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Guest Post: NATO Is Building Up For War
Submitted by Brian Cloughley via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity,
The German city of Frankfurt is continental Europe’s largest financial center and host to the country’s Stock Exchange, countless other financial institutions, and the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) which is responsible for administering the monetary policy of the 18-nation Eurozone. The place is awash with money, as demonstrated by the plush new ECB office building which is costing a fortune.
The original price of the bank’s enormous palace was supposed to be 500 million euros, about 550 million dollars, but the bill has now been admitted as €1.3 billion (£930 m; $1.4 bn). This absurdly over-expensive fiasco was directed by the people who are supposed to steer the financial courses of 18 nations and their half billion unfortunate citizens. If the ECB displays similar skill sets in looking after Europe’s money as it has in controlling the cost of constructing its huge twin-tower headquarters, then Europe is in for a rocky time.
Intriguingly, the Bank isn’t alone in contributing to Europe’s bureaucratic building boom. There is another Europe-based organization of equal ambition, pomposity and incompetence which is building a majestically expensive and luxurious headquarters with a mammoth cost overrun about which it is keeping very quiet indeed.
The perpetrator of this embarrassing farce is NATO, the US-Canada-European North Atlantic Treaty Organization which is limping out of Afghanistan licking its wounds, having been fighting a bunch of sandal-wearing rag-clad amateur irregulars who gave the hi-tech forces of the West a very hard time in a war whose outcome was predictable. But the debacle hasn’t dimmed the vision of the zealous leaders of NATO who are confronting Russia in order to justify the existence of their creaking, leaking, defeated dinosaur. Their problem is not only do they lose wars, but they then look for another one to fight — to be directed from a glittery new and vastly expensive building whose cost has soared above all estimates.
Just like NATO’s wars.
NATO’s operation "Unified Protector" to overthrow Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi involved a massive aerial blitz of 9,658 airstrikes which ended with the gruesome murder of Gadhafi — and caused collapse of Libya into an omnishambles where fanatics of the barbarous Islamic State are now establishing themselves.
In spite of the horror of NATO’s Libyan catastrophe one does have to have a quiet smile about Ivo H. Daalder and James G Stavridis whose deeply researched analysis in the journal Foreign Affairs in 2012 was titled "NATO’s Victory in Libya." These sages declared that “NATO’s operation in Libya has rightly been hailed as a model intervention . . . NATO’s involvement in Libya demonstrated that the alliance remains an essential source of stability . . . NATO may not be able to replicate its success in Libya in another decade. NATO members must therefore use the Chicago summit to strengthen the alliance by ensuring that the burden sharing that worked so well in Libya — and continues in Afghanistan today — becomes the rule, not the exception.”
Not much is working well in either Libya or Afghanistan two years after the Daalder-Stavridis advocacy of “burden sharing” and it is obvious that NATO has been the opposite of a “source of stability” in both unfortunate countries.
In October 2005 I wrote that “NATO is to increase its troop numbers in Afghanistan to 15,000 and its secretary-general states that instead of acting as a peacekeeping force it will assume the combat role of US troops, which is insane . . . The insurgency in Afghanistan will continue until foreign troops leave, whenever that might be. After a while, the government in Kabul will collapse and there will be anarchy until a brutal, ruthless, drug-rich warlord achieves power. He will rule the country as it has always been ruled by Afghans: by threats, religious ferocity, deceit, bribery, and outright savagery when the latter can be practiced without retribution. And the latest foreign occupation will become just another memory.”
The number of US-NATO troops in Afghanistan has been reduced from a high of 130,000 to 13,000, of which some 10,000 are US, but NATO’s new headquarters building in Brussels is expanding in both size and cost. The budget for the immense complex was approved at 460 million Euros (500 million US dollars) in 2010 but has now surged to over 1.25 billion Euros, about 1.4 billion dollars.
Germany’s Der Spiegel reported in January that the scandal of the cost overrun was being kept secret by all governments contributing to this redundant organization. A leaked cable from Germany’s ambassador explained that at a meeting of NATO representatives last December they “pointed to the disastrous effect on the image of the alliance if construction were to stop and if NATO appeared to be incapable of punctually completing a construction project that was decided at the NATO summit of government leaders in April 1999 in Washington. The risk of a further cost increase is already palpable.”
The solution to NATO’s self-imposed image problem was simple : the people responsible for managing the affairs of a military alliance involving 28 countries, 3.5 million combatants and 5,000 nuclear weapons decided, as asked by the staff of its Secretary General, to deal with the matter “confidentially.” In other words, the cost overruns and delays in construction are being deliberately concealed from the public in the hope that NATO’s executives will not appear incompetent.
Meantime, while trying to conceal their flaws, faults and failings in management of basic administrative affairs, NATO’s chiefs are squaring up to Russia in an attempt to persuade the world that President Putin is about to mount an invasion from the east. The focal point of NATO’s contrived alarm is the corrupt and chaotic regime in power in Ukraine, which has serious disagreements with Russia and is therefore energetically supported by the United States to the point of distortion, menace, and mendacity.
As reported in the UK’s Daily Telegraph on March 4, the commander of US troops in Europe, General Frederick “Ben” Hodges, has accused Russia of having 12,000 troops inside eastern Ukraine, which was irresponsible nonsense.
Hodges was formerly the army’s Congressional Liaison Officer in Washington where he obviously acquired a taste for political grandstanding, as in a political speech of the sort that generals have no right to make he declared that “We have to raise the cost for Putin. Right now he has 85 per cent domestic support. But when mothers start seeing their sons come home dead, when the price goes up, domestic support goes down,” which was as offensive as it was hostile.
In February the Wall Street Journal reported Hodges as saying “I believe the Russians are mobilizing right now for a war that they think is going to happen in five or six years—not that they’re going to start a war in five or six years, but I think they are anticipating that things are going to happen, and that they will be in a war of some sort, of some scale, with somebody within the next five or six years.” Just what President Putin was supposed to make of that is anyone’s guess — but it is certain that Hodges’ bellicose meanderings did nothing to persuade Moscow that there would be any attempt by the US-NATO coalition to modify its policy of uncompromising enmity.
Other pronouncements by NATO leaders have been equally threatening and intended to convince the public of western Europe that Russia attacked Ukraine.
But even if Russia had indeed invaded Ukraine, it would have had nothing whatever to do with anyone else.
The US-NATO coalition willfully ignores the fact that Ukraine is not a member of either the European Union or NATO and has no treaty of any sort with any nation in the world that would require provision of political, economic or military support in the event of a bilateral dispute with any other country. Yet NATO has seized upon the Ukraine-Russia discord to justify its policy of unrelenting hostility to Moscow.
NATO should have been disbanded at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union because that threat was the sole reason for its existence; but it decided to multiply membership and extend its military presence closer and closer to Russia’s borders. There is little wonder that Russia is apprehensive about NATO’s intentions, as the muscle-flexing coalition lurches towards conflict.
NATO’S Supreme Commander, US General Breedlove, has also contributed greatly to tension and fear in Europe by issuing dire warnings about Russia’s supposed maneuvers. On March 5 he indulged in fantasy by claiming, without a shred of evidence and no subsequent proof, that Russia had deployed “well over a thousand combat vehicles” along with “combat forces, some of their most sophisticated air defense, battalions of artillery” within Ukraine. This pronouncement was similar to his downright lie of November 18, 2014, when he told the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that there were “regular Russian army units in eastern Ukraine.”
The swell of anti-Russian propaganda, confrontation and attempted intimidation by NATO has increased, and if it continues to do so it is likely that Moscow will take action, thereby upping the stakes and the danger even more. It is time that NATO’s nations came to terms with the reality that Russia is a major international power with legitimate interests in its own region. Moscow is not going to bow the knee in the face of immature threats by sabre-rattling US generals and their swaggering acolytes. It is time for NATO to forge ties rather than destroy them — and to build bridges rather than glitzy office blocks.
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On a side note: everybody is buying bitcoin tonight. Last price $263.83 and climbing.
So... anyone get a chance to read that comprehensive report about the cause of the MH-17 crash? Fascinating stuff!
