Now NATO wants it both ways?

[another_liberal]

In May of last year deputy Secretary-General of NATO, Alexander Vershbow, declared Russia had become an "adversary." Just last September, retiring NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, called Russia one of the two top threats to the alliance. Yet how quickly times do change! I guess Will Rogers was right on target when he said, "They can't hate you so bad they wouldn't use you."

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (AFP)


NATO calls Russia anti-terror ally after Paris attack


NATO, which was at loggerheads with Russia over the Ukrainian crisis, will be seeking ‘a more cooperative and constructive relationship’ with Moscow in the fight against terror, the block’s chief said after Wednesday’s deadly attack in Paris.

Russia “should be an ally in the fight against terrorism,” Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, stated during his visit to the Bavarian town of Kreuth. “That’s why we still strive for a more cooperative and constructive relationship with Russia. We think it is important that Russia, which is our biggest neighbor in Europe, and NATO are working together on important issues like fighting terror,” the NATO head is cited as saying by Bloomberg. He also labeled the killing of 12 people by Islamist gunmen at the French satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, as “an attack on the free press, on free opinion and on our open societies.”

The NATO head’s statement comes months after the Alliance announced the suspension of all "practical civilian and military cooperation" with the Russian side in April last year. The move was explained by Russia’s reunion with the republic of Crimea in March 2014 and Moscow’s alleged involvement in the military conflict in southeastern Ukraine.

In May, NATO Deputy Secretary General Aleksander Vershbow said the block had to start treating Russia “as more of an adversary than a partner.”

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Read more at: http://rt.com/news/220935-nato-russia-terrorism-paris/

[RobertEarl]

1. Thanks, Obama!

NATO hardly makes a sound but that it is approved by the US. As it should be.

[another_liberal]

3. I imagine our President might well be behind this attempt at a rapprochement with Russia . . .

It certainly sounds a good deal more like his style than that of our Pentagon Chiefs.

[RobertEarl]

6. He should

I see some posters here want to make Putin and Russia the new menace of the world and there certainly are some far-right wingers who just love that idea, but Obama seems much too wise to take that idea very far.

[Renew Deal]

2. Is this story available from a credible source?

[another_liberal]

7. The Secretary General of NATO isn't a credilbe source for his own comments?

He may be all kinds of untrustworthy, I don't know about that, but he said what he said and it's in the public record.

[zappaman]

4. Today's Putin propaganda?

Wheee!

[Luminous Animal]

8. How about Bloomberg?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-08/nato-cites-russia-as-anti-terror-ally-after-paris-attack.html

NATO Head Says Russian Anti-Terror Cooperation Important

“That’s the reason why we still strive for a more cooperative and constructive relationship with Russia,” Stoltenberg said today in the Bavarian town of Kreuth. “We think it is important that Russia, which is our biggest neighbor in Europe, and NATO are able to work together on important issues like, for instance, fighting terror.” NATO and Russia “have for many years worked together” on the issue, he said.

[another_liberal]

9. Those dirty "Commies" and "Fellow Travelers" at Bloomberg . . .

Clearly, they're all in the pay of their despicable Kremlin masters!


(sarcasm intended)

[MohRokTah]

5. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!