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War, War, War See other War, War, War Articles Title: Gunslinger US General Readies for War with Russia Gunslinger US General Readies for War with Russia by Stephen Lendman America is run by neocon lunatics and gunslinger generals. Together they threaten world peace. Washington’s only enemies are ones it invents to wage endless wars of aggression - premeditated ones against one country after another posing no threat to anyone. Rogue states operate this way. Readers familiar with Orwell's 1984 understand. America exceeds the worst of what he envisioned. World peace hangs by a thread. Humanity's survival is up for grabs. General Ben Hodges heads US Army Europe (USAREUR). On April 18, he lied telling London's Telegraph NATO must stay united against a "real threat" from Russia. "This is not an assumption," he blustered. "There is a Russian threat." Fact: The whole world knows Russia threatens no other country - not America, other NATO members, other nations, none whatever. Fact: No country goes more all-out for world peace and stability than Russia. Fact: None try harder to resolve ongoing conflicts diplomatically. Fact: None more deserve high praise for their efforts. Fact: America more than any other nation threatens world peace, stability and security. Fact: Its endless direct and proxy wars kill millions. Fact: It's reckless imperial agenda may kill us all. Hodges outrageously accused an unnamed Russian official with threatening Denmark with a nuclear attack "if it participates in any missile defense program" - intended entirely for offense against Russia. He said deploying US combat forces in Eastern Europe close to Russian territory and parading them across international borders (an exercise called Dragoon Ride) sends a "reassuring (signal to) our allies." In March, angry anti-war Czechs responded saying "Tanks? No thanks!" They want no part of US combat troops and heavy weapons on their territory. They called it "an unnecessary and dangerously provocative military (stunt), which only increas(s) international tension." World Without Wars and Without Violence member Tana Bednarova said "(t)he last time that vehicles like this came to the Czech Republic, they were Soviet tanks coming to crush moves towards democracy in 1968." "We don’t want such vehicles from foreign armies coming here ever again," she stressed. She criticized NATO's eastern expansion saying if Washington and Alliance partners "want to create security in the world, then Russia and China and all other countries…should be invited to join." Separately, Hodges said "(t)he whole purpose (of US Eastern European deployments) is to assure those allies that live closest to the Bear that we are here." "President Putin exercises freedom of movement all the time. He moves troops and stuff around Russia whenever he wants to." Fact: He does it nonthreateningly inside Russian territory. Fact: America operates provocatively on foreign soil close to Russia's borders - risking direct confrontation by intent or judgmental error. According to Hodges, perhaps it's inevitable so America has "to be militarily ready." "The best insurance we have against a showdown is that (US-dominated) NATO stands together." Accusations of "Russian aggression" ring hollow - Big Lies substantiated only by provocative bluster. "We're not interested in a fair fight with anyone," Hodges said. "I want to have overmatch in all systems." Russian lower house State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Konstantin Kosachev said Hodges' comments show US-dominated NATO will never treat Russia equitably. It wants military superiority in readiness for an eventual showdown with Moscow. It wants hundreds of thousands of NATO Rapid Deployable Corps combat troops positioned close to Russia's borders. It wants war, not peace. In his last interview before death, noted German author Gunter Grass warned about "sleepwalking towards another world war." He told the Spanish newspaper El Pais: "We have on the one side Ukraine, whose situation is not improving; in Israel and Palestine things are getting worse; the disaster the Americans left in Iraq, the atrocities of Islamic state and the problem of Syria." "There is war everywhere. We run the risk of committing the same mistakes as before. So without realizing it, we can get into a world war as if we were sleepwalking." "All of this together makes me realize that things are finite - that we don't have an indefinite amount of time," Grass explained. Maybe less than he imagined. Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network. It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 20.
#1. To: Stephen Lendman (#0)
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And they say that right wingnuts don't make good comedians.
Oh and BTW, if you were to bother checking ANY facts whatsoever, you'd know that Steve Lendman is a left-leaning socialist just by visiting his website.
You mean like checking in to whether or not the Ukraine was "any kind of entity" prior to the 1950s?
I never said anything about the 1950's, YOU DID. Ukraine never existed as a nation until AFTER the collapse of the Soviet Union. Prior to the existance of the Soviet Union, it did not exist as a political entity or geographic region. Do you understand, or do you need more pictures?
You claimed that the Ukraine did not exist until after the formation of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union did not recognize the Ukraine as a Soviet until the 1950s. Do you enjoy revealing your geo-political ignorance ass much as you do your engineering ignorance? #17. To: war (#14) WAR: Go back to the 1950s when the Ukraine was a neophyte Soviet republic and Russia pushed indigenous Ukranians out of the eastern part of their own nation to establish a Soviet foothold in the nation. DOOFUS: Your retarded view of history is comical. The eastern part of Ukraine WAS Russia up until the formation of the Soviet Union. Ukraine did not exist as a separate entity UNTIL the Soviet Union, the land called Ukraine was actually Russia, Hungary, and Poland. Are you too stupid and lazy to look anything up before you make a complete fool of yourself?
So what part of Ukraine did not exist as a nation until after the collapse of the Soviet Union do you fail to understand? What part of Ukraine did not exist as a political entity until the birth of the Soviet Union fails to register between your ears?
What happened on January 25th, 1918?
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