/sarc off
Here is a report that makes sense.
It seems that no one cares though.
http://cassad-eng.livejournal.com/2015/03/04/
Russia has nukes. Aside from that, it is a $2 trillion economy with a military that is a small fraction of what the former Soviet Union was.
Second largest airforce, massive land force, cost of maintaining and purchasing weapons a huge fraction of the cost compared to western equipment, most known resources in its land. GDP has little to do with it.
Yes. Having been the banksters' lab experiment in central planning for 70 years will do that to you. Putin hasn't undone all the damage quite yet. But Russia's coming back, no thanks to the banksters.
Had the Bolsheviks not been brought to power by the Germans in 1917 Russia would be Eurasia's largest economy today, by far. One day it will be just that.
bolshies were not financed by Germans.
Germans were revolution target also.
Have you forgotten the sealed train "To the Finland Station"? Containing Lenin & CO. and LOTS of gold?
The American military top brass are determined that we shall have mutually assured destruction and the Northern hemisphere lain a radioactive wasteland. They will feel their life unfulfilled if they ultimately fail to achieve that.
fortunately the ami military doesn't pull all the strings.
http://www.nato.int/
There you have it kids, let's embrace a anniversary. We've been together for 66 years, i don't complain about your sagging tit's and cobwebs in your cunt.
/sarc
Menwhile Russia manuvers 45,000 troops and equipment near the Ukrainian border. It's all theater to justify bloated military budgets.
It makes perfect sense that Russia should amass armed forces near the Ukraine border.
For reason that the present Ukraine government has said many very rude and very nasty things about Russia. If they were to make nice then things could be different.
NATO is operating on table scraps during a mutiple proxy war advancement. Someone hand me a tissue. Perhaps we can send them old US postal or Humvee trucks being sold on the auctioned surplus market.
I hope European leaders find the balls to build up NATO and push the russian gangster invaders back into russia or kill them. If the russians don't want to be killed in other peoples' countries, then they should stay in mother russia.
>> don't want to be killed
Q. Who is dying?
A. Some Americans and British, but mostly Afghans, Iraqis, Libyans, Yemenis, Syrians, Bahrainis, Sudanese, Egyptians, now Saudis and the list goes on. What do they all have in common?
Q: What do they all have in common?
A: I don't give a shit.
Mom is asking you to come upstairs to brush your teeth and go to bed.
Hey Prober, Are you volunteering to go to the "Russian Front" and push out the damn Russkis? If not, fuck off.
The EU leaders are not stupid enough to commit suicide by attacking Russia, especially to 'help' a disgusting, corrupt nazi Ukrainistan. They only wish you Ukie clowns would disappear so that they can continue listening to Conchita Wurst, and decline gracefully into unimportance.
"Ukraine" is part of Russia, and has been for centuries.
If the Current Occupant doesn't want any members of his "community" getting killed looking for white wimmin to rape in Europe, he should see to it they only leave the South Side on a one-way trip to Liberia, where they belong.
wake up, fool.
Here´s the thing. Yes, the NATOcrats are all full of bluster from their cozy modern offices with their hypermodern, Swedish-made office furniture. Beneath them, on the streets of Europe, hatred simmers- real hatred, and not of Russia. The German people are sick to death, not of the Greeks, but of the Turks. The French and Spanish are stewing in their own bile for the Muslims from North Africa who have invaded their countries and throw riots every so often. The Brits are livid about the continuous Muslim immigration into England, Wales, and Scotland.
The current generation of NATO and EU leadership knows only 1 thing: NATO and U.S. support for the EU by virtue of the international financial markets and central bank cooperation and support to keep the office-parties going a little longer. Time is on the side of the Russians, and they know this. If the dollar goes and the Fed cannot prop up the EU any more, it is Katy-bar-the-door in Europe. The protests will turn quickly into anti-Muslim protests. And once the truth filters down to the masses in Europe that the U.S. is not fighting Muslims terrorists, it is arming and enabling them, and has been for 30 years, along with its good friends in Arabia and its new friends in Iran, the Europeans are going to switch sides.
Who has been staunchly battling these Muslims for years? Who is standing up now as the guardian of the West against the khalifate hordes? It is Russia. When the dollar goes and the FED is not there to prop up the ECD, the Europeans will throw these Eurocrats and NATOcrats out of their comfy little offices and make a bonfire of their little office furnishings.
Then Europe will turn to Russia, and it will be the U.S. who stands all alone.
They want to instill a digital currency. They use a cowboy wearing a blackhat vs whitehat mentality to capture the audience. Old school hollyweird approach.
heres the thing aurorus arse holus
muslims abroad
it a project numb nuts
Barbara Lerner Spectre and jewish implementation of multiracial multiculturalism in the Europehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Vq_e2Z1ug
Jewish involvement in the promotion of 'hate speech' laws, multiculturalism, mass immigration, denationalization, subversion of traditional values, and related items.
http://balder.org/judea/Hate-Speech-Laws-Immigration-Jewish-Influence-Br...
Yes, an old Zionist trick.
The Eurocrats have seen to it that if they cannot rule Europe, nobody will. France alone has 59 nuclear power plants that can be set to catastrophically melt down long before the Russian army reach the Rhine.
That's the real point of European QE. The big boys want to cash out and get out ahead of a war that they know they will lose, because nobody in his right mind wants to be the last to die for the EU.
AurorusB, a wider context for your thesis is the overarching goal of using the invasion you speak of to destroy forever Christianity. To blame only the invaders and not those who cooperate with them who are in positions of power in Europe is why so many fail to grasp this. Communists have always persecuted Christians. The role of communists is now taken over by the softer version of communism called socialism. These socialist leaders aid and abet the invaders. As it is, only a small percentage of Europeans are Christian, so the task will be easily accomplished, ceteris paribus.
At present it is the Russians who represent what remains of Christianity and this is the underlying reason for the current attempts to undermine Russia. Not everything is economically motivated. Economics is a nice smokescreen, as is anti-semitism, which, for some reason, seems to be the most rife in countries with the highest immigration percentages.
Of course, a religious perspective will not have much traction among those who regard religion as atavistic superstition.
not only Russians, but Eastern Orthodox Slavs
I just busted a gut laughing because I lead a group that raises money to support the anti-russian-invaders in eastern Europe and our arms supplier just told us that the mortars and RPGs we just bought from him for delivery to Ukraine, for killing the russian gangster invaders, were actually made in russia ! - I LOVE the irony of it !!!!
The next shipment will be sniper rifles & ammo.
Keep one eye open, they arrive early morning. The house or apartment complex will be surrounded Give us a ZH update on audio jail frequency channel
Weapons will be delivered to Ukraine. 100% legal.
We are just fund raisers for freedom fighters.
russian gangster invaders, this is your dying time, but you can live, just go back to your own HUGE country and leave other peoples' countries for them to manage however they want
I think that you are probably too stupid to be doing a half of what you claim.
Who did you say you are working for? They must be really stupid too , to even think of employing you.
Nice to know that you are supporting the genocide in Ukraine.
Heil! Glory to Ukraine!
also applies to America
as if you didn't know.
6000 dead in Dombas... hundreds of thousands dead in Iraq. Only an unethical hypocrite can excuse the American invader while condeming the Russian. At least there are pro-Russian forces in Donbas/Crimea who welcomed the Russians.
Did any iraqis welcome the Americans in 2003?
When Bush invaded Iraq, he did it as a feudal lord from 8000 miles away. Sorry if this argument is too complicated for your insect brain.
Bullshit. You are a wanna be. In your fucking dreams you head a group of assholes who wish that they could deliver arms to the broke/welfare state Ukraine like little magical pixies. At best you are a war profiteer making blood money but if you were, you would never brag about such ugliness anywhere and especially on ZH. Dream on bullshitter, Novorussia will defeat the Ukrainian NAZI's again and again, forever. :)
Calm down. He is a government troll. Learn to play the game. It's accually fun when you can fence them into a corner. The prepared written reply is beyond the paygrade typesmith when challanged.
lol, Calm me .... Calm.... lol, never! When it comes to government trolls.... well I am all attack, I will let you do the fine work and admire finesse with anyone who makes a good point. wtf is calm in my world? not much!
really?
