{"id":33078,"date":"2018-04-03T08:10:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T13:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33078"},"modified":"2018-04-03T08:10:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T13:10:01","slug":"a-dangerous-crossroads-whats-in-store-for-the-relations-between-russia-and-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33078","title":{"rendered":"A Dangerous Crossroads: What\u2019s in Store for the Relations Between Russia and the West?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Dangerous Crossroads: What\u2019s in Store for the Relations Between Russia and the West?<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

No, it\u2019s not a return to George Kennan and his\u00a0containment policy<\/a>. It looks more like a slow strangulation, with mounting pressure everywhere. The furor over the Skripal poisoning case is being raised at a time when moves by the West are going almost unnoticed, eclipsed as they are by the narrative of nefarious Russia. Although it all started in Europe, it’s largely being done the American way.<\/p>\n

Recent reports pieced together from different sources lead to the conclusion that a well-thought-out and well-orchestrated campaign is underway. As tensions mount, the US is calling on NATO to step up its combat readiness.\u00a0At least 30,000 allied troops<\/a>, accompanied by over 360 fighter planes and roughly 30 warships, should be ready for deployment to a trouble spot within 30 days\u00a0after NATO commanders put their forces on alert. That proposal is being debated but the US position has generally been accepted. There is hardly any doubt that it will be approved at the NATO summit in July.<\/p>\n

This is at a time when the EU\u00a0is working<\/a>\u00a0in unison with NATO to make it easier for those forces to move across Europe. It has been reported recently that US MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will start operating from Greece\u2019s Larissa air base in May. The drones are destined for intelligence missions in sensitive areas. The Greek ports of Alexandroupolis and Thessaloniki\u00a0have attracted America\u2019s attention<\/a>\u00a0as facilities that could bolster the rotating US military presence in the Black Sea.\u00a0According to<\/a>\u00a0media reports, NATO is to have a helicopter base in Alexandroupolis.<\/p>\n

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A Dangerous Crossroads: What\u2019s in Store for the Relations Between Russia and the West? No, it\u2019s not a return to George Kennan and his\u00a0containment policy. It looks more like a slow strangulation, with mounting pressure everywhere. The furor over the Skripal poisoning case is being raised at a time when moves by the West are […]<\/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":[15296,19658,553,694,19657,8203,2080,827,965],"class_list":["post-33078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-alex-gorka","tag-containment","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-skripal-poisoning","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33078","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=33078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33079,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33078\/revisions\/33079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}