GLOBALLISASI Kejam, SYARIKAT-Syarikat MULTInasional Memerintah DUNIA - Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen, Barisan Nasional pemimpin parti politik Perancis (Marine Le Pen, France's National Front political party leader (Reuters/Eric Gaillard)

tanahMALAyu - Globalisasi adalah satu kekejaman, Marine Le Pen percaya, pe-mimpin hak-jauh pihak Barisan Nasional Perancis, sambil menambah bahwa kini DUNIA di tangan syarikat multinasional dan kewangan antarabangsa yang besar.

"Globalisasi adalah kekejaman, ia adalah negara yang harus menghadkan penyalahgunaannya dan mengawal ia [globalisasi]," Le Pen menulis di akaun Twitter beliau.

Masalah syarikat multinasional dan pengaruh mereka di seluruh DUNIA juga telah diketengahkan oleh pemimpin jauh kanan Perancis.

"Hari ini DUNIA adalah di tangan syarikat multinasional dan kewangan antarabangsa yang besar," kata Le Pen.

Imigresen "berat ke atas upah," manakala gaji minimum kini menjadi gaji mak-simum, berkata Le Pen, sambil menambah bahawa kini Perancis adalah "mati dari-pada fizikal, undang-undang dan fiskal tidak selamat."

Le Pen adalah pengkritik lantang daripada transatlantik Kawasan Bebas Perda-gangan (TAFTA), juga dikenali sebagai transatlantik Perdagangan dan Pelaburan Perkongsian (TTIP), perjanjian perdagangan bebas antara Kesatuan Eropah dan Amerika Syarikat. Perancis kini dalam proses rundingan dengan Amerika Syarikat pada perjanjian kontroversi.

GLOBALIZATION is Barbarous, MULTINATIONALS 

Rule WORLD - Marine Le Pen

Globalization is a barbarity, believes Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front party, adding that now the world is now in hands of multinational corporations and large international finance.

“Globalization is a barbarity, it is the country which should limit its abuses and regulate it [globalization],” Le Pen wrote on her Twitter account.

The problems of multinational corporations and their worldwide influence were also highlighted by France’s far-right leader.

“Today the world is in the hands of multinational corporations and large international finance,” Le Pen said.

Immigration “weighs down on wages,” while the minimum wage is now becoming the maximum wage, said Le Pen, adding that now France is “dying of physical, legal and fiscal insecurity.”

Le Pen is a vocal critic of Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA), also known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States. France is now in the process of negotiations with the US on the controversial deal.

Rakyat membantah pada 11 Oktober 2014 terhadap Perjanjian transatlantik Perdagangan Bebas (TAFTA) sedang dirunding antara Suruhanjaya Eropah dan eksploitasi gas syal di pusat bandar Perancis barat daya Narbonne (People protest on October 11, 2014 against the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) being negotiated between the European Commission and the exploitation of shale gas in the center of the southwestern French city of Narbonne (AFP Photo)

Pemimpin jauh kanan Perancis mengkritik perjanjian itu kerana kekurangan ketelusan dalam rundingan.

Pada bulan Februari dia berjanji akan menghantar "banyak wakil ke Parlimen Eropah akan mengetuai peperangan menentang TTIP."

Di Perancis terdapat byk pengkritik perjanjian yg mengatakan bahwa perjanjian itu akan meningkatkan kuasa korporat dan membuat ia lebih sukar bagi kerajaan utk mengawal selia pasaran utk faedah awam. Juga, dengan majoriti rundingan TTIP diadakan secara rahsia, ianya tidak jelas sejauh mana keutamaan EU telah dipenuhi.

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Lawan TAFTA juga mendakwa bahawa perjanjian itu akan membawa kemasukan besar makanan yg diubahsuai secara genetik dari Amerika Syarikat, seperti daging lembu hormon dirawat dan jagung yang diubah suai secara genetik.

Pada bulan November, laporan muncul bahawa Perancis tidak akan menyokong TTIP antara EU dan Amerika Syarikat sebagai panjang penetapan kontroversi dimasukkan.

