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Kissinger, NATO and Russia; Intellectual property rights; Obama's view on Iraq

Henry Kissinger's argument ("Unconventional wisdom," Views, July 2) on NATO enlargement is flawed. Today, the Russian jackboot remains at the throat of its neighbors. Delaying NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine would defer their genuine independence and also defer Western geopolitical interests in the Black Sea, Caucasus and the Caspian.

Russia suspends military cooperation with Nato

Nato today said it had received a note from Moscow saying that Russia would break off military cooperation with the west's military alliance.

NATO resists U.S. push on Russia

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talks with EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana at a working lunch at the Hilton Hotel in Brussels, Belgium, Tuesday. NATO cannot maintain its usual working relationship with Russia as long as Russian troops remain in strength in Georgia, the alliance's foreign ministers agreed at an emergency meeting.

Russia halts NATO military cooperation

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Russia halted all military cooperation with NATO, the Western alliance said Thursday, in the latest sign of East-West tension over the invasion of Georgia.

Russian's NATO envoy, big on bluster, modifies his tone

MOSCOW: Here is one measure of the aggressive shift in Russian foreign policy in recent days: Dmitri Rogozin, Russia's representative to NATO, a finger-wagging nationalist who once hung Stalin's portrait in his office, is not sounding so extreme any more.

Russia hits back at Nato warning

Russia has dismissed a warning by Nato that normal relations are impossible while its troops remain inside Georgia.

Russia to freeze NATO military ties

OSLO, Norway - Russia has informed Norway that it plans to suspend all military ties with NATO, Norway's Defense Ministry said Wednesday, a day after the military alliance urged Moscow to withdraw its forces from Georgia.

Bombs Kill 5 NATO Soldiers in Afghanistan

A US marine walks during a patrol in around a base in Kandahar province on March 24, 2008. Some 2,500 of the US Marines will start to operate with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops from April.

During Ramadan cease-fire, NATO raids inside Pakistan, Islamabad says

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan: Two helicopters carrying NATO forces landed in a Pakistani village in South Waziristan near the border with Afghanistan early Wednesday morning and the soldiers opened fire on villagers, killing seven people, according to a spokesman for the Pakistani military.

Ratcheting the Rhetoric, Russia Halts Military Cooperation With NATO

Russia has halted all military cooperation with NATO, the Western alliance said Thursday, in the latest sign of East-West tension over the invasion of Georgia.

Defiant Cheney vows US will back Georgia for Nato seat

The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, yesterday issued a direct challenge to Moscow's sway over Georgia, pledging Washington's support for its eventual membership of Nato, while denouncing Russia's "illegitimate" invasion. "Georgia will be in our alliance," Cheney said after talks with President Mikheil Saakashvili.

NATO Urges Russia to Withdraw from Georgia

Late last week, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili agreed to a cease-fire with Russia. President Dmitry Medvedev vowed to "begin the withdrawal of the military contingent" starting Monday, Aug. 18, yet Russian troops still occupy the central Georgian city of Gori.

NATO Wags Finger, Russia Flexes Muscle

A Western draft of a U.N. Security Council resolution on Georgia calls on Russia to withdraw immediately to pre-conflict lines, according to a text obtained by Reuters today. The draft also calls for the return of Georgian forces to their usual bases, demands full and immediate compliance with the ceasefire and a reference to "the territorial integrity of Georgia within its internationally recognized borders."

Joint Inquiry Sought Into Afghan Airstrike

Afghans protest the airstrike in Herat province. NATO's top commander in Afghanistan has called for a joint inquiry into the Aug. 21 U.S.-led attack.

UK warns over 'Russia aggression'

UK prime minister Gordon Brown has said Nato and the EU must reassess their relations with the Kremlin to prevent further "Russian aggression".

Russia Recognizes Georgian Rebel Regions

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, listens to Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's representative to NATO during a meeting in the presidential residence at Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi on Monday, Aug. 25, 2008.

Cheney seeks to bolster Ukraine

US Vice-President Dick Cheney has said Ukraine has the right to live without fear of invasion, adding that the US stands by its bid for Nato membership.

Cold war map will not be redrawn, US warns Russia

The Bush administration warned Russia yesterday that it would fail in its "strategic objective" of redrawing Europe's post-cold war map by invading Georgia, as 26 Nato countries declared there would be "no business as usual" with Moscow until it withdraws its forces from Georgia.

Taliban Forces Ambush French Troops

Two dead bodies of suicide bombers are seen by local residents in the site where they detonated themselves in Khost city, eastern Afghanistan, on Tuesday Aug 19, 2008. A team of suicide bombers tried to storm a U.S. military base near the border with Pakistan in a daring insurgent attack on a major American installation, officials said Tuesday. Six suicide bombers attacked the base and three detonated their vests when surrounded, NATO officials said.

Blog Buzz: Georgia, Penn, and Obama the Pork Artist

Liberals worry that John McCain is beating the drama drums (stupidly), and is doing so with the help of an adviser, Randy Scheuenemann, whose past experience with Georgia is not helpful. Matthew Yglesias argues that the fact that Russia is not actually re-creating the Soviet Union is a knock against people who suggested that it was Nazi Germany. Conservatives argue that Obama should start beating something—drums, whatever—rather than sitting quietly like...Bush. (Both McCain and Obama, by the way, favor NATO membership for Georgia.) And it turns out that the U.S. government had a sense of what was coming, just not its magnitude (maybe we shouldn't just go with implicit understandings with the Russians, eh?). Hot Air's Allahpundit sees a reach for Reagan in McCain's stance.

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