Posted on 05/22/2016 7:50:15 PM PDT by thoughtomator
It is not only American generals who are irresponsible and declare on the basis of no evidence whatsoever that “Russia is an existential threat to the United States” and also to the Baltic states, Poland, Georgia, Ukraine, and all of Europe. British generals also participate in the warmongering. UK retired general and former NATO commander Sir Richard Shirreff, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe until 2014, has just declared that nuclear war with Russia is “entirely possible” within the year. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3596977/The-outbreak-nuclear-war-year-West-Putin-entirely-plausible-says-former-NATO-chief-promoting-novel-2017-war-Russia.html
My loyal readers know that I, myself, have been warning for some time about the likelihood of nuclear war. However, there is a vast difference between me and the Western generals. I see the war as the consequence of the neoconservative drive for US world hegemony. The neoconservative drive for world hegemony is acknowledged by the neoconservatives themselves in their public position papers, and it has a 15 year record of being implemented in America’s many and ongoing wars in the Middle East and Africa. Although the Presstitute media does its best to keep our focus away from the known facts, the facts remain known.
The position of the Western generals is that “Russian aggression” is driving an innocent America/NATO to nuclear war.
Here is General Shirreff’s list of “Russian aggressions”: “He [Putin] has invaded Georgia, he has invaded the Crimea, he has invaded Ukraine. He has used force and got away with it. In a period of tension, an attack on the Baltic states… is entirely plausible.” Shirreff is talking about make-believe happenings that even if real would be taking place inside what were until recently Russia’s long-standing national boundaries.
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The “existential’ threat is Islam in your borders you morons!
I trust Trump to give us a modernized nuclear deterrent to retaliate overwhelmingly against a nuclear first strike. I also trust him to bargain aggressively for the best deal we can get from Russia without the threat of all-out war.
Who do you think has been facilitating that for the past 20 years? Clinton in Bosnia/Kosovo, Bush in Iraq, Obama/Clinton in Libya and Syria, they’ve been popping the lids of these Pandora’s boxes and letting Islam run rampant and gain control where previously secular dictators had them under wraps.
Probably not, but the real question is: can North America and Western Europe survive Russian thermonuclear retaliation?
The poor Russians, surrounded by so many people who hate and distrust them for no reason./s
Thinking that Russia wouldn't hesitate for a second to invade and swallow its neighbors whole if it thought it would get away with it doesn't make one a neocon.
We don't have to do nation building in Eastern Europe, just protect the existing countries from being absorbed by the mass of barbarism to the East.
Sorry, Russia’s centuries long habit of murdering their neighbors has nothing to do with “Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Clinton neocon/neoliberal foreign policy”. But thanks for playing.
Agreed. Russia has murdered 100 million in the last century and it continues to support terrorists throughout the world besides conducting the first invasion in Europe since 1939
Only half-joking...
Right. They and their ally, snow, murdered millions of French and Germans. That's the ticket. Bad Russians.
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Russian planes buzzing ships and planes of the US and the U.K. is an existential threat.
Putin is using radical Islam, just like the old days. Communism remains. Putin is KGB first, last and always
This article is insane
Plus Paul Craig Roberts is an Alex Jones Infowars pig
There just as many blame America surrender monkeys on the right as on left, IMO.
The existential thteat to the US is in the White Mosque..
Roberts is a big fan of Palestinian terrorists. He can Vlad can go bleep themselves.
He AND Vlad,
True words
Yup
I’m not sure we’re in a position to talk much. Kosova (as Clinton called it) was part of Yugoslavia (now Serbia) for centuries. The people there became more Muslim and decided to start a civil war. The Serbs, justifiably, said no...you are part of Serbia, and resisted. What do we (NATO) do? We bomb the crap out of civil targets in Belgrade until they capitulate. [and by they, the Saudis have now turned Kosova into an Islamic terrorist base]
What happened in Crimea? The population there, almost all ethnic Russians, wanted to be part of Russia again, given their despotic local leadership. Putin goes there, severs off Crimea from the Ukraine, and that is that (I should note, Putin didn’t bomb the daylights out of Kiev to get his way, either).
So we sever Serbia because the people there didn’t want to stay Serbian, and Putin severs Crimea because the people there didn’t want to stay as part of the Ukraine.
...am I missing something?
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