{"id":21111,"date":"2016-06-18T19:59:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T00:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21111"},"modified":"2016-06-18T19:59:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T00:59:47","slug":"tensions-between-usnato-russia-are-flaring-dangerously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21111","title":{"rendered":"Tensions Between US\/NATO & Russia Are Flaring Dangerously"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tensions Between US\/NATO & Russia Are Flaring Dangerously<\/a><\/h3>\n
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As if there weren\u2019t enough crises to worry about in the world already, from shooting rampages to accelerating species loss, the US and NATO continue to \u2018poke the bear\u2019 and risk an outbreak of war with Russia.<\/p>\n

I wish this were idle speculation. But if you haven\u2019t been paying close attention, you’ll probably be shocked at just how much direct military and diplomatic provocation has been going on between NATO\/US and Russia over the past several years — and in recent weeks, in particular.<\/p>\n

Even more shocking is that no one in power can provide us with a compelling reason for exactly why these tensions are flaring. It seems that Russia\u2019s main sin is in not entirely, completely and immediately giving the US\/NATO anything and everything they request.<\/p>\n

In other words, it\u2019s imperial hubris and petulance that seems to be driving the ship of state. That\u2019s a dangerous thing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve written extensively on the dangers of war with Russia as my concerns have mounted ever since the situation in Ukraine devolved in 2014.<\/p>\n

There have been plenty of chances to dial down the rhetoric and mend fences, but they’ve all come and gone without healing. In fact, as we detail below, quite the opposite has happened.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is this:<\/strong>\u00a0If you’re not already mentally and physically prepared for the prospect of a NATO\/US war with Russia, you really should be.<\/em><\/p>\n

Perhaps the chances of outright war are still low on a relative scale, but the costs would be catastrophically high — making this worthy of your attention. A low risk of a catastrophic outcome is the very reason we all buy insurance \u2013 life, auto, and home.\u00a0 Not because we wish things to go wrong in our lives, but because they sometimes do nonetheless.<\/p>\n

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Tensions Between US\/NATO & Russia Are Flaring Dangerously A cornered bear will ultimately use its claws As if there weren\u2019t enough crises to worry about in the world already, from shooting rampages to accelerating species loss, the US and NATO continue to \u2018poke the bear\u2019 and risk an outbreak of war with Russia. I wish […]<\/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":[3596,553,2218,694,827],"class_list":["post-21111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-chris-martenson","tag-nato","tag-peak-prosperity","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111","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=21111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21112,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111\/revisions\/21112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}