The Belarussian Air Force is reporting Russia has promised to deploy several warplanes to its country in response to NATO’s war games in neighboring Poland, where the US has sent at least 12 F-16 fighters.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko had confirmed requesting the planes in response to the war games, which he dubbed a “clear escalation” along their border.
The US had couched the deployments to Poland as retaliation for the ongoing secessionist movement in Crimea, and support for the new interim government in neighboring Ukraine.
Russian officials haven’t confirmed how many planes would be sent, but the Belarussian officials said they had requested 12-15 planes in an effort to maintain parity with the NATO build-up in the area.
The warmongering Amerikan empire has opened up yet another Pandora Box..
So the legitimately elected government of the Ukraine turned down an offer from the EU for an exclusive trade deal (with the EU only) in favor of dealing with both Russia and the EU, and the government is forcefully overthrown. Russia says the Crimean people want their freedom from the illegitimate government now in Kiev and western leaders are running around like chickens with their heads cut off not knowing what to do, but make childish threats. Russia called their bluff. Russia is not Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya…and other poor backward and relatively defenseless nations. There will be elections on Sunday in Crimea and some world leaders will have to get over it.
Putin has made another mistake! Now, another country has been dragged into the dispute, threatning three NATO members and EU Member States. And linking Lukashenko's fate to Putin's.
According to the understandings when the Warsaw pact was dissolved these three nations should never have been NATO and/or EU members. So, who began the threat that you refer to?
When I read the names of the cities on that map I can understand that people of those lands get nervous when West Europeans and Americans hold military exercises just West of the Bug river.
Putin is simply doing what any government leader should do, which is protect his people and his country.
Despite all the propaganda about Putin’s “aggression”, the fact of the matter is that the US government and its NATO vassals have been aggressively moving toward Russia and encircling it with missiles intended to give the aggressors a first strike nuclear capability, while seeking to eliminate any Russian ability to respond. This means that if there is any thought that an attack on Russia might have been launched, then Russia must launch on warning (that is, immediately) or face nuclear devastation with no opportunity to respond. This significantly increases the risk of accidental nuclear war because it offers no opportunity for the Russian leadership to take time to carefully consider whether it is a false alarm or not – they must respond immediately or else face complete nuclear annihilation with no response possible.
Of course, this is completely consistent with the US government’s goal of “Full Spectrum Dominance” and its claimed right to launch a full-scale nuclear attack on anyone, anywhere, at any time.
Despite US assurances to Gorbachev, NATO has been relentlessly expanding eastward toward Russia’s borders. Now the Russians find this hostile military alliance right on their doorstep. Putin has obviously recognized that the barbarians at Russia’s gates and that Russia can no longer afford to sit back and do nothing.
Make no mistake, to Russia, this an extremely urgent matter of national security. Putin clearly does not want to go to war with the the hostile forces ringing his country. However, Crimea is a red line for Russia and if war is what is required, then I have no doubt Russia will go to war.
The US government is playing an exceedingly dangerous game with its putsch in Ukraine.