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Kαι μετά το Russia Insider ας πάμε μια βόλτα και από τα απέναντι ενημερωμένα sites μπας και για να βγάλουμε άκρη για το τι παίζει στη διεθνή σκακιέρα .
Μετά από αρκετό ψάξιμο έπεσα πάνω σε αυτό το άρθρο που είναι αποκαλυπτικό για το πως βλέπουν την κυβέρνηση Συριζα-ΑΝΕΛ οι Αμερικανοί.
Όχι απλά "We are confused" που έγραψε ο Αμερικανός Πρέσβυς στα τηλεγραφήματα της Πρεσβείας επί Καραμανλή, τον οποίο προσπάθησαν και να δολοφονήσουν τελικά, όπως ακριβώς περιγράφει ο John Perkins οτι δρούσε πάντα η Υπερδύναμη μετά τον Β' Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο για να χτίσει την παγκόσμια Αυτοκρατορία της, αλλά πλέον (από το 2016) βλέπουν την κυβέρνηση ως κίνδυνο για το ΝΑΤΟ, λόγω της κρίσιμης γεωστρατηγικής της θέσης στη Μεσόγειο.

Οι πρόσφατες εξελίξεις, λένε πολλά...

July 17, 2016 Topic: Politics Region: Eurasia Tags: Russia Greece NATO Alexis Tsipras Foreign Policy
Is Russia's Alliance with Greece a Threat to NATO?


Beware the Athens-Moscow entente.
by Henry Stanek

(https://nationalinterest.org/sites/default/files/styles/resize-1440/public/main_images/tsipras_0.jpg?itok=jTJ05OCD)

Against the backdrop of ongoing economic crisis and tensions over the troika-backed austerity program, the Greek government of Alexis Tsipras has formed remarkably close ties with the Kremlin. As an active member of NATO, the Greek embrace of Russia has been seen by many as a shot across the bow of Athens’s creditors and a reminder of the leverage cash-strapped Greece can still bring to bear in negotiating debt payments. For the Russians, Greece is one of several EU members (alongside Hungary, Cyprus and the Czech Republic) it can potentially win over to undermine the sanctions regime the Union imposed after Moscow’s illegal annexation of Crimea and intervention in eastern Ukraine. Given Greece’s geostrategic value and the role it could play in enforcing sanctions on Russia, the EU and NATO should make it a priority to curb Russian influence in a land touted as “the birthplace of democracy.”

Part of the concern over amicable Greco-Russian relations lies in the strong ties between their leaders, ever since Syriza rose to power. Greek officials have been effusive in their embrace of Vladimir Putin, striking a decidedly different tone from the rest of Europe. The two countries have deep historic and Orthodox religious ties, while relationships between members of Syriza party and political and business elites in Russia are worryingly close . Indeed, the first foreign official that Tsipras invited to the prime minister’s mansion was Russian ambassador Andrey Maslov.

Just this past May, Vladimir Putin traveled to Greece hoping to secure agreements on trade, investment, energy and transportation. Putin was joined by foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and a number of high-flying oil and gas executives, indicating the importance of the visit. Russia has expressed interest in purchasing Greek railway company Trainose, as well as Greece’s second-largest port in Thessaloniki. The close Greco-Russian ties also extend to defense cooperation and weapons projects. Indeed, Greece is negotiating with Moscow for the purchase and maintenance of the Russian-made S-300 air defense systems, which it has possessed since the late 1990s.

The cooperation between the two countries raises concerns about Europe’s ability to maintain sanctions on Russia . Worries over the relationship between Tsipras, his ministers and Moscow were raised as soon the party took power last year. The day after his election, Tsipras objected to calls for further sanctions against Russia and voiced his solidarity with Moscow and the Russian people. Tsipras and his ministers have both echoed Russian arguments of “neo-Nazi” elements active in Ukraine. Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, who has previously praised Russia’s Ukrainian intervention and referred to the government in Kiev as “fascist,” went so far as to suggest Kalashnikov rifles could be produced on Greek soil and sold to other NATO members, while Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has close ties to members of Putin’s inner circle. Ultimately, Tsipras’s government begrudgingly agreed to the sanctions.

That hard-won compliance may not last for long. As Russia strategically strengthens ties with Greece and other disgruntled EU members, it seeks to divide the bloc and encourage member states to ultimately dilute or stop sanctions, which will require a unanimous vote to extend. With the sanctions up for renewal every six months, there are ample opportunities for frustrated EU states like Greece use their veto power to block them. Even with the sanctions in place, Greece is looking for loopholes to export agricultural products to Russia. Gazprom and Russia’s development bank, for their part, have continued to pursue pipeline agreements with Greece since last year . Given the perceived importance of sanctions in deterring Russia from further military incursions, these are worrying developments for European unity on security policy.

