Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:57 am (PST) . Posted by:
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
January 26, 2015
Change of Command at German PATRIOT element in Kahramanmaras, Turkey
Kahramanmaraş, Turkey: Thursday 22 January 2015, Brigadier General Thorsten Poschwatta, Deputy Commander of the German Joint Operations Command, relieved Colonel Thorsten Ilg, Commander of the German Ballistic Missile Defense Task Force Active Fence Turkey (DEU BMDTF AF TUR) in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, of his duties.
In his speech, Brigadier General expressed his gratitude to Colonel Ilg and outlined several initiatives of Ilg deepening both the bonds of friendship to the Turkish host nation and the mutual support between the German PATRIOT element and its brothers in arms, the US and Dutch PATRIOT detachments in Southern Turkey. Colonel Ilg served seven months as the Commander of DEU BMDTF AF TUR.
...During the ceremony Colonel Thorsten Ilg was awarded the German Armed Forces Deployment Medal "Active Fence Turkey”.
During the change of command ceremony Brigadier General Thorsten Poschwatta transferred the command to Colonel Wolfgang Rasquin. In front of the troops as well as national and international guests, General Poschwatta handed over the command flag to him with best wishes for his time as the commander. Colonel Rasquin will lead the German BMDTF AF TUR for the upcoming six months.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
January 26, 2015
Change of Command at German PATRIOT element in Kahramanmaras, Turkey
Kahramanmaraş, Turkey: Thursday 22 January 2015, Brigadier General Thorsten Poschwatta, Deputy Commander of the German Joint Operations Command, relieved Colonel Thorsten Ilg, Commander of the German Ballistic Missile Defense Task Force Active Fence Turkey (DEU BMDTF AF TUR) in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, of his duties.
In his speech, Brigadier General expressed his gratitude to Colonel Ilg and outlined several initiatives of Ilg deepening both the bonds of friendship to the Turkish host nation and the mutual support between the German PATRIOT element and its brothers in arms, the US and Dutch PATRIOT detachments in Southern Turkey. Colonel Ilg served seven months as the Commander of DEU BMDTF AF TUR.
...During the ceremony Colonel Thorsten Ilg was awarded the German Armed Forces Deployment Medal "Active Fence Turkey”.
During the change of command ceremony Brigadier General Thorsten Poschwatta transferred the command to Colonel Wolfgang Rasquin. In front of the troops as well as national and international guests, General Poschwatta handed over the command flag to him with best wishes for his time as the commander. Colonel Rasquin will lead the German BMDTF AF TUR for the upcoming six months.
Story by: PAO DEU Ballistic Missile Defense Task Force Active Fence Turkey.
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Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:58 am (PST) . Posted by:
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
January 26, 2015
Change of Command at German PATRIOT element in Kahramanmaras, Turkey
Kahramanmaraş, Turkey: Thursday 22 January 2015, Brigadier General Thorsten Poschwatta, Deputy Commander of the German Joint Operations Command, relieved Colonel Thorsten Ilg, Commander of the German Ballistic Missile Defense Task Force Active Fence Turkey (DEU BMDTF AF TUR) in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, of his duties.
In his speech, Brigadier General expressed his gratitude to Colonel Ilg and outlined several initiatives of Ilg deepening both the bonds of friendship to the Turkish host nation and the mutual support between the German PATRIOT element and its brothers in arms, the US and Dutch PATRIOT detachments in Southern Turkey. Colonel Ilg served seven months as the Commander of DEU BMDTF AF TUR.
...During the ceremony Colonel Thorsten Ilg was awarded the German Armed Forces Deployment Medal "Active Fence Turkey”.
During the change of command ceremony Brigadier General Thorsten Poschwatta transferred the command to Colonel Wolfgang Rasquin. In front of the troops as well as national and international guests, General Poschwatta handed over the command flag to him with best wishes for his time as the commander. Colonel Rasquin will lead the German BMDTF AF TUR for the upcoming six months.
Story by: PAO DEU Ballistic Missile Defense Task Force Active Fence Turkey.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
January 26, 2015
Change of Command at German PATRIOT element in Kahramanmaras, Turkey
Kahramanmaraş, Turkey: Thursday 22 January 2015, Brigadier General Thorsten Poschwatta, Deputy Commander of the German Joint Operations Command, relieved Colonel Thorsten Ilg, Commander of the German Ballistic Missile Defense Task Force Active Fence Turkey (DEU BMDTF AF TUR) in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, of his duties.
In his speech, Brigadier General expressed his gratitude to Colonel Ilg and outlined several initiatives of Ilg deepening both the bonds of friendship to the Turkish host nation and the mutual support between the German PATRIOT element and its brothers in arms, the US and Dutch PATRIOT detachments in Southern Turkey. Colonel Ilg served seven months as the Commander of DEU BMDTF AF TUR.
...During the ceremony Colonel Thorsten Ilg was awarded the German Armed Forces Deployment Medal "Active Fence Turkey”.
During the change of command ceremony Brigadier General Thorsten Poschwatta transferred the command to Colonel Wolfgang Rasquin. In front of the troops as well as national and international guests, General Poschwatta handed over the command flag to him with best wishes for his time as the commander. Colonel Rasquin will lead the German BMDTF AF TUR for the upcoming six months.
Story by: PAO DEU Ballistic Missile Defense Task Force Active Fence Turkey.
