{"id":46613,"date":"2019-06-13T11:17:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T16:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46613"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:17:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T16:17:48","slug":"kremlin-vows-retaliatory-steps-against-aggressive-us-troop-drone-build-up-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46613","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin Vows “Retaliatory Steps” Against “Aggressive” US Troop, Drone Build-up In Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kremlin Vows “Retaliatory Steps” Against “Aggressive” US Troop, Drone Build-up In Poland\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Russian lawmakers have said the new US-Poland joint declaration unveiled yesterday, which will see 1,000 more US troops sent to Poland from Germany along with military drones, will force the Kremlin to take “retaliatory steps”<\/strong> against what the Russian parliamentary statement called US \u201cfurther large-scale deployments\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One lawmaker went so far as to say the Russian military\u00a0“would make Poland a target in the event of a conflict,”<\/strong>\u00a0according to\u00a0Reuters<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia’s deputy foreign minister also warned of Washington’s \u201caggressive intentions\u201d <\/strong>following Trump’s pledge to Polish President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday during a White House visit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Russian official, identified as the deputy head of the upper house of parliament\u2019s international affairs committee, told the Interfax news agency: \u201cIn the event of any conflict, God forbid, the territory of Poland would become a clear target for a retaliatory strike<\/strong>, if there was suddenly an attack on us,\u201d as cited in Reuters, while others warned of a new Cuban missile crisis scenario but this time on Russia’s border. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Per the Reuters report, one top parliamentary official went so far as to invoke a nuclear scenario<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another lawmaker, ex-commander of Russia\u2019s special forces Vladimir Shamanov, who now runs the lower house of parliament\u2019s defense committee, said he was concerned about the U.S. drones because of their potential to carry nuclear weapons<\/strong>.<\/p>

\u201cThe world is gradually slipping toward a dangerous moment comparable to the Caribbean crisis,\u201d Shamanov said, using the Russian expression for the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis – a standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.<\/p>

\u201c…We will be forced to take retaliatory measures and we have them in our armory,\u201d <\/strong>Interfax cited him as saying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kremlin Vows “Retaliatory Steps” Against “Aggressive” US Troop, Drone Build-up In Poland\u00a0 Russian lawmakers have said the new US-Poland joint declaration unveiled yesterday, which will see 1,000 more US troops sent to Poland from Germany along with military drones, will force the Kremlin to take “retaliatory steps” against what the Russian parliamentary statement called US \u201cfurther large-scale deployments\u201d. One […]<\/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":[10939,1007,1046,827],"class_list":["post-46613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-andrzej-duda","tag-drones","tag-poland","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46613","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=46613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46614,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46613\/revisions\/46614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}