A major factor driving Russian interest in Greece is the country’s strategic position in the eastern Mediterranean. The stakes of that location were put under a harsh spotlight as Syrian and Afghan refugees arrived en masse on centrally located Greek islands and the mainland. The islands are also critical for both European and NATO defense operations in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, notably the base in Souda Bay on the island of Crete. The base has played a major role in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other multinational operations. Athens’s ongoing economic restructuring has put many of these essential infrastructural assets in limbo, including airports and the Skaramangas shipyard— home to the country’s submarines. A further point of concern is that the shipyard is teetering on the edge, as the government plans to nationalize it and kick out its current owner.

The Greek drift into Russia’s arms raises the specter of Athens serving as a dark horse within NATO or, worse, outright withdraw altogether from the Atlantic Treaty. While that outcome seems extreme at first glance, Syriza’s original forty-point program called for Greece’s exit from NATO, and since at least one Syriza parliamentarian has talked about it . With the Russians flexing their military muscle in Syria and taking an increasingly active approach to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, close ties with Greece would help Moscow’s power projection and undermine the unity of the NATO bloc at a critical juncture.

To counter Russia’s damaging influence over Athens, NATO and the EU need to repair ties with Greece, provide it with favorable terms on debt payments and austerity, and remind it of the benefits of NATO membership. Given its geostrategic importance and the need for it to comply with EU sanctions against Russia, Greek hostility toward Brussels could undermine the bloc’s solidarity and impair efforts to contain Russian aggression. As the EU continues to struggle with a refugee crisis, the conflict in Ukraine, economic turmoil and the rise of the anti-Europe right, a pro-Russian bastion in Greece is the last thing it needs.

Henry Stanek is an independent EU affairs consultant based in Paris.

Image: Vladimir Putin and Alexis Tsipras. Kremlin.ru

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/russias-alliance-greece-threat-nato-16998

Γιατί μου τα κουνάτε?
"Εκινήθης? Γιατί εκινήθης?"

Μην απορείτε λοιπόν γιατί η τελευταία κάτοχος του βραβείου Νόμπελ Ειρήνης πρότεινε το βραβείο να δοθεί στους Τσίπρα & Ζάεφ για τη Συμφωνία των Πρεσπών...

Νομπελ ειρηνης εχει και ο Ομπαμα. nuff said

Pic related

(https://i.redd.it/xeb4cgzpgbw11.png)

Aυτό το nuff said το βρίσκω λίγο πως να το πω, άλλη μια αμερικανιά, που εν τέλει τι εννοεί? Οτι πολλά είπαμε? Οτι δε θέλω άλλη συζήτηση? Οτι δεν ακούω άλλη κουβέντα?
Και τελικά τουλάχιστον σκοτώνει τη συζήτηση, τον διάλογο.

Δεν πρότειναν οι αμερικανοί τους Τσίπρα Ζάεφ για το βραβείο Νόμπελ, αλλά η "κάτοχος του Βραβείου Νόμπελ Ειρήνης 2015, Τυνήσια Wided Bouchamaoui (Κουαρτέτο Εθνικού Διαλόγου της Τυνησίας)" το πρότεινε, οπότε το nuff said πέφτει στον κάδο ανακύκλωσης

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«Η υποψηφιότητα δεν αφορά προσωπικά τον Ζόραν Ζάεφ και τον Αλέξη Τσίπρα αλλά όλους τους πολίτες. Πρόκειται για ένα μοντέλο διαλόγου και ευημερίας. Πιστεύω πραγματικά ότι η "Μακεδονία" - ή πρέπει να πω η Βόρεια Μακεδονία - και η Ελλάδα θα κερδίσουν το Βραβείο Νόμπελ και αυτό θα δείξει στον κόσμο ότι τα πάντα μπορούν να επιτευχθούν με συμφωνία. Από την στιγμή που θα κυρωθεί, η Συμφωνία θα αποτελεί ισχυρό μήνυμα ότι ο διάλογος είναι δυνατός», είπε η Bouchamaou.

http://www.kathimerini.gr/1000763/article/epikairothta/politikh/sthn-a8hna-h-katoxos-toy-nompel-eirhnhs-2015-poy-8a-proteinei-tsipra--zaef-gia-to-vraveio
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August 25, 2018 Topic: Security Region: Eurasia Blog Brand: The Skeptics Tags: MacedoniaNATOWarAlbaniaRussia
How Macedonia Could Push NATO into a War

