My comment: As I see it, the globalists are not really concerned about Russian dominance in Europe - what they are truly concerned about is Russian dominance in Russia. A free republic with a vast land area as they have, cannot be allowed to exist. Russia is a global prize of immense proportions that the international bankers are salivating over in hopes of future conquest and colonization.

George Eaton

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The secretary of state's ongoing tour of Europe has taken him to Hungary, Slovakia and Poland, with the US' top diplomat repeatedly evoking the region's former communist-era alliances with Moscow, and accusing Russia and China of attempting to solidify their presence in the area to the West's detriment.

Speaking at the Bemowo Piskie training area in northeastern Poland, about 80 km from the border with the Russia's Kaliningrad Region on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Moscow of seeking to dominate the European continent.

"Thirty years ago, almost exactly, I was patrolling the Iron Curtain in Germany as a young cavalry officer," Pompeo recalled. "In my day, our generals were concerned about a Soviet offensive through the Fulda Gap. Today, the gap in which we stand occupies the same priority focus for NATO commanders that the Fulda Gap did back then, once again because of Russian aggression," he said.

Moscow, Pompeo claimed, "has grand designs of dominating Europe and reasserting its influence on the world stage."

"Vladimir Putin seeks to splinter the NATO alliance, weaken the United States, and disrupt Western democracies," Pompeo added, citing alleged Russian "hybrid warfare operations" and NATO efforts to "counter Russian lawlessness and destabilising activity."

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his address as pictured through a hole on the national flag during the state commemoration ceremony of the 1956 Hungarian revolution and freedom fight against communism and Soviet rule in front of the Parliament building in downtown Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016

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Pompeo Has Diplomatic War-Making Agenda in Europe, Trying to Shore Up US Influence With ex-USSR Countries – Former US Army Officer
Pompeo's remarks echoed similar claims he made in Hungary on Monday. Speaking to Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, the secretary of state accused Putin of trying to "drive wedges between friends" in NATO and urged Budapest to reduce cooperation with Moscow. Szijjarto blasted Pompeo over what he called the "enormous hypocrisy" by the West towards Hungary's relationship with Russia, and said there was no cause for US concern regarding Hungary's commitment toward NATO.

Later Wednesday, Pompeo travelled to Warsaw for a two day Middle East Summit, a gathering of officials from about a dozen countries including Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UK which Pompeo earlier said would be about confronting Iran's "destabilizing influence" in the Middle East. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif blasted the planned meeting as an "anti-Iran circus," while Russia said it offered a "simplified unilateral approach" to the Middle East's problems.

Tensions between Russia and the West escalated in 2014 after a US- and EU-sponsored coup d'état in Kiev prompted Crimea to break off from Ukraine and rejoin Russia after a secession referendum, with a civil war breaking out in eastern Ukraine which Brussels and Washington blamed on Moscow. In the aftermath of the Ukrainian crisis, the US and its allies slapped Russia with several rounds of sanctions, while NATO expanded its military presence in Eastern Europe and along Russia's borders to levels unseen since the Cold War.