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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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Full court press by the Hasbara trolls today. Must have run out of palestinian children to sodomize.
NATO = "North Atlantic Terrorist Organization"
Putin lies exposed. Again.
Ex-KGB Agent Kalugin: Putin Was 'Only A Major'Vladimir Putin is merely posing as a lieutenant colonel.
The Russian president also oversaw war crimes in Chechnya and helped frame a prosecutor-general to derail a probe into massive Kremlin corruption.
These are some of the claims made by Oleg Kalugin, a former high-ranking KGB officer and fierce critic of Putin in an interview with RFE/RL.
According to Kalugin, Putin was "just a major" in the KGB, which he resigned from in 1991. "He could have become a lieutenant colonel a year later but he didn't," he tells RFE/RL.
Kalugin, who lives in the United States and has been sentenced by Russia to 15 years in prison for treason, says Putin's 1998 appointment as director of the KGB's main successor agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), actually violated guidelines stipulating that only a general can hold this post.
He also confirms speculation that the FSB was behind a sex-tape scandal that ended the career of Yury Skuratov, Russia's combative prosecutor-general in the late 1990s.
Kalugin says Skuratov was framed to prevent him from further investigating corrupt deals believed to have been conducted by former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the man who brought Putin to power, and his close entourage -- including his own daughters.
"It was a special FSB operation to discredit an official with the help of a video featuring a person who resembled the prosecutor-general," he says, referring to a controversial 1999 video showing a man purported to be Skuratov in bed with prostitutes.
In his interview, Kalugin also names two alleged former KGB collaborators: firebrand nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky and late Patriarch Aleksii, the former head of the powerful Russian Orthodox Church.
He says that he personally knew Aleksii and that the cleric had admitted to him his Soviet-era ties with the secret services, arguing it had been the only way to save the church at the time.
Markov Assassination
Kalugin also looks back on one of the 20th century's most brazen assassinations, the killing of Bulgarian writer and dissident Georgi Markov in London in the midst of the Cold War.
Markov was a prominent playwright and journalist who fled Bulgaria in 1969, and criticized the Bulgarian communist government in a series of reports for the BBC and Radio Free Europe between 1975 and 1978 that many Bulgarians listened to in secret.
Kalugin says that Markov was killed by the Bulgarian secret services and that Yury Andropov, who then headed the Soviet KGB, gave the green light for the assassination.
Markov, who was living in political exile in the British capital, was poisoned with the tip of an umbrella as he waited for a bus on Waterloo Bridge in September 1978.
He died four days later, aged 49, leaving behind a wife and a 2-year-old daughter.
Kalugin claims Andropov initially planned to reject the Bulgarian security service's request for assistance in the killing. According to him, Andropov relented only because a refusal could have hurt Moscow's clout within the Bulgarian intelligence agency.
He says the KGB only aided its Bulgarian colleagues, with Andropov formally barring his subordinates from directly taking part in the assassination. "Through the KGB laboratory we transferred the poison that was then used in the umbrella," Kalugin says. "There was literally a milligram of poison, a small drop of ricin placed in a capsule at the tip of the umbrella. When the umbrella opened, it flew off at a distance of 3-5 meters, which is enough to prick someone."
Kalugin was detained in London in 1993 and questioned about the assassination. He was released without charge.
Markov's killers were never brought to justice.
Killed For Exposing Putin?
Incidentally, Kalugin is also connected to the case of Aleksandr Litvinenko, the former FSB officer who died in London in November 2006 after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium-210.
Kalugin believes Litvinenko was killed by the FSB for disclosing what he describes as "uncomely aspects" of Putin's private life.
He says he had warned Litvinenko about the dangers of making such details public. "I called him when he was in London and told him he shouldn't be writing things about [Putin's] private life," he says. "Then he died, my warning had come too late."
The incident has not deterred Kalugin from openly criticizing Putin and his policies.
The two men have exchanged acerbic barbs, with Kalugin branding the Russian leader a "deadbeat" and a "war criminal" for sanctioning the atrocities perpetrated by Russian forces during the second Chechen War.
Asked whether he is not afraid of meeting the fate of Markov and Litvinenko, Kalugin claims to be protected by influential friends in Putin's close circle.
But there is one topic that he intends to keep under wraps for his own safety: Putin's shadowy private life. "When I'm asked about Putin," he says, "I answer, 'Ask his wife, he spent 30 years with her.'"
http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-ex-kgb-kalugin-putin-only-a-major/26...
