{"id":17740,"date":"2016-02-13T12:19:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T17:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17740"},"modified":"2016-02-13T12:20:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T17:20:55","slug":"natos-provocative-anti-russian-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17740","title":{"rendered":"NATO\u2019s Provocative Anti-Russian Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NATO\u2019s Provocative Anti-Russian Moves<\/a><\/h3>\n

Official Washington\u2019s demonization of Vladimir Putin and the\u00a0neocon \u201cgroup think\u201d about \u201cRussian aggression\u201d have fueled a reckless drive to move NATO forces up to Russia\u2019s border, thus heightening\u00a0risks of nuclear war and not serving\u00a0real U.S. national interests, writes Jonathan Marshall.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Twenty-seven years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, NATO is back flexing its muscles as if nothing had changed since the days of the Soviet Union. Defense ministers from the\u00a0enlarged<\/u><\/a>, 28-member organization agreed recently to\u00a0strengthen<\/u><\/a>\u00a0the alliance\u2019s \u201cforward presence\u201d in Eastern Europe. If their new policy is endorsed at a summit in Poland this summer, NATO will begin\u00a0deploying thousands of troops<\/u><\/a>\u00a0in Poland and the Baltic states, right up against Russia\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n

In other words, the Western alliance will\u00a0redouble its military commitment<\/u><\/a>\u00a0to a Polish government whose\u00a0right-wing, anti-Russian, and autocratic<\/u><\/a>\u00a0policies are so egregious that even the stanchly neo-conservative editorial page of the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0saw fit to\u00a0condemn<\/u><\/a>\u00a0the new leaders\u2019 encroachments on democracy and the rule of law.<\/p>\n

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NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Worse yet, NATO\u2019s provocative commitment will include a potential threat to start World War III on behalf of that government. Most Americans are unaware that NATO\u2019s policies \u2014 reaffirmed by the Obama administration \u2014 view nuclear weapons as a \u201ccore component\u201d of the alliance\u2019s capacity to repel even a conventional attack on one of its member states.<\/p>\n

An accidental clash of forces, perhaps triggered by military exercises gone awry, could potentially lead NATO to use its nuclear weapons against Russian troops on Poland\u2019s borders. Or, just as catastrophically, it could prompt Russian forces to attack NATO\u2019s nuclear stockpiles preemptively.<\/p>\n

Either scenario could trigger a much wider nuclear war. The British television channel BBC Two explored such a scenario, involving Latvia, in a chilling \u201cwar game\u201d film that aired earlier this month<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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NATO\u2019s Provocative Anti-Russian Moves Official Washington\u2019s demonization of Vladimir Putin and the\u00a0neocon \u201cgroup think\u201d about \u201cRussian aggression\u201d have fueled a reckless drive to move NATO forces up to Russia\u2019s border, thus heightening\u00a0risks of nuclear war and not serving\u00a0real U.S. national interests, writes Jonathan Marshall. Twenty-seven years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, NATO is […]<\/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":[12375,64,7430,3807,553,1046,694,857,865,5228],"class_list":["post-17740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-anti-russian-propaganda","tag-bbc","tag-jonathan-marshall","tag-latvia","tag-nato","tag-poland","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-washington","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17740","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=17740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17742,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17740\/revisions\/17742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}