LEBED SAYS NATO ENLARGEMENT AIMED AT RUSSIA.

Aleksandr Lebed, who to date has been one of Russia’s most moderate critics of NATO enlargement, charges in a recent newspaper interview that enlargement is actually being driven by a secret agenda aimed at ousting Russia from Europe. "The USA needs NATO to control Europe, which in turn needs NATO to make the USA pay for European security… [and both] need NATO to keep Russia as far away from European policy making as possible," Lebed writes. (Izvestia, March 14)

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