I wasn't aware that cockroaches could be organized. Or, for that matter, had enough disposable income to contribute to worthless causes.
bored
When teh dolla collapse, lots of basket-ball americans are gonna' be wildin'
Russia is in the drivers seat. NATO and its bluster is classic fear driven warmongering propaganda designed to screw the public out of any truth or fact and keep the mostly American military industrial complex running. How long could Europe survive if Russia withheld all of its energy supplies? If Russia cut off most of Europe from its energy supplies for just a few short weeks the economic kick in the nutz would be painfully felt on Wall Street. Russia is in the drivers seat, they are the only country in Europe that can face East and prosper. Russia will continue on with major development projects with India and China (among others such as Egypt) and the US empire and its 'hubris dollar', aka the world reserve FIAT dollar is dead, game over. Russia has the potential to do what many of us have wanted for years, End the Fed and break the criminal syndicates that took control of the US government.
Europe does not learn much from its history. We are being setup -once again- for a major conflict on the continent. With all do respect for its people and everything, no European mother -or father for that matter- is willing to send her son to fight or die for Ukraine. Ultimately this conflict in Ukraine is about who is going to be boss over Eurasia and to keep the perpetual warmachine and ponzi scheme that is called Western capitalism going.
Oh, Europeans have learnt from history. It's their masters who never do. It's never their money or their son at stake.
I agree about the people. But the fact is that their masters always know how to create to conditions to make people willing to go to war. Look at this whole Ukraine situation. Many people -made numb by reality TV and dancing with the stars- believe the narrative on that. Do I trust Putin? Not really but I don't believe this whole CNN/BBC narrative on that situation neither.
It is really easy to set people up for war. If propaganda doesn't work, well then just create economic mayhem. That'll work.
“I believe the Russians are mobilizing right now for a war that they think is going to happen in five or six years
Or you know, like any other army on this earth...
...meanwhile the weapons dealers and financiers make even moar money.
Sickness. Liquid sickness both in banksters and warmongers buildings.
1 and 1/2 billion is nothing compared to this..I sometimes think its not only the Fed that has its own printing press..Personally I believe every dept head is given one after completing their orientation..just a gut feelin..ya know?
Our star wars shield with the giant golf balls in the ocean is dead in the water.
http://graphics.latimes.com/missile-defense/
Leaders of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency were effusive about the new technology.
It was the most powerful radar of its kind in the world, they told Congress. So powerful it could detect a baseball over San Francisco from the other side of the country.
Crucially, the system would be able to distinguish between actual missiles and decoys.If North Korea launched a sneak attack, the Sea-Based X-Band Radar — SBX for short — would spot the incoming missiles, track them through space and guide U.S. rocket-interceptors to destroy them.
SBX “represents a capability that is unmatched,” the director of the Missile Defense Agency told a Senate subcommittee in 2007.
In reality, the giant floating radar has been a $2.2-billion flop, a Los Angeles Times investigation found.
Although it can powerfully magnify distant objects, its field of vision is so narrow that it would be of little use against what experts consider the likeliest attack: a stream of missiles interspersed with decoys.
SBX was supposed to be operational by 2005. Instead, it spends most of the year mothballed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
Airborne Laser
The concept: A fleet of Boeing 747s, each modified to fire an infrared chemical laser through a 5-foot-long telescope in its nose. The laser would incinerate enemy missiles shortly after launch, before they could release decoys that might fool U.S. radar.
Major contractors: Boeing Co., Northrop Grumman Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp.
Early optimism: “We are building forces of good to defeat the force of evil. And in that vein today we are taking a major step to give the American people their first ‘Light Saber.’” — Henry A. Obering III, then-director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, Oct. 27, 2006.
Problems: Because of the laser’s limited range, each 747 would have had to fly near or within an adversary's borders, leaving it vulnerable to antiaircraft missiles. To operate at a safer distance, the laser would have had to be 20 to 30 times more powerful. And the laser's potassium hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide fuel posed severe safety risks to the crew.
Disappointment: “I don’t know anybody at the Department of Defense … who thinks that this program should, or would, ever be operationally deployed.”
— Robert M. Gates, then-secretary of Defense, May 20, 2009.
Status: Killed in 2012.
Cost: $5.3 billion.
Kinetic Energy Interceptor
The concept: The fastest U.S. rocket-interceptor, to be fired from land or Navy ships at enemy missiles during their early “boost” phase.
Major contractors: Northrop Grumman Corp. and Raytheon Co.
Early optimism: “That high acceleration with the mobile capability of Kinetic Energy Interceptor is very, very attractive.” — Henry A. Obering III, then-director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, April 7, 2005.
Problems: Extending 40 feet, the KEI would have been longer than anything ever launched from a modern Navy ship. To carry it, Navy vessels would have had to be retrofitted at a cost of billions of dollars. And the interceptor’s range was too limited to allow it to be land-based. It would have had to be positioned so close to its target that it would be vulnerable to attack.
Disappointment: “No matter how successful tests might one day have been, the system would have had negligible utility.” — National Academy of Sciences review panel, Dec. 31, 2012.
Status: Killed in 2009.
Cost: $1.7 billion.
Multiple Kill Vehicle
The concept: A “bandolier” of eight to 20 miniature interceptors that would destroy missiles and decoys.
Major contractors: Raytheon Co. and Lockheed Martin.
Early optimism: “The Multiple Kill Vehicle is a transformational program adding volume kill capability to the ballistic missile defense system as early as 2013.” — U.S. Missile Defense Agency news release, July 19, 2006.
Problems: The technical challenge of creating and launching tiny “kill vehicles” that could find and destroy far heavier warheads in space proved insurmountable. Among many other obstacles, existing ground-based rockets would have had to be retrofitted or replaced. The concept never reached the stage where a test flight could be conducted.
Disappointment: “To more effectively hedge against future threats, we propose to … terminate the Multiple Kill Vehicle … in lieu of more operationally efficient alternative technology architectures.” — Patrick J. O'Reilly, then-director of the Missile Defense Agency, May 21, 2009.
Status: Shelved in 2009.
Cost: $700 million.
Sea-Based X-Band Radar
The concept: A floating radar powerful enough to detect and track long-range missiles and distinguish enemy warheads from decoys.
Major contractors: Boeing Co. and Raytheon Co.
Early optimism: “It is the most powerful radar of its kind in the world and will provide ... a highly advanced detection and discrimination capability.” — Henry A. Obering III, then-director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, May 10, 2006.
Problems: The radar’s field of vision is so narrow that it could not reliably track a sequence of incoming missiles. Its sensitive instrumentation is prone to corrosion at sea, and it needs millions of dollars in fuel to operate for even short periods.
Disappointment: "Just how this was going to fit into the [missile defense] system — I don’t think anybody paid much attention to that.… SBX was designed for a mission other than that required.” — Radar specialist David K. Barton.
Status: Downgraded to “limited test support status.” It sat idle in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for more than eight months in 2013.
Cost: $2.2 billion.
Sources: Statements posted by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, Boeing Co., Raytheon Co., Northrop Grumman Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp.; transcripts of congressional testimony; a National Academy of Sciences-sponsored report, “Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense,” Dec. 31, 2012; interviews with missile defense specialists.
The project not only wasted taxpayer money but left a hole in the nation’s defenses. The money spent on it could have gone toward land-based radars with a greater capability to track long-range missiles, according to experts who have studied the issue.
Expensive missteps have become a trademark of the Missile Defense Agency, an arm of the Pentagon charged with protecting U.S. troops and ships and the American homeland.
None of that stuff would work when Ivan throws 5000 missiles over the north pole.
All of these programs killed by Obumbles are not dead, merely gone dark.
Mr. Winston of Douche i guess you didn't read the stuff . All those programs failed in which once again your honest mic contractors made heavy money . They weren't killed by obama or thrown in some dark hole . They didn't work inspite of us PR propaganda . Most ignorant defense conglomerate company .
Yes, the evil banksters in NYC have their roots in the City of London. But the City of London is controlled by the Satanic Tribe!
Da. Pravada.