Macedonia's tenuous relationships with its neighbor states make it a liability for the alliance.
by Ted Galen Carpenter

When Fox News host Tucker Carlson asked Donald Trump last month why he should send his son to die defending Montenegro, NATO’s newest member, the president seemed to repudiate his own administration’s policy. He indicated that Americans shouldn’t be willing to sacrifice their lives for such a trivial ally. Furthermore, he warned that Montenegro “has very aggressive people. They may get aggressive, and congratulations, you’re in World War III.” As Cato Institute senior fellow Doug Bandow pointed out, Trump’s comment was odd on two counts. First, the Senate approved the admission of Montenegro on his watch in March 2017. If he thought that latest episode of adding a useless microstate to the Alliance was unwise, he could have withdrawn the treaty from consideration before the Senate vote. Second, as Bandow notes archly, that while “it is theoretically possible that the vast, aggressive, powerful Montenegrin legions might launch themselves towards Moscow,” it isn’t too likely, because Montenegrin leaders “do not appear to have entirely lost their minds.”

Indeed, the scenario that a small Balkan NATO partner might trigger a war that entangles the United States is unlikely to entail a direct provocation of Russia. That reality has made it easy for Trump’s critics , here and abroad, to mock his comment about Montenegro triggering a world war. A far greater risk is that the tripwire would be a conflict in which an alliance member became embroiled with one of its regional neighbors. Montenegro actually is less of a danger in that respect than NATO’s latest invitee, Macedonia. Montenegro seems on relatively good terms with neighboring states, although it has been involved in an extended border dispute with Kosovo that was resolved just recently when the Kosovo parliament passed bitterly resisted legislation approving a settlement of the controversy.

Macedonia is on much worse terms with Kosovo and that country’s ethnic brethren in Albania. Officials and the populations of both countries have long pursued a “Greater Albania” agenda that lays claim to swaths of territory in Serbia, Montenegro, and especially Macedonia. The NATO-assisted severing of Kosovo from Serbia in 1999 was the first major triumph for that agenda, and Greater Albanian expansionists wasted no time in trying to follow up on their victory. Within months, portions of Macedonia in which ethnic Albanians constituted a majority (or in some cases, just a plurality) of the population sought to destabilize that country, demanding extensive autonomy for those provinces. Both the United States and its NATO allies put intense pressure on Macedonia’s government to grant the demanded concessions, and Skopje reluctantly complied.

Tensions then subsided for a while, but Albanian separatist sentiments continued to fester and grow. In the past few years, a new crisis has emerged, with Albanian activists leading large anti-government demonstrations. Skopje’s relations with both Albania and Kosovo are deteriorating markedly. In April 2017, Macedonia’s foreign ministry formally accused Albania of interfering in the country’s internal political affairs. A month earlier Macedonia’s president charged that the demands of the Albanian minority was the biggest threat to his nation’s sovereignty and unity.

Washington and other Western capitals continue to press the Macedonian government to make concessions to the country’s Albanian minority beyond those granted under outside pressure during the 2001 crisis. That pressure is creating major splits within the Macedonian ethnic majority. An especially ugly confrontation between Macedonian nationalists and more accommodating elements erupted in the spring of 2017. Pieter Feith, a former European Union envoy to Skopje, warned the nationalists that they were “ playing with fire ” if they continued to resist relinquishing power to a moderate successor government. Soon thereafter, the nationalists gave way.

Divisive issues continue to roil the country, however. The demands of the Albanian faction for ever-greater autonomy keep escalating, and that has caused the president and other officials to balk at making further concessions. President Gjorge Ivanov has dug in his heels on one key issue, repeatedly refusing to sign a language law that would formally recognize Albanian as the primary language in certain regions of the country. He and his supporters fear that such a new concession would simply whet the appetite of Albanian secessionists

The drive for a Greater Albania is gaining new momentum, and that creates major problems for a prospective NATO member. The parallels to events leading up to Kosovo’s secessionist war against Serbia in the 1990s and NATO’s military intervention are more than a little unsettling. What happens once Macedonia joins NATO, if the Albanian secessionist drive does not ease but accelerates and Skopje takes action against Albania and/or Kosovo to prevent outside assistance to the rebellion, claiming that those countries have committed aggression? It is hardly a remote possibility that the United States as NATO’s leader could be drawn into such a nasty conflict.