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Ia bukan sahaja orang di Perancis yg menentang perjanjian itu. Demonstrasi ter-hadap perjanjian itu juga telah berlaku di Britain, Jerman, Itali, Sepanyol, Greece, Belanda, Poland, Republik Czech dan Scandinavia.

France’s far-right leader criticized the deal for a lack of transparency in the talks.

In February she promised to send “numerous representatives to the European Parliament will lead the battle against TTIP.”

In France there are many critics of the agreement who say that the deal would increase corporate power and make it more difficult for governments to regulate markets for public benefit. Also, with the majority of TTIP negotiations being held secretly, it’s unclear to what extent the EU’s preferences have been met.

READ MORE: ‘No to TAFTA’: France celebs campaign against EU-US trade deal, sign petition

TAFTA opponents also claim that the treaty will bring a big influx of genetically modified foods from the US, such as hormone-treated beef and genetically modified corn.

In November, reports emerged that France would not support the TTIP between the EU and US as long as a controversial stipulation is included.

READ MORE: #NoTTIP: Mass protests slam US-EU trade deal as 'corporate power grab'

It’s not only people in France who oppose the deal. Demonstrations against the deal have also taken place in Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic and Scandinavia.

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RAKYAT Awam British tidak BERMINAT perangan Amerika - bekas Datuk Bandar London LIVINGSTONE . . .

tanahMALAyu - Bekas Datuk Bandar London Ken Livingstone yg percaya bahawa sejak sejauh Perang DUNIA Pertama, Amerika Syarikat, dengan bantuan Britain, telah campur tangan beberapa kali di seluruh Timur Tengah hanya utk mengawal aliran minyak.

Jika anda mengikuti sejarah Timur Tengah sejak tempoh ini, maka Barat telah disangga rejim korup dan digulingkan yang dipilih secara demokratik, Ken Livingstone kepada RT.

Semua akhbar utama & media di Britain yg dimiliki oleh jutawan sedikit & mendaf-tar untuk pakatan Anglo-Amerika dan memberikan sokongan tidak berbelah bahagi kepada kepentingan Amerika meskipun kehilangan "beribu-ribu nyawa British," kata Livingstone.

Dan monopoli media adalah dgn latar belakang penurunan jumlah Ahli Parlimen, seperti Tony Benn dan Ken sendiri, yang akan menarik Parlimen dan soalan " kita telah terlibat dalam apa yang cerdik."

Encik Livingstone pergi lebih jauh dan menunjukkan bahawa ahli-ahli politik British arus perdana, seperti David Cameron & Tony Blair, diberi ganjaran apabila mereka bersara dengan jawatan lumayan di bilik lembaga syarikat-syarikat Amerika Syarikat, dan dia berkata, "Jika anda mencabar kepentingan Amerika anda mungkin tertakluk kepada kempen memburuk-burukkan, mungkin juga kemalangan buruk."

Livingstone berkata salah satu sebab beliau menyokong pemimpin Buruh Ed Miliband adalah kerana dia adalah pemimpin yang bersedia untuk berdiri dengan Konservatif pada perang asing, sebagaimana yang telah terbukti apabila pendirian beliau memainkan peranan penting dalam kekalahan parlimen Cameron mengenai penglibatan British di Syria.

"Saya fikir jika anda melihat perdana menteri British berdiri untuk mewakili kepen-tingan Britain bukan sahaja menjadi pemandu sorak untuk Amerika Syarikat - akan ada sokongan yang besar untuk itu," katanya.

Tetapi kerajaan itu selamat, dan selagi mereka mengekalkan majoriti di Dewan Rakyat dan boleh mengabaikan pandangan orang-orang British, yang sangat menentang penglibatan dalam perang Amerika. Malah, kata bekas Datuk Bandar, yang “lefty campaigns”  terhadap perang asing "melibatkan diri lapisan kecil dari orang awam" dan orang-orang yang lebih prihatin dengan isu-isu dalam negeri seperti pendidikan, cukai dan NHS.

BRITISH public NOT Interested in fighting America's WARS - former London Mayor LIVINGSTONE . . .