This is especially true if Moscow believes it is ahead of the West in technology (Khibiny, S-500, Antey-2500). The Russians must attack before the West catches up.
So today it's a game of chicken right out the 50's. And our very own 'Negro Without A Cause' thinks he's winning it.
Instead of electing an African American president to prove how liberal and unbiased America is, we should have elected a retarded person.
There would be no observable difference.
Winning a land war with Russia wouldn't be possible even for a real army. The chance that the pack of halfwitted diversity hires, regularly shown up by sandniggers, that passes for Uncle Sugar's army would succeed where the Wehrmacht failed is just about zero.
The banksters know that. They may not care that much. Their real plan is to make Europe's liberation impossible and Russian victory in any war as Pyrrhic as possible.
Honestly, they never trusted the ancestral peoples of Europe, whose threat to their rule grows with each passing year, and have been planning to drive them into extinction for a long time. War with Russia will give them someone else they can blame it on.
Russian saboteurs can be blamed, for example, for the catastrophic meltdowns of France's nuclear power plants the banksters plan in case of a real risk of France's government falling into the hands of patriots.
Keep believing, see you soon!
^ Another ignorant murican armchari general here . You need to go back for more disinformation training buddy. The only people on Zerohedge who are going to be influenced by this claim are your fellow government-paid shills. SEE YOU TROLL .
nato = ussa
ussa = neocons
neocons preparing for war.
the rest of the world is saying:
fu*k the neocons and the ussa.
in 5 or 6 years they will have emasculated themselves.
articles like this are somewhat BS.
especially when written from the home base of the f*cking problem
which of the suppoesed nato countries is increasing defence budgets?
which of the nato countries has an army better trained than the ukies?
which has an airforce? a navy? cut the BS.
it is not nato, a toothless tiger.
it is the psychotics in the ussa.
screw the scare talk ron paul and solve the friggin' problem.
if it continues to do so it is likely that Moscow will take action
Apparently the author is working for the Russian propagana machine. Already preparing the public for the coming seond front to connect the Donbas with Crimea? And then claim that NATO rhetoric left Putin no other choice than to kill a few thousand Ukrainians more?
Yeah. The libertarian Ron Paul Institute is a well-known Kremlin mouthpiece. I remember Ron talking about what a fan he was of Russia´s Marxist past and its current oligarchs during his previous presidential bids.
You need to go back for more disinformation training buddy. The only people on Zerohedge who are going to be influenced by this claim are your fellow government-paid shills.
Dammit, ZH, get with the team! C'mon, boys and girlz, let's get in on the Big Win!
That Putin guy is a girlie man, unlike our brave Bath House!
What has Putin done that's so great? Kept the Peace?
Bath House has wrecked half the world! Let's go, Team!
USA USA USA!
If war, the corporations & their owners profit, so let them bear the cost of burying the dead and paying for the care of the wounded alone.
military industrial complex would go out of business if peace breaks out... they need perpetual war to approve their budget...
The neocons are desperate for nuclear war. But naturally, they prefer the first nuclear war they start occurs in Europe, so they can sit back in comfort and watch humans burn and die in agony on big screens, like some sick soap opera.
If the "leaders" of Europe aid, abed and tolerate these neocons, they have to qualify as nearly the stupidest bunch of chimps the world has ever seen. And boy will they pay for being so stupid. May they glow in the dark as they deserve. Obviously most of their slaves ("citizens") do not deserve this, and should take them out to save themselves.
I am moving everyone in the family to Bangalore.
NOOO DON'T COME TO INDIA .
On April 10th, 2014 the U.S.N. Donald Cook entered the Black Sea. The Donald Cook is an Aegis missile destroyer.
On April 17th two unarmed SU-24's approached the ship, one jet stood off while the other overflew the ship completely disabling all electronics. The Su-24 then performed 12 practice runs on the destroyer while it lay completely disabled.
Aterwards, the Cook left the Black Sea for a nearby port (Rumania).
Subsequently 11 of the Donald Cook's crew requested to be discharged from the Navy. It is reported that the crew was totally demoralized by that incident with the SU-24's.
This link is full of videos of said report as well as some awesome footage of Russia's supersonic, anti-ship, cruise missiles doing a double bow on, destruction of a 100 meter (300') ship. Just to note; bow shots require pin point accuracy.
http://beforeitsnews.com/military/2013/09/russias-supersonic-p-800-yakho...
Enjoy...
We cannot get independent confirmation of this- not that it did not happen.
Russia has been always interested in ECM, though, so it is possible.
The SU-24 incident was widely reported, in that an SU-24 buzzed the destroyer. That can be asserted as fact; the jamming, less so. Agreed.
But, the sudden withdrawl of the ship would at least imply there was more to the "incident" than reported.
Time will tell...
Is this the Alex Jones site now?
jd is short for just dumb?
A few large devices exploding in Berlin will probably change Merkle's mind quickly enough, if not the German people will lynch her from the nearest tree.
Nobody is interested in war, the people are not behind any govt for this, so if they try it they will get themesleves revolutions I can guess.
I think Russia has made it clear now, that any war initiated with it will ensure that the US mainland will not miss out on consequences.
And neither will Russian trolls wherever they may be. Ask the Japanese what happens to sneak attackers.
How to Beat Internet Trolls
hey oceanic fanboy , don't let the facts hit you rooter .
TPTB CIA NSA and so forth shills for neo-con military establishment I think will be out in force to sell their wars some more... oh look just above....lol
President Putin shoudl spell it out to the Vassal puppets of the EU , The NATO building and the EU building will be targeted for destrucion !
The infamous NATO (North Amerikan Terror Organ) is a flaccid, limp appendage grafted onto to the Uruppean eunuch because raving geriatric curmudgeon, Uncle Sam hasn't managed to get it up since it took the credit for Russia's slaughter of the Anglozionazi financed German NAZIS 70 years ago.
There will be bluster and and there will be blood but the demobbed legions of cast off and unwashed Mercan gung hoers are more than capable of culling their own psychopaths in Washing town and Urupp (already pivotted to the Eurasian future) will dump the Anglozionazi Empire of Chaos as soon as the Saudi Mercan toilet paper "reserve currency" IOU petroscrip garbage explodes the Ponzi shitter in the Wall St shaman bankster sewer Mercans still quaintly call their economy. To imagine that Germans haven't figured out the Anglozionazi scam that moved from Berlin 1930's to Nuland's NAZI Kiev 2013 is simplistic beyond belief. Merkel is a stooge but SHE is not Germany.
Seems like the best bet for survival is for the West to collapse economically first before they can fund a war effort.
NATO has become what Hitler was: grabbing territory after territory, maniacally blundering towards war. Remember, Hitler did not think a general war would break out over Poland.
War. Just say No.
Hilter invaded poland because POLAND stole half it's land in WW1. Yet still today POLAND has not handed it back.
I wouldn't call Danzig/Gdansk HALF of its land.
That said, Poland was too stiff-necked to make a reasonable concession/land swap to re-unite the German people, and there would have been no war had England not backed the idiots in Warsaw.
WWII logic is simple, Germany trys to recover stolen LAND, Britan and France don't like that idea. WII, then American's were manuplated into joining the war via the that media markets fictional enemys such as AL-Qaeda, ISIS etc. American Gov were proabely at war with germany unoffically, but the people needed be manuplated in joiing and supporting it to make it offical.
Where are the NATO troops in libya? Cry all you like because a Russian toady was usurped, your efforts in Yemen will fail also.
You know nothing about Libya
better worry about your own country
Oh! so nato DIDN'T INVADE LIBYA ? WHAT a cheeky cunt .
West is in a decaying state, Zionists power and influence over politic's, media, banking and military has been destructive to the WEST will continue to be, until they bring in law that people with CONFLICTING interests can not be in politics, media, banking in that NATION.
Provocation is a defense in a murder trial in many instances. Being goaded into action.
It seems that Breedlove and Hodges are both provocateurs to force Russia's hand. One need look no further than operation GLADIO in Europe during the Cold War to see how much the U.S. and NATO are concerned for your safety.
Breedlove and Hodges are antagonists and future war criminals that do the bidding of a petty gender confused tinpot dictator.
