On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 07:55:19PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Well, the original white paper draft, if it were as alleged, got watered down a bit, for which we can be grateful - now it's just unpleasant, the usual "bad Russia" fear mongering (Russia is reclassified (from as previously a "partner") to a "factor of instability") lapdogging for USA / NATO thereby encouraging increased BISMIC funding. The cynic in me imagines that the first, rather horrific draft was simply to make this version "diplomatically palatable in comparison." Moscow to consider Germany's change of policy in viewing Russia as factor of instability July 21, 18:13 UTC+3 German government approved the 2016 White Paper on the country’s security policy and armed forces on July 13 http://tass.ru/en/politics/889834