Who is Mark Rutte, who will lead the alliance? – June 26, 2024 – Russia today Publication in CHAT: Russia Mark Rutte will take up the position of Secretary General on 1 October 2024. Source: Nato.int The NATO Council announced that Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who lost the elections, became the new Secretary General of the alliance. He will officially take up his new position on October 1. His appointment was approved on Wednesday, June 26, by the ambassadors of 32 NATO countries at a meeting of the North Atlantic Council. NATO is a military-political alliance of Western countries. Currently the union has 30 members. It was originally created to fight against the Soviet Union. Countries now proclaim cooperation in the field of security and defense as their main mission. Who is Mark Rutte The new Secretary General of NATO was born in 1967 and graduated from the Faculty of History at Leiden University. He devoted 8 years of his life to study and defended his master's thesis in 1992. While still a student, he became interested in politics. However, Rutte continued to work for the international corporation Unilever until 2002, and then completely went into politics. Gradually he led the Dutch People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. After winning the 2010 elections, Rutte was appointed prime minister of the country. Despite resignations due to the political crisis and subsequent appointments, Mark Rutte headed the Dutch government until 2023. In Europe, he became the second longest-serving leader after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Rutte now continues to serve as prime minister as talks are held to form a new cabinet following elections last fall. Why do they want Rutte to lead NATO? Former Prime Minister Mark Rutte could act as a political counterweight to former US President Donald Trump if he is re-elected in the November 2024 US elections, according to Politico. Thus, former US Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland stated this. journalists were told that Mark Rutte had experience of fighting Donald Trump when their opinions differed. The former prime minister did not hesitate to express the opposite opinion to Trump “to his face.” Relations with Russia In 2014, Mark Rutte visited Sochi as Prime Minister of the Netherlands. The meeting with Vladimir Putin was friendly. But in 2014, Rutte supported the introduction of sanctions against Russia due to the crisis in Ukraine. Later, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands announced the need to extend and tighten them. Relations between Russia and the Netherlands deteriorated significantly after the crash of MH17 in the Donetsk region in 2014. On board were mainly Dutch citizens. The Dutch authorities said that Moscow was to blame for the crash of the Malaysian Boeing. In 2021, Rutte said that he would refuse to participate in the Russia-EU summit if Russian President Vladimir Putin was present at the meeting. The reason for this decision was his tough stance on the plane crash between Putin and Rutte at a meeting in Sochi in 2014. Source: RIA_Kremlinpool/Т.me From the very beginning of its work, BC Rutte sharply criticized Russia. After which he called for the introduction of personal sanctions against Vladimir Putin and members of the Russian government “Our thoughts are with the Ukrainian people,” Rutte wrote on his X account. He maintains his position to this day in Switzerland, Rutte said that Russia had to participate in a conference after the end of the conflict. “Many speakers said that Russia should sit at this table, and I completely agree with that,” he said on October 1, 2024. Rutte takes over as NATO Secretary General, replacing Jens Stoltenberg. The Secretary General is the person who manages the work of the organization. It is also responsible for implementing decisions taken by the UN. Source link Source link
от
bonabo
10088
от
bonabo
214202
“Russia can buy all of North Korea and turn it into a “country of war.” The West has only now begun to understand what kind of alliance they themselves have created. Green Country Diaries Posting in CHAT: Russia The news that Russia and the DPRK not only signed an agreement on comprehensive strategic assistance, but also unequivocally declared mutual support in the event of aggression from third countries, seems to have brought the entire Western political establishment out of a certain arrogant state. Moreover, these good people who dumped all sorts of sanctions on our heads do not seem to fully believe that this is possible. Although historically our countries are not strangers, and there is no way to disrupt transport links between Russia and the DPRK. There is a railway connected to the Trans-Siberian Railway and the BAM. This is a very short and fast sea route, with loading and unloading of export and import goods directly onto the Trans-Siberian Railway, without leaving the territorial waters of both states, and the scale of deliveries is extremely difficult to trace. All that South Korean intelligence was able to unearth was an approximate number of containers corresponding to the transport capacity of 5 to 8 million 152-mm artillery shells. There are still very hardworking Koreans who can be respected at least for the fact that they bear the burden of sanctions and create the space industry. And a military man. Comrade Kim Jong-un at a factory assembling giant transporters for many short- and medium-range missiles. Photo by KCNA All nine large factories for the production of shells in the DPRK, according to the national intelligence service of South Korea NIS, are busy fulfilling Russian orders. Presumably, Russia is already participating in the modernization of the northerners’ companies and transferring them to standards that suit the Russian Ministry of Defense. But the arms exchange is only a small part of what the agreement's clauses mean. “Despite the fact that the leaders of Russia and the DPRK speak as evasively as possible about the nature of their defense relations, hardly anyone expected that this situational alliance would take on such exaggerated proportions. The promise of one nuclear power to support another nuclear power in everything, when both are isolated from the West, leads to a powerful nuclear alliance and a formidable balance of power against the Western Alliance. Perhaps it is possible to play on the jealous feelings of China, which is considered the main patron. Kim family, it seems that he is not only drawn into the game, but somehow controls it,” writes The Times newspaper and its political commentator and head of the Asian editorial office of the most famous British newspaper, Sir Richard Lloyd Perry. Everything was organized to the highest standard. Western observers joked that the Russian president had come to pay his respects, but this seemed foolish due to the level of the event. The country is already experiencing Russian injections, he argues, while maintaining cash flow. from the sale of resources, I quote: “Russia can simply buy all of North Korea and make it a “Land of War.” In general, the usual ideas about the friendship of peoples between the Lords of the Times are exclusively from the Times. metropolitan and colonial levels. We don't expect anything else from them. At the same time, CNN did not fail to publish yet another piece of nonsense that Russia is already endlessly waving a nuclear stick, and now Kim and I must wave it together. But behind the phrases of this useless propaganda speech one can acutely feel not even anxiety, but real fear: “The main question of the day. If this defensive alliance is rewarded NATO-style, will the Russian triad's nuclear deterrence extend into North Korea? Will they go further and create a joint force to protect their own borders? Will North Korea join the CSTO? And most importantly, who else can join such an alliance? China immediately comes to mind, and that this is some kind of trial balloon on Beijing's part. We can definitely say that this issue with mutual defense obligations is very serious.” It is curious that high-ranking politicians in Western countries still maintain a confused silence. Only the South Koreans said they would now change their attitude towards arms exports. if they had never provided anything from their warehouses to anyone before. The rest of the main players were a little alarmed, as if they really didn’t believe that Russia was capable of doing this without Western permission. This was the only thing the West was in charge of. Exactly the same agreement is being prepared between Moscow and Tehran, and the working group is now finalizing the final legal details. The “axis of evil” is growing stronger and it will soon become clear that there are already many of them. there are more people in it than in the camp of the self-proclaimed “good guys”, who, by a strange whim of fate, have lived their entire lives in conditions of merciless exploitation and theft of the wealth of the “Global South”. Diaries Green Regionhttps://dzen.ru Subscribe to our Telegram channel so as not to miss all the most important materials that we publish: https://t.me/russiapost Source link Source link
от
bonabo
9886
Modi Alliance officially wins parliamentary elections in India – Russia today Posting in CHAT: Russia To gain the right to form a government, parties must receive a simple majority of more than 50% of the mandates, i.e. 272 or more seats in the lower house of parliament - Lok Sabha. The Prime Minister is appointed by the President of India, but must have the confidence of a majority of members of the lower house of Parliament, which is elected every five years. Source link Source link