YOU FAILED AGAIN REFERL IS A PAID DISINOFRMATION CHANNEL . THEY JUST KICKED ONE OF THEIR REPORTER AS HE MISTAKNELY REPORTED AZOV BATALLION ATROCITIES . TRY AGAIN BALTIC CRY BABY SCUM .
Dont bother scrolling down, one idiot comment after another.
You're right.
What's the matter .... your liberal shout down tactics .... not working this morning .... "Fact Down" trumps "Shout Down" ?
The U.S. has turned the earth into a bunch of rowdy fifth-graders playing schoolyard games, rather than acting like all the nations on earth are a community - any and every one is only as strong as the weakest one. The person at the top of the hill should be extending their hand out to help others to the top of the hill. It's plenty big enough. Instead, the U.S. government tosses sticks and rocks at anyone not on their knees who dares to move closer to the top threatens their dominance). And of course I'm singling out the U.S. government and - by default - the oligarchs that usurped it and comprise the power behind it. The U.S. citizens are not invited to the top of the hill. Anyone that reads ZH for a few days can figure out that we're just another plebe on our knees somewhere further down the hill.
Russian Trolls' Vast Library Of Insulting Images
Ever wonder where the droves of Russian-language Internet trolls get those satirical graphics they deploy to smear Western and Ukrainian leaders? Turns out there's a website with a vast archive of images helping them pepper their posts with visual invective.
Britain's Guardian newspaper reported on April 2 that the website with the Cyrillic address ??????.?? ("? ?????" translates from Russian as "in the headquarters") hosts thousands of these ready-made images for use by hundreds of paid trolls working for a secretive organization in St. Petersburg.
The images -- mainly crude mash-ups or regular photographs touched up with sarcastic and juvenile captions -- are largely aimed at heaping abuse on Western and Ukrainian officials or portraying Russian President Vladimir Putin as a suave alpha male of the international scene.
Many have racist overtones, like those that portray U.S. President Barack Obama as a monkey (bananas are a consistent motif in these images). Others show Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko dressed in women's clothing or wielding sex toys.
One image uploaded on April 2 shows Poroshenko dressed in women's lingerie and sitting in front of a computer monitor beaming Obama's image, suggesting an erotic video chat.
"Video Conference About Receiving New Loans For Ukraine," the caption reads.
Guardian journalist Shaun Walker linked the website to the St. Petersburg troll factory based on an interview with a man identified as Marat, who says he worked there for two months before leaving what he described as demeaning working conditions, including fines for tardiness or veering from the pro-Kremlin and anti-West messaging dictated by the bosses.
In an interview with RFE/RL last month, Marat alluded to the role that these satirical graphics -- known as demotivators -- play in the St. Petersburg troll farm. "There's a LiveJournal department, a news department, a department where they create all sorts of images and demotivators," he said.
The website ??????.?? was registered in Russia, though there are no public records linking it to a specific organization other than a Russia-based website registrar.
One online database, however, shows that it was registered on March 29, 2014, less than two weeks after Russia's takeover of Ukraine's Crimea territory triggered U.S. and EU sanctions targeting the Kremlin.
Marat told RFE/RL that the bosses and workers at the St. Petersburg troll farm "throw everything they've got at Ukraine."
Marat is one of several alumni of this troll farm who have leaked details of the St. Petersburg operation to the media, including to RFE/RL. Several say they became disillusioned with the cynical politics of the job.
The folks at ??????.?? didn't waste time after Walker's article appeared in The Guardian. Within hours, the site featured an image showing Putin and Obama's heads photoshopped onto two the bodies of two actors reading newspapers.
"The Guardian writes here that your trolls published cartoons about me. Aren't you ashamed?" Obama is shown saying.
Putin replies, "Only for you, Barack."
http://www.rferl.org/content/russian-trolls-vast-insult-cartoon-database...
"Sarcastic and juvenile?" I think the word "Radio Free Europe" is looking for is "funny." Or rather what normal people who have a sense of humour find funny.
(Note to RFE: Making Barry out to be a buffoon is funny because it's true.)
It's no surprise that the Current Occupant doesn't have sense of humor. Narcissists and psychopaths never do.
By the way? If the report has any truth to it, it sounds like nice work if you can get it.
More lies and propaganda from Latvia, Leszek a.k.a. freedom123, viedoklis_lv
and his fellow minion troll, newsoutlet
The only news is that its more fear mongering, anti-putin nonsense.
newsoutlet, freedom123, and viedoklis_lv are all the same person: an insane Latvian mission poster whose only purpose in life, when not working as a honeydipper, is to copy and paste the most absurd examples of anti-Russian propaganda he can find.