I will repeat to Europe what I said here to the Ukrainians sometime ago, you want peace and freedom from violence and manipulation? Kick the Americans out of your countries.
Make them close their bases and return the land and pay back for the damages they have inflicted. This would require an act of ardent self determination.
America and its military cause strife wherever they go through the Hiegelian dialectic they would have you believe the boogie man lurks everywhere to promote their own necessity.
When I was a child a sitter would put me in bed and would tell me there was a monster under the bed then shut out the light to force my compliance through fear and it worked for sometime. Until one day I got out of bed and checked for my self and when she was confronted with her lies she was left to beg me to go to bed and make concessions.
There is no difference Europe turn on the lights, look for yourself, there is no monster confront the lies. Don't comply with the liar make them beg and make concessions then tell them to leave before they get you into another war.
Recent Sharp Rise in Russian Military Spending Shows Putin Preparing for Bigger War, Illarionov Says
Staunton, April 3 — Russian military spending, even as officially given by the finance ministry, provides a remarkably accurate early warning indicator of Russian intentions, Andrey Illarionov says, and a dramatic increase in spending since January of this year thus suggests that Vladimir Putin is preparing for a larger war in Ukraine and/or elsewhere.
Between the time that Putin came to power up to January 2014, the Moscow economist and commentator says, Moscow has spent on average 2.5 to 3.2 percent of GDP on the military, with the figure tending to rise over time. During the first 13 years of his rule, Illarionov says, spending in constant prices went up 2.6 times.
But over the 14 months – the period of Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine – Russian spending on its military has not only gone up significantly as one would expect at a time of military operations but has tracked in a way that provides insights on Russian intentions for the future, the Moscow analyst says.
After Putin made his final decision to intervene in Ukraine in February 2014, he says, Moscow’s military expenditures “were increased by more than twice,” a figure that suggested the Russian government intended not only to seize and occupy Crimea but all of what it calls “Novorossiya.”
In February, March and April of last year, Russian military spending amounted to 6.7 percent of GDP and 27.7 percent of all budget expenditures.
At the end of April, the Kremlin halted its most ambitious plans and reduced its monthly military spending for the rest of 2014 by approximately a third compared to the first three months of last year, reductions that were possible even though Moscow increased its exercises near the Ukrainian border and supported military action within Ukraine.
According to Illarionov, official Russian government figures show that “the situation radically changed” in the first two months of this year, the latest period for which figures are available. Average monthly military spending increased 2.3 times, compared to the May-Deceber 2014 period, 3.3. times compared to the last pre-war period, and 8.8 times compared to 2000.
For those two months alone, he says, military spending was more than 1.3 trillion rubles – that is, more than 20 billion US dollars – and it constituted 43.3. percent of the federal budget and 12.7 percent of Russia’s admittedly diminished GDP.
Such a “sharp increase” in military spending provides addition evidence that Putin is preparing for military actions “on a far larger scale and much higher level of intensity than even those which [the world] has seen over the course of the last 14 months.” In short, Illarionov says, the Kremlin leader is preparing for a major war in Ukraine and/or elsewhere.
http://www.interpretermag.com/recent-sharp-rise-in-russian-military-spen...
Remember to visit: http://stopputinregime.wordpress.com
Sure hope so. SOMEBODY needs to stop the slaughter of the innocents in the Donbass by Porky and his EU/US friends.
You fucktard.
I think if N. Korea or Hamas was sending lethal military equipment and training advisors into Mexico we would be ratcheting up our defense spending in response too.
I think you may find a more receptive audience at MoveOn.org.
This is USSR / Stalin crimes to humanity:
https://youtu.be/oVZjyyAE-78
And these are polls showing what is Russian attitude (under putin regime propaganda) to these war crimes:
45% - crimes of Stalin can be justified, but 3 years before on 2012 only 21 % thought so.
Now 57% - object calling Stalin a criminal.
2010 there where 18 - 19% of Russians who called Stalin's death as "great leader and scholar loss" now this number has increased to 24%.
http://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/articles/2015/03/31/vse-bolshe-rossiyan...
Also check out articles:
Majority of Russians Say Stalin Played 'Positive Role'
http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-poll-finds-majority-of-russians-say-s...
Stalin wiped from Soviet Gulag prison museum
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31711287
Did Vladimir Putin call the breakup of the USSR 'the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century?'
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/mar/06/john-bolton/...
Another proof of putin lies.
Here you can find mass graves that appeared in Rostov
You can find it by your self using this site:
http://www.gps-coordinates.net/
And these are coordinates:
47°19'4.36"N
39°42'6.36"E.
Using Google Earth - here is timeline of this place:
https://stopputinregime.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/mass-grave-of-russian-s...
putin regime officially denies in being responsible for attacking Ukraine using so called „rebels from DNR and LNR”. But when you look at facts and do a simple math you will come to conclusion that putin is lying.
First of all observe so called LNR and DNR territory
http://liveuamap.com/
It’s super small / tinny territory and by putin theory locked from outside world where only putin humanitarian aid is send.
Now, look at these numbers.
Russia 5 day war in Georgia costs 12,5 billion rubles that’s 2,5 billion RUB for one day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War
“According to Nezavisimaya Gazeta, the five-day war cost Russia an estimated 12.5 billion rubles, a daily cost of 2.5 billion rubles.[294]”
Now, so called DNR and LNR has been in war with Ukraine regular army and attacking Ukraine using tanks, armored vehicles, GRAD, rockets, grenades, etc. from 15. April, 2014.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27031318
That is till today 27. march of 2015 – it has been 347 days in war with Ukraine regular army.
It means that this self proclaimed “government” of terrorists in this tinny territory locked from outside world should have approximately funding of 347 x 2 500 000 000 RUB = 867 500 000 000 RUB or in today $ value (when RUB has lost half of it’s value) it would be something about $ 14 999 187 775.
Then you should ask your self – how on earth they got such sum of money? From what resources they can afford this war? And who has such deep interest in such huge funding?
So war putin regime admits that - yes – Russians on their free will join LNR & DNR and yes, putin regime is sending “humanitarian aid” to them. This of course is a lie and has been exposed already here: https://stopputinregime.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/putin-lies-in-ukraine-1/
So you see - this tinny territory of so called DNR & LNR are fake entities created, funded and controlled by putin regime. There is no way for them to exist without putin regime. This is putin regime attacking Ukraine and not a civil war in Ukraine with “freedom fighters” in east.
ust after 9pm each day, a long line of workers files out of 55 Savushkina Street, a modern four-storey office complex with a small sign outside that reads “Business centre”. Having spent 12 hours in the building, the workers are replaced by another large group, who will work through the night.
The nondescript building has been identified as the headquarters of Russia’s “troll army”, where hundreds of paid bloggers work round the clock to flood Russian internet forums, social networks and the comments sections of western publications with remarks praising the president, Vladimir Putin, and raging at the depravity and injustice of the west.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russia...
putin regime has no interest in russian people but instead to please oligarchs and keep his self at power as czar and here facts that prove that:
There is money for elite:
Russian Big Business Is Lining up for Budget Funds
and killing machine in order to invade Ukraine and who know where else:
Russian Defense Budget to Hit Record $81 Billion in 2015
but not for doctors:
Moscow’s plan to close hospitals and fire doctors threatens social welfare system
and not for education
Putin War Budget Gives Less to Health, Education, Agriculture and Even Crimea
putin regime occupied and annexed part of Ukraine – Crimea (which is an international crime and for what he will be brought to court in time):
Putin Admits Russian Troop Role in Crimea Annexation
but gave away land territory to China:
China Eyes Land Giveaway Program in Russia’s Far East
and China will take over Russia leaving Russia as puppet state to China:
Former head of Moscow FSB warns Russia could lose territory to China
One thing is that putin gives away money to his corrupt elite system members and gives away Russian land and energy for pennies to China – other that he is slaughtering Russian people by sending them in undeclared wars – where young boys are slaughtered and their mothers receive lies from putin regime that their boys has died in “accidents” and they can visit their son corps in far distant places guarded by FSB agents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C66mAkS1ZfM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_CoL_yfI1s
And despite all that – people in Russia Federation is so brainwashed by main stream media that they are ready to starve and die for czar putin. It’s not normal. This is hitler rising in Russia Federation.
