25-02-2010, 11:05 AM
A welcome development but clearly a fragile one. And weasel words from the US which will do everything possible to exacerbate those divisions.
I hope I'm wrong (as usual) but it doesn't (yet?) have the feel of a cohesive organisation with an agenda other than seeking to reduce US influence. No bad thing in itself but it needs more.
On the face of it the UK doesn't appear too concerned about the sabre-rattling over the Falklands/Malvinas either. Though with what's at stake in claims on Antarctica, 'Falklands/Malvinas' remains what it in reality it always has been - a trip-wire issue.
It'll be fascinating to watch developments though.
I hope I'm wrong (as usual) but it doesn't (yet?) have the feel of a cohesive organisation with an agenda other than seeking to reduce US influence. No bad thing in itself but it needs more.
On the face of it the UK doesn't appear too concerned about the sabre-rattling over the Falklands/Malvinas either. Though with what's at stake in claims on Antarctica, 'Falklands/Malvinas' remains what it in reality it always has been - a trip-wire issue.
It'll be fascinating to watch developments though.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
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"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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