{"id":20761,"date":"2016-05-19T20:13:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T01:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20761"},"modified":"2016-05-19T20:13:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T01:13:54","slug":"can-russia-survive-washingtons-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20761","title":{"rendered":"Can Russia Survive Washington\u2019s Attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2016\/05\/19\/can-russia-survive-washingtons-attack-paul-craig-roberts\/\">Can Russia Survive Washington\u2019s Attack?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>It is not only American generals who are irresponsible and declare on the basis of no evidence whatsoever that \u201cRussia is an existential threat to the United States\u201d and also to the Baltic states, Poland, Georgia, Ukraine, and all of Europe. British generals also participate in the warmongering.\u00a0 UK retired general and former NATO commander Sir Richard Shirreff, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe until 2014, has just declared that nuclear war with Russia is \u201centirely possible\u201d within the year.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3596977\/The-outbreak-nuclear-war-year-West-Putin-entirely-plausible-says-former-NATO-chief-promoting-novel-2017-war-Russia.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3596977\/The-outbreak-nuclear-war-year-West-Putin-entirely-plausible-says-former-NATO-chief-promoting-novel-2017-war-Russia.html\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My loyal readers know that I, myself, have been warning for some time about the likelihood of nuclear war.\u00a0 However, there is a vast difference between me and the Western generals.\u00a0 I see the war as the consequence of the neoconservative drive for US world hegemony.\u00a0 The neoconservative drive for world hegemony is acknowledged by the neoconservatives themselves in their public position papers, and it has a 15 year record of being implemented in America\u2019s many and ongoing wars in the Middle East and Africa.\u00a0 Although the Presstitute media does its best to keep our focus away from the known facts, the facts remain known.<\/p>\n<p>The position of the Western generals is that \u201cRussian aggression\u201d is driving an innocent America\/NATO to nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p>Here is General Shirreff\u2019s list of \u201cRussian aggressions\u201d: \u201cHe [Putin] has invaded Georgia, he has invaded the Crimea, he has invaded Ukraine. He has used force and got away with it.\u00a0 In a period of tension, an attack on the Baltic states\u2026 is entirely plausible.\u201d Shirreff is talking about make-believe happenings that even if real would be taking place inside what were until recently Russia\u2019s long-standing national boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Russia Survive Washington\u2019s Attack? It is not only American generals who are irresponsible and declare on the basis of no evidence whatsoever that \u201cRussia is an existential threat to the United States\u201d and also to the Baltic states, Poland, Georgia, Ukraine, and all of Europe. British generals also participate in the warmongering.\u00a0 UK retired [&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":[1949,179,281,553,2951,3248,13906,694,827,6163,865],"class_list":["post-20761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-america","tag-crimea","tag-europe","tag-nato","tag-paul-craig-roberts","tag-presstitutes","tag-richard-sheriff","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-warmongering","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20761","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=20761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20762,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20761\/revisions\/20762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}