Whilst Big Bombs and Chemical Weapons Grab The Headlines
NATO deploys troops to Poland near Russian border
Poland on Thursday welcomed the first US troops in a multinational force being posted across the Baltic region to counter potential threats from Russia.
More than 1,100 soldiers - 900 US troops as well as 150 British and 120 Romanians - are to be deployed in Orzysz, about 57km south of Russia's Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad, where Moscow has stationed nuclear-capable missiles and an S-400 air missile defense system.
Three other formations are due to become operational by June across the region..
Russia vowed to take retaliatory measures in May 2016 if NATO deployed more battalions in Poland and the Baltic states, adding it would reinforce its western and southern flanks with new divisions.
Moscow has reacted angrily to the alliance's military presence in countries that were once part of the Soviet Union and to exercises close to its borders.
Then I suppose if Russia adds more troops so will NATO, escalation it is called.
With the US and Russia actively operating in the same war zone [Syria] on different sides any movement of troops elsewhere can be perceived to be aggressive.
With the integration of former Warsaw Pact countries into NATO Moscow has got a whole lot closer to the "front". The rapid integration of these same countries into NATO was also perceived to be an act of aggression by Russia.
We have a President and a congress capable of saying anything at anytime, Russia!!! How fast did any rapprochement to Russia rhetoric become lost in the noise of aggressive accusations?
Accusations of cyberwar and election manipulation coupled with actual troop movements closer to land border of the accused seems to be a dangerous strategy. Disengagement would appear to be the sensible choice. What we need are demilitarised zones at this time.
This military build up in Europe has been going on quite some time also under Obama. What is changing is the rhetoric, becoming more belligerent with each passing day.
All it takes is one idiot in power to make a really bad decision. Sadly there seem to be plenty of those available these days.
There is still time to back-off and start talking, but that window is shrinking rapidly.
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Is there a petro-war there? Seriously, why?
This troop movement has been going on too long. On the other side of Russia's borders, I mean. I do not understand why.
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Geo-political power plays
@riverlover
This has a great explanation, with a portion of it below for anyone on a limited device. I believe that this has been posted on-site already, but darned if I can remember by whom... couldn't sleep at all last night again, going to be another interesting, wasted day...
http://rinf.com/alt-news/editorials/oil-gas-war-syria-maps/
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
so sick of wars and flexing
We act as though killing 1-100 people is so unthinkable and horrifying, but wars that kill and maim or people home emotionally damaged by the thousands are honorable.
Nothing about war is sane. Nothing.
Since Independence the US has been at peace 21 years
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-people-i...
This does not include the deaths from regime change and the massacres/genocides of dictors and regimes we helped create. Our wars have cost far more than that.
The nation of peace also has
We are the "good guys" in our own eyes. The Empire of Good intentions and bloody carnage.
Missed first link
http://www.globalresearch.ca/america-has-been-at-war-93-of-the-time-222-...
Meh. We probably kept some stuff on the DL
The US is not the only one that has engaged in wars, either. In any discussion about war, someone will always point to World War II, as though the typical war is one in which someone gassing 12 million people is stopped. And as if no one could have found a way to arrest him and take him to the Hague (or wherever the proper place may have been).
And even as to Hitler, if we hadn't been such icks in World War I and the peace treaty, I wonder if that little monster could have got where he did.
The Treaty of Versailles
The Unhappy Compromise it was called.
The Treaty of Versailles
The Unhappy Compromise it was called.
Hitler's rise to power was due to American and British financing
Have you ever wondered how Germany managed to pull itself out of the ashes of WWI and become an economic and military powerhouse so quickly (its industry had became second in the world by 1929) despite the onerous terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
Bush family was in the middle of this!
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
As were many of America's corporations
CT! You're banned!
Oh wait. Sorry, I just had a bit of a flashback.
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Never forget Poland
Once I admired Lech Walesa, a long time ago. These days are so Bush redux I am illin' quite bad, alienation achieved. Solidarity.
Peace & Love
NATO : We got First pick on Teams For WW3!
But for almost half a century nobody wanted to play Global Thermonuclear War.
Then, suddenly we found somebody whose mind is still in the 80s.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecPeSmF_ikc]
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Indeed, as for the 1950's the DNC and their partisans have
French general
and the Supreme Allied Commander during WWI got it right...
After the Treaty of Versailles Ferdinand Foch said "This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years".
He was only off by one year.
Dear Dems: You lost the WH, Senate, House, dozens of governors, state level SOS and AG and about 1,000 state legislative seats. Maybe...you're doing something wrong.
Maybe the Poles are afraid of Russia biting off a chunk of their
country as they did so many times in the past and just did with Ukraine recently. Putin is NOT a nice guy! He's an expansionist dictator who engineered a constitutional change to their term limits and become the perpetual ruler of Russia.
Putin is smarter than Trump but no nicer. Think Paul Ryan.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Putin is an authoritarian dictator and I never said he was nice
Europe was always at war with itself.
PS There is nothing I can do about Putin that is up to the
@The Voice In the Wilderness
No, Putin's not a nice guy, but the citizens involved still have a right to return to Russia, after the coup imposed upon them.
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/07/16/the-new-cold-wars-frontline-in-cri...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
When is the US going to come to ITS senses?
I am so fucking sick and tired of raw American aggression couched as 'defense'. The MIC took control of this country at the end of WWII and has not let up since.
The only difference between Trump and Hillary is that Trump is in-your-face, macho man aggressive while Her is secretive, two-faced passive-aggressive. The final result remains the same.
It's pretty simple. We have to mount an offensive of some
Who does it and how I don't know, but I don't see any other way.
I've been saying for years, "they" are not going to stop.
People of Donetsk stand up like their forebearers
Meanwhile,
the American media is salivating over the the GBU-43 drop, and the prospects for unlimited war with North Korea. They want want war, desperately.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
II'm afraid it's going to be chapter 5 of The March of Folly
we can only hope it's not The Guns of August.
On to Biden since 1973