{"id":20263,"date":"2016-04-25T15:38:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T20:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20263"},"modified":"2016-04-25T15:38:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T20:38:42","slug":"possible-end-game-the-united-states-has-created-a-climate-that-could-easily-be-transformed-into-a-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20263","title":{"rendered":"Possible End Game: The United States Has Created a Climate That Could Easily Be Transformed Into a War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Possible End Game: The United States Has Created a Climate That Could Easily Be Transformed Into a War<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Most readers have been watching, as the U.S. and Russia seem to be positioning themselves along Cold War lines.\u00a0 The posturing is not confined to maneuvering military assets; it also runs along\u00a0economic lines<\/u>, in which most warfare is at least based if not a major or the sole impetus.<\/strong>\u00a0 Each power has sought to cement its claims\/presence in areas bordering the sphere of influence of, or the actual territory of the other power.\u00a0 Such posturing can be dangerous and lead to an incident that escalates into the uncontrollable.<\/p>\n

Recently the news media has been abuzz with the Russian fighter aircraft buzzing the U.S. in the face: first the incident with the two fighters coming within 30 feet of an American naval vessel, and another separate incident involving aerial theatrics around a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft (a Boeing RC-135 intelligence-gathering spy plane).\u00a0 The U.S. responded in kind on April 20 by allowing a guided missile destroyer, the U.S.S. Cook to encroach upon Russian borders while conducting maneuvers near Poland.\u00a0 The U.S. claimed that Russian aircraft were doing fly-by\u2019s to intimidate the destroyer.<\/p>\n

Unlike the puissant response by John Kerry, feigning anger and doing nothing with the Russian aircraft incidences of the past two weeks, Russia is not playing with the destroyer incident.\u00a0 The Russian ambassador to NATO, Alexander Grushko is reported by Reuters to have made the following statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is about attempts to exercise military pressure on Russia.\u00a0 We will take all necessary measures, precautions, to compensate for these attempts to use military force.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This statement by Grushko was not limited to the incident with the Cook.\u00a0 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has affirmed in the past week the intention of NATO to deploy command and control centers in Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania.<\/p>\n

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Possible End Game: The United States Has Created a Climate That Could Easily Be Transformed Into a War Most readers have been watching, as the U.S. and Russia seem to be positioning themselves along Cold War lines.\u00a0 The posturing is not confined to maneuvering military assets; it also runs along\u00a0economic lines, in which most warfare […]<\/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":[12881,3171,542,553,683,6490,827,862,865,891],"class_list":["post-20263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-jeremiah-johnson","tag-john-kerry","tag-moscow","tag-nato","tag-reuters","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-washington","tag-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20263","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=20263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20264,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20263\/revisions\/20264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}