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Mon Jan 26, 2015 6:02 pm (PST) . Posted by:
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Interfax-Ukraine
January 26, 2015
NATO-Ukraine Commission to meet at ambassadorial level on Monday - source
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will make a statement on Ukraine on Monday afternoon, a NATO source has told Interfax.
On Monday, the NATO headquarters will host a meeting at the ambassadorial level of the NATO-Ukraine Commission, in connection with the shelling of a residential area in Mariupol on January 24.
Stoltenberg will also meet with European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini.
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Interfax-Ukraine
January 26, 2015
NATO-Ukraine Commission to meet at ambassadorial level on Monday - source
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will make a statement on Ukraine on Monday afternoon, a NATO source has told Interfax.
On Monday, the NATO headquarters will host a meeting at the ambassadorial level of the NATO-Ukraine Commission, in connection with the shelling of a residential area in Mariupol on January 24.
Stoltenberg will also meet with European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini.
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Mon Jan 26, 2015 6:02 pm (PST) . Posted by:
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Russia president calls Ukraine army ‘NATO’s foreign legion’
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The Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Ukrainian army is “NATO’s foreign legion” and does not pursue Ukraine’s national interests.
“In essence, this is already not an army, but a foreign legion, in this case NATO’s foreign legion, that certainly does not pursue the goal of defending Ukraine’s national interests,” Putin said on Monday.
“It has quite different goals — geopolitical containing of Russia, which is absolutely inconsistent with the national interests of the Ukrainian people,” he added.
The Moscow-Kiev relations have been extremely tense in recent months. Kiev accuses Moscow of supporting pro-Russia forces in east Ukraine, saying the Russian intervention poses a security threat to Ukraine and all other neighboring states. Russia has categorically denied the allegations.
The two mainly Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Lugansk in eastern Ukraine have been the scene of deadly clashes between pro-Russia protesters and the Ukrainian army since Kiev’s military operation started in April 2014 in a bid to crush the protests.
Violence intensified in May 2014 after the two flashpoint regions held local referendums in which their residents voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence from Ukraine and joining the Russian Federation.
The fighting has left more than 5,000 people killed and over 1.5 million displaced, the United Nations says.
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Mon Jan 26, 2015 6:06 pm (PST) . Posted by:
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Ukraine and NATO Expansion
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Since the coup against the elected Yanukovich government in Ukraine on February 22, 2014, an international crisis has been brewing -- involving the U.S., E.U., and Russia, and closely linked to the expansion of NATO since the 90s. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created by the U.S. and Western European nations to militarily counter the Soviet Union. However, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, NATO was not disbanded but was significantly enlarged.
At a meeting on January 10, 2015 two speakers, authorities well equipped to explore this subject, discussed the background causes of the Ukraine troubles (now drawing the U.S. and Russia closer to possible military confrontation). Speaking were Dr. John J. Mearsheimer, co-director of Program on International Security Policy at University of Chicago; and Rick Rozoff, manager of the Stop NATO website.
Dr. Mearsheimer spoke of the real reason of the crisis: "We are interested in peeling away Ukraine and Georgia from Russia's orbit and making [them] bulwarks of the West, right on Putin's doorstep." Mearsheimer goes on to remind us how sensitive big powers are to that kind of thing with the way the U.S. reacted to the prospect of Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962. American foreign policy, rightly or wrongly, was obsessed with upholding the Monroe Doctrine declaring U.S. hegemony in the Western Hemisphere.
Dr. Mearsheimer and Rick Rozoff fleshed out the three parts to the West's strategy vis-a-vis Russia and its immediate neighborhood in Eastern Europe: 1) NATO Expansion, 2) European Union Expansion, 3) Promote Democracy (meaning putting in power leaders who are pro-Western and anti-Russian).
Rozoff provided the background narrative to the steady march of NATO expansion since the 90s. In 1999 NATO held its 50th anniversary summit in Washington, D.C., while at the same time conducting its first war (to break up Yugoslavia, the first war in Europe since WWII). NATO then went on to conduct wars in three continents. Now, US-controlled NATO has 28 full members and 39 partner countries, nearly half of the nations in the UN.
The April, 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest was followed then by a war between Georgia and Russia in August, 2008, precipitated by plans to make Georgia part of NATO.
"It's clear," Rozoff noted, "that policy makers in the United States and also their NATO allies in Europe were envisioning some sort of continental system in Europe...There's not a single European nation...that has not either been a full member of NATO or a member of the Partnership for Peace program and in many instances several intermediate programs...So what we're talking about is the entirety of Europe being subordinated to a military bloc controlled from the other side of the Atlantic, and nothing less."
Both speakers underlined the sobering implications of NATO expansion. Rozoff ended his talk by saying, "I should let you know that both of us panelists objected to the original title that was proposed for this talk which included words to the effect of 'nuclear war' or something. However I woke up this morning to see that someone not noted for ever having being tremendously confrontational with the West, former Soviet President Michael Gorbachev, talk about just that prospect".
Labor Beat here presents a condensed version of Mearsheimer's and Rozoff's 50-minute discussion. Also, we have generously enhanced the video with news photos and maps. Here is an introduction to the Ukraine crisis, NATO, and relevant political geography touching upon Eastern Europe, Russia and the Black Sea region. Length - 25:20
Dr. John J. Mearsheimer, co-director of Program on International Security Policy at University of Chicago. Photo: Labor Beat
Rick Rozoff, manager of the Stop NATO website. Photo: Labor Beat
NATO encirclement of Russia. Photo: Labor Beat
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