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THE RUSSIAN FRONT

They are trying to “Lock Russia in”

MADRID, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - Former Soviet leader Former Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev has said that calls from the U.S. and other Mikhail Gorbachev
Western powers to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO are
purely aimed at isolating Russia.

"Why does NATO need these countries? To fight against Iran?
This is just ridiculous," Gorbachev told Spanish agency EFE.

NATO refused at its summit in April to let Georgia and Ukraine into the Membership
Action Plan, a key step for membership in the 26-nation alliance, but promised to re-
view the decision in December. The countries had received strong U.S. backing for
their bids.

In their drive to bring the post-Soviet countries into the alliance, Western powers are
trying to "lock Russia in," Gorbachev said. He also said that in the U.S. there are
"certain circles who are pushing the country toward confrontation and NATO expan-
sion, to earn large amounts of money from the production of new armaments," and
that the world now faces the threat of a "return to geopolitical games." He voiced con-
cern that Western nations saw the recent conflict between Georgia and Russia as
"aggression on the part of Russia."

Russia "does not want to command" the world, but is "fulfilling its international obli-
gations, while avoiding illegal games," Gorbachev said.

NATO Build-Up On Russia's Borders

Worst Treachery Since Munich 1938

Global Research, February 24, 2007, Voice of Russia, by Valentin Zorin

Allow me to start off with a personal recollection. I accompanied Mi-
khail Gorbachev on his visit to the United States of America
almost seventeen years ago, and attended, as another adviser,
Gorbachev’s meetings with George Bush Sr., and that gave me a
rare chance to watch what historians of the future will surely be inclined
to describe as the biggest breach of confidence and compare to
the notoriously known Munich agreement between France
and Britain, on the one hand, and Nazi Germany, on the oth-
Valentin Zorin er.

Mikhail Gorbachev and George Bush Sr. focused on the reunification of divided Ger-
many. President Bush saw the reunification of Germany as a fundamental factor of
continental stability and global detente. He repeatedly assured Soviet leader Gorba-
chev that the reunification of Germany would never take the North Atlantic Alliance

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