Kremlin hard-liner: Russians would 'rather starve' than surrender Putin to Western aggressors
How much does Soros pay you to post this shit?
Or is it NATO?
Yeah, one or the other, good call.
"Have you stopped beating your wife?"
A loaded question or complex question fallacy is a question which contains a controversial or unjustified assumption (e.g., a presumption of guilt).[1]
Aside from being an informal fallacy depending on usage, such questions may be used as a rhetorical tool: the question attempts to limit direct replies to be those that serve the questioner's agenda.[2] The traditional example is the question "Have you stopped beating your wife?" Whether the respondent answers yes or no, they will admit to having a wife and having beaten her at some time in the past. Thus, these facts are presupposed by the question, and in this case an entrapment, because it narrows the respondent to a single answer, and the fallacy of many questions has been committed.[2] The fallacy relies upon context for its effect: the fact that a question presupposes something does not in itself make the question fallacious. Only when some of these presuppositions are not necessarily agreed to by the person who is asked the question does the argument containing them become fallacious.[2] Hence the same question may be loaded in one context, but not in the other. For example the previous question would not be loaded if it was asked during a trial in which the defendant has already admitted to beating his wife.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question
" Have you stopped stocking potatoes latvian shill " ?
How long has the Kremlin been paying you? I've been watching you post in favor of Russia since before Market Watch banned thumbs down. Likely an East German who only likes the bier from the West. Becks is better than Russian bier eh mine herr?
Bumper stickers for brains, "I'm ignorant and proud of it."
To understand that it's putin who is behaving like aggressor in Europe and threatening western world for helping Ukraine to defend it's self against putin regime invasion - read these facts about these latest close military encounters between Russia and the West.
High Risk Incidents High Risk incidents, in our view, are defined as those with a high probability of causing casualties or a direct military confrontation between Russia and Western states. We have identified three such cases in the relevant time period:On 3 March 2014 a close encounter occurred between a SAS passenger plane taking off from Copenhagen and a Russian reconnaissance aircraft which did not transmit its position. The incident happened 50 miles south east of Malmo. A collision was apparently avoided thanks only to good visibility and the alertness of the passenger plane pilots. The SAS 737 plane was carrying 132 passengers to Rome. Had these two planes collided with a major loss of civilian life comparable to the tragedy of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine, the result would almost certainly have been a new round of western sanctions on Russia and increased NATO patrolling in the Baltic Sea but also, and perhaps more importantly, the classification of further un-logged or blind air activity over Europe as a possible threat to life requiring forceful pre-emptive interdiction.
On 5 September 2014
an Estonian security service operative, Eston Kohver, was abducted by Russian agents from an Estonian border post, on Estonian, and therefore NATO, territory. He was later taken to Moscow and accused of espionage. The incident itself involved communications jamming and the use of smoke grenades, and took place immediately after President Obama’s visit to the region and his repetition of security assurances to the Baltic States. Had the incident resulted in loss of life there could have been dangerous and uncontrolled escalation.
Between 17-27 October 2014 a major submarine hunt by Swedish authorities was prompted by credible intelligence reports of “underwater activity” in the Stockholm archipelago in Swedish territorial waters. Supreme Commander General Sverker Göranson underlined that Sweden was ready to use “armed force” to bring the vessel to the surface if necessary. Russia issued denials and attempted to ridicule Swedish concerns. The major search operation stopped on Oct. 24. The Swedish military stated that “foreign underwater activity” had probably taken place, with at least one unidentified vessel involved. This incident represented the biggest anti-submarine operation in Sweden since the Cold War and increased Swedish concerns that more aggressive Russian surveillance and probing operations are under way in breach of international law. Had the submarine been found and force used by Swedish authorities, this may have resulted in casualties and a further Russian military response.Serious Incidents with Escalation Risk What we characterise in this report as serious incidents go beyond the previously established pattern of interaction and the near routine cases outlined below and involve close encounters of a more aggressive or unusually provocative nature. As such this category of incident brings a higher level of risk of escalation. We have identified 11 such serious incidents. They include 4 separate cases of the harassment of U.S. and Swedish reconnaissance planes in international airspace by armed Russian fighters; 2 cases of Russian aircraft conducting close overflights over U.S. and Canadian ships in the Black Sea; Russian aircraft violating Swedish airspace on a mock ‘bombing raid’ mission; a mock attack on the Danish island of Bornholm; the practicing of cruise missile attacks against the US mainland; boarding and detention of a Lithuanian fishing vessel accused of illegal fishing in the Barents Sea; and a massive outburst of Russian aviation activity along NATO borders in late October. Each of these incidents could have evolved into a more serious situation, both in terms of possible casualties or broader political and diplomatic consequences. More detail on each incident is presented below:
On 12 April 2014 an unarmed Russian fighter aircraft made 12 passes of the American warship the USS Cook in the Black Sea. Such aggressive behaviour, if repeated by an armed aircraft, could have resulted in the ship commander targeting the aircraft in an act of self-defence.
On April 23 2014 an armed Russian fighter undertook very threatening manoeuvres in the vicinity of an American reconnaissance aircraft in the Sea of Okhotsk. These manoeuvres involved demonstrating that the fighter was armed. Such behaviour is far removed from what would be expected in a relatively routine encounter.
In June 2014 armed Russian aircraft approached the heavily populated Danish island of Bornholm before breaking off in what appears to have been a simulated attack. The Danish intelligence service described the incident as “of a more offensive character than observed in recent years.”
On 18 July 2014 an American surveillance plane conducting operations near Kaliningrad was chased into Swedish air-space after being approached by Russian fighters. This evasive action took place without Sweden’s prior approval that the US aircraft could enter Swedish airspace.On 16 July 2014
an armed Russian aircraft intercepted a Swedish surveillance plane conducting operations between Gotland and Latvia in international airspace, and flew within 10 metres of the plane. This indicated a far more aggressive approach to intercepting aircraft than in previous encounters.
In early September, 2014 Russian strategic bombers in the Labrador Sea near Canada practiced cruise missile strikes on the United States. The Russian aircraft stayed outside of Canada’s ADIZ but this was still a provocative move in light of the NATO summit ongoing at the time. Cruise missiles launched from the Labrador Sea would have Ottawa, New York, Washington, Chicago, and the Norfolk Naval Base in range.
On 7 September 2014 HMCS Toronto (a frigate) was buzzed by a Russian aircraft in the Black Sea, with the plane coming within 300 metres of the warship. HMCS Toronto locked its radar on the Russian plane but took no further action as the aircraft was not armed. This incident coincided with larger Russian naval combat training activities near Sevastopol. Such aggressive behaviour, if repeated by an armed aircraft, could have resulted in the ship commander targeting the aircraft in an act of self-defence.
On 17 September 2014 two Russian military aircraft crossed into Swedish air-space south of the island of Oland. The Russian Su-24 bombers intentionally violated Swedish airspace possibly to test the capabilities of the air defence system strengthened after previous incidents. The Swedish Foreign Minister described the incident as the ‘most serious aerial incursion’ in years.
On 19 September 2014 Russian officers detained a Lithuanian shipping vessel in international waters in the Barents Sea, subsequently towing it to Murmansk. This represented a clear escalation in Russian attempts at the provocation and intimidation of the Baltic States.
On 3 October 2014 a Russian fighter flew “within metres” of Swedish surveillance aircraft in the Baltic in an incident deemed “unusually provocative”. A collision between the aircraft would have had serious repercussions for bilateral relations and increased military tensions across the entire Baltic area.
From 28-30 October 2014 Russia conducted a major air exercise in the North Sea, Atlantic, Black Sea and Baltic Sea. In a series of developments, aircraft from NATO states and partners tracked Russian long-range bombers conducting missions across this entire area, including a large formation of Russian fighters and bombers conducting missions over the Baltic Sea. All missions were conducted in international airspace but their scale and use of different kinds of aircraft and different zones of operation has added significantly to increased tensions between NATO and Russia.
