{"id":45597,"date":"2014-05-01T16:30:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T20:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=45597"},"modified":"2014-05-01T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T20:28:00","slug":"nato-russia-is-now-an-adversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=45597","title":{"rendered":"NATO: Russia is now an adversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=45599\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45599\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/May-Day-in-Red-Square-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"May Day in Red Square\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/May-Day-in-Red-Square-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/May-Day-in-Red-Square-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/May-Day-in-Red-Square.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/europe\/nato-official-russia-now-an-adversary-1.280959\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that at least one NATO official thinks that we should consider Russia an adversary on the world stage due to their recent annexation of the Crimea;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;Clearly the Russians have declared NATO as an adversary, so we have to begin to view Russia no longer as a partner but as more of an adversary than a partner,&#8221; said Alexander Vershbow, the deputy secretary-general of NATO.<\/p>\n<p>In a question-and-answer session with a small group of reporters, Vershbow said Russia&#8217;s annexation of Crimea and its apparent manipulation of unrest in eastern Ukraine have fundamentally changed the NATO-Russia relationship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In central Europe, clearly we have two different visions of what European security should be like,&#8221; Vershbow, a former U.S. diplomat and onetime Pentagon official, said. &#8220;We still would defend the sovereignty and freedom of choice of Russia&#8217;s neighbors, and Russia clearly is trying to re-impose hegemony and limit their sovereignty under the guise of a defense of the Russian world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seem hyperbolic to you? Well consider that today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/usatoday\/article\/8526297\">Detroit Free Press<\/a> reports that Russia resurrected the Soviet-age May Day parade through Red Square, something that disappeared along with the Soviet Union back in 1991;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For the first time, stages will be filled, and 5,000 (labor) veterans will stand on the tribunes of Red Square,&#8221; Sergei Chernov, chairman of the Moscow Labor Union Federation, was quoted by ITAR-Tass as saying, ahead of the march, which is being seen as part of President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s efforts to stoke patriotic feelings following Russia&#8217;s annexation of Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 2 million people were expected to be on hand for the event organized by Russian labor unions, which are mostly loyal to the Kremlin. In the end, about 100,000 people participated in the celebration, some holding signs saying: &#8220;Let&#8217;s go to Crimea for vacation&#8221; and &#8220;Putin is right.&#8221; Russian flags fluttered through the crowd.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Odd that they chose to resurrect the traditional celebration of Communism, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that at least one NATO official thinks that we should consider Russia &hellip; <a title=\"NATO: Russia is now an adversary\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=45597\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NATO: Russia is now an adversary<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}