That possibility underscores the folly of America pushing to add strategically and economically irrelevant microstates to the alliance. They are not strategic assets in any reasonable definition of the term. Instead, they are strategic liabilities and potential snares. Granted, members like Macedonia and Montenegro are not likely to involve the United States in a world war—unlike the three Baltic republics, which could certainly do so, given their frosty relations with Russia. The situation in the Balkans is not akin to the one that existed on the eve of World War I and plunged Europe (and ultimately America) into that catastrophe. But a needless entanglement even in a petty, limited armed conflict is one entanglement too many. President Trump should act on the instincts he displayed during his interview with Tucker Carlson and make it clear that the United States will not approve NATO membership for Macedonia or any other applicant.

Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow in defense and foreign-policy studies at the Cato Institute and a contributing editor to the National Interest, is the author or contributing editor of twenty-one books on international affairs, including five books on NATO.

Image: Supporters of opposition party VMRO-DPMNE take part in a protest over compromise solution in Macedonia's dispute with Greece over the country's name in Skopje, Macedonia, June 2, 2018. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/how-macedonia-could-push-nato-war-29702
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17 Δεκεμβρίου 2018 17:05

Τσίπρας και Ζάεφ υποψήφιοι για το επόμενο Νόμπελ Ειρήνης - Ποιοι βρίσκονται πίσω από την πρωτοβουλία

Η κάτοχος του Βραβείου Νόμπελ Ειρήνης 2015, Τυνήσια Wided Bouchamaoui (Κουαρτέτο Εθνικού Διαλόγου της Τυνησίας), θα παρουσιάσει αύριο 18 Δεκεμβρίου, σε εκδήλωση σε ιδιωτικό Πανεπιστήμιο των Σκοπίων, την πρωτοβουλία να είναι οι πρωθυπουργοί της Ελλάδας και της Σκοπίων, Αλέξης Τσίπρας και Ζόραν Ζάεφ, υποψήφιοι για το επόμενο Βραβείο Νόμπελ Ειρήνης.

Την πρωτοβουλία υποστηρίζουν, μεταξύ άλλων, ο ευρωβουλευτής του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ Στέλιος Κούλογλου και ο πρύτανης του ιδιωτικού Πανεπιστημίου των Σκοπίων, FON, Νάνο Ρούζιν, οι οποίοι θα παραστούν στην αυριανή εκδήλωση.

Η Wided Bouchamaoui όπως και οι κ.κ. Κούλογλου και Ρούζιν έγιναν σήμερα δεκτοί από τον πρόεδρο της Βουλής των Σκοπίων Ταλάτ Τζαφέρι, ενώ θα συναντηθούν και με τον υπουργό Εξωτερικών των Σκοπίων, Νίκολα Ντιμιτρόφ, καθώς και με εκπροσώπους των κοινοβουλευτικών ομάδων στο Κοινοβούλιο των Σκοπίων, σύμφωνα με το ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ.

Μετά την αυριανή παρουσίαση της πρωτοβουλίας στα Σκόπια, η Τυνήσια κάτοχος του Βραβείου Νόμπελ Ειρήνης 2015, ο ευρωβουλευτής του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ και ο πρύτανης του Πανεπιστημίου FON, θα μεταβούν στην Αθήνα, όπου στις 19 Δεκεμβρίου θα συναντηθούν με τον Έλληνα πρωθυπουργό Αλέξη Τσίπρα για να του ανακοινώσουν την πρωτοβουλία.

https://www.newsbomb.gr/kosmos/story/943023/tsipras-kai-zaef-ypopsifioi-gia-to-epomeno-vraveio-nompel-eirinis-poioi-toys-proteinoyn
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Να θυμίσω οτι ο Κούλογλου πριν κατέβει με τον Σύριζα ήταν στην ΕΡΤ και ήταν ο δημιουργός ενός από τα καλύτερα ντοκιμαντέρ για τη δολοφονία του Γρηγορόπουλου ("Το χρονικό ενός προαναγγελθέντος εγκλήματος" κάπως έτσι) αλλά και του ντοκιμαντέρ "Η εξομολόγηση ενός Οικονομικού Δολοφόνου" με τον John Perkins, πρώην Πράκτορα της CIA να αποκαλύπτει πως ακριβώς δρούσαν οι ΗΠΑ η CIA μέσω εταιριών όπως Chase T. Main (Chase Manhattan), με απειλές και εκβιασμούς και τεράστια δάνεια σε τριτοκοσμικές χώρες όπως η Σαουδική Αραβία για να αποκτήσουν όλο τον πλούτο (τις "πλουτοπαραγωγικές πηγές", τις πρώτες ύλες) για την Αυτοκρατορία τους, σε ένα ντοκιμαντέρ της Lynx Productions σε συμπαραγωγή με την ΕΡΤ Α.Ε. και το Ελληνικό Κέντρο Κινηματογράφου, τον Ηλία Μπόβαλη, τον Κίναν Ακάουι και την Ιωάννα Λουλούδη, σε συνεργασία με την Moxie Films.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8PN_X3AD1s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perkins_(author)

