International Crisis Looms as NATO to Hold Emergency Meeting With Ukraine — Rick Rozoff

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Lavrov added this uncharacteristically blunt statement: “We are asked what Russia is doing on the border with Ukraine. The answer is very simple – we live here, this is our country. But what the United States is doing via its warships and troops, which are constantly organising some kind of events in Ukraine under the auspices of NATO, thousands of kilometres from America’s own territory – this question still remains unanswered.” ...It is undeniably evident at this time that the West, which is to say NATO and its members and partners – the U.S., Canada and every European country except for Russia and Cyrus – have arrayed themselves against the small Donbass republics and Russia. There’s been much talk of a Sarajevo moment of the sort that triggered World War I. What the current situation

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