If you happen to view his crummy little blog, which he links to in nearly every post, you'll see that it is nothing more than a collection of the same rubbish he posts here. (BTW, if you view the source of his crappy site, you'll be able to confirm his identity as viedoklis_lv.)
viedoklis is a genuine net.kook, as he not only believes his own bullshit, he lives and breathes it. If Russia/Putin were to disappear, his life would lose all meaning.
Leszek, on the other hand, just seems to be another butthurt polack.
This is russia:
https://youtu.be/5WLqyOFRYq0
This is Latvia
http://forward.com/articles/194652/latvian-nazi-ss-veterans-march-in-ann...
When Nazis & Red army both invaded Latvia - both sides recruited with force Latvians to join their armies. Latvians where forced to attack each other because their occupants force them.
Many Latvians died and 16 march is that date when these seniors who have lived that day and are still alive - gather to show honor of those man who died in this unjust war in Latvia.
As there where Latvians recruited by both sides including Nazis - putin regime propaganda media and it's trolls as you - manipulate this even to tell the world that there are Nazis in Latvia.
When you look at this event - you won't see any elder or anyone else with any Nazi symbolism or any Nazi slogan - no instead ony Latvian patriotic songs to show honor to those who died.
But then these events are invaded by putin regime agents and their brainwashed idiots who attack these people in order to discredit event.
https://youtu.be/iBbr-AUnN74?t=2m
If there is any nazis in the world - than they are in russia under putin regime:
https://youtu.be/fY3s4CpAtkg
These are russians in march 16:
https://youtu.be/tWsqGTikCc0?t=2m57s
These are latvians in march 16:
https://youtu.be/IazJFaFLGJk
You know, when you say NATO, you're pretty much talking about Germany.
Are we all prepared to see the Germans invading Russia again? I seem to remember the last time they tried to do that didn't turn out so well for them.
Maybe if more soldaten had come home from the Ostfront to tell their kids what it was like, they would be thinking twice about trying it all over again.
You know, when you say NATO,
you're pretty much talking about Washington's Charlie McCarthy.
More than 2,500 Novosibirsk Residents Demand Moscow Reverse Its Obscurantist Policies
Staunton, April 6 — Between 2,500 and 5,000 residents of Novosibirsk staged a demonstration yesterday to demand that Moscow follow the principles of the Russian Constitution and allow artistic and other freedoms instead of pursuing what is an increasingly obscurantist, reactionary and authoritarian policy.
The meeting sparked by the Tannhauser case called for that play to be restored to the repertoire and for the government to sack Culture Minister Medinsky who has been the point man for the Russian Orthodox Church’s efforts to impose its version of political correctness on the country.
The meeting adopted a resolution, for which signatures continue to be sought, and a letter to Vladimir Putin and other senior Russian officials. A translation of the resolution is given below:
We citizens of Russia and residents of Novosibirsk, concerned by the cultural situation in the country and the violation of Article 44 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation which guarantees freedom of literary, artistic, scientific, technical and other kinds of creativity express our anger at the persecution of theater workers of the city of Novosibirsk, the activity of radically inclined citizens directed at the blocking of cultural measures, and efforts by representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and a number of other political figures to introduce censorship of artistic creativity.
Particular groups of citizens cannot speak for all residents. About 8,000 people attended performances of Tannhauser, a number that exceeds that of those taking part in meetings against its showing. At the same time, the decision about the fate of the play was taken without any account of the opinion of the audience and the theater community. The Novosibirsk State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet is the property of society, and we demand that in the process of taking key decisions, the point of view of all sides be considered.
1. Freedom of Creativity and Censorship. We consider that the removal of the opera Tannhauser from the repertoire of the Novosibirsk theater and the firing of theater director Boris Mezdrich are steps which create a dangerous precedent for the further introduction of censorship in the entire country.
We consider any attempts at censorship of creativity as impermissible. We consider that it is necessary to revise Article 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation which governs “violations of the right to freedom of conscience and belief’ to bring it into correspondent with the principle of legal clarity. No category of citizens must have greater rights to the defense of their feelings than do others since this contradicts the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The use of Article 148 as an instrument of censorship is absolutely unacceptable.”
2. The Ministry of Culture and the Novosibirsk State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet. The director of the theater Boris Mezdrich was removed by Minister Vladimir Medinsky as a result of the pressure of activists the majority of whom had not seen the performance. In taking this decision, the culture minister ignored both the opinion of the audience and the professional community and the decision of the court. He shows his lack of respect to the theater community and the opinion of citizens and considers actions limiting freedom of creativity as permissible. Such decisions encourage aggression toward arts workers and viewers from the side of religious fanatics and also deprecate and discredit the decisions of the court. We demand the resignation of Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky.
