{"id":46693,"date":"2019-06-16T07:36:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T12:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46693"},"modified":"2019-06-16T08:46:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T13:46:54","slug":"us-nato-consumed-by-black-sea-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46693","title":{"rendered":"US, NATO Consumed by \u2018Black Sea Madness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2019\/06\/15\/us-nato-consumed-by-black-sea-madness\/\">US, NATO Consumed by \u2018Black Sea Madness\u2019\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Whom the gods would destroy, Friedrich Nietzsche famously said, they first make mad. What would Nietzsche make of the current, truly mad US and NATO obsession with charging into the Black Sea? It is a useful thought to ponder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Black Sea was far outside NATO\u2019s traditional theater of operations for most of the Alliance\u2019s history. However, Brussels and Washington have been piling up their military assets and visibility in the region like bees at a honey pot \u2013 or like a rogue herd of elephants charging off the edge of a cliff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet NATO\u2019s \u201cIn Your Face\u201d presence in the Black Sea protects no one. On the contrary, it puts America\u2019s allies in the region at grave risk by escalating tensions and increasing the danger that full scale war could break out by deliberately manufactured incident (Just think the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964) and or through a random error or clash that escalates out of control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US\/NATO forward presence in the Black Sea is strategic madness. And it replicates parallel incendiary US exercises in fake macho stupidity against Beijing in the South China Sea: A region from which the Chinese people suffered invasion and societal collapse on a genocidal scale following defeats by Britain and France in the First Opium War (1839-42) and by Imperial Japan in its terrible invasion of summer 1937.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington seems equally intent on opening up a third front against Iran with its parallel forward policy in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three simultaneous wars against three major nations, two of which are the largest, most populous in the world and formidably nuclear armed? US grand strategy \u2013insofar as there is one \u2013 seems to have national suicide as its only goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US, NATO Consumed by \u2018Black Sea Madness\u2019\u00a0 Whom the gods would destroy, Friedrich Nietzsche famously said, they first make mad. What would Nietzsche make of the current, truly mad US and NATO obsession with charging into the Black Sea? It is a useful thought to ponder. The Black Sea was far outside NATO\u2019s traditional theater [&hellip;]<\/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":[3485,95,130,20635,553,694,8203,865],"class_list":["post-46693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-black-sea","tag-brussels","tag-china","tag-martin-sieff","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46693","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=46693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46694,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46693\/revisions\/46694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}