{"id":15085,"date":"2015-12-08T07:47:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T12:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15085"},"modified":"2015-12-08T07:47:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T12:47:16","slug":"war-is-on-the-horizon-is-it-too-late-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15085","title":{"rendered":"War Is On The Horizon: Is It Too Late To Stop It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2015\/12\/07\/war-is-on-the-horizon-is-it-too-late-to-stop-it-paul-craig-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\">War Is On The Horizon: Is It Too Late To Stop It?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"single_page_entry_meta\">One lesson from military history is that once mobilization for war begins, it takes on a momentum of its own and is uncontrollable.<\/div>\n<p>This might be what is occuring unrecognized before our eyes.<\/p>\n<p>In his September 28 speech at the 70th Anniversity of the United Nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia can no longer tolerate the state of affairs in the world. Two days later at the invitation of the Syrian government Russia began war against ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>Russia was quickly successful in destroying ISIS arms depots and helping the Syrian army to roll back ISIS gains. Russia also destroyed thousands of oil tankers, the contents of which were financing ISIS by transporting stolen Syrian oil to Turkey where it is sold to the family of the current gangster who rules Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Washington was caught off guard by Russia\u2019s decisiveness. Fearful that the quick success of such decisive action by Russia would discourage Washington\u2019s NATO vassals from continuing to support Washington\u2019s war against Assad and Washington\u2019s use of its puppet government in Kiev to pressure Russia, Washington arranged for Turkey to shoot down a Russian fighter-bomber despite the agreement between Russia and NATO that there would be no air-to-air encounters in Russia\u2019s area of air operation in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Although denying all responsibility, Washington used Russia\u2019s low key response to the attack, for which Turkey did not apologize, to reassure Europe that Russia is a paper tiger. The Western presstitutes trumpeted: \u201cRussia A Paper Tiger.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/turkey-shoots-down-a-paper-tiger-1448406008\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/turkey-shoots-down-a-paper-tiger-1448406008<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Russian government\u2019s low key response to the provocation was used by Washington to reassure Europe that there is no risk in continuing to pressure Russia in the Middle East, Ukraine, Georgia, Montenegro, and elsewhere. Washington\u2019s attack on Assad\u2019s military is being used to reinforce the belief that is being inculcated in European governments that Russia\u2019s responsible behavior to avoid war is a sign of fear and weakness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War Is On The Horizon: Is It Too Late To Stop It? One lesson from military history is that once mobilization for war begins, it takes on a momentum of its own and is uncontrollable. This might be what is occuring unrecognized before our eyes. In his September 28 speech at the 70th Anniversity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1239,446,447,522,553,584,2951,1150,660,694,776,818,822,826,827,862],"class_list":["post-15085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-middle-east","tag-nato","tag-obama","tag-paul-craig-roberts","tag-proxy-war","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-un","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15087,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15085\/revisions\/15087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}