Just a day after puzzlingly insisting that planned US military deployments in Eastern Europe had nothing to do with Russia, NATO is now touting a military exercise in western Poland as an explicit show of force against Russia, saying it proves their ability to counter Russian activities in the region.
Since the Ukrainian Civil War, which NATO blames on Russia, erupted last year, NATO has conducted several major military exercises along the Russian frontier in Eastern Europe, all the while predicting Russian invasions of NATO nations.
Polish DM Tomasz Siemoniak kept up the bellicose tone against Russia today in comments at the NATO exercises, declaring the “decades of peace after the Cold War” to be over, and calling for a massive increase in military reinforcement across the region, aimed naturally at Russia.
The NATO deployments in Poland and the Baltic states likely amount to little more than financial subsidies for those nations, which is why they are so keen to keep them going, and why Polish officials are so eager to talk up the putative war they are meant to prepare for.
2nd link: …Victoria Nuland played down Russia's plans on Thursday, however, saying that that "those kinds of announcements when made publicly … obviously have a rattling effect." [..] "When we look at what is actually happening inside Russia it is far less dramatic," she said.
…the very neocon at the root of the trouble ("let's Midwife this thing") moves to the Good-Cop/Voice-of-Reason position? Say, do they run that play often?
Don´t forget what trouble she was at the root of: Putin was her weapon to attack the EU and was no doubt promised a carve-up of Ukraine in return. When she screwed up her own plan, Putin panicked and tried to grab his "reward" by force. Naturally, she will downplay his Baltic blundering. The last thing the neocons want is to see their "boy" go down!
The US aims to achieve a Disarming First Strike Capability according to missile engineer Bob Aldridge -www.plrc.org That's the real problem.
NATO mutual defense — Is it mutual stupity?
A bare-bones military budget has Poland, giving it a nothing military. So, first if gets the US to fund a war game in Poland, now it wants NATO and the world to fund a massive war with the most deadly military on earth.
And so, why should the NATO nations be dragged into a global war just so that some Polish politicians can be glorified as they run a war-time government on the cheep?
Poland is a dangerous nation right now. It's filled with warmonger Russophobes with a historical score to settle. NATO makes them feel big because they feel that others have their backs, so they don't see a problem in picking a fight. They should be expelled before they cause any more trouble.
As long as Putin is stupid enough to continue the tit-for-tat retaliation game, NATO will continue to set traps for him. It all just stretches his economy.
stupid Polacks are at it again. I guess the First World War taught them nothing.
Such ignorance is almost amusing.
Since Trident-1 in 1970 it has been obvious that the Pentagon aims to achieve a Disarming First Strike Capability. Trident-1 linked to NAVSTAR (now called GPS) to hit missile silos accurately. Of course, Trident-2 and Minuteman-3 are far better at that. According to Bob Aldridge the US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously. Bob Aldridge on European Phased Adaptive Approach-the 409 US missiles in Poland, 239 missiles in Romania and on 32 ships in the Mediterranean: "Whether they are on ships or land, they are still a necessary component for an unanswerable first strike." He resigned and wrote The Counterforce Syndrome, First Strike! The Pentagon's Strategy For Nuclear War (also available in German, French and Danish), Nuclear Empire (ch. 9 on Anti-Submarine Warfare) and recently America In Peril. His research is on http://www.plrc.org because aiming to achieve a Disarming First Strike Capability leads to Launch On Warning and Suicide !!! Stupid, crazy, aggressive bloody fools in the Pentagon !!! There is no defense against Launch On Warning-in 2-3 years ?????
Remember France in 1914? that's where Poland is right now, ready to take back the Empire they had that Russia broke (along many other agressive empires like Third-Reich Germany, First-Empire France and the Golden Horde). At the time, France was being played by Great-Britain, which needed a solid land army to counter industrial up-start Germany. What's happening now is more of the same : Poland, "Ukraine" and the Baltics are being played by the USA, which desperately need to bring conflict to the heart of Europe before any type of economic integration can be achieved between resource-rich Russia, cash-loaded Europe and the world's factory, China.
Funny thing, in 1914 it was an act of terrorism that made that huge keg of powder explode. Since terrorism is so trendy these days, is it going to be that easy to start a nuclear menage à trois between the USA, the PRC and the RF?
… also, in 1920, with the added bonus of the Spanish Flu, Europe had fallen from virtual superpowerdom to nothingness and was in litteral ruins. Even 100 years from 1914, it is still struggling to stay relevant on the grand scheme of things. Does it have to be the same with the American Empire?
NATO is the aggressor plain and simple.
Remember France in 1914? that's where Poland is right now, ready to take back the Empire they had that Russia broke (along many other agressive empires like Third-Reich Germany, First-Empire France and the Golden Horde). At the time, France was being played by Great-Britain, which needed a solid land army to counter industrial up-start Germany. What's happening now is more of the same : Poland, "Ukraine" and the Baltics are being played by the USA, which desperately need to bring conflict to the heart of Europe before any type of economic integration can be achieved between resource-rich Russia, cash-loaded Europe and the world's factory, China.
The people of Poland need to have a coup of their own and remove these lunatics before they get 10's of millions of polish people killed.
Right now the US is deploying 409 missiles in Poland and 239 missiles in Romania. What are their leaders thinking and what are the people thinking accepting such stupidity ??? They will be the first targets in Launch On Warning. Suicidal Bloody Fools in Pentagon/Washington !