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NATO Chief Challenged On The "Defensive" Alliance's History Of Offensive Regime Change
NATO Chief Challenged On The "Defensive" Alliance's History Of Offensive Regime Change
After his Oval Office visit today, an affair dominated by foreign reporters speaking truth to power by clamoring for more global military spending, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte had to defend his alliance’s often-touted moral assertion: that NATO is defensive in nature.
Asked by ZeroHedge whether NATO’s good deeds in Libya and Iraq qualified as defensive, Rutte had this to say:
NATO chief Mark Rutte often refers to his alliance as “defensive.”
I asked whether Hillary Clinton’s regime war in Libya...
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