Posted on 01/12/2015 3:44:22 PM PST by raptor22
New Cold War: A revised Russian military doctrine identifies NATO as Moscow's No. 1 threat, as the Obama administration announced it was returning control of 15 bases in Europe back to the host governments.
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave President Obama a lump of coal in his Christmas stocking in the form of a revised strategic doctrine.
It re-emphasizes that NATO, notwithstanding President Obama's "flexibility" and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's "reset" button, is the No. 1 strategic threat facing Russia.
We are reminded of Obama's rebuke of Mitt Romney in the third presidential debate, when the GOP nominee was ridiculed for listing, in response to a question, Russia as our No. 1 strategic geopolitical threat.
"The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because ... the Cold War's been over for 20 years," said the president who promised the Russians more flexibility as he disarmed the United States.
Apparently Putin does not share the view that the frigid era of confrontation is over.
The latest Russian strategic doctrine, the fourth since the end of a Soviet Union whose demise Putin has mourned and whose territories he seeks to reclaim, comes after the 2008 war against the former Soviet republic of Georgia, its annexation of Crimea and its creeping invasion of Ukraine.
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NATO stands in the way of further expansionism of the Russian Empire, comrades!
Realistically - how many think Russia is a bigger threat to western society, culture and economy than muslims?
In 2011 it was estimated that the 9-11 attacks had cost the US about $3.3 trillion dollars.
And there is no way to put a price on the freedoms we have lost as a direct result of those attacks.
Think about the changes (for the worse) to our culture and daily lives as a result of having muslims living among us who have the aim of harming the nation and eventually installing Islam as the dominant culture.
According to Glenn Beck, the number 1 threat we face is actually ‘heterofascism’. His words, not mine.
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Why would he make such an inane statement?
Did he fall off the wagon and end up back on the sauce again?
Or is he a closet Peter Puffer?
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