SOURCE: http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/medialibrary/2014/11/09/6375e3d...
Serious Incidents with Escalation Risk
Near Collision between Russian military jet and Commercial Airliner Date: 12/12/14 States Involved: Sweden; Russia Geographical Region: Baltic Incident Details: A Russian military aircraft, flying without using its transponders, flies within close proximity of a commercial carrier south of Malmo. Russia has denied that the incident was a danger. Category: Serious. Such incidents represent a credible threat to life; Swedish Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist said "This is serious. This is inappropriate. This is outright dangerous when you turn off the transponder."Air/Naval Incident Date: Early March 2015 States Involved: Russia; US; Turkey Geographical Region: Black Sea Incident Details: Russian fighter bombers are using NATO warships in the Black Sea to practice attack scenarios. Category: Serious. Such actions risk provoking a more proactive defensive response from the captains of these ships should they feel endangered. Routine incidents keep on reading at the source.
SOURCE: http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/medialibrary/2015/03/11/4264a5a...
Is it normal if people can’t imagine their country without current president? I think not. President should not become czar / emperor / dictator. But this is what has happened in Russia Federation. Putin has became a czar and people has been brainwashed by putin regime propaganda so far – that they can’t imagine world without putin. Putin from KGB to president of Russia Federation has been for 15 years. Whole generation has been raised by knowing only putin.
hitler rising in Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY3s4CpAtkg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5E_qMHTO0U
There are no real opposition for putin regime. If some political opposition appears than he get's arrested and jailed:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/russian-opposition-leader-j...
Or killed:
https://youtu.be/SgBNmFarW1w
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Nemtsov
Anyone who speaks against putin regime get’s killed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalya_Estemirova
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky
There is no freedom of speech under putin regime – because it’s one of most dangerous country in the world for journalists. You get killed if you speak against putin regime. All main stream media brainwashes people minds 24/7 just like Hitler did:
All three TV channels are controlled by the state: the majority share of Channel One belongs to Rosimuschestvo (the Federal Agency for State Property Management). Other shareholders include National Media Group (controlled by the structures of Yuri Kovalchuk, Chairman of the Board of Rossiya Bank, one of the largest banks in Russia, and Vladimir Putin’s personal friend; and Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea football club and Putin’s ally). Rossiya 2 is a part of VGTRK (All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company) which is owned by Rosimushchestvo. NTV is also controlled by the state through Gazprom Media. TNT and Pyatiy Kanal that come respectively fourth and fifth in the top TV channels by audience reach, are also controlled by the state. TNT belongs to Gazprom Media, while Channel 5 is controlled by National Media Group.
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/12/brief-history-russian-media/
And if anyone tries to sneak in with truth using internet .. well than Putin regime iron fist is also there:
Everything You Need to Know About Russia's Internet Crackdown
That is why in Russia there is allays at power "dear leader" Putin.
16 Years KGB agent
1999 to 2000 - PM
2000 to 2008 - President
2008 to 2012 - PM
2012 to 2018 (2024) - president / czar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin
Let us assume you are absolutely correct.
It still does not explain the above article which clearly shows the aggressive posturing and actions of a militaristic organization that is NATO.
your evidence does not explain, the simple fact that Russia had not placed its troops anywhere in the world, while NATO and U.S. troops are everywhere causing unrest.
So who cares if Putin is President, Russia is a peaceful country while NATO is clearly an aggressor.
Why do you think Putin has anything to do with aggression of NATO or this article?
putin regime has invaded Georgia and created two puppet states recognized only by putin regime, than invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea and now keeps attacking east Ukraine and trying to create two puppet states there. During these aggressions have died thousands of Russian people and Georgians, Ukrainians. You call this peaceful?
putin regime would not invade Georgia and Ukraine if those countries would be members of NATO, that is why Baltic states joined NATO. To protect from history repeating it self. Once Balts where neutral and that ended up by russian occupation (led by Stalin - era that majority of Russians today remember as something good). So you can't be neutral next to imperia.
Man, you really are an annoying deluded fool!
Why do you keep getting new accounts?
If you keep this shit up, I will be forced to call forth and unleash the Stooge-ing on your ass...
Why are Russian troops in Belurus?
Is it important to you?
Because belarus is part of CSTO douche!
If we look at war in Ukraine and who is liying than look at these facts not some pathetic unproven putin regime propaganda:
1.) putin told that there are no russian army active in Crimea, that they are only sitting in their bases - truned out that was a lie:
http://youtu.be/x6HpySKFpiU
Remember these "locals" aka "little green man" that admits they are from russia:
http://youtu.be/wMJwdX5IHm8
2.) Russian propaganda spread info that referendum in Crimea was legit and supported by it's people and members of parliament - but it turned out to be lies - russian terrorist ex-leader Girkin admits there where no support for them in Crimea and that they forced parliament members to vote as terrorists wanted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcCqrzctxH4
Igor Girkin, ex-minister of defense of the so-called Donetsk Republic:
“Have you actually been to Crimea during the referendum? Well, I have. I have been there since February the 21th. What you are describing here is absolute rubbish. There were no policemen who supported our side at that time. The only law-enforcement subdivision that has joined our ranks back then was the Berkut. The rest of the law-enforcement agencies remained under control of Ukrainian Ministry of Internal, and kept carrying out the MIA’s orders. Yes, sometimes they were sabotaging these orders, but all in all they were under Ukrainian control. I haven’t seen any support from official governmental representatives in Simferopol. Our troops had to force the deputies into the Oblast Council hall so that these representatives would vote in favor of our initiatives. I know this because I have been at the time commandeering one of such militant teams and I’ve seen it all from the inside. We had absolutely no support from the people, not to mention the army. The Ukrainian army units remained loyal to Kyiv as they were. Furthermore, most of the army remained that way. The only thing that made what we have accomplished in Crimea possible was the presence of Russian army.”
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/01/24/ex-terrorist-leader-referendum-in-crimea-was-a-farce/
3.) putin denies any military help to so called "rebels" in Ukraine - but it failed in Minsk 2 agreement - where he actualy has admited in supporting them with Tordnado-S which is only operated by Russian Federation and has never been exported out side it to other countries.
Minsk 2 agreement say:
"2. Withdrawal of all heavy weapons by both sides to equal distances in order to create a security zone with a width of at least 50 km between them for artillery systems with a calibre of 100 mm and more, and a security zone with a width of 70 km for MLRS and with a width of 140 km for MLRS “Tornado-S” “Uragan,” “Smerch” and tactical missile systems “Tochka” (“Tochka-U”):
- for the Ukrainian troops: from the actual line of contact;
- for the armed formations of certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions of Ukraine: from the line of contact in accordance with the Minsk Memorandum of September 19, 2014.
The withdrawal of heavy weapons set out above shall begin no later than the second day after the cease-fire and end within 14 days.
This process will be assisted by the OSCE, with the support of the Trilateral Contact Group."
http://www.ibtimes.com/minsk-ceasefire-deal-full-text-agreement-between-russia-ukraine-germany-france-1814468
Operators
Russia: 56 units in service
The improved Tornado-S is being upgraded with the special GLONASS satellite navigation system used in the Smerch missile system. The Tornado-S will have guided rocket rounds enabling it to fire out to 72 miles (120 km). The Tornado-S will have a longer range and increased effectiveness, due to the use of new warhead payloads and a reduced launch readiness time of just three minutes. The Tornado-G entered series production in 2013.[2] The system entered service with the Russian armed forces in 2014.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9A52-4_Tornado
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/02/14/putin-legally-admitted-russia-waging-war-ukraine-minsk-agreement-documents/
You have to understand that for putin USSR collapse was great tragedy
Putin: "The collapse of the Soviet Union was the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTvswwU5Eco
putin regime keeps on producing USSR propaganda about old glory days and keeps on repeating how USSR won Nazis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIX-hOzyWkY
Yes, Nazis where defeated but their place took same evil that done same crimes to humanity. Not much is know about USSR similarities with Nazis - so I advise you to watch this movie about USSR crimes that is glorified by putin regime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVZjyyAE-78
It is than necessary to hide truth about USSR crimes against people because you can't glorify power that has done such an evil crimes to humanity. That is why putin regime has chosen remove all trace about Stalin crimes in last museum about Stalin created Gulags
Read this article:
Russia's gulag museum 'makes no mention' of Stalin's atrocities
Russia Federation has never apologized and/or paid reparations for USSR war crimes. But instead said that Russia has not inherited responsibility of USSR war crimes because Russia is different country. USSR was "union" of many countries (occupied by Russia). But if that is so - than why Russia Federation inherited from USSR seat in UN Security Council and why putin regime keeps on repeating and glorifying how "they"(russians) has won over Nazis if that was different country/union?
