Standard Missile-3 planned for Baltic and Black Sea deployments
The retention of at least 200 U.S. nuclear bombs on air bases in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.
A complementary cyber warfare "dome" over the European continent directed by the new U.S. Cyber Command. [1]
The qualitatively accelerated military integration of NATO and the European Union in the aftermath of the Lisbon Treaty entering into force last December 1. A Portuguese adviser to President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso recently affirmed "that the best solution for the enhancement of EU-U.S. relations would be that the European Union (EU) joins NATO." [2]
The continuation of both components of what are frequently (and artificially) presented as being contradictory: NATO's founding and core mission the collective military defense of its member states and its constantly expanding missions far outside the Euro-Atlantic region, with the war in Afghanistan the prototype and standard of the second.
The Lisbon summit will formalize and extend what has been underway in earnest since NATO's first war in 1999: The projection of the U.S.-dominated military alliance into an international intervention and occupation force. One that is moving steadily to the east and south of the European continent, which has been unified under NATO and will soon be subsumed under American missile and cyber warfare systems.
Washington and Brussels pretend to protect all of Europe from threats that do not exist not from Russia, not from Iran and certainly not Syria and North Korea in exchange for the Pentagon being permitted to move its military personnel and infrastructure along Russia's western flank from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and recruiting the host countries' youth for wars abroad. What in fact are NATO membership obligations.
Voice of Russia on October 27 stated that "Russia is pressing for a NATO ban on the deployment of substantial numbers of allied forces in the newly-admitted eastern member-nations," and recounted that last December Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov handed NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen a proposal for a draft agreement on Russian-NATO relations which "sets a ceiling for the number of troops and weapons allowed for deployment" to the territory of the former Warsaw Pact and even the Soviet Union.
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