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GERMAN Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has accused Nato of “warmongering” with its military exercises on Russia’s borders.
In an interview published in the Bild newspaper’s Sunday edition, Mr Steinmeier said: “The one thing we shouldn’t do now is inflame the situation with loud sabre-rattling and warmongering.
“Anyone who thinks a symbolic tank parade on the alliance’s eastern border will bring security is wrong.“We would be well advised not to provide a pretext to renew an old confrontation.”
Despite opposition from Greenland’s people and Denmark, Washington intends to control the Arctic territory one way or another. Strategic dominance, mineral wealth and military power are the driving forces at play, writes ROGER McKENZIE
In Washington, the willingness to accept an open war with Russia is growing — at Europe’s expense. While Nato states are being drawn into confrontation, Europe risks becoming the battlefield of a potential world war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