December 20, 2018 Topic: Security Region: Middle East Blog Brand: The Skeptics Tags: SyriaIslamic StateWarKurdsTurkey
Why Trump Is Right to Withdraw Troops

Withdrawal from Syria will be Trump’s first practical application of a true “America First” foreign policy. It has been long overdue.
by Doug Bandow Follow Doug_Bandow on Twitter L

Donald Trump has announced that he is bringing home America’s troops from Syria just two years after he was elected president. His plan to end one of America’s many wars prompted a mob to gather outside the White House, pitchforks at the ready.

The mob wasn’t made up of angry farmers or workers. Instead, the feverish crowd constituted Washington’s war party: ivory tower think-tankers, editorialists promoting perpetual war, wannabe commanders-in-chief eager to launch their next democracy crusade, and politicians who collected draft deferments when their lives were on the line—but who now see the need for the United States to “exercise leadership.”

The cacophonous criticism of the president’s decision within the Beltway may be the best evidence of his wisdom. Syria is not America’s war. Washington’s security interests always were minimal. The humanitarian tragedy in the country has been overwhelming, but it is beyond America’s ability to fix it.

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https://nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/why-trump-right-withdraw-troops-39352

Αρχίζω να αναρωτιέμαι αμα τα διαβάζεις όντως όλα αυτά που ποστάρεις.  :D

^fouska^
Εγώ εδώ και καιρό είμαι σίγουρος οτι άλλα διαβάζετε και άλλα καταλαβαίνετε.  :P

Τι δε καταλάβατε από το οτι μαζεύτηκε μια μαφία πολεμοχαρών και γερακιών έξω από το Λευκό Οίκο μόλις ανακοίνωσε ο Τραμπ οτι αποσύρει το στρατό των ΗΠΑ από τη Συρία?
Σε μια απίστευτη πρωτοφανή και καλοδεχούμενη φυσικά από όλο τον πλανήτη απόφασή του!

When Fox News host Tucker Carlson asked Donald Trump last month why he should send his son to die defending Montenegro, NATO’s newest member, the president seemed to repudiate his own administration’s policy. He indicated that Americans shouldn’t be willing to sacrifice their lives for such a trivial ally. Furthermore, he warned that Montenegro “has very aggressive people. They may get aggressive, and congratulations, you’re in World War III.”

Donald Trump has announced that he is bringing home America’s troops from Syria just two years after he was elected president. His plan to end one of America’s many wars prompted a mob to gather outside the White House

The mob wasn’t made up of angry farmers or workers. Instead, the feverish crowd constituted Washington’s war party: ivory tower think-tankers, editorialists promoting perpetual war, wannabe commanders-in-chief eager to launch their next democracy crusade, and politicians who collected draft deferments when their lives were on the line—but who now see the need for the United States to “exercise leadership.”

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30 Σεπτεμβρίου 2018 18:29

Αλέξης Τσίπρας και Ντόναλντ Τραμπ φαβορί για το Νόμπελ Ειρήνης;

Οι πρωθυπουργοί της Ελλάδας και των Σκοπίων, Αλέξης Τσίπρας και Ζόραν Ζάεφ, έχουν ήδη χειροκροτηθεί για τη συμφωνία τους, η οποία μπορεί να δώσει τέλος σε ένα, εδώ και χρόνια, κλειδωμένο ζήτημα γύρω από το «Μακεδονικό».

«Το σημερινό (30/09) δημοψήφισμα για την ονομασία των Σκοπίων μπορεί μάλιστα να έχει μεγάλη σημασία και για το… βραβείο Νόμπελ Ειρήνης», υποστηρίζει το σουηδικό πρακτορείο ΤΤ σε τηλεγράφημά του που αναδημοσιεύουν οι μεγαλύτερες εφημερίδες της χώρας.

Στο τηλεγράφημα του ΤΤ με τίτλο «Τραμπ και Τσίπρας: βαριά ονόματα για το βραβείο Ειρήνης» τίθεται το ερώτημα εάν το βραβείο Νόμπελ για την Ειρήνη θα απονεμηθεί και πάλι σε έναν πρόεδρο των ΗΠΑ ή θα έπρεπε να δοθεί προσοχή και πάλι σε ένα πρόσφατο δημοψήφισμα.

