The latest Russian National Security Strategy paper, newly revised because of the regime change in Ukraine two years ago, has been released and signed by President Vladimir Putin. Though Ukraine is obviously a big change, the focus as ever is on NATO.
The strategy paper sees NATO as taking “counter-action” against Russian attempts to maintain an independent domestic and foreign policy, and sees NATO’s continued eastward expansion as turning it into a growing “external threat” to the Russian Federation.
NATO’s recent expansion has centered around the Balkans, with Albania and Croatia both joining in 2009. Russia’s bigger concerns are efforts by former Soviet states Georgia and Ukraine to seek membership status, which would add greatly to the common border between Russia and NATO member nations.
Growing animosity centering on Ukraine has had NATO predicting an imminent Russian invasion of Eastern Europe, and dramatically increasing their military presence along the Russian frontier. Though presented as “defensive” deployments, with NATO members openly talking about a war with Russia this escalation is being treated as a growing threat.
NATO is plotting the overthrow of Russia, everyone knows it and Jason is destroying his credibility by not spelling it out.
The interesting point is precisely that he's not spelling it out!
The Russian paper is essentially saying "how dare NATO resist agression on our part"! By denying Ukraine's right to have an Association Agreement with the EU, Putin is denying that Ukraine is a sovereign state. By denying that former Soviet Republics are sovereign, he threatens the sovereignty of all ex-Soviet republics and perhaps even all former communist countries. It's therefore hardly surprising that those countries should seek the protection of powerful countries both in Europe and elsewhere. THAT is no more than their sovereign right! If the Russians are concerned about NATO, they have no one to blame but Putin, who got them into the mess by invading, occupying and annexing part of Ukraine's sovereign territory, in open violation of the Helsinki Final Act. It's probably too late now to go back to square one. Nobody will ever trust Putin again. So I don't see how a new beginning can be made without Putin's removal from office, whether by a "palace coup" of his own supporters or by international military force. Putin has played the Milosevic card and he'll ultimately meet the same fate as Milosevic.
NATO = North Atlantic Terrorist Organization. Proof? Turkey (a NATO member) and their blatant support of ISIS, Al Nusra and other radical Sunni Jihadist Insurgents in Syria.
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I wonder how long it will be before there is a false flag event along the border of one of these new NATO countries and the mass hysteria over here begins?
"The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!"
Russia is quite justified in its concerns.
Nothing about NATO's no-fly zone in Syria?