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone believes that since as far back as the First World War, the United States, with Britain’s help, has intervened on numerous occasions all over the Middle East just to control the flow of oil.

If you follow Middle East history since this period, then the West has propped up corrupt regimes and overthrown democratically elected ones, Ken Livingstone told RT.

All the main newspapers and media outlets in Britain are owned by a few billionaires and are signed up to the Anglo-American alliance and give unwavering support to America’s interests despite the loss of “thousands of British lives,” says Livingstone.

And the media monopoly is against a background of decreasing numbers of MPs, such as Tony Benn and Ken himself, who will pull parliament up and question “the kind of dodgy things we’ve been involved in.”

Mr Livingstone goes further and suggests that mainstream British politicians, such as David Cameron and Tony Blair, are rewarded when they retire with lucrative positions on the boardrooms of US corporations, and he says, “If you challenge America’s interests you might be subject to a smear campaign, possibly even a nasty accident.”

Livingstone says one of the reasons he supports Labour leader Edward Miliband is because he is a leader who is prepared to stand up to the Tories on foreign wars, as was proven when his stance was instrumental in Cameron’s parliamentary defeat on British involvement in Syria.

“I think if you see a British prime minster standing up to represent Britain’s interests not just be a cheerleader for the United States – there will be huge support for that,” he said.

But the government is safe, and as long as they maintain a majority in the House of Commons and can ignore the views of the British people, which are overwhelmingly against involvement in America’s wars. In fact, says the ex-mayor, the “lefty campaigns” against foreign wars “engage a small layer of the public” and people are far more concerned with domestic issues such as education, tax and the NHS.

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HARI Global untuk KOBANI: Beribu-ribu BERARAK untuk MENYOKONG perjuangan KURDISH terhadap ISIS . . .

Penunjuk perasaan membawa gambar Abdullah Ocalan, pemimpin yang dipenjara dari Parti Pekerja Kurdistan (PKK), semasa demonstrasi menyokong pejuang Kurdis dan rakyat yang terkepung di kota Syria Kobani dan terhadap Negara Islam, di kawasan Kurdish Aleppo ini dari Sheikh Maksoud November 1, 2014 (Protesters carry pictures of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), during a demonstration in support of Kurdish fighters and the besieged citizens of the Syrian town of Kobani and against the Islamic State, in Aleppo's Kurdish neighbourhood of Sheikh Maksoud November 1, 2014 (Reuters/Hosam Katan)

tanahMALAyu - Beribu-ribu penunjuk perasaan dari seluruh DUNIA - termasuk Turki, Perancis, Itali, Jerman, United Kingdom, & Australia - berarak utk menunjuk-kan perpaduan dengan pejuang Kurdish berjuang ISIS di bandar strategik Kobani, yang terletak di sempadan Syria dengan Turki.

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Ratusan orang berkumpul di Trafalgar Square di London pada hari Sabtu untuk menyokong orang-orang Kurdish, yang berjuang melawan militan Islam di Negeri Kobani untuk bulan yang ke-2.

GLOBAL Day for Kobani: Thousands march to SUPPORT Kurds’ fight Against ISIS . . .

Thousands of protesters from across the globe – including Turkey, France, Italy, Germany, the UK, and Australia – marched to show solidarity with Kurdish fighters battling ISIS in the strategic city of Kobani, located on Syria's border with Turkey.

READ MORE: ISIS slaughters ex-police and army officers in Iraq – report

Hundreds gathered in London's Trafalgar Square on Saturday to support the Kurds, who are fighting against Islamic State militants in Kobani for the second month.

PeterTatchell@PeterTatchell

London rally to support democratic #Kurdish resistance in #Kobani against #ISIS fascism.@sunnyhundal@gilesfraser12:13 AM - 2 Nov 2014

Penunjuk perasaan melaungkan "Ganyang ISIS" dan "Hands Off Kobani" sementara bendera Kurdish berkibar di udara. Perhimpunan pusat London adalah yg terbesar berlaku di UK. Ianya dianjurkan oleh Kurdish Dewan Rakyat dan Kurdish organisasi komuniti di seluruh negara.

