{"id":68450,"date":"2024-06-02T08:32:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T13:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68450"},"modified":"2024-06-02T08:32:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T13:32:04","slug":"pepe-escobar-the-west-is-hell-bent-on-provoking-russia-into-hot-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68450","title":{"rendered":"Pepe Escobar: The West is Hell-Bent on Provoking Russia Into Hot War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pepe Escobar: The West is Hell-Bent on Provoking Russia Into Hot War<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The warning by President Putin could not be starker: \u201cIn the event of the use of long-range weapons, the Russian Armed Forces will again have to make decisions about expanding the sanitary zone further (\u2026) Do they want global conflict? It seemed they wanted to negotiate [with us], but we don\u2019t see much desire to do this.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov then came up with the appropriate metaphor to designate NATO\u2019s ramped-up military outbursts: not only NATO is raising the degree of escalation but delving into a warlike “ecstasy”.<\/div>\n
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It does not get more serious than that. \u201cThey\u201d, as Putin alluded to, do seem to want \u201cglobal conflict\u201d. That\u2019s at the heart of NATO\u2019s new suicidal \u201cecstasy\u201d strategy.<\/div>\n
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For all their circumlocutions,\u00a0NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg<\/a>, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have effectively greenlighted Kiev using Western weapons for attacks deep inside the Russian Federation. The alleged debate, still ongoing, is just a \u201csmokescreen\u201d for the real objective: a pretext that could lead to WWIII.<\/div>\n
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There\u2019s no reason to think Kiev will stick to \u201climited\u201d strikes against relatively unimportant targets. Instead, it is likely to target critical security infrastructure in hopes of provoking an unrelenting Russian response, which in turn would pave the way for NATO to invoke Article 5 and de facto engage in a Hot War.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The escalation \u201cecstasy\u201d defined by Peskov went out of control since a \u2013 secret – new batch of ATACMS was dispatched to Kiev earlier this year, complemented with longer-range ATACMS. Kiev has been using them for serious hits on Russian air bases and key air defense nodes. These ATACMS fire missiles at Mach 3 speed: a serious challenge even for the best Russian air defense systems.<\/div>\n
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Pepe Escobar: The West is Hell-Bent on Provoking Russia Into Hot War \u00a9 Sputnik \/ Stanislav Krasilnikov The warning by President Putin could not be starker: \u201cIn the event of the use of long-range weapons, the Russian Armed Forces will again have to make decisions about expanding the sanitary zone further (\u2026) Do they want […]<\/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":[553,4076,694,9950,862,965,1823],"class_list":["post-68450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-nato","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-russia","tag-sputnik","tag-war","tag-west","tag-world-war-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68450","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=68450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}