Russia objects US military buildup in Netherlands
Monitoring Desk
Thursday - December 22, 2016
MOSCOW (Russia): Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova on Wednesday held, “We have taken notice of the reports about the resumption of work of a United States (US) military advanced storage facility with US arms and heavy military equipment, including tanks, infantry carriers and self-propelled artillery in Netherlands.”
It seems that the West is seeking to make the military and political deterrence of Russia a long-term effort.
The implementation of such plans is another indication that the Netherlands is at the forefront of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) activities to implement the decisions of NATO summits held in the United Kingdom (UK) and Poland, which can hardly be described as exclusively defensive.
Under the guise of a mythical “threat from the East,” the Hague is participating in air, sea and land-based components of the expanding military presence of coalition forces near the Russian border, such as patrolling the airspace of the Baltic countries and the NATO multinational battalion in Lithuania.
The Netherlands has made its territory available for storing US nuclear weapons in Europe.
We believe that such decisions in the military sphere are in keeping with the numerous hostile attacks made by Dutch officials regarding Russia, designed to dial up the anti-Russian hysteria among the Dutch public.
That includes questionable initiatives to create “independent Russian media” to fight so-called “Kremlin propaganda,” the direct financing by the Dutch Foreign Ministry of Russian opposition non government organisations (NGOs), the constant use by Prime Minister (PM) Mark Rutte and Foreign Minister Bert Koenders of the spectre of the “Russian military threat” in their public statements, in order to push through contrary to Dutch public opinion, ratification of European Union (EU)-Ukrainian “association agreement”.
The same kind of thinking is also responsible for the unfair and unjust ruling by the District Court of Amsterdam to transfer items from the exhibition, Crimea: Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea, to Ukraine, rather than museums of Crimea, which, in our opinion, puts an end to the Hague’s cherished ambitions to establish itself as the legal capital of the world.
It seems that the Dutch leaders have acquired a taste for these headlong efforts to intentionally destroy their country’s relations with Russia.
Now, it is reinforcing its belligerent anti-Russian policy with “steel”.
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