The protesters chanted “Down with ISIS” and “Hands off Kobani” while Kurdish flags fluttered in the air. The central London rally was the largest to take place in the UK. It was organized by the Kurdish People’s Assembly and Kurdish community organizations throughout the country.

"Tujuan acara ini di London adalah untuk biarlah DUNIA tahu, dan lebih penting membiarkan Kobani tahu, bahawa kita adalah dgn mereka!" Kata satu kenyataan daripada pihak penganjur.

Ratusan orang berkumpul di Turin, Itali, memegang tanda-tanda yang berbunyi "Bebas Kobani" dan "hentikan ISIS."

“The purpose of the event in London will be to let the world know, and more importantly let Kobani know, that we are with them!” said a statement from the organizers.

Hundreds gathered in Turin, Italy, holding signs that read “Free Kobani” and “Stop ISIS.”

Kempen antarabangsa telah disertai oleh bandar-bandar terbesar di Jerman, Berlin dan Hamburg. Beribu-ribu orang Kurdish turun ke jalan mengibar bendera. Mereka mengadakan tanda-tanda memanggil untuk menghentikan jihadis, serta gambar pejuang Kurdish ikonik seperti pahlawan wanita yang dikenali sebagai 'Rehana."

The international campaign was joined by Germany’s largest cities, Berlin and Hamburg. Thousands of Kurds took to the streets waving flags. They held signs calling to stop the jihadists, as well as photos of iconic Kurdish fighters such as the woman warrior known as ‘Rehana.'

kurdishblogger@kurdishblogger

Melbourne :"Isis Attacks, Turkey supports, Kobane resists" #GlobalDay4Kobane

2:48 AM - 2 Nov 2014

nailabozo@nailabozo

amazigh in morocco in front of #turkey's embassy, showing solidarity with kurds fighting ISIS.#GlobalDay4Kobane 12:57 AM - 2 Nov 2014

Bahkan anak-anak menyertai perhimpunan tersebut, meletakkan "V" tanda-tanda tangan di udara dan menjerit slogan-slogan menyerukan perdamaian.

Even children joined the rally, putting up “V” hand signs in the air and shouting slogans calling for peace.

Penunjuk perasaan pro-Kurdish mengambil bahagian dalam satu perhimpunan dalam perpaduan dengan orang-orang kota Kurdi Syria Kobani di Athens November 1, 2014 (Pro-Kurdish protesters take part in a rally in solidarity with the people of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani in Athens November 1, 2014 (Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis)

KawaArî@KawaAri1

Anti-#ISIS&Erdogan protests in Paris #TwitterKurds #Kobane #Shingal ISIL Syria Turkey#1NovemberWorldKobaniDay 12:31 AM - 1 Nov 2014

Bandar-bandar Australia, termasuk Sydney & Melbourne, juga dicengkam oleh ban-tahan. Penunjuk perasaan memegang sepanduk yg berbunyi, "Serangan ISIS, Turki menyokong, Kobani menolak."

Kurdi menunjukkan di pusat Athens, Sabtu lalu sebagai sebahagian daripada Hari DuUNIA Solidaritas dengan Kobani. Beberapa sepanduk dilakukan membaca "IS = Turki." Ankara telah dituduh tidak banyak membuat usaha dalam usaha untuk menghentikan ISIS dan menutup mata kepada radikal asing yang melintasi negara dalam perjalanan ke Syria untuk bergabung dengan pelampau.

Australian cities, including Sydney and Melbourne, were also gripped by protests. Demonstrators held banners which read, "ISIS Attacks, Turkey supports, Kobani resists.”

Kurds demonstrated in central Athens on Saturday as part of the World Day of Solidarity with Kobani. Some carried banners reading “IS = Turkey.” Ankara has been accused of not making enough effort in trying to stop ISIS and turning a blind eye to foreign radicals passing through the country en route to Syria to join the extremists.

