It's NATO That's Empire-Building, Not Putin Peter Hitchens - The Spectator (Britain)
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9459602/its-nato-thats-empire-building-not-putin/ <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001VZr0h18iwdhLHSnX3rC7UljOwNnOHVcBD0A5DtZAFY53QVGlNw3amOMsLDtoq7tbverajoSHBanGh7XT-3Pm6I5MxpNa81AkeCCDGAB9Teq3Rz3NBXW_Dpn3N6HFZQxVWHPrIjNMKKV1Eq23IYFpq24ZNr9CTjMspSUYsUMRdMYPmTX3Im0QVP29C8IVjAyQvVJBwEadZC1c3M3TPYeOJFOhnIhjqg5V1jPTHyNCSDoMSNQlA_SIpJlb9RdE5T6V3kDcokcLino=&c=jDDhT46pp0FDt3F7ta-NlILZMBuLgUByZNRNDjTFfqHfetPq-Rt7oQ==&ch=hDkY2IJQSQNFy5KfsHSKBVIGLtn3w1TWEZBWLtPLz-1OnzvP83sXLg==> ... The USSR, which Nato was founded to fight, expired in August 1991. So what is Nato's purpose now? Why does it even still exist? ... Even if Russia wanted to reconquer its lost empire, as some believe (a belief for which there is no serious evidence), it is too weak and too poor to do this ... Instead we have a noisy pseudo-moral crusade, which would not withstand five minutes of serious consideration ... If Putin disgusts us so much, then why are we and the USA happy to do business with Erdogan, and also to fawn upon Saudi Arabia and China? ... The test of any action by your own side is to ask what you would think of it if the other side did it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SERBIAN NEWS NETWORK" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/senet. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
