Ukraine and hold Russia accountable for such aggression and violations of international law, including the seizure and attempted annexation of Crimea and the Russia-led armed conflict in parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, as well as its continuing malign behavior. The United States intends to support Ukraine’s efforts to counter armed aggression, economic and energy disruptions, and malicious cyber activity by Russia, including by maintaining sanctions against or related to Russia and applying other relevant measures until restoration of the territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders.
2. The United States does not and will never recognize Russia’s attempted annexation of Crimea and reaffirms its full support for international efforts, including in the Normandy Format, aimed at negotiating a diplomatic resolution to the Russia-led armed conflict in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine on the basis of respect for international law, including the UN Charter. The United States supports Ukraine’s efforts to use the Crimea Platform to coordinate international efforts to address the humanitarian and security costs of Russia’s occupation of Crimea, consistent with the Platform’s Joint Declaration.
3. The United States and Ukraine endorse the 2021 Strategic Defense Framework as the foundation of enhanced Ukraine-U.S. defense and security cooperation and intend to work to advance shared priorities, including implementing defense and defense industry reforms, deepening cooperation in areas such as Black Sea security, cyber defense, and intelligence sharing, and countering Russia’s aggression.
4. The United States and Ukraine are key partners in the broader Black Sea region and will seek to deepen cooperation with Black Sea Allies and partners to ensure freedom of navigation and effectively counter external threats and challenges in all domains.
5. The United States remains committed to assisting Ukraine with ongoing defense and security reforms and to continuing its robust training and exercises. The United States supports Ukraine’s efforts to maximize its status as a NATO Enhanced Opportunities Partner to promote interoperability.
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Westliche Bündnisse hätten sich nicht in den Osten ausgedehnt, nein, die Zivilgesellschaften des Ostens hätten sich viel mehr zum Westen orientiert. (NATO OSTERWEITERUNG, EU OSTERWEITERUNG, …) Das muss man schon anerkennen, deshalb muss die Willy Brandt Stiftung gestern auch feststellen, die Ostpolitik Deutschlands sei daran gescheitert, dass es osteuropäische NGOs nicht stark genug in seine Außenpolitik einbezogen habe.
Die US hätte doch keine Zeit gehabt mit Polen über die geopolitische Strategie in Europa zu sprechen, nachdem Afghanistan beendet war - obwohl Zeihan bestätigt die Polen hätten es als Chance gesehen endlich wieder wesentliche Geopolitik in Europa voranzutreiben und hätten den US die Türen eingerannt.
Warum haben die US das ukrainische Militär über Jahre trainiert und mit Waffen versorgt, wie sie einem zukünftigen Nato Staat zustanden. Nochmal - die Ukraine war seit 2014 in einem “Bürgerkrieg” - siehe Javelins.
Die Russen hätten sich doch für die “absehbare Zukunft” keine Gedanken um eine Nato Osterweiterung machen müssen!?
Ja korrekt, es wurde immer an Putin kommuniziert, dass man ihm gerne noch 30 Jahre gebe - und erst dann wenn die Demographie in Russland noch schlechter wäre (Risiko einer militärischen Aktion Russlands geringer) keine verbindlichen Zusagen mehr mache. Nur über eine stabile Friedensordnung wollte man mit Russland nie sprechen.
Da habe Russland immer “überbordende Forderungen gestellt, die von keinem akzeptierbar waren” - nur dass die Europäer die nie gehört haben, bis Russland die von den US abgebrochenen Gespräche im Dezember in Teilen geleakt hat -
das selbe Argument wie heute bei Times Radio -
Nur dass bei Times Radio noch explizit dazugesagt werden muss - mit Putin könne man ja keine stabilen Verträge schließen, der lüge immer. Danke für den emotionalen Impuls wie der Hörer das einzuordnen habe…
Warum hat die verfickte Hoover Institution Mearsheimer wohl am 06.03.2022 zur Persona non Grata erklärt. Warum wohl?
Warum hat das Robert Schuhmann Centre das am 18. 06. nochmal verstärkt (zumindest Teile des Publikums)?
Warum wohl?
Warum darf diese Person öffentlich nicht existieren?
Sterbt ihr verfickten Wichserschweine.
edit: Dann gibt es noch einen Moment bei dem Bildt zur Schau stellt, dass er nicht weiß, dass die Javelins im Donbas im Einsatz waren (Originalquelle, Artikelserie des Redakteurs aus jüngerer Zeit, hier sein Twitter Account, er wurde gestern noch zum B-21 Reveal eingeladen.) - und einen Moment bei dem Bildt zur Schau stellt, dass er mit der emotionalen Geschichte von Putin musste den Auslandsgeheimdienstchef runtermachen weil er ihm die falsche Antwort gegeben hat agiert, ohne zu wissen dass PBS am selben Tag sowohl gemeldet hat, dass das Signaling an den Westen gewesen sei, dass der Einfluss des Leiters des Auslandsgeheimdienstes innerhalb der russischen Führungselite nicht mehr bestand (die für die gesamten Bestechungsaktionen in Kiew verantwortlich sein hätte sollen die Putin einen schnellen Sieg bescheren hätten sollen), als auch gemeldet hat, dass das ein Beleg für den wahnsinnigen Putin gewesen sein soll der isoliert und im Wahn handelt. Bildt nimmt die zweite Interpretation und überzeugt das Publikum.
Sterbt ihr Wichserschweine.
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Jeffrey Sachs 02.06.2022:
[…] then after 9/11, of course, Bush pushed the enlargement of NATO to I think, seven countries under his watch. An extraordinary increase of the number of countries, the Baltic States to begin with the Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Slovenia, if I remember correctly, all during Bush’s watch.
And then to the shock of the Europeans in NATO in 2008, he said, Ukraine and Georgia will become members of NATO. And just take a look at a map. And I encourage everybody to take a look at the map of the Black Sea. What was NATO’s idea? What was the US strategic idea? The US strategic idea was basically to own the black sea for NATO, because you’d have Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and where’s Georgia all the way over on the Eastern side of the Black Sea, suddenly is going to be a NATO country, whereas NATO was originally to defend against an invasion by a now defunct non-existent country in Western Europe.
So suddenly, it is an expansionary force moving straight across the Black Sea. It reminds me a lot of the Crimean War of the 19th century. Who controls the Black Sea? And well, one thing has led to another and we have the war in Ukraine. And if in our media you say, the United States played a provocative war. You’re immediately targeted. Oh, you’re just purveying Putin’s propaganda. Well, this is really nonsense. We need a serious discussion, some context, some history, and we should not have pushed NATO right up against Russia’s edge and right around the encirclement of the Black Sea. But we did so, and now we’re also paying consequences for this, but especially Ukraine is paying consequences for this.
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