Конгрессмены США призвали НАТО купить "Мистрали", предназначавшиеся для России
Восемь американских законодателей призвали НАТО купить у Франции военные корабли класса "Мистраль", которые предназначались для РФ.
В соответствующем письме к генеральному секретарю НАТО Йенсу Столтенбергу, конгрессмены заявили, что приобретение кораблей повлечет за собой финансовые потери для Франции, но отрежет президенту России Владимиру Путину путь доступа к новым военным ресурсам, сообщает Цензор.НЕТ со ссылкой на "Новое время".
"Осознавая то финансовое бремя, которое может понести Франция, если она с полным на то правом откажется передавать эти корабли России, мы вновь призываем НАТО приобрести или арендовать их как объекты совместного использования на море", - говорится в письме конгрессменов.
В сентябре президент Франции Франсуа Олланд сообщил о решении приостановить поставку России первого вертолетоносца "Мистраль" на фоне усиления российской агрессии в Украине.
Россия, в свою очередь, потребовала от Франции отдать либо "Мистрали", либо деньги, а также заявила о намерении подать на Францию в суд.
Читайте на «Цензор.НЕТ»: Для передачи "Мистраля" России пока нет условий, - премьер Франции
Руссикие постараются раздуть историю, что Французы не reliable, разумеется. Русские могут попытаться орестовать Французское имущество в России. Уже сейчас визг идет.
Если они хоть деньги получат, все же легче пробираться через эту кучу
у них не в жопе, это когда холодильник пока полный... недолго еще "не в жопе" быть
Finland warns of new cold war over failure to grasp situation in Russia
Finnish PM Alexander Stubb set to meet David Cameron and other northern European leaders at conference in Helsinki
Western countries are at the gates of a new cold war with Russia, sparked by the http://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine Ukraine
crisis and a ********** failure to grasp the depth and seriousness of
Vladimir Putin's grievances with the US and EU, the Finnish president,
Sauli Niinistö, has warned.
Speaking to the Guardian at his official residence before Thursday's conference in Helsinki attended by the UK prime minister, http://www.theguardian.com/politics/davidcameron David Cameron ,
and Nordic and Baltic state leaders, Niinistö said Finland had a long
tradition of trying to maintain friendly relations with Russia. But it
would not be pushed around.
"The Finnish way of dealing with http://www.theguardian.com/world/russia Russia ,
whatever the situation, is that we will be very decisive to show what
we don't like, where the red line is. And that is what we are prepared
to do," Niinistö said, referring to recent violations of Finnish
airspace by Russian military aircraft.
"We put the Hornets [US-made Finnish air force F-18 fighter aircraft]
up there and the Hornets were flying alongside the Russian planes … http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-28/finland-puts-fighter-planes-on-alert-as-russia-violates-airspace.html The Russians turned back . If they had not, what would we have done? I would not speculate."
A Finnish Air Force photograph
shows a Russian AN-72 transport plane, taken by a Finnish aircraft
pilot. Finland's Defense Ministry said it suspects a Russian military
aircraft on Thursday violated Finnish airspace
Photograph: AP
Cameron will join eight Nordic and Baltic leaders at the one-day
Northern Future Forum hosted by Alexander Stubb, Finland's prime
minister. Sources said they will discuss a response to Moscow's official
recognition of "illegitimate" weekend elections at the weekend that
were won by pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine, at a private
dinner at Stubb's residence at Kesäranta.
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Cameron
will be told Britain is seen as an essential player in formulating
Europe's policy towards Russia and that the Ukraine crisis shows how the
EU is much stronger when its members work together.
Finland, formerly a grand duchy of the Russian empire, declared
independence in 1917 after the Russian revolution. It survived two
separate conflicts with the Soviet Union during the second world war.
During the cold war, http://www.theguardian.com/world/finland Finland followed a policy of "active neutrality" to keep Moscow at bay. The two countries share an 830-mile (1,300km) land border.
Many Finns worry that the insecurity and uncertainties of the cold
war years are returning as the standoff with Russia over its annexation
of Crimea and destabilisation of eastern Ukraine continues.
"We are in the position in the west of asking what is Putin up to,"
Niinistö said. "Putin keeps saying the west and Nato are hostile. [He
says] they have deceived Russia with Nato enlargement and they are
undermining and humiliating Russia. "So this is a situation that is not
promising. I have said we are almost at the gates of a new kind of cold
war that could suck in all of http://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news Europe .'
Niinisto discussed the Ukraine situation with Putin in person in
August and said he remained in touch with the Russian leader. He said
the US and EU were partly to blame for not paying enough attention to
Putin's assertions that the west was weak, hedonistic and hostile to
Russia's values, including religious values. The EU had failed to
appreciate its plans for closer ties with Ukraine posed a "huge problem"
for Putin.
Putin, under pressure from Russian conservatives and
ultra-nationalists, may have been emboldened by last year's last-minute
US decision not to launch bombing and missile attacks in Syria. Russia
believed its diplomatic intervention at that time had been a great
success, Niinisto said.
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For Russia, Syria was only the latest example of perceived western weakness, an influential government insider in Helsinki said.
"A bigger factor is the consistent softness shown by the EU and the
US when it comes to Russian actions. They [the Russians] have got away
with murder since the first Chechen war and especially since [the
Russian military intervention in] Georgia [in 2008]," the insider saidi.
Despite the rise in international tensions with Russia, a clear
majority of Finns continues to oppose joining Nato, in part out of
concern about Moscow's possible reaction. Russian officials have
repeatedly warned Finland, which is 100% dependent on Russian gas
supplies, against taking up http://www.theguardian.com/world/nato Nato membership.
But sentiment may be shifting ahead of Finnish general elections due next April, when http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/18/us-finland-nato-defenceminister-idUSKBN0ET1V320140618 relations with Russia and Nato will be a central issue along with the economy.
Niinistö said Finland was supportive of Nato and a contributor to
Nato operations in Afghanistan. It also maintained large land forces,
unlike some other EU countries. He rejected accusations that Finland was
taking a free ride behind Nato's protective shield.
"We are not passengers," he said.
"We have a long tradition of keeping out of conflict with Russia …
though we did not succeed in the second world war. We can't change
geography. We have a 1,300km border. That is more than all other EU
countries together. The Nato-Russia border would be ******* [if Finland
joined]. We have to consider that too.
"My main worry is the larger picture of getting close to a cold war.
That would be a very uncertain situation and that worries us. But if you
are asking are we afraid, directly or indirectly, of Russia, I would
say no."
Страна рабов, страна господ,
И вы, мундиры голубые,
И ты, им преданный народ.
Быть может, за стеной Кавказа
Сокроюсь от твоих пашей,
От их всевидящего глаза,
От их всеслышащих ушей.
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