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THE Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) condemned a new parliamentary report yesterday for “ratcheting up tensions” between Nato and Russia and urged an end to “cold war thinking.”
CND general secretary Kate Hudson slammed this week’s Commons defence committee report that called for Nato to beef-up its military presence in eastern Europe.
Proposals include stationing military equipment in the Baltic states, establishing new command structures and the consideration of a standing reserve force.
MARK HAZELDEN criticises the Western narrative that the incident was an escalation of Russia’s confrontation with the West, given that Belarus, a Russian ally, warned Poland of off-course drones, and the drones were unarmed, cheap wooden decoys
As US hegemony crumbles and Trump becomes ever more unpredictable, European powers cling to the pact’s militarist agenda in a bid to disguise their own increasing irrelevance, writes CHRIS NINEHAM
