NATO needs a huge military build-up in eastern Europe’s “front line states”, the British Prime Minister wrote in a letter to the alliance’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and the 27 other NATO country leaders.<\/p>\n
Russia is the enemy and NATO must rethink its long-term relationship with Russia and strengthen the alliance’s ability to respond quickly to the threat, David Cameron declared on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Cameron’s plea comes as senior British military personnel in June suggested that Britain\u2019s defence spending would soon fall below Nato\u2019s target of 2 per cent of gross domestic product.<\/p>\n
Only four countries spend two percent of gross domestic product on NATO defence, signalling little enthusiasm for Cameron’s cause.<\/p>\n
“In 2014, the world is more unpredictable than ever and we meet at another pivotal moment in the history of the alliance,” Cameron wrote.<\/p>\n
Britain and the US have ripped up the rulebook of international law with their illegal and aggressive destabilisation of Ukraine, but Cameron nevertheless aimed his rant solely at “Russian aggression”.<\/p>\n
Britain is being accused moreover of having committed war crimes in Iraq and Libya with NATO’s blessing by various members of Britain’s parliament.<\/p>\n
Archbishop Desmond Tutu called for Tony Blair to be treated as other alleged war criminals earlier and be tried at the International Criminal Court at The Hague.<\/p>\n
Cameron has also drawn fierce criticism because of his support for Israel’s attacks on Palestinians, qualifying as war crimes some legal specialists say.<\/p>\n
His latest campaign against Russia suggests a need to shift the spotlight from the mounting tide against neo-British imperialist tendencies: “To the south, an arc of instability spreads from north Africa and the Sahel, to Syria, Iraq and the wider Middle East.<\/p>\n
Cameron continued sternly: “So we must use the [coming Nato] summit [at the Celtic Manor resort near Newport] to agree how NATO should adapt to respond to and deter such threats [as Russia]; and to ensure the continued collective defence of all its members.”<\/p>\n
He added that NATO had to address “the risks and challenges posed by failed states, regional conflicts, terrorism and cyber-attacks”.<\/p>\n
Cameron\u2019s drive towards war for Europe comes after what Downing Street insiders describe as the prime minister\u2019s unusually animated response to the downing of a Malaysian airliner.<\/p>\n
Number 10 insiders told the FT the “Ukraine crisis has signalled to the prime minister that Russia is no longer a lucrative potential export market” after Russia provided the international community with detailed data on the crash. <\/p>\n
The British and Americans are increasingly frustrated as they have not managed to fully incriminate Russia for what they themselves describe as a “mistaken” missile attack on flight MH17.<\/p>\n
Cameron\u2019s comments echo a proposal by Nato\u2019s Europe commander, General Philip Breedlove, nicknamed “Strangelove” after a character in a Stanley Kubrick film called Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb<\/em>.<\/p>\n According to the FT Breedlove advocates stockpiling a base in Poland with enough weapons, ammunition and other supplies to support a rapid deployment of thousands of troops against Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NATO needs a huge military build-up in eastern Europe’s “front line states”, the British Prime Minister wrote in a letter to the alliance’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and the 27 other NATO country leaders. Russia is the enemy and NATO must rethink its long-term relationship with Russia and strengthen the alliance’s ability to respond … Continue reading “Cameron echoes Dr Strangelove’s plea for NATO”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[1149,4125,9605,9491,2376,66,1946],"class_list":["post-15037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-david-cameron","tag-dr-strangelove","tag-genl-breedlove","tag-mh17","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-uk"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15053,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037\/revisions\/15053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}