US pushing for ‘violent redrawing’ of Europe’s map: Analyst
The United States plans to use military force to “violently redraw” the map of European countries bordering Russia, including Ukraine, an American activist in Chicago says.
At a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House on Monday, President Barack Obama warned that the West would not allow Russia to redraw Europe’s borders "at the barrel of a gun."
Obama said he was considering whether to send lethal arms to Ukraine to help Kiev battle the pro-Russian forces in the country’s restive eastern regions.
Joe Iosbaker, a leader in the United National Antiwar Committee, said, “Mainly, it’s the US that is pushing for a violent redrawing of Europe’s map.”
The US and NATO are “using military force to bring about change in Europe by any objective measure,” Iosbaker said Tuesday during a phone interview with Press TV.
Before the reunification of Germany in 1990, former US president George H. W. Bush -- "Bush the senior" – had promised former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand into Eastern European states, Iosbaker noted. However, “this promise was a lie,” he added.
Ties between Washington and Moscow deteriorated last year after pro-Western forces ousted Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014.
Obama is facing increasing calls from domestic critics to send lethal weapons to Kiev. Russia has warned the US against sending weapons to Ukraine, saying the move would cause “colossal damage” to ties between the two countries.
The US media reported last week that the Obama administration is considering supplying the Ukrainian military with weapons and equipment to fight pro-Russian forces.
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