{"id":20719,"date":"2016-05-18T19:48:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T00:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20719"},"modified":"2016-05-18T19:48:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T00:48:35","slug":"nato-announces-war-policy-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20719","title":{"rendered":"NATO Announces War Policy Against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

NATO Announces War Policy Against Russia<\/a><\/h3>\n
On May 18th, Britain\u2019s\u00a0Guardian<\/i>\u00a0headlined\u00a0\u201cWest and Russia on course for war, says ex-Nato deputy\u00a0commander\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and reported that the former deputy commander of NATO, the former British\u00a0general Sir Alexander Richard Shirreff (who was Supreme Allied Commander in Europe from 2011-2014), expressed outrage that Britain isn\u2019t urgently preparing for war against Russia, and also reported that \u201cHe describes Russia as now the west\u2019s most dangerous\u00a0adversary and says Putin\u2019s course can only be stopped if\u00a0the west wakes up to the real possibility of war\u00a0and takes\u00a0urgent action. \u2026 In a chilling scenario, he predicts that Russia, in order\u00a0to escape what it believes to be encirclement by Nato,\u00a0will seize territory in eastern Ukraine.\u201d (That\u2019s\u00a0the Donbass region, where there has been a civil war<\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/div>\n
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This encirclement by NATO is, apparently, about to be expanded: Shirreff will now be satisfied by NATO, even if not by its member the UK, of which Shirreff happens to be a citizen. New Europe bannered the same day,\u00a0\u201cNATO lays down the cards on its Russia policy\u201d<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0and reported that, \u201cIn two distinct pre-ministerial\u00a0press conferences on\u00a0Wednesday [May 18th], the General\u00a0Secretary of NATO Jens\u00a0Stoltenberg and the US\u00a0Ambassador to NATO,\u00a0Daglas Lute, introduced the\u00a0Russia agenda to be\u00a0covered. Both NATO leaders\u00a0said that the Accession\u00a0Protocol Montenegro is\u00a0signing on Thursday is a\u00a0strong affirmation of NATO\u2019s\u00a0open door policy, mentioning\u00a0explicitly Georgia. \u2018We will\u00a0continue to defend Georgia\u2019s\u00a0right to make its own\u00a0decisions,\u2019 Stoltenberg said.\u201d Georgia is on Russia\u2019s southwestern flank; so, it could be yet another a nuclear-missile base right on Russia\u2019s borders, complementing Poland and the Baltics on Russia\u2019s northwestern flank. (The U.S. itself has\u00a0around 800 military bases in foreign countries<\/span><\/a>, and so even Russia\u2019s less-populous eastern regions would be able to be obliterated virtually in an instant, if the U.S. President so decides. <\/span><\/p>\n

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NATO Announces War Policy Against Russia On May 18th, Britain\u2019s\u00a0Guardian\u00a0headlined\u00a0\u201cWest and Russia on course for war, says ex-Nato deputy\u00a0commander\u201d\u00a0and reported that the former deputy commander of NATO, the former British\u00a0general Sir Alexander Richard Shirreff (who was Supreme Allied Commander in Europe from 2011-2014), expressed outrage that Britain isn\u2019t urgently preparing for war against Russia, and […]<\/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":[4394,281,553,13890,694,820,862,3694,965],"class_list":["post-20719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-europe","tag-nato","tag-richard-shirreff","tag-russia","tag-uk","tag-war","tag-war-policy","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719","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=20719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20720,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719\/revisions\/20720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}