We are convinced that the appointment of Vladimir Kekhman to the position of director of the Novosibirsk State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet who has a doubtful reputation (in particular his having been accused of massive fraud) and not having made any serious contributions to the culture of the Russian Federation will bring harm that cannot be corrected to the reputation of the theater. We demand the resignation of Vladimir Kekhman and a public discussion of candidates for a new director with the direct participation of the unjustifiably removed Boris Medrich.
3. Church and State. We are upset by the fact that the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation in this conflict about the Tannhauser opera supported the church and radical groups and not the public which has clearly and uniformly expressed its attitude toward the case. The position of the Ministry of Culture concerning the results of the public hearings of March 13, 2015, bears a categorically one-sided character. We are concerned by the methods which the Novosibirsk metropolitanate is using for the defense of its interests. A radicalization of movements linked to the church which can lead to religious extremism is taking place. Religious activists are expressing their dissatisfaction by means which are unacceptable for secular ethics and morality, which do not correspond to the principles of law, and which express an extreme lack of respect to society and its opponents.
Novosibirsk is a city of science and culture, and we its residents deserve respect for our opinion, our values, and our cultural dignity. We respect the rights of religious believers and those who follow none as long as we preserve for each the right to free creativity.http://www.interpretermag.com/more-than-2500-novosibirsk-residents-deman...
Novo is third largest city of Russia.
five thousand is tiny minority, less than 1/3000 of population.
these have no following...
so few do not speak as "we its residents"
forget you
Siberians are good people
newsoutlet
The only news is that its more fear mongering, anti-putin nonsense.
I think what you mean is NATO standing up to Russian aggression is a big surprise.
NATO will go to war with thsese fools and dont think for one second they wont.
Putin thought he was going to have to use a nuke for his aggression.
I got it would have cost every single person on the planet their life And NATO will not back down to that threat.
But I am much crazier than the lot lot. We need to pass out nukes like candy so everyone can be in the all or nothing game.
no surprise why usa adventures never succeed . gaving dipshits like you serve no purpose .
So far Putin has outmanoeuvered every western move. I do not believe he will want to go down in history as the instigator of WW3. He will leave that to the Americans. There will not be a nuclear war (the nukes won't work). In a conventional war, NATO has little chance of defeating Russia. They have the man power, the technology, the military hardware, and most importantly the brains. It will all be over in a few days, and the Americans will be humiliated.
Then we can start with the peace.
There are 3 times more Europeans than Russians. Any big war will be deadly for Russia. Russians can make a lot of havoc in Europe, of course. But if Russia atack NATO country, it will be destroyed in the end. Besides, the biggest enemy of Russia is clearly China. China needs more territory and minerals. If Russia start a war with NATO, Chinese can easily think about it as opportunity and "take care" about chinese citizens living in Far East.
There are also a lot of muslims living in Russia. And islamist terrorists. They are also waiting for a right moment to seize control of part of russian territory and create islamic state.
Russia has big problems without any war. The best way for Russia to survive is become NATO member.
https://www.stratfor.com/forecast/decade-forecast-2015-2025
Leszek the butthurt polack said:
You are living in cloud-cuckoo land. Your numbers mean nothing. Don't read any of the articles below, because they will only make a butthurt polack cry.
NATO Would Probably Lose a War Against Russia
http://russia-insider.com/en/history_military/2014/12/06/09-38-29pm/nato...
NATO is Much Weaker Than People Think - In No Condition to Fight a War (because a lot of the numbers cited are bullshit)
http://russia-insider.com/en/2014/12/16/1936
American Warfighting Doctrine is Hardwired for Failure
http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/02/20/3675
Getting Russia Wrong All The Way To War
http://mat-rodina.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/getting-russia-wrong-all-way-t...
A great quote from the last article:
"The present serving armies of NATO would be used up in 3-4 months. That would amount to almost a million and a half dead and wounded."
Teutonic Knights thought Russia could be taken over in a few weeks. They were destroyed. Russian is the official language of Konigsberg. (Kaliningrad)
Napoloean thought Russian army was shit. Napoleaon's army was destroyed.
Hitler thought Russian armed forces were no match for the superiority of his forces- Guess what-destroyed!
Today if NATO attacks Russia--- NATO too will be destroyed!!!