The fact is majority in Russia Federation regrets USSR collapsed.
Because than they where something. Than they where a power on world stage. After USSR collapse no-one respected them. Now they want their respect back. And that is used by putin regime to wage wars in neighboring countries. That is why so many russian support putin regime and if you add all that putin regime propaganda lies I shall cover in other articles - there is no suprise of why so many people support this tyrant that leads russians to dead end.
How's the weather there in Warsaw? Or Tel Aviv?
What is wrong with Warsaw? Free Konigsberg from Russian filth!
subhuman yankee doodle .
The god's be good, will you kindly stop polluting this site with your rubbish propaganda.
You're so full of shit your eyes are shit brown.
Now, kindly go away...
That was a dose of facts about putin regime. Now trolls can line up after them.
Latvian shill aget getting blocked twice is back again just to spread his daily propaganda dose . what happened cunt getting short of Euros ? Considering your proofs well BBC(failed propaganda rag) , vedomosti ( finish media propaganda outlet ) doesn't count as proofs .
I can throw bunch of links on your face showing any nation as bad . Try making a sane argument next time.
Hint: A sane argument is not one based wishful thinking that gives US leaders far more credit as to their intelligence than is deserved. Your Amerika uber alles argument is rooted in fantasy, not fact.
Aren't we following exactly in Hitler's footsteps? He said that the Russians were building a huge army to attack Europe, which was his rationale for attacking Russia in the spring of 1941. Apparently, the Russian army was a phantom. This cost Germany the war and resulted in many millions of deaths.
Was not spring season.
rest of post show more ignorance.
Was Soviet army, not Russian
Soviet was never a Russian construct
From 1917 thru Stalin was never Russians in control.
Soviet force was very real and greater than Germany.
"In Russia there comes the hope of the world, not as that sometimes termed of the Communistic, of the bolshevistic; no. but freedom, freedom! That each man will live for his fellow man! The principle has been born. It will take years for it to be crystallized, but out of Russia comes again the hope of the world..” (3976-29) Edgar Cayce 1944
To understand the hatred of Putin, examine who the haters of Putin are.
Jew oligarchs who had their ill-gotten gains confiscated. (Had they not decided to cross Putin, they'd still be sitting pretty).
Jew controllers of the media who support the above.
Neocon supporters of the above.
Haters of the traditional Russian Orthodox Church, like gays, and Soros-supported scum like Pussy Riot.
Senile old bastards like McCain, who still see a Soviet Boogeyman.
Neo-nazi Ukrainian nationalists (Bandera/Azov, what's the diff) who are not smart to understand that their best ally in keeping Ukraine Ukrainian is Mr. Putin, not the US and NATO, who will be more than happy to import subhuman non-white soldiers to rape/miscegenate with the beautiful girls of Ukrine.
AMEN,BRO!
No matter how obvious the truth needs to be restated from time to time.
I'm so sick of these damn degenerate war-mongering Jews!!!
You are a good Nazi, good Nazi now go lay down.
Hasbara never gives up
Post Of The Day!
I got it all figured out.................THEM BITCHEZ BE CRAZY!
Quit talking like a black man .... it doesn't become one !
Clearly Putin started the war with Ukraine, so the whole article is a mix of lies and Kremlin's propaganda.
Hasbara Troll, Inc.
Do not forget also that he has moved troops into Belurus under the guise of helping with economic unrest. Those troops will never leave and soon enough Russia will annex them back into Vlads dream of empire.
Over imagination much ?
Germany and other european countries have reduced military expenses for year. But now, facing possible russian aggression, they are starting to change this irresponsible politics. And limit gas and crude oil buying from Russia. I see Kremlin is in full panic mode, as Russian economy collapse more with every passing month, and cost of war with Ukraine are growing.
cry baby cunts pole teaching zhers . lol what happened got kicked out from job due to recession or got butthurt again polack scum ?
putin troll army attacks you
These days you have to understand that even people in west are attacked by putin regime - by putin regime propaganda and it's paid trolls.
You can learn about this fact from these articles:
Moscow is financing legions of pro-Russia Internet commenters. But how much do they matter?
These trolls act at news articles, many at putin regime propaganda assets such as zerohedge.com Also they attack you at youtube videos and other news portals with their propaganda lies. So you simply must be aware of their existence and be ready to detect a kremlin troll. They are aggressive, manipulating, no respect to other opinion and pro-putin agenda.
Like Rush Limbaugh tells us .... 5 liberals and a copy/fax machine .... is a whole movement .... like the Pizza Caterers For Gay Weddings crowd !
Hasbara Troll, Inc.
I troll alone .... I am the Lone Troller .... Silver, up up and away !
So this is where the CIA 2 billion dollars propagand budget goes to - bloody 'newsoutlet'
Too many people to give kudos to .... Brave Sir Robin, newsoutlet and many more .... thanks for flushing out the sick liberal fucks .... who always over represent themselves in any forum .... like screaming Jihadists !
Putin is the new Hitler .... Hitler was paranoid and isolated .... that's when these guys are the most dangerous .... If Putin does a massive first strike .... he'll hit China, too .... he'll have to !
A massive first strike is folly .... Barbarosa was folly .... doesn't matter .... they are crazy .... Hitler and Putin !
Please pull your head out of your ass.
We all are tired of watching you embarrass yourself. Thank you.Your powers of visual interpretation are seriously wanting. No worries though. The world also needs idiots and morons.
No, Putin never attacks China. If he is crazy enough, he'll attack NATO country. But not openly, he has no balls for an open attack. He'll send saboteurs, soldiers without distinctions, etc. He can even use full force, but in such a case he will use nuclear weapon first.
Can't we all just get along .... and form a common front against Islam .... it's a perfect venue for all our "Northern Brothers" .... disclaimer: I'm a Latitudenist (my word) .... a person who believes northern cultures .... Europe, Russia, China, Korea Japan, US Canada and our friends and allies .... should prevail, cooperate and be good husbands and strict parents to the sub-human cultures .... not exactly a racist ! I prefer the scrubbed streets of Denmark and Japan .... over the open sewers of Nigeria !
Bibi right wing nutters shill need more shekels .
Orwell 1984 rising in Russia.
putin regime attacks 14 years old children who doesn't agree to putin regime aggresion on neighbouring countries like Ukraine
14-year-old interrogated by Security Services for wearing Ukrainian ribbons
A 14-year-old student from Saratov, a city in the southwest of Russia, has been called in for questioning by the Russian Federal Security Service after she attended a rally celebrating Russia's annexation of Crimea wearing ribbons the color of the Ukrainian flag in her hair.
During the interrogation, Federal Security Services wanted to know how she met the other young people who brought Ukrainian national symbols to the rally with them. The interrogators allegedly aimed to get her to confess that she was paid to wear the ribbons.
The student, whose name has not been disclosed, claims that she attended the rally to demonstrate “against war, aggression and propaganda” and wanted to show her support for Ukraine. She told the online media source Iod that during the interrogation she had a nervous breakdown, and said that afterwards she felt crushed. She was not formally charged.
https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/03/20/14-year-old-interrogated-by-securit...
Full story in RUS here:
http://yodnews.ru/2015/03/20/childfsb
brave girl
Truth, peace, sanity, brawe intelectuals - will win over putin regime and brainwashed idiots in Russia.
Even if 90% of russians are brainwashed idiots and 10% realise what is reality.
https://youtu.be/GMtlnLsijAk
Full court press by the Hasbara trolls today. Must have run out of palestinian children to sodomize.