{"id":38924,"date":"2018-10-09T07:45:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T12:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38924"},"modified":"2018-10-09T07:45:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T12:45:22","slug":"britain-and-nato-prepare-for-war-on-russia-in-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38924","title":{"rendered":"Britain and NATO Prepare for War on Russia in the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Britain and NATO Prepare for War on Russia in the Arctic<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

On September 30 the UK\u2019s foreign minister, Jeremy Hunt, delivered an\u00a0astonishing tirade<\/a>, saying \u201cThe EU was set up to protect freedom. It was the Soviet Union that stopped people leaving. The lesson from history is clear: if you turn the EU club into a prison, the desire to get out won\u2019t diminish, it will grow \u2014 and we won\u2019t be the only prisoner that will want to escape.\u201d His comparison of the EU to gulags of former years played well with many people in Britain, but was understandably regarded as totally inappropriate by the EU, whose spokesman\u2019s\u00a0polite observation was<\/a>\u00a0\u201cI would say respectfully that we would all benefit \u2013 and in particular foreign affairs ministers \u2013 from opening a history book from time to time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lunacy didn\u2019t stop there. Not content with insulting the EU\u2019s 27 countries, the government in London decided to whip up even more patriotic fervour by again trying to portray Russia as a threat to the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

In June 2018 the UK\u2019s\u00a0Sun\u00a0newspaper\u00a0carried the headline<\/a>\u00a0\u201cBritain will send RAF Typhoon fighter jets to Iceland in bid to tackle Russian aggression\u201d and since then Mr Williamson hasn\u2019t altered\u00a0his contention<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthe Kremlin continues to challenge us in every domain.\u201d (Williamson is the man\u00a0who declared<\/a>\u00a0in March 2018 that \u201cFrankly Russia should go away \u2014 it should shut up,\u201d which was one of the most juvenile public utterances of recent years.)<\/p>\n

It was\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0on September 29 that Williamson was concerned about \u201cgrowing Russian aggression \u2018in our back yard\u2019,\u201d and that the Government was drawing up a \u201cdefence Arctic strategy\u201d with 800 commandos being deployed to a new base in Norway. In an\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0\u201cMr Williamson highlighted Russia\u2019s re-opening of Soviet-era bases and \u2018increased tempo\u2019 of submarine activity as evidence that Britain needed to \u2018demonstrate we\u2019re there\u2019 and \u2018protect our interests\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Britain and NATO Prepare for War on Russia in the Arctic On September 30 the UK\u2019s foreign minister, Jeremy Hunt, delivered an\u00a0astonishing tirade, saying \u201cThe EU was set up to protect freedom. It was the Soviet Union that stopped people leaving. The lesson from history is clear: if you turn the EU club into a […]<\/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":[1018,12435,93,279,284,20948,553,694,8203],"class_list":["post-38924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-arctic","tag-brian-cloughley","tag-britain","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-jeremy-hunt","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38924","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=38924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38925,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38924\/revisions\/38925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}