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Risk of ‘World War’ between NATO and Russia on Ukraine Escalation as Yemen Bombed for Third Day
Risk of ‘World War’ between NATO and Russia on Ukraine Escalation as Yemen Bombed for Third Day
- World sleep walking from ‘Cold War’ to ‘Hot War’ and new World War
- U.S. resolution to supply Ukraine with lethal weaponry passed
- Russia warns such moves would "explode the whole situation"
- Minsk agreement remains intact - little justification for escalation and ignoring EU allies
- US continues to act as only global superpower despite powerful Russia and China and new multi-polar world
- Hubris could lead to a new World War
Geopolitical risk has escalated sharply this week after the Saudi bombing of Yemen and the U.S. House of Representatives voting overwhelmingly for the President to provide offensive weaponry to the Ukrainian army.
Both are likely to result in sharp escalation in tensions between NATO and Russia and see an intensification of war in Eastern Europe and the possibility of a regional war in the Middle East.
The move is concerning as European countries who have a real interest in maintaining stability in Ukraine - Germany and France, who are Europe's de facto leadership, and Russia - have already restored a degree of stability through the Minsk agreement. Germany and France pointedly excluded the U.S. from the process.
The resolution comes despite Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov having previously warned in February that such a move would be a “major blow” to the Minsk agreements and would “explode the whole situation.”
The second Minsk Agreement - brokered between Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine last month - has remained largely intact. The head of the reasonably independent Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe said earlier this month the the ceasefire in Ukraine was holding. The OSCE confirmed, yesterday, that the withdrawal of heavy arms by both sides of the conflict was "ongoing" according to the Kyiv Post.
Therefore, there would appear to be little justification for the U.S. to send high tech arms to Ukraine at this time especially on the pretext of restoring stability.
The passing of such a resolution highlights the insulated nature of U.S. politics. U.S. policy makers continue to labour under the delusion that the U.S. is still the only global superpower.
The reality is that the U.S. grows more isolated by the day. While the rising superpowers of the East work tirelessly to forge international ties through trade and development agreements, the U.S. continues to act unilaterally and forcefully - as it has since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Eastern block does not need war. Its economic influence grows daily - as demonstrated most recently by a whole swathe of European allies joining the new Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank despite pressure from the U.S. not to do so.
On the other hand, it would seem that many U.S. policy makers regard war as an opportunity to re-exert their declining influence.
The U.S. may or not remain a superpower. It has the population, landmass and resources. It has friendly neighbours and is practically impenetrable to attack. However imperial overstretch has bankrupted many an Empire.
It needs to come to terms with the fact that there is a new world order emerging - and not necessarily the one that was envisioned following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Until its politicians overcome their hubris the world will continue to grow more and more unstable as it lurches closer to another World War. What the catalyst will be which triggers another World War is difficult to tell. There are many options to choose from.
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There are over 8000 Russian nuclear warheads that are just waiting to test our "impenatrable to attack" theory. I think many in congress must have grown up after the cold war or somehow don't remember just how on the brink the world really is right now. It's insane to send arms to Ukraine in the face of the Minsk II agreement and just shows how much disdain we have for our EU allies who brokered the deal.
Well, this has all the hallmarks of WW1, where treaties were put into action and general war broke out.
The rise of an Arab Army coalition is a wild card.
DC has influence, but not the influence it once had.
Let the Arab League sort this one out.
If normal operations are in place, US SOF is already on the ground.
The last thing US wants to see is Arabs and Israeli becoming friends. Peace is not profitable for those criminals in Washington DC.
Wrong.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli-fighter-jets-join-saudi-arabia-in-w...
Israel’s fighter jets have taken part in the Thursday Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen, sources in Sanaa disclosed on Friday.
“This is for the first time that the Zionists are conducting a joint operation in coalition with Arabs,” Secretary General of Yemen’s Al-Haq Political Party Hassan Zayd wrote on his facebook page.
He noted that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had issued direct orders for the Israeli air force to send fighter jets to the Saudi-led air raid on Yemen.
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this is such a BS post.
