Trump approves Montenegro's NATO membership

[DFighter]

 

President Donald Trump has signed the US approval for Montenegro to join NATO, following the majority vote in the Senate to ratify the small Balkan state’s accession to the trans-Atlantic alliance in March.

NATO is “central to ensuring peace and security on the European continent,” the White House said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that Montenegro’s membership will signal to other aspirants that the “door to membership in the Euro-Atlantic community of nations remains open.”

Countries in the Western Balkans are “free to choose their own future and select their own partners without outside interference or intimidation,” the statement added, using Obama-era language to refer to what used to be Yugoslavia and sidestepping the fact that Montenegro’s neighbors Croatia and Albania are already NATO members, and that the alliance bombed the country back 1999 during the campaign to occupy Kosovo.

 

“President Trump congratulates the Montenegrin people for their resilience and their demonstrated commitment to NATO’s democratic values,” the White House said.

 

More than half of Montenegro’s 620,000 inhabitants are opposed to NATO membership, according to recent polls. The ruling Democratic Party of Socialists has recently cracked down on the opposition and accused it of plotting a coup with Russian assistance.

DPS leader Milo Djukanovic, a former Communist official who reinvented himself as a pro-Western liberal democrat, has governed the former Yugoslav republic since 1997, and organized the controversial independence referendum in 2006.

The US Senate voted 97-2 to approve Montenegro’s NATO membership on March 28. The two dissenters were Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), who said the decision would "add another country to the welfare wagon of NATO."

Source: https://www.rt.com/usa/384360-trump-montenegro-nato-ratification/

[RedBaird]

RT is always interesting, especially with sub-titles like this, "NATO in Montenegro: Securing the rear before Barbarossa II?",  saying that German artillery can now be in range of St. Petersburg / Leningrad again.

 

I watch the RT America cable TV channel sometimes.

[DFighter]

RT is always interesting, especially with sub-titles like this, "NATO in Montenegro: Securing the rear before Barbarossa II?",  saying that German artillery can now be in range of St. Petersburg / Leningrad again.

 

I watch the RT America cable TV channel sometimes.

haha yes since I report the news I look on several news sites al jazeera rt bbc cnn 

you notice pretty fast that a subject on all 4 sites are always posted in a diffirent view hehe

but RT is the most easy site to copy text and post it here the others you always have to edit a lot

[RedBaird]

The Al Jazeera America channel shut down.

[Platonic]

It's really interesting to read news on different sources. You will notice how each source reports news to its own convenience. I get e-mails from 7 different news websites. Often gives more insight in the truth of it all. Although you have to be more careful with some sources than with others

[Krusnik87]

Indeed, the only sources which are the most neutral are from the three biggest News agencies who sell their "discoveries" to all News agencies across the world : Associated Press (usa), Reuters (uk/ca), Agence France Presse: AFP (fr).

 

Usually, the others just relay the News from their point of view.