{"id":5692,"date":"2015-02-14T08:05:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T13:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5692"},"modified":"2015-02-14T08:05:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T13:05:05","slug":"how-stupid-do-they-think-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5692","title":{"rendered":"How Stupid Do They Think We Are?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/02\/stupid-think.html\" target=\"_blank\">How Stupid Do They Think We Are?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Newsweek<\/i>\u00a0magazine headlined on February 5th,\u00a0<a title=\"\u201c\u2018Biggest NATO Reinforcement Since Cold War\u2019 Sets Frontlines Against&amp;nbsp;Russia,\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/biggest-nato-reinforcement-cold-war-sets-frontlines-russian-threat-304722\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201c\u2018Biggest NATO Reinforcement Since Cold War\u2019 Sets Frontlines Against\u00a0Russia,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and reported that, \u201cAccording to general Charles Wald, former-deputy commander of U.S.\u00a0European Command, \u2026 \u2018The question for Europe is: is Putin creeping further and further west?\u2019\u201d Wald is quoted as saying that the case of Ukraine especially worries him. This article continues: \u201c\u2018Is this a precursor to Russia moving into Moldova? Nagorno Karabakh has been\u00a0bubbling up, and the Georgia issue is still unresolved. NATO has essentially set these [new military] bases in its frontline states,\u2019 Wald says,\u00a0referring\u00a0to the countries\u2019 proximity to Russian territory.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So: Russia is moving too close to NATO countries, according to the U.S. \u2018Defense\u2019 Department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But it\u2019s a blatant lie.\u00a0<a title=\"Actually,\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_states_of_NATO\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">Actually,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0since 1999, 11 former members of the Warsaw Pact, countries, which had been allied with Russia during the communist Soviet Union throughout the Cold War, have switched to the U.S. military alliance against their former ally Russia, NATO: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Albania.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So: Russia hasn\u2019t been moving at all, not an inch; but the U.S. certainly has \u2014 by surrounding Russia with its NATO missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This\u00a0<i>Newsweek<\/i>\u00a0story is \u2018news\u2019 that\u2019s published in a mainstream U.S. \u2018news\u2019 source, which people pay bad money for \u2014 it\u2019s worse than a waste, it\u2019s their being charged for U.S.-Government propaganda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Here<\/i>\u00a0is authentic news, from an\u00a0<i>authentic<\/i>\u00a0news source \u2014 news which had been posted just four days earlier than that\u00a0<i>Newsweek<\/i>\u00a0lie, on February 1st \u2014 news that was posted at the Fort Russ blog, which not only is free, but it\u2019s the most thorough and reliably truthful news site of all on the Ukrainian conflict:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Stupid Do They Think We Are? Newsweek\u00a0magazine headlined on February 5th,\u00a0\u201c\u2018Biggest NATO Reinforcement Since Cold War\u2019 Sets Frontlines Against\u00a0Russia,\u201d\u00a0and reported that, \u201cAccording to general Charles Wald, former-deputy commander of U.S.\u00a0European Command, \u2026 \u2018The question for Europe is: is Putin creeping further and further west?\u2019\u201d Wald is quoted as saying that the case of Ukraine [&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":[553,694,742,821,827,3531],"class_list":["post-5692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-soviet-union","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us-defense-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692","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=5692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5693,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692\/revisions\/5693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}