Ukraine postpones NATO membership

September 14th, 2006 at 14:26 Björn Hallberg

Too bad for the American empire builders who wanted to cut a swath across Eastern Europe and Asia, encompassing former USSR republics and isolating Russia. At least for now their plans seem to have ground to a halt. Without Ukraine onboard there is really no point in pursuing this course of action as the containment would clearly fail.

Yet, with the contradictory promise of “enlargement of [Ukraine's] cooperation with NATO” and accession to the World Trade Organisation one could suspect that the agenda remains the same and has just become less overt.

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