{"id":29789,"date":"2018-01-17T07:20:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T12:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29789"},"modified":"2018-01-17T07:20:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T12:20:44","slug":"big-guns-better-chow-and-more-us-nato-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29789","title":{"rendered":"Big Guns, Better Chow, and More US-NATO Aggression"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Big Guns, Better Chow, and More US-NATO Aggression<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

A headline in the US military magazine\u00a0Stars and Stripes<\/em>\u00a0last September was eye-catching. It\u00a0told readers<\/a>\u00a0that there were \u201cBig guns, better chow for US soldiers on Russia deterrence mission\u201d in Lithuania. Apparently the guns and chow were provided for the \u201c500 173rd Airborne Brigade soldiers that swooped into the Baltics this month on a mission to deter Russian aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then the UK\u2019s\u00a0Observer<\/em>\u00a0newspaper\u00a0informed us<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cUS Special Forces have been deployed close to the border with Russia\u00a0as part of a \u2018persistent\u2019 presence of American troops in the Baltics.\u00a0Dozens of special ops solders are being stationed along Europe\u2019s eastern flank to reassure NATO\u00a0allies Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The move will also allow the US to monitor Russian manoeuvres amid fears of further destabilisation following its annexation of Crimea\u00a0in 2014… US special operations forces will complement around 4,000 Nato\u00a0troops posted to Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia in the coming months.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was\u00a0noted<\/a>\u00a0by Nick Turse on January 9 that \u201cfor the past two years the US has maintained a Special Operations contingent\u00a0in almost every nation<\/a>\u00a0on Russia\u2019s western border. As Special Operations Command chief General Raymond Thomas put it last year, \u2018We\u2019ve had persistent presence in every country \u2014 every NATO country and others on the border with Russia doing phenomenal things with our allies, helping them prepare for their threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

What threats? What Russian aggression? What destabilisation? Russia has never threatened any Baltic State and there is not the slightest piece of evidence that Russia wants to invade Lithuania.<\/p>\n

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Big Guns, Better Chow, and More US-NATO Aggression A headline in the US military magazine\u00a0Stars and Stripes\u00a0last September was eye-catching. It\u00a0told readers\u00a0that there were \u201cBig guns, better chow for US soldiers on Russia deterrence mission\u201d in Lithuania. Apparently the guns and chow were provided for the \u201c500 173rd Airborne Brigade soldiers that swooped into the […]<\/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":[12435,281,553,8203,827,844],"class_list":["post-29789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-brian-cloughley","tag-europe","tag-nato","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-us-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29789","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=29789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29790,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29789\/revisions\/29790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}