A rush of meetings is taking place in the US and Europe, solidifying still more backing for the crazed Global NATO war mobilization, before the Ukraine Contact Group meeting at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany, Jan. 20.
On Jan. 18-19, the Military Committee of NATO, its highest body, will meet in person in Brussels. It will be an MCCS meeting—Military Committee in Chiefs of Defense Session, with 32 Chiefs of Defense, from the 30 member nations plus counterparts from Finland and Sweden. Admiral Rob Bauer, Chief of the NATO Military Committee, will preside.
Today in Washington, DC, UK Foreign Minister James Cleverly met with Sec. of State Antony Blinken; tomorrow Cleverly meets in Toronto with Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly. Cleverly spoke at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, saying that the West is sending a message to Putin, that we will “support Ukrainians until they are victorious.” The hasty two-day visit to North America Cleverly described, ahead of his departure from London, was arranged because, “The UK, US, and Canada always have each other’s backs when it counts protecting the rules-based order for nearly 80 years.”
At the White House today, Pres. Joe Biden met with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who indicated Dutch support for co-supplying the Patriot air defense system. “We have the intention to join what you’re doing with Germany on the Patriots project, the air-defense system.” Praising the Dutch role in the Western alliance, Biden said, “Russia is continuing to act in ways that are almost unbelievable.”