«Η αίσθηση της προμνησίας (deja vu) είναι σαφής όταν ο Ντόναλντ Τραμπ και οι πρωθυπουργοί της Ελλάδας και των Σκοπίων αναφέρονται μεταξύ των φαβορί για το φετινό βραβείο Νόμπελ Ειρήνης.

Το Σεπτέμβριο του 2017, ο πρόεδρος των ΗΠΑ μίλησε στο Δικαστήριο του ΟΗΕ και κεραυνοβόλησε τον «πυραυλάνθρωπο» – τον ηγέτη της Βόρειας Κορέας Κιμ Γιονγκ Ουν.

Μερικές ημέρες αργότερα, η χώρα του δικτάτορα κατηγόρησε τις ΗΠΑ ότι επιδιώκουν πόλεμο και δεσμεύθηκε να απαντήσει καταρρίπτοντας αμερικανικά αεροπλάνα.

Μόλις ένα χρόνο αργότερα, ο Ντόναλντ Τραμπ και ο Κιμ Γιονγκ Ουν αναφέρονται ως υποψήφιοι του Νόμπελ Ειρήνης για την προσπάθειά τους να μειώσουν την ένταση στην Κορεατική Χερσόνησο.

Η υποστήριξη ώστε ο Τραμπ να γίνει ο πέμπτος πρόεδρος των ΗΠΑ που θα λάβει το βραβείο υπάρχει, μεταξύ άλλων, στο Νορβηγικό Προοδευτικό Κόμμα (FPR).

«Αυτό που συμβαίνει τώρα είναι ιστορικό. Θα πρέπει βέβαια να κάνουμε ό,τι μπορούμε ώστε να βοηθήσουμε αυτή η διαδικασία να έχει καλά αποτελέσματα. Νομίζω ότι μπορούμε να το κάνουμε στέλνοντας ένα σαφές σήμα – και δίνοντας στον Τραμπ το βραβείο ειρήνης», δήλωσε ο βουλευτής Περ-Ουίλι Άμουντσεν αυτό το καλοκαίρι στη νορβηγική ραδιοτηλεόραση (NRK).

«Ολυμπιακοί νικητές;

Ωστόσο, στη Νορβηγική Επιτροπή Νόμπελ, δεν υπάρχει αυτή τη στιγμή μέλος του FRP. Και οι επιφυλάξεις μεταξύ των υπολοίπων είναι μεγάλες.

Η απονομή του βραβείου ειρήνης σε παγκόσμιους ηγέτες έχει επικριθεί στο παρελθόν όπως όταν ο υπουργός Εξωτερικών των ΗΠΑ Χένρι Κίσινγκερ και του Βόρειου Βιετνάμ Λι Ντουκ Το έλαβαν το βραβείο το 1973. Ή με τον Παλαιστίνιο ηγέτη Γιασέρ Αραφάτ, αλλά και τους υπουργό Εξωτερικών και πρωθυπουργό του Ισραήλ Σιμόν Πέρες και Γιτζάκ Ράμπιν το 1994.

Αν, ωστόσο, πρόκειται να δοθεί προσοχή στη μείωση της έντασης στην Κορεατική Χερσόνησο, τότε υποψήφιες θα πρέπει να είναι και οι Ολυμπιακές Επιτροπές της Βόρειας και της Νότιας Κορέας για τη συνεργασία στη συμμετοχή τους στους Χειμερινούς Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες της Πιονγκτσάνγκ. Ή ακόμα η Διεθνής Ολυμπιακή Επιτροπή.

Δημοψήφισμα

Υπενθυμίζεται ότι πέρυσι, το Νόμπελ Ειρήνης πήγε στη Διεθνή Εκστρατεία για την Εξάλειψη των Πυρηνικών Όπλων, ICAN, και το 2016 στον πρόεδρο της Κολομβίας Χουάν Μανουέλ Σάντος.

Αφού είχε αναφερθεί ως υποψήφιος νικητής επί μακρόν, ο Σάντος θεωρήθηκε ατυχής επιλογή αφού, μόλις μερικές ημέρες αργότερα, οι κάτοικοι της Κολομβίας είπαν «όχι» σε ένα δημοψήφισμα για τη συνθήκη ειρήνης που συνομολόγησε με τους αντάρτες των Farc. Κι όμως πήρε το Νόμπελ Ειρήνης.

Ακόμα και φέτος η Επιτροπή Νόμπελ έχει ενώπιόν της ένα δημοψήφισμα της τελευταίας στιγμής για να το συσχετίσει με έναν από τους υποψηφίους για το βραβείο.