فَـرَحْ Farah@RoadToPalestine

Ocalan flags at #GlobalDay4Kobane protest in Istanbul, Turkey

7:51 PM - 1 Nov 2014

Namun demikian, ribuan penunjuk perasaan yang berkumpul di Istanbul dan di wilayah tenggara Turki Diyarbakir untuk menyokong pejuang Kurdish. Ada yang memegang bendera menyokong pemimpin Kurdish Abdullah Ocalan yg dipenja-rakan, salah satu anggota pengasas Parti Pekerja Kurdistan (PKK). PKK dilarang di Turki sebagai sebuah pertubuhan pengganas utk mengetuai perjuangan 30 tahun terhadap Ankara bagi mewujudkan rantau autonomi Kurdis di tenggara negara itu.

Nevertheless, thousands of demonstrators gathered in Istanbul and in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakir to support Kurdish fighters. Some were holding flags supporting imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, one of the founding members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The PKK is banned in Turkey as a terrorist organization for leading a 30-year struggle against Ankara in order to create a Kurdish autonomous region in the country’s southeast.

Penunjuk perasaan isyarat kerana mereka berkumpul untuk memprotes terhadap Negara Islam semasa perhimpunan dalam perpaduan dengan orang-orang kota Kurdi Syria Kobani, di Diyarbakir, dalam Kurdish didominasi tenggara Turki November 1, 2014 (Demonstrators gesture as they gather to protest against Islamic State during a rally in solidarity with the people of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, in Diyarbakir, in the Kurdish dominated southeastern Turkey November 1, 2014 (Reuters/Sertac Kayar)

Perhimpunan hari Sabtu itu sebagai pejuang Iraq Peshmerga Kurdis masuk Kobani dari Turki untuk menyertai peperangan menentang militan yang telah membunuh beribu-ribu dan menguasai wilayah yang besar di Iraq dan Syria menyatakan ia sebagai khalifah mereka.

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The Saturday rallies came as Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters entered Kobani from Turkey to join the battle against the militants, who have killed thousands and took control of large territories in Iraq and Syria proclaiming it as their caliphate.

READ MORE: ISIS eyes using Ebola as bio weapon – Spain

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RUSIA di pintu GERBANG ? Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat, jurucakap Pentagon DIPANGGANG di atas perluasan NATO . . .

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tanahMALAyu - Jurucakap Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat Jen Psaki dan Laksamana Pentagon Setiausaha Akhbar. John Kirby telah dicabar atas tuntutan Jabatan Per-tahanan bahawa Amerika Syarikat harus "deal" dengan angkatan tentera Rusia "mampu dan moden" yang paling dekat dengan NATO.

Menteri Pertahanan Rusia Sergey Shoigu menyatakan expressed "membimbang-kan" & "kejutan" pd Rabu membuat ucapan oleh Setiausaha Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat Chuck Hagel selama Persatuan persidangan tahunan Amerika Syarikat Tentera. Hagel menyatakan bahawa pasukan bersenjata "harus berurusan dengan revisionis Rusia - dgn tentera moden & handal yang dimiliki - Yang paling dekat dgn NATO"

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Semasa taklimat Jabatan Negara pd hari Jumaat, bagaimanapun, seorang war-tawan AP mencadangkan bahawa ia akan menjadi lebih logik untuk mengatakan bahawa "NATO telah bergerak lebih dekat dengan sempadan Rusia."

"Adakah ia tidak logik untuk melihat ini & berkata - sebab mengapa tentera Rusia adalah yang paling dekat dengan NATO, adalah kerana NATO mengembang," kata wartawan Matt Lee.

"Itulah cara [Rusia] Presiden Putin mungkin melihat hal itu, itu pasti bukan cara kita melihatnya," kata Kirby dalam menanggapi hujah wartawan.

Walaupun dia akhirnya mengakui bahawa NATO tlh berkembang, Kirby menambah bahawa "NATO tidak merupakan pakatan anti-Rusia, ia merupakan satu ikatan keamanan."

RUSSIAN at the gates? US State Dept, Pentagon Spokespersons GRILLED Over NATO EXPANSION . . .

US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki and Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby have been challenged over the Department of Defense's claims that the US must “deal” with “modern and capable” Russian armed forces on NATO's doorstep.

