Posted on 10/16/2014 10:48:05 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu accused the United States on Thursday of working on military "scenarios" near Russia's borders that he said were a source of grave concern.
Interfax news agency quoted Shoigu as expressing surprise at a speech on Wednesday in which U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said U.S. armed forces "must deal with a revisionist Russia - with its modern and capable Army - on NATO's doorstep".
Russia's relations with the West have reached a post-Cold War low over the conflict in Ukraine, with Moscow denying accusations that it has supplied weapons and troops to back pro-Russian separatists in the east of the former Soviet republic.
"Chuck Hagel's thesis on the necessity for the American army to 'deal' with 'modern and capable' Russian armed forces on NATO's doorstep is of grave concern," Shoigu said, according to Interfax.
"This testifies to the fact that the Pentagon is working on scenarios for operations at the borders of our country."
Shoigu did not say what he thought the U.S. military was planning.
Washington has been open about its deployment of additional troops to Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland and the Baltic states, on manoeuvres intended to signal its commitment to nervous NATO allies.
Since the collapse of Communism, NATO has expanded eastward to take in three former Soviet republics and a clutch of ex-communist states once dominated by Moscow, in what Russia views as a serious threat.
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Seriously? The only military scenarios I think this administration is working on involve leaving unstable areas, bombing ISI from 10,000 feet, and exposing everybody in uniform to Ebola.
*ISIS typo, of course.
If the USA is doing that it would be because Russia has started to invade other countries to confiscate real estate and oil, right?
It’s Putin’s antics and he likes to assert himself for “Mother Russia”, how brilliant it is. Oh, all those Russkie Russians!
Wait till he puts missile bases in Cuba.
Sorry, it’s an old clip Rasputin (Russia) song, but makes me laugh every time I watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDMlk3kSYg
Obsolete, thanks to the evolution of SLBM subs after that. Still, it would give us an excuse to put ICBM's in Poland and the Baltics, thereby ending the expansion of the Russian empire right there.
Hasn’t the US been doing that since before WWII, just like the Ruskies have been doing with America? In other words NSS!
Lol...you mean the Iran missile threat isn't a viable excuse anymore? You might as well just paint a target on any eastern-European country hosting nuclear weapons.
Same target painted on West Germany during the Cold War. Ultimately, like West Germany, the Baltics have to decide if they are prepared to share the risk of annihilation with the US to secure their independence. If their game, despite being so-called American allies, is let's you and him fight, then they'll refuse the nukes, and we'll leave them to resume their former existence as Russian provinces. Heck, maybe Russia will conquer the world, and fellow travelers and Russian co-ethnics like you will get to become part of nomenklatura that rules the Americas for them. Best of luck to you in that venture.
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