by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
The Hungarian and the Slovak Foreign Ministers, speaking to a recent
conference, have advanced the idea for new enlargements of NATO in the
Balkans and even in Georgia.
It is obvious that Budapest and Bratislava do not speak for
themselves. They are the mouthpiece of USA and the “pro-War” party
inside western establishment.


The only thing that such an enlargement can do is to fuel the Cold
War in Europe and even increase the risks of a hot confrontation.
This is a real risk, because Western elites do not (want to)
understand how decisive is Moscow. They underestimate massively the
strength of the Russian national feeling (as Napoleon and Hitler did
before them) and they totally misunderstand the reasons for the Soviet
“collapse-suicide”. USSR had enormous problems to face, but it would
never collapse if its own elite had not decided to become part of the
western system.
As for “old Europe”, France and Germany, they failed miserably in
producing any serious idea about the international policy of EU.
Neoconservatives took hold on French power with Sarkozy, back in 2007,
as for Germans they followed passively and miserably the neoconservative
line and provocations in Ukraine. By attacking Greece and European
periphery, in the way it did, Berlin has inflicted defeat to itself,
creating the objective basis for enlarging US influence in South Europe.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nato-hungary-idUSKCN0VY119

http://www.konstantakopoulos.gr/2016/02/26/new-europe-is-back-asking-for-new-nato-enlargements/