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu expressed “grave concern” and “surprise” at a Wednesday speech made by US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel during the Association of the United States Army’s annual conference. Hagel declared that US armed forces "must deal with a revisionist Russia - with its modern and capable army - on NATO's doorstep.”

READ MORE: US works on military 'scenarios' near our borders - Russian defense minister

During a State Department briefing on Friday, however, an AP journalist suggested that it would be more logical to say that “NATO has moved closer to Russia’s borders.”

“Is it not logical to look at this and say – the reason why Russia’s army is on NATO’s doorstep, is because NATO expands,” journalist Matt Lee said.

“That’s the way [Russian] President Putin probably looks at it, it’s certainly not the way that we look at it,” Kirby said in response to the journalist’s reasoning.

Though he eventually admitted that NATO has expanded, Kirby added that “NATO is not an anti-Russia alliance, it is a security alliance.”

"Ia bukan NATO yg memesan tan batalion taktikal & tentera ke Ukraine sempadan [itu]," kata Kirby, sebelum diingatkan bahawa Ukraine bukan sebahagian dari NATO.

Kirby kemudian menolak untuk bersetuju dengan fakta bahawa Rusia dimengerti boleh melihat perluasan NATO sebagai "ancaman", terutama mengingat bahwa perikatan wujud sebagai "anti-Soviet" untuk setengah abad.

"Saya tidak akan berpura-pura tahu apa yang berlaku dalam fikiran Presiden Putin atau komander tentera Rusia . . . Maksud saya, saya hampir tidak punya gelar sejarah di University of South Florida," Kirby bergurau, mengelakkan soalan.

Kirby memberi jaminan bahawa langkah NATO tidak "bermusuhan & mengan-cam," tetapi lebih kepada soal keselamatan. Beliau menambah bahawa beliau "bim-bang tentang mereka [Rusia] bergerak di seluruh Ukraine." Psaki kemudian dipo-tong, berkata bahawa "negara2 lain merasa terancam," dan mendesak perbualan untuk meneruskan perjalanan.

Dari segi ancaman baru di sempadan NATO, Menteri Pertahanan Rusia Sergey Shoigu berkata pd hari Jumaat bahawa Amerika Syarikat yang telah "keras kepala menghampiri . . . lebih dekat dengan pintu."

Hubungan antara Rusia dan NATO telah tegang sejak perikatan menuduh Rusia terlibat dalam konflik Ukraine - tuntutan Rusia telah secara berterusan menafikan.

Berikutan kesertaan Crimea ke Rusia pd bulan Mac, Amerika Syarikat dan Eropah menghujani Moscow dengan sekatan. NATO juga ketara meningkatkan kehadiran tenteranya dekat sempadan Rusia, terutamanya di Poland & negara2 bekas Soviet Baltik dari Latvia, Lithuania dan Estonia, yg telah menyatakan keprihatinan atas potensi serangan Rusia ke wilayah mereka.

“It wasn’t NATO that was ordering tons of tactical battalions and army to [the] Ukraine border,” Kirby added, before being reminded that Ukraine is not part of NATO.

Kirby then refused to agree with the point that the Russians could understandably perceive NATO’s expansion as a “threat,” especially given that the alliance existed as “anti-Soviet” for half a century.

“I’m not going to pretend to know what goes in President Putin’s mind or Russian military commanders . . . I mean, I barely got a history degree at the University of South Florida,” Kirby joked, dodging the question.

Kirby assured that NATO's moves were not “hostile and threatening,” but rather a matter of security. He added that he was “worried about their [Russia’s] moves around Ukraine.” Psaki then cut in, saying that “other countries feel threatened,” and urged the conversation to move on.

In terms of new threats at NATO’s borders, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Friday that it is the US which has been “stubbornly approaching . . . closer to our doors.”

Relations between Russia and NATO have been tense since the alliance accused Russia of becoming involved in the Ukrainian conflict – a claim Russia has conti-nuously denied.

Following Crimea's accession to Russia in March, the US and Europe bombarded Moscow with sanctions. NATO also significantly increased its military presence near Russia's borders, especially in Poland and the former Soviet Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, which have expressed concern at the potential for Russian incursions into their territories.

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