{"id":9444,"date":"2015-06-26T05:22:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T10:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9444"},"modified":"2015-06-26T05:22:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T10:22:42","slug":"the-pentagon-goes-nuclear-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9444","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon goes nuclear on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/op-edge\/269176-pentagon-nato-russia-nuclear-missiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Pentagon goes nuclear on Russia<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>We all remember how, in early June, President Putin announced that Russia would deploy more than 40 new ICBMs \u201cable to overcome even the most technically advanced anti-missile defense systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oh dear; the Pentagon and their European minions have been freaking out on overdrive ever since.<\/p>\n<p>First was NATO Secretary-General, Norwegian figurehead Jens Stoltenberg, who condemned it as \u201c<em>nuclear saber rattling.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson, the head of US Global Air Strike Command \u2013 as in the man responsible for US ICBMs and nuclear bombers \u2013 at a recent briefing in London; \u201c<em>[They\u2019ve] annexed a country, changing international borders, raising rhetoric unlike we\u2019ve heard since the cold war times\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That set up the stage for the required Nazi parallel; \u201c<em>Some of the actions by Russia recently we haven\u2019t seen since the 1930s, when whole countries were annexed and borders were changed by decree<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At His Masters Voice\u2019s command, the EU duly extended economic sanctions against Russia.And right on cue, Pentagon supremo Ashton Carter, out of Berlin, declared that NATO must stand up against \u2013 what else \u2013 \u201cRussian aggression\u201d and \u201c<em>their attempts to re-establish a Soviet-era sphere of influence.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bets are off on what this huffin\u2019 and puffin\u2019 is all about. It could be about Russia daring to build a whole country close to so many NATO bases. It could be about a bunch of nutters itching to start a war on European soil to ultimately \u201cliberate\u201d all that precious oil, gas and minerals from Russia and the Central Asian \u201cstans\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the whole thing is deadly serious.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>The Pentagon goes nuclear on Russia We all remember how, in early June, President Putin announced that Russia would deploy more than 40 new ICBMs \u201cable to overcome even the most technically advanced anti-missile defense systems.\u201d Oh dear; the Pentagon and their European minions have been freaking out on overdrive ever since. First was NATO [&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":[6734,2146,281,525,553,6735,4076,1291,694,848],"class_list":["post-9444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-arms","tag-conflict","tag-europe","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-nuclear","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-rt","tag-russia","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444","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=9444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9445,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions\/9445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}