As President Obama arrives in Lisbon, Portugal today for a NATO summit, he wrote an op-ed article that appears in today's edition of the International Herald Tribune. . ... By President Barack Obama . With this week’s NATO and United States-European Union summit meetings..…
United States was annoyed by the feebleness of Europe's contributions to the costly wars Iraq and Afghanistan Europeans expected despite their lack of contributions to NATO and European to American initiatives and actions, such as the invasion of Iraq. Bush and Obama administrations,..…
This is a body which passed the NATO Support Act (H.R. 676) by a vote of 357 to 22 in January but has now condemned President Trump for standing by NATO member Turkey. . If Congress had done its job during the Obama Administration, all of this might have been avoided. ..…
Obama and NATO invaded Libya in 2011 to protect “innocent civilians”. . “The Obama administration spent about $1 billion on Libya’s ‘revolution,’ and helped NATO with everything from munitions to surveillance aircraft, carrying out roughly 20 percent of the over..…
Obama administration aspired to construct NATO base in Crimea that may have had serious implications for Russia, relating to access of her warm water port at Crimean of Sevastopol on Black Sea, where Moscow's fleet has been stationed since 1783.. ..…
Then-President Barack Obama said at a NATO Summit in 2016, “When people say ‘Black Lives Matter,’ that doesn’t mean blue lives don’t matter.” ..…
Daalder, who served as U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) under President Barack Obama, is president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. ..…
In 2011, Obama administration participated in NATO Libya aimed at preventing Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city. ..…
The Republican president has unsettled Washington’s allies by withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate accord, a nuclear deal with Iran and a trans-Pacific trade agreement, and has also threatened to leave the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). . For Biden, who served eight..…
In 2011, Obama administration participated in NATO Libya aimed at preventing Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city. ..…
Before and after that pronouncement, he made false claims about Barack Obama, NATO and tariffs. . . ... Trump criticized the previous administration's policy toward NATO. . 'Tell Biden that NATO has taken total advantage of him and President Obama ... we were..…
Since taking office, Trump continued supporting war Obama backed and encouraged. . The US and NATO countries supply Ukrainian forces with heavy and other weapons, training them in use them. . ..…
Ever since the Obama administration and NATO intervened to topple autocrat Muammar al-Gaddafi, power in Libya has been divided among multiple militias, including Hifter’s military, and Islamist groups like ISIS. . ..…
Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, supported an expansion of NATO and favored aid to Nicaragua's Contra rebels. . . . ..…
Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, supported an expansion of NATO and favored aid to Nicaragua’s Contra rebels. . . ..…
If otherwise Britain, France, and other NATO nations wouldn’t have partnered with the Obama regime’s 2011 aggression in Libya. . ..…
For time, United States has been asking EU members to do more and criticizing NATO--but Trump is capable of putting his words into action, while Obama, did not. ..…
This also explains, to quote a few contemporary examples, why Western European and US leaders had no qualms about making a commitment to the USSR in 1989-1990 that NATO would “not move one inch to the East”, in exchange for Soviet acceptance that the new, reunited Germany would be part of NATO, and then..…
Both the Obama and Trump administrations, as well as NATO leaders and most Western military analysts, have said Russia is in breach of the INF Treaty. ..…
Flournoy, an under secretary of defense who worked for former President Barack Obama, said leaving NATO would be “one of the most damaging things that any president could do to U.S. interests.” . ..…
Attacks by US/NATO/Turkish supported terrorists in Idlib occur daily. Obama regime launched aggression, escalated by Trump, has been ongoing for nearly eight years with no prospect for resolution because US aims to replace Assad with pro-Western puppet rule, isolating Iran, remain firm. . ..…
While no proof of Russian interference in the US elections was forthcoming (January 2017), US tanks and troops had nonetheless been dispatched to Russia’s border by the outgoing president (in early January 2017) (under Obama’s “Operation Atlantic Resolve” and NATO’s European..…
If Ukraine were a member of NATO, the U.S. could be treaty-bound to defend it. . ... NATO has continued to expand under Trump, and he — unlike Barack Obama — has sent and plans to continue sending weapons to the Ukrainian government, which contains neo-Nazis and which is..…
Trump supported more strenuous review of Muslim entrants to the country, a re-evaluation of NATO participation, and increased military spending. Clinton supported the Obama administration’s 2015 nuclear limitation deal with Iran, while Trump strongly opposed the deal. . ..…
Hillary Clinton, serving as Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, gleefully chortled after NATO-backed rebels toppled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2012: “We came, we saw, he died.” ..…
NATO . NATO 3 . NATO 5 . ndaa . Nobel Peace Prize . NSA . Obama . occupy wall street . ..…
NATO . NATO 3 . NATO 5 . ndaa . Nobel Peace Prize . NSA . Obama . occupy wall street . ..…
Already July 2014, Obama administration had said that Russia had violated INF Treaty with America's NATO allies aligning themselves with the US, albeit somewhat guardedly... ..…
NATO . NATO 3 . NATO 5 . ndaa . Nobel Peace Prize . NSA . Obama . occupy wall street . ..…
NATO and US's military buildup near Russian borders is tremendously dangerous and provocative step for NATO and for Obama administration to take, says James Jatras, US Senate Foreign Policy analyst. ... This is tremendously dangerous and provocative step for NATO and..…
President Obama tells American people that the military mission Libya is succeeding even as responsibility is transferred to our NATO allies and partners. ..…
President Bill Clinton ordered the US-NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 but failed to win the support of a Republican-controlled Congress. President Barack Obama launched the US-NATO bombing of Libya in 2011 without even attempting to secure a vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate. ..…
The UN notes that there was a substantial decrease in Afghan opium cultivation and production in 2015, the first year after President Obama and NATO ended their combat mission and withdrew most of their troops. . ..…
Even President Obama admitted that he was ‘troubled’ by the direction of the country, a NATO ally,” Demirtas wrote. . ..…
Taliban-perpetrated violence alone has increased since the President Obama and NATO ended their combat mission in December 2014 and transitioned to a train, advise, and assist (TAA) role, suggests the Pentagon analysis. . ..…
Washington, has shielded Turkey from criticism at many high-level NATO summits because Obama administration has been helping Turkey train and arm the militias trying to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad Syria.. ..…
.- Russian relationship from its 2008 nadir, agreed on tougher sanctions against Iran, cooperated on routes for NATO's Afghanistan, and worked together on President Barack Obama's plan to secure nuclear materials around the world. Relations never moved to the phase, NATO's Libya,..…
Obama also deployed the military in NATO's bombing campaign against Libya's Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, citing the need to avert a mass slaughter resulting from government assaults on rebel-held territory. ..…
Kerry, speaking first at the State Department, told the nation any military strike would be carefully considered – and that a military response would not resemble prolonged U.S. involvement such as in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq or a U.S. role in the NATO mission to depose Libyan dictator..…
RELATED: Libya May Be NATO's Last Mission . The Obama administration has been very reluctant to intervene in foreign conflicts. ..…
It all started just after the President Barack Hussein Obama commencement of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-led invasion of Libya wherein national leader Muammar Qaddafi was murdered. ... NATO and the Obama administration wanted Qaddafi out, so they used the..…
On the contrary, Obama has used his clout with NATO leaders like German Prime Minister Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron to warn Israel it would be unwise to attack Iran.. ..…
President Obama's Thoughts on NATO . . Posted by: . CNN White House Producer Becky Brittain THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, everybody. ..…
WASHINGTON -- Under strong pressure from the Obama administration, NATO said Friday that its members would add 7,000 soldiers to the 40,000 non-American allied troops already in Afghanistan. ..…