Οι πρωθυπουργοί της Ελλάδας και των Σκοπίων –Αλέξης Τσίπρας και Ζόραν Ζάεφ- έχουν ήδη επαινεθεί για τη συμφωνία τους που θέτει τέρμα σε ένα μακρόχρονο αδιέξοδο σχετικά με την ονομασία των Σκοπίων. Το δημοψήφισμα της Κυριακής μπορεί να έχει μεγάλη σημασία για το βραβείο ειρήνης.

Πρόσφυγας;

Πολλά πρώην φαβορί αναφέρονται επίσης, όπως οι Ρωσίδες ακτιβίστριες για τα ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα Λουντμίλα Αλεξέγιεβα και Σβετλάνα Γανούσκινα, αλλά και η οργάνωση Memorial. Ή οι οργανώσεις που εργάζονται με πρόσφυγες και θύματα πολέμου, όπως τα Λευκά κράνη στη Συρία και οι Physicians Without Barriers.

Το Νορβηγικό Ερευνητικό Ινστιτούτο Ειρήνης (PRIO) περιλαμβάνει, τέλος, στον κατάλογο των υποψηφίων του γιατρούς, όπως ο Κονγκολέζος Ντένις Μακουέγκε και η Γιαζίντι Νάντια Μουράντ. Στην κορυφή, το WFP – Το Πρόγραμμα Τροφίμων του ΟΗΕ», αναφέρεται στο τηλεγράφημα του Σουηδικού πρακτορείου ΤΤ.

https://www.newsbomb.gr/politikh/story/920458/alexis-tsipras-kai-ntonalnt-tramp-ypopsifioi-gia-to-nompel-eirinis
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Μια απόφαση του Τραμπ που έχει διχάσει ακόμα και τους αρθρογράφους του ίδιου Site
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December 20, 2018 Topic: Security Region: Middle East Blog Brand: The Skeptics Tags: SyriaIslamic StateWarKurdsTurkey
Why Trump Is Right to Withdraw Troops

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/why-trump-right-withdraw-troops-39352
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December 20, 2018 Topic: Security Region: Middle East Tags: Donald TrumpSyriaWarISISTroops
Trump’s Chaotic Syrian Withdrawal is a Big Mistake

The Trump administration’s endgame is desperately unclear.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/trump%E2%80%99s-chaotic-syrian-withdrawal-big-mistake-39357
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Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

After historic victories against ISIS, it’s time to bring our great young people home!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1075528854402256896

1:10 AM - 20 Dec 2018

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Τόσο "νικηφόρα" ήταν η ατμόσφαιρα για κάποιους κάποιους που παραιτήθηκαν αμέσως :


David A. Stump @DavidStumpVT77
13 hours ago
Replying to @realDonaldTrump

CNN scored a slam dunk with this chyron headline, which is accurate as hell. You’re destroying the presidency and the country.  It’s time for the 25th Amendment. Past time.

(https://i.ibb.co/fdx21db/Defence-Secretary-Resigns-Du5i-Vg-LWk-AIGUh-F.jpg) (https://ibb.co/F4DKx49)

James N. Mattis, secretary of defense, announced his resignation Thursday evening, declaring that President Donald Trump has “the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned” with his.

Mattis will leave in February, the president confirmed.

“General Jim Mattis will be retiring, with distinction, at the end of February,” Trump tweeted Thursday. “After having served my Administration as Secretary of Defense for the past two years. During Jim’s tenure, tremendous progress has been made.”

Mattis’ announced departure follows a convulsive few weeks for the administration—the departure of his ally John F. Kelly , chief of staff, and a political reorientation in Washington in anticipation of a newly-Democratic House, armed with subpoena power.

But Mattis’ announced departure—which The National Interest reported as likely by year-end, in April —on Thursday night seemed principally motivated by President Trump’s renewed determination to fulfill campaign promises to extricate the United States from Syria and Afghanistan, and potentially militarize the U.S. border .

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https://nationalinterest.org/feature/secretary-defense-james-mattis-will-depart-february-39482
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December 20, 2018 Topic: Security Region: Middle East Blog Brand: The Skeptics Tags: SyriaWarDonald TrumpMission CreepTroops
The Dangers of Military Mission Creep in Syria

Washington must leave Damascus before it searches for new monsters to destroy and other reasons to stay.

President Donald Trump was never especially enthralled with the notion of keeping several thousand U.S. troops in Eastern Syria over the long-term. Last April, he suggested to a roomful of his supporters that the United States would be withdrawing from the country “very soon,After days of speculation, Trump agreed to provide his generals with a little more time to wrap up the campaign against the Islamic State. The president didn’t necessarily want to make that decision, but he has found it difficult not to defer to the military professionals with three or four stars on their lapels.

