{"id":55822,"date":"2020-11-30T09:12:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55822"},"modified":"2020-11-30T09:12:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:12:16","slug":"dangerous-crossroads-natos-attempted-infringement-of-russias-airspace-and-maritime-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55822","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Crossroads: NATO\u2019s Attempted Infringement of Russia\u2019s Airspace and Maritime Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"title\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/nato-attempted-infringement-russia-airspace-maritime-borders-very-dangerous\/5730612\">Dangerous Crossroads: NATO\u2019s Attempted Infringement of Russia\u2019s Airspace and Maritime Borders<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"postThumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-single-post-thumbnail size-single-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Russia_NATO_Map-400x283.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Russia_NATO_Map-400x283.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Russia_NATO_Map-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Russia_NATO_Map-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Russia_NATO_Map.jpg 800w\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"283\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"intro\"><em>Recent attempted infringements of Russia\u2019s airspace and maritime borders by NATO are very dangerous instances of de-facto brinksmanship intended to provoke the Eurasian Great Power into reacting in a way that could then be manipulated as the \u201cplausible pretext\u201d for imposing further pressure upon it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">***<\/p>\n<p>It seems like almost every week that Russian media reports on NATO\u2019s attempted infringement of Russian airspace and maritime borders, but two ultra-dangerous developments occurred over the past week which signify that this trend will intensify. The Russian Navy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/507633-navy-threat-warship-border\/\">threatened to ram<\/a>\u00a0the USS John McCain after it aggressively passed into the country\u2019s territorial waters near Peter the Great Bay off Vladivostok, after which it thankfully reversed its course. The second incident involved the US\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/507766-american-missiles-crimea-confrontation\/\">launching rockets<\/a>\u00a0into the Black Sea from Romania that are capable of reaching Crimea in a wartime scenario. These two events deserve to be discussed more in detail because of their significance to NATO\u2019s grand strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The transatlantic alliance intends to provoke the Eurasian Great Power into reacting in a way that could then be manipulated as the \u201cplausible pretext\u201d for imposing further pressure upon it. It amounts to de-facto brinksmanship and is therefore incredibly dangerous since both parties are nuclear powers. Furthermore, it\u2019s the definition of unprovoked aggression since Russia doesn\u2019t partake in symmetrical provocations against NATO. If anything, every time that it\u2019s been dishonestly accused of such was just the country carrying out military exercises within its own borders which just so happen to abut several NATO states after the bloc extended its frontiers eastward following the end of the Old Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dangerous Crossroads: NATO\u2019s Attempted Infringement of Russia\u2019s Airspace and Maritime Borders Recent attempted infringements of Russia\u2019s airspace and maritime borders by NATO are very dangerous instances of de-facto brinksmanship intended to provoke the Eurasian Great Power into reacting in a way that could then be manipulated as the \u201cplausible pretext\u201d for imposing further pressure upon [&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":[6108,6110,553,694,862],"class_list":["post-55822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-andrew-korybko","tag-global-research","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55822","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=55822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55823,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55822\/revisions\/55823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}