The gardens around the grim-looking former Warsaw Pact headquarters in the Polish capital have now become the most popular meeting point for lovers in the city. Over a decade has passed since the Iron Curtain was ripped up and the Warsaw Pact countries liberated from Soviet control.
It was widely believed that the abrogation of the pact heralded the end of the Cold War between the Communist and Western powers. The Russian-dominated pact was set up to meet the challenges posed by the NATO countries that rallied round the United States.
However, the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact did not lead to the dissolution of NATO. On the contrary, US stepped up its efforts to make NATO stronger. Washington believes that a stronger NATO will guarantee US control over the European nations.
The continued presence of NATO, apparently, means the Cold War is still continuing. The ongoing efforts of the new US administration to revive the NMD project and the US efforts to get European support for the project confirm the US plan to keep NATO alive for some unknown reason while people in general wonder what is the use of keeping the alliance active after its enemy has vanished.
The US administration, however, has reiterated that NATO should continue as an effective deterrent to any threat to European and US security.
However, President George W. Bush has clarified that Russia is not an enemy.
On the other hand, on an earlier occasion Madeleine Albright, former US secretary of state, had said the threat to the safety of US came from the rogue countries such as North Korea, Iran and Iraq though nobody believed her.
Under enormous US pressure Yugoslavia has surrendered Slobodan Milosevic to the international war tribunal. It may also be asked why the US administration was so keen to have Milosevic arrested.
At the same time the NATO is striving to expand further into the East European countries and Baltic republics including Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. This move will enable NATO to control both Baltic and Black Seas.
No doubt, Milosevic is a war criminal of the worst kind reminiscent of the Nazi war criminals of World War II and the Israeli war criminal Ariel Sharon.
It is a safe guess that Milosevic has delivered to the International court at The Hague by NATO personnel with the US linking financial aid worth billions of dollars to Yugoslavia because US wanted to make sure that the last support of the Soviet power was removed from the European soil.
Americans also feared Milosevic’s potential as a symbol capable of awakening the combined Slav and Serb power which serves as the mainstay of the Russian power.
The symbolic role of the former Yugoslav president was evident in the massive demonstrations in Moscow and some other Russian and Slavic and Serb cities to protest his arrest.
The arrest of Milosevic also confirmed the Russian suspicion that there is a Western conspiracy to destroy the Russian power as the West did in the case of the Soviet Union in the past.
Russians view the external support and inspiration given to the nationalist forces and opposition movements in several parts of the federation as evidence to the suspected conspiracy.
It is quite plain what will happen to the Russian Federation if the suspected schemes against it succeeded. It will break up to small nations right from the Black Sea and the Baltic in Europe up to its eastern Pacific coastline in the Far East.
The US efforts to strengthen NATO has to be seen in this background. Just as the Western powers got rid off the communist power earlier, they are now scheming to do away with the Russian Federation that still boasts as a powerful nuclear power in the world, second only to the US.
The US will feel secure and will declare an end to the Cold War only when Russians are totally humbled. North Korea, Iran and Iraq are just a cover for the real US motive.