Nothing new (except maybe to the author)
silly images
boulevard press.
this is such a BS post
No, this is an excellent situation for Iran to back off in order to gain nuclear concessions. They have little in the game and can exit easily.
The big gig is Saudi/Iranian control of regional power. Some of it is Shia/Sunni, some of it is economics.
agreed. but we cannot expect much on a sunday. :-)
So while the war drums keep beating and agitating the natives home about the Russian menace and the same the other away around..we just closed a space deal with the Russians.
Personally I think we are all being rickrolled into a panic state for obvious profits elsewhere and this is all going to end differently, but with a lot of folx still dead. Since Boeing will be a big part of this that is a certainty since Elon the little guy has hit a financial banana peel
http://phys.org/news/2015-03-russia-space-station-nasa.html#jCp
Late Friday, a spacecraft launched successfully carrying Russian and US astronauts to the ISS, two of whom will spend a historic year-long term on board in an experiment to study the physical effects of long-duration space missions.
Komarov made the announcement flanked by NASA administrator Charles Bolden at Russia's Baikonur launchpad in Kazakhstan.
"We agreed that the group of countries taking part in the ISS project will work on the future project of a new orbital station," Komarov said.
Thankfully, their jobs, like mine, do not depend on politics.
I am a sheepdog. My job is protecting people.
I get to go to these places and save lives, both US personnel and indigenous employees.
I have seen too many body parts. Saving lives is paramount.
Was Germanwings jetliner taken down as a message to Germany not to align with Russia?
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=13190#more-13190
Sure can work with Black boxes faster than in the Ukraine case?
Whatever happened to those lives? I guess they don't matter as much as Alp lives....
Not according to new information.
The co-pilot was a warped SOB.
Friends and associates are now speaking out about the co-pilot. In addition to being ill, he was not honest with his employer.
I do trust the German police to solve this crime.
Well, one thing I can tell you for damn sure - that's not what the wreckage and debris field of an intact airliner hitting a mountain at 440+ kts. looks like.
No, not even in tin-foil-hat land.
Unless you are an aircrash professional, you are in the dark as much of the rest of us are.
Can you post you CV?
What the fuck is an 'aircrash professional'? Sounds like something the WSJ coughed up. I can state without the least bit of hesitation that the miracle photogenic piece of that Airbus with the registration number did not travel at 440 kts. directly into a piece of rock, nor was it anywhere near 25,000 lbs. of Jet A-1 as should have been strapped to it.
BTW, you cannot lock the pilot out of the flight deck of an A320. That's not how the switch or the lock works.
I'm not a structural engineer either. I have absolutely zero qualifications to state that WTC7 was brough down by anything other than a fire.
really? and how do you know that?
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/1202/1579/4m/i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03...
Woopsee! an errant cruise missile missed Yemen and accidentally hit Riyadh oil refinery in Saudi land.
April fools early!
You cant go to war against white people, thats racist!
is it really a "risk" or is it a plot
and plan to sustain usury and power
via the debt money system?
inquiring minds want to know.
It's naive to think that Germany and US are not looking for war on the East. It's Hollywood style magic trick "no weapons". Look, at this shiny thing: we give money only, which Kiev spent on purchasing weapons and running defence industry 24/7. Ukraine is the biggest EXPORTER weapons including ICBM. As more troops and guns concentrated along the border as more possibility of intoxicated Russian or zealous Baltic serviceman will press a red button and start a big one.
Down-arrowed for use of the phrase "biggest EXPORTER" because it's simply not true...
Try a bit of fact checking first. Any search engine will do...
Interactive map follows in link:
http://www.sipri.org/googlemaps/2014_of_at_top_20_exp_map.html
Ukraine ranks 8th.
I''m not an American. Don't shoot me.
What's collateral?
These clowns will follow those oil dollars just like every one of them in the past has.
That includes Putin I might add.
Once oil drops to a buck a barrel I doubt he will still be President.
Be interesting to see what form of Government the USA will have at that point too actually.
Just google search gasoline consumption in Washington State if want to get your head out of your ass.
