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NATO Obama Politics

Expert: “If not a formal plot, it can be a hostile attitude” against Obama

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Published 08 May, 2009, 20:25

The Bush team “formed a special group of people in some NATO countries who are ready to fight Russia to the last American soldier and dollar,” said Aleksandr Fomenko, a former member of the Russian delegation to NATO.

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