{"id":6086,"date":"2015-02-28T08:24:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T13:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6086"},"modified":"2015-02-28T08:24:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T13:24:11","slug":"when-centralization-scales-beyond-our-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6086","title":{"rendered":"When Centralization Scales Beyond Our Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a class=\"entry-title\" title=\"When Centralization Scales Beyond Our Control\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2015\/02\/when-centralization-scales-beyond-our-control\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">When Centralization Scales Beyond Our Control<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In an article about NATO exercises in Estonia, just 300 yards from the Russian border, Daniel McAdams at the Ron Paul Institute makes a point that I want to use to make a much broader point. Not the provide answers, though, just to provide questions. McAdams quotes the Guardian review of a book by George Sakwa:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulinstitute.org\/archives\/peace-and-prosperity\/2015\/february\/25\/natos-russia-border-games\/?author=Daniel+McAdams\" target=\"new\">NATO\u2019s Russia Border Games<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Russian military plane over international waters 25 miles from the UK coast is \u201creal and present danger\u201d to NATO. Yet\u2026 Yet yesterday US combat vehicles conducted a military parade and show of military force in Estonia just 300 yards \u2013 yards! \u2013 from the Russian border. That is just over 60 miles from downtown St. Petersburg. This is not a provocation, we are to believe. This is not a \u201creal and present danger\u201d to Russia. NATO is exempt from the rules it imposes on its enemies. In the Guardian\u2019s review of a new book by Politics professor George Sakwa, the current fallout from a near quarter century of post-Cold War NATO policies is perfectly captured:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The hawks in the Clinton administration ignored all this, Bush abandoned the anti-ballistic missile treaty and put rockets close to Russia\u2019s borders, and now a decade later, after Russia\u2019s angry reaction to provocations in Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine today, we have what Sakwa rightly calls\u00a0<b>a \u201cfateful geographical paradox: that NATO exists to manage the risks created by its existence\u201d<\/b>.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>That line bears repeating: \u201cNATO exists to manage the risks created by its existence.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Centralization Scales Beyond Our Control In an article about NATO exercises in Estonia, just 300 yards from the Russian border, Daniel McAdams at the Ron Paul Institute makes a point that I want to use to make a much broader point. Not the provide answers, though, just to provide questions. McAdams quotes the Guardian [&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":[3806,525,2150,553,694],"class_list":["post-6086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-estonia","tag-military","tag-military-exercises","tag-nato","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086","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=6086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6087,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions\/6087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}