{"id":39479,"date":"2018-10-21T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39479"},"modified":"2018-10-21T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T17:00:56","slug":"the-earthquake-in-international-alliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39479","title":{"rendered":"The Earthquake in International Alliances"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Earthquake in International Alliances<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

America\u2019s international alliances are transforming in fundamental ways. The likelihood of World War III is increasing, and has been increasing ever since 2012 when the US first slapped Russia with the Magnitsky Act sanctions. In fact, one matter driving these changing alliances now toward unprecedented realignments is that some nations\u2019 leaders want to do whatever they can to\u00a0prevent\u00a0WW III.<\/p>\n

On October 17th<\/sup>, America\u2019s\u00a0Military Times\u00a0<\/em>bannered\u00a0“Why today\u2019s troops fear a new war is coming soon\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and reported, \u201cAbout 46 percent of troops who responded to the anonymous survey of currently serving\u00a0Military Times<\/em>\u00a0readers said they believe the US will be drawn into a new war within the next year. That\u2019s a jarring increase from only about 5 percent who said the same thing in a similar poll conducted in September 2017.\u201d Their special fear is of war against Russia and\/or China: \u201cAbout 71 percent of troops said Russia was a significant threat, up 18 points from last year\u2019s survey. And 69 percent of troops said China poses a significant threat, up 24 points from last year.\u201d The US spends\u00a0around half of the entire world\u2019s military budget<\/a>; and, after 9\/11, has invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, and\u00a0perpetrated a bloody coup turning Ukraine into a rabidly anti-Russian government on Russia\u2019s very doorstep and even an applicant for NATO membership<\/a>\u00a0though, in 2009, before Obama\u2019s coup overthrew Ukraine\u2019s democratically elected Government, even US media reported that\u00a0\u201cbarely 25 percent of Ukrainians favor joining NATO.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0After 1991 when Russia\u2019s anti-American Warsaw Pact military alliance ended, America\u2019s anti-Russian NATO military alliance expanded right up to Russia\u2019s very borders. Nonetheless, these troops aren\u2019t afraid that the US is posing a threat to Russia and maybe to China, but that Russia and China are both posing threats against America; they trust their Government; it\u2019s what they\u2019re taught to believe. But the reality is very different. And it involves all of the \u201cgreat power\u201d relationships \u2014 not\u00a0only\u00a0<\/em>US, Russia, and China.<\/p>\n

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The Earthquake in International Alliances America\u2019s international alliances are transforming in fundamental ways. The likelihood of World War III is increasing, and has been increasing ever since 2012 when the US first slapped Russia with the Magnitsky Act sanctions. In fact, one matter driving these changing alliances now toward unprecedented realignments is that some nations\u2019 […]<\/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":[16327,130,4394,16503,522,22440,553,694,701,8203,827,1823],"class_list":["post-39479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-alliances","tag-china","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-magnitsky-act","tag-middle-east","tag-military-times","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-world-war-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39479","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=39479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39480,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39479\/revisions\/39480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}