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[Anyone familiar with Zbigniew Brzezinski's volume The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives will be acquainted with one of his key theses, that an "expanding Europe" - explicitly under NATO control - will. though always under the domination of the U.S. (NATO, according to Brzezinski, exists for no other reason), be defined by a "Franco-German" axis. It's painfully obvious which member of this dyad is meant to prevail - and it's not the decadent 'frogs,' whom he despises almost as much as he does the Russians, whom he overtly banishes from Europe altogether. A joint Croat-Slovene military sub-unit could only benefit one nation; to wit, that which currently has military forces deployed abroad in at least eight nations, five of them non-European. But of course the assault upon and disintegration of the former Yugoslavia was initiated by then FDP West German Foreign Secretary Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and then signed on to by the Bush Sr. administration (on the prompting of those stellar humanitarians Bob Dole and Jesse Helms) shortly thereafter. My apologies for the 'history lesson,' but it never hurts to refresh our memories.] Slovenia Proposes Defense Agreement With Croatia LJUBLJANA, Jan 11, 2002 -- (dpa) The Slovene government on Thursday okayed an initiative on defense cooperation with Croatia, the STA news agency reported. The initiative refers to an inter-government agreement which should provide the basis for cooperation between the two countries' armed forces within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations. The agreement is to include courses, seminars, and military meetings between the armed forces of the two ex-Yugoslav republics focusing on defense and security policy. "This would provide the platform for a friendly and mutually useful cooperation between Slovenia and Croatia," the Slovene government said in a statement. Both states wish to become NATO members in the near future, and the Alliance's policy is not to accept candidates that have not solved all open issues with its neighbors. Zagreb and Ljubljana have still not ratified the accord aimed at solving a border dispute that was signed last summer by the two prime ministers, Croatia's Ivica Racan and Slovenia's Janez Drnovsek. (C)2002. dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