My business has been declining for 6 years. I used to drive 12-14K miles a year for it. Last year I was down to 4.5K miles. How's that for a drop in consumption? Seroiusly thinking of closing before my inventory becomes worthless.
Although I don't have a business, I've drastically cut my driving down too, maybe more so than you even. All to keep costs down
The implications of GW's nonsense wars followed by Obama continue....
Squandered our ability to wage war was wasted during that timeframe even if we wanted to do something now and actually empowers and feeds those opposing US interests....
Don't worry, the neo-cons have this all figured out.
https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/gaming-russian-offensive
Hopefully, this will be short, relatively painless, and ultimate. This is the end game of psychopaths and sociopaths when they merge into a controlling entity such as we have with US.gov.com. I'm for watching every 'command and control' point to be blasted to a mile deep, a la 'Shock and Awe', in a terminal sense.
The world will see no peace until our war criminal government is ended, one way or the other, and we return to a Constitutional Republic ruled by the citizens.
Cant we just round up ALL the NeoCON-artists and shoot them? And do Freedom God and the World a favour?
You go right ahead.
I'll stay here and watch the neighborhood. Besides, I've already HAD my visits from the FBI and NSA.
Why?
A Constitutional Republic ruled by the citizens is what got us here.
Two adjustments to the Constitution by the beauracrats foisted on the people and changing the intent of the founding fathers, the seventeenth amendment and implimentation of the central bank is what got us here. These were the start.
It's time to have a Constitutional Republic ruled by cats.
Cats like to kill things too...then present them as 'gifts'.
You now need a "research director" to do cut and paste?
I'll bet he gets a trophy too.
Please. The Minsk agreement is dead. The rebels have been bringing back heavy artillery on the frontline in the last 24 hours...
Not to mention that the Ruskies have been giving em tanks, APC, ammo, artillery and fuel by the trainload since the ``cease-fire`` every single day... This is just a break before the spring offensive...
This ain't over by a long shot.
please!
John Batchelor radio show covers Ukraine for an hour every week (Tuesday 2nd hour), and on podcast. Maybe John will expand the Ukraine part of show now.
http://johnbatchelorshow.com/podcasts/tues-32415-hr-2-jbs-stephen-f-cohe...
Springtime for this annual Ukraine campaign. Will it heat up ?
Greece, Ukraine, bad banks...any could be the trigger.
Since 1913 and Jekyll Island, fiat has supported/enabled these.
agree. batchelor, with cohen, covers things pretty good with no suckin' up to US.
impenetrable to attack? enough asked about gold core.
Perhaps they could tell this to all the people of south and central america...
Anybody but me think France and Germany were warned by having a jetliner guided by wire into the ground?
The Triad of Evil, DC, Tel Aviv and City of London will try any dirty tactic.
Why leave out the Vatican from this cabal?
From a satellite, probably for the Malaysian airlines 117 but I doubt this love struck Lithium deprived jilted youngster needed any help. Heads should roll for letting someone this obviously deranged to ever get in a cockpit, Lufthansa has always had a superior safety record, so if they are slacking on this front, on what else are they being lax?
What evidence do you have that he was deranged? Only what we are being fed by the news and it's hard to trust the sources and the story line. A suicidal guy taking over and silently and slowly gliding his plane to the death of him and over a hundred others, others that he personally saw board, and therefore sees as real people. I have a real hard time wrapping my mind around the co-pilot deciding he was going to take the whole plane with him and doing it without saying a word or having his breathing pace quicken as he watched the ground approach, a real hard time. I don't have a hard time imagining a bunch of politicians concocting the best story they can to try to cover up the facts, whatever they might be. It's a very fishy story line.
However, this is not the firrst time a pilot has suicided himself...
United States 2003-2012
http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/51000/51100/51188/201402.pdf
Global notables:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/26/travel/germanwings-crash-death-by-pilot-ca...
Anyone wonder how hard it would be to plant "evidence" on his computer showing that he was depressed/manic/suicidal and planning something?
I do not wonder.