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bemildred

(90,061 posts) Thu Jul 2, 2015, 11:18 AM Jul 2015

Brzezinski on Russia: 'We Are Already In a Cold War'

Russia wants to expand its arsenal of intercontinental rockets. The US intends to base heavy weaponry in Eastern European NATO member states. In addition, Washington is considering new atomic cruise missiles for Europe in response to Russia's alleged violation of an arms reduction treaty. The Ukraine crisis is threatening to spread.

In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was US President Jimmy Carter's national security advisor from 1877 to 1981, talks about the new Cold War. Now 87, Brzezinski works for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr. Brzezinski, are we seeing the beginning of a new Cold War between Russia and the US?

Brzezinski: We are already in a Cold War. Whether it will become hot is fortunately still less than likely.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-zbigniew-brzezinski-on-russia-and-ukraine-a-1041795.html#ref=rss

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Russia to Boycott Meeting of Security Body, Diplomats Say bemildred Jul 2015 #1

I am so happy that someone with the smarts of Mr. Brzezinski TexasProgresive Jul 2015 #2

bemildred

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1. Russia to Boycott Meeting of Security Body, Diplomats Say

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Thu Jul 2, 2015, 11:19 AM

Jul 2015

VIENNA — Russia will boycott a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe because of Ukraine-related sanctions that bar a prominent Russian lawmaker from attending, diplomats said on Thursday.

The meeting, which is scheduled to begin in Helsinki on Sunday, will bring together parliamentarians from the 57-nation organization.

The Russian delegation was to have included Sergei Y. Naryshkin, the speaker of Russia’s lower house of Parliament, but Finland ruled that Mr. Naryshkin and five other Russians could not participate because of the travel bans the European Union imposed after Russia’s intervention in Ukraine.

Finland was not in a position to grant an exception to the European Union ban for members of the Russian delegation, Ilkka Kanerva, the Finnish president of the O.S.C.E. Parliamentary Assembly, wrote in a letter to the group on Wednesday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/world/europe/osce-boycott-russia.html

TexasProgresive

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2. I am so happy that someone with the smarts of Mr. Brzezinski

Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Thu Jul 2, 2015, 12:18 PM

Jul 2015

agrees with me. Some seem to think that Putin is a sweetheart who means no harm.

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