Naval blockade would mean ‘war’: Moscow slams US idea of hampering Russian trade
Well this isn’t good.
Naval blockade would mean ‘war’: Moscow slams US idea of hampering Russian trade
Attempts to use the US Navy to block Russia’s trade would amount to a declaration of war, a high-ranking senator commented on the US internal secretary’s idea of impeding Russia’s energy trade through a blockade.
“A US blockade of Russia would be equal to a declaration of war under international law,” said the head of the Russian Senate’s Information Policy Committee, Aleksey Pushkov, commenting on a report that US Internal Secretary Ryan Zinke suggested the US could use the navy to block Russian energy from hitting Middle East markets.
Pushkov also called Zinke’s claim that trade expansion is the real reason behind Russia’s involvement in Syria “absolute nonsense.”
The very idea that Russia could potentially supply energy to the Middle East, which is literally “oozing with oil,” is absolutely detached from reality, Pushkov said. Indeed, Russia does not supply any energy to the region, which is itself a major oil exporter, and has never announced plans to do so.
The Russian senator added that Zinke’s statement is “on par” with Sarah Palin’s claim that she was qualified to talk about Russia since “they’re our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia here from Alaska.” The former Alaska governor made the statement in an interview when she was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in the 2008 US election.
https://www.rt.com/news/439987-russia-us-naval-blockade-war/
All I have to add is the question ‘what would the US do if faced with a naval blockade, particularly in the WESTERN hemisphere where we belong?’
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Those idiots.
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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
they really want a military confrontation
LOL Ryan Zinke and naval blockades
@eState4Column5
Consider the source
tRump's cabinet members aren't even competent in their assigned areas so an anything they say about other policy areas is pretty much garbage. I mean it's not like they're working someone important like a Faux News couch dweller.
I would add anti-Russian liberals creating conditions for war
While idiotic, it is no more idiotic that cries that "Russian interference" in the election was as bad or worse than 9-11 and Pearl Harbor--or that Putin is the equivalent of Hitler or Stalin. It is the so-called liberal who are claiming Russia has committed an act WAR!!. And now these anti-Russian "liberals" are claiming the comments about a blockade are stupid? Hey, man, it is war. It is likes somebody goading on a person to fight another, and then claiming innocence and surprise that a fight happened.
The constant drum beat of articles in TOP or clips from the Young Turks which use the language of conspiracies, which use aggressive, militant, homophobic and even racist language toward the Russians has created the conditions for the justification of a shooting war with Russia. It is the same sorts of language and themes that the real German Nazis used against the Jews claiming a universal Jewish conspiracy against them and European civilization ("liberal democracies").
What is it about the devastation of nukes
that Zinke and Trump, et al, do not understand?
Didn't Hillary promote the idea of limited target nukes?
Do they all think they can get themselves to New Zealand beforehand without anyone (Russia) noticing a whole bunch of planes headed there?
I do not want to be included in their mass suicide.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Who is running this show? Is Trump doing this? Does he just
agree to every bullshit plan somebody comes up with and runs with it? Is it crazy John Bolton? Thjs sure isn’t getting the AirPlay on the 6:00 o’clock news.
This is a last ditch effort to stop BRICS from taking our place as world ‘leader’ and master of the world’s economy. It’s not us that matters anyway. Some people are planning ahead:
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/15/638922391/new-zealand-bans-home-sales-to-...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/new-zealand-foreign...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-14/new-zealand-poised-to...
Rats deserting a sinking ship?
Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/dooms...
Silicon Valley super-rich head south to escape from a global apocalypse
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/29/...
Am I just too jaded and cynical because I’m sure that these people are insane and they have no idea what they’re doing or who they’re messing with? We would not be tangling with some Third World military . And that whatever it is that they are doing, we’re not their first concern. That’s why I’m surprised there isn’t a peace movement forming. We have never needed it more than we do today. These fools running underground like rats need to remember, nuclear contamination isn’t going away in a week or two and the entire planet WILL feel the effects of a nuclear war:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/denver.cbslocal.com/2014/03/26/study-small-...
I was sure The Clinton Creature would get us in this mess. I was HOPING that Trump was more for staying ‘out’ of these things. At least more than TCC. Wrong again.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Just who IS running the show?
From what I can tell, it is John Bolton. No one - not even lunatic Michael Pompeo - is as totally insane in his lust for war as John Bolton. Ever since Bolton was brought into the Trump administration, it's nearly an everyday occurrence to see a photo of Trump with Bolton within arms-length distance of him.
I suspect a God-needs-a-little-help-with-Armageddon religious fanaticism in regard to Bolton. More than just a few others in the Trump administration seem to be fellow travelers.
"Rats deserting a sinking ship?"
You kind of get the idea that the elites know that something is going to happen in the near future don't you what with them buying property in New Zealand and their buying and building bunkers underground that will allow them to ride out the apocalypse. I'm just hoping that their security people who they think are going to protect them rise up and take their place.
Putin isn’t going to make you homeless or kill you or deny you health care.
Your government will allow it to happen though.
Hedges made point that rich will be attacked in bunkers
How exactly are the rich to protect their stores if they even make it to their bunkers. Hire security guards?--who will turn on them and take the stores themselves. Or the surviving locals. The rich are deluded in thinking that their money and privilege will continue into a world that makes Mad Max looking like a pacifist Paradise.
They’re even crazier if the think that
they’d only be underground for a month or two. Hope their kids like life in a bunker.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
War as a legitimate response to Russia being normalized
The comment is idiotic. However, these "war tropes" have become normal now. The idiotic part isn't the problem, but that acts of war against Russia can be uttered even Zinke. I can only guess that he attended a cabient meeting or something similar where the issue of a blockade was seriously considered.