Eight months later, Trump has lost his patience. He wants American ground forces out of Syria immediately, tweeting as much on the morning of December 19. Pentagon officials are once again running around with their hair on fire, seemingly oblivious to Trump’s new directive. According to the New York Times, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and senior national-security officials have been trying to dissuade the White House from pulling U.S. forces out of Syria on such a fast timetable. Doing so, they argue, would hand Syria to Iran and Russia on a silver platter and subject Washington’s Kurdish allies to near-certain slaughter from a Turkish government itching to launch an operation east of the Euphrates River. Sen. Lindsey Graham, the uber-hawk who has grown close to Trump on a personal level, is using the president’s favorite social-media forum to shame the administration into reversing its decision.

One can only hope Trump sticks to his guns, walls off the Monday-morning quarterbacking, and actually carries out his decision. What the president is doing is saving the United States from a classic case of mission-creep, where instead of withdrawing when the job is done, Washington searches for new monsters to destroy in order to justify its continued presence.

It’s important to remember why U.S. military forces are in Syria to begin with. In September 2014, President Barack Obama took to the podium during a prime-time address and explained to the American people that the bloodthirsty brutes of ISIS needed to be rolled back and vanquished. Washington would leverage its overwhelming airpower and pound ISIS from the sky. Meanwhile, on the ground, local, anti-ISIS units would simultaneously recapture the organization’s territory, deprive the Islamic State from its sources of revenue, and eliminate its leadership. The speech, coming a few months after several Americans were beheaded in the barren Syrian desert, outlined the kind of clear and concise mission Americans could get behind. This wouldn’t be about nation-building, resolving a seemingly unsolvable Syrian civil war, or reconstructing the Syrian economy from the ground-up, but rather about killing terrorists and exacting revenge on a group that at that time ruled a swath of Iraq and Syria the size of the United Kingdom.

Four years later, the objectives have changed to a near unrecognizable level. The roughly two thousand U.S. troops are not only terrorist hunters, but anti-Iranian bulwarks, Kurdish defenders, and peacekeepers. U.S. advisers have been used as pawns in the violent chess match that is Syria, ordered to do everything from patrols in the northern Syrian city of Manbij in order to keep the Turks and the Kurds separated to serving as placeholders along the Iraqi-Syrian border—presumably to keep the area free of Iranian influence. Just last month, the Pentagon announced that U.S.-manned observation posts would be established on the northeastern Syrian-Turkish border. While Secretary Mattis described the posts as a standard-fare intelligence operation designed to better inform Turkey of terrorist movement, the real mission was about preventing the Turks and Syrian Kurdish militias from shooting at each other and starting a whole, new war. One could only assume that President Trump, who is constantly on guard to overseas adventures of dubious import, was becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the notion of the U.S. military being rented out in such a way. The president’s eagerness to pull the plug on any U.S. ground presence whatsoever is as strong an indication as any that he is tired of the Syria portfolio.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/dangers-military-mission-creep-syria-39412
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(the ramblings of a mad man?)

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
Dec 20

....Russia, Iran, Syria & many others are not happy about the U.S. leaving, despite what the Fake News says, because now they will have to fight ISIS and others, who they hate, without us. I am building by far the most powerful military in the world. ISIS hits us they are doomed!

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
Dec 20

Does the USA want to be the Policeman of the Middle East, getting NOTHING but spending precious lives and trillions of dollars protecting others who, in almost all cases, do not appreciate what we are doing? Do we want to be there forever? Time for others to finally fight.....

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
Dec 20

Getting out of Syria was no surprise. I’ve been campaigning on it for years, and six months ago, when I very publicly wanted to do it, I agreed to stay longer. Russia, Iran, Syria & others are the local enemy of ISIS. We were doing there work. Time to come home & rebuild. #MAGA


Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
Dec 20

“I’m proud of the President today to hear that he is declaring victory in Syria.” Senator Rand Paul.  “I couldn’t agree more with the presidents decision. By definition, this is the opposite of an Obama decision. Senator Mike Lee


Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
Dec 20

“Trump gets no credit for what he’s done in the Middle East.”  @IngrahamAngle  So true, thank you Laura!

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
Dec 20

Col. Jim Carafano on @IngrahamAngle “Trump has made the Middle East a better place. When Trump came into office, ISIS was running amuck in the Middle East. Over a million refugees poured into Western Europe - none of that is happening today. That’s all due to Trump.”