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Title: Gunslinger US General Readies for War with Russia
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Published: Apr 20, 2015
Author: Stephen Lendman
Post Date: 2015-04-20 13:41:36 by Stephen Lendman
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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.
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#1. To: Stephen Lendman (#0)
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And they say that right wingnuts don't make good comedians.
Which country on this planet is currently occupying or stationing troops and weapons in more countries than any other in history? Hint: From 2002: Now tell me how many counties the Russian Federation has attacked, occupied, and/or stationed troops and bases in...
Crimea...Georgia...Ukraine...they have troops, mostly unwelcome. in all of the *independent* Southern and western nations that were former soviets...they are advising Syria and, in some instances, are actually manning some of the weapons systems there. This article isn't about the US, doofus. Stop trying to draw false equivalencies.
Bullshit. Crimea hosted the Russian Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol for centuries. Russia had the legal authority to have up to 20,000 troops there for that reason. Once Ukraine's legal government was overthrown, Russia no longer had any sort of agreement with Ukraine, as that nation no longer existed. Did you think they were going to hand their base over to NATO? And let's not forget that the PEOPLE of Crimea, which used to be part of RUSSIA for the past several centuries until torn from it once the Soviet Union collapsed, VOTED to rejoin Russia since they did not accept the fascists put into power in Kiev as their legal authorities. As far as Ukraine, please post ANY SOLID EVIDENCE that Russia has stepped foot into that country beyond humanitarian aid. I don't mean pictures of tanks from 10 years ago in a different country, I mean ACTUAL evidence that they entered Ukraine militarily this century. As far as Georgia, it was the Georgian government which attacked it's own citizens in South Ossetia, and since the majority of those people were actual Russian citizens (after South Ossetia declared its independence from Georgia), Russia sent troops to protect its citizens from military attack and drove back the Georgian tanks. So Russia has been on a mission of DEFENDING itself and its citizens against attack, whereas OUR nation and allies have been the ones doing the attacking against any nation seen as too weak to resist. in all of the *independent* Southern and western nations that were former soviets...they are advising Syria and, in some instances, are actually manning some of the weapons systems there. You're sniffing glue again apparently. NATO has swallowed the majority of former Soviet republics, and DO have troops there. As far as Syria, it is the WEST who is arming, training, and supporting Al- Qaeda and ISIS (ISIL or whatever name they go by today) to terrorize, rape, torture, and kill Syrian civilians. It is the WEST who is bombing innocent Yemenis to smithereens, in order to steal their land, their oil, and subject their people to tyranny.
Okay...so the US has the *RIGHT* to be wherever it puts troops. OOps...that *logic* thing once again escapes you... As far as Ukraine, please post ANY SOLID EVIDENCE that Russia has stepped foot into that country beyond humanitarian aid. I don't mean pictures of tanks from 10 years ago in a different country, I mean ACTUAL evidence that they entered Ukraine militarily this century. www.theguardian.com/world...ov/12/nato-russian-tanks- http://entering- ukraine">www.theguardian.com/world...an-tanks-entering- ukraine
The US has the right to have a naval base in Virginia just like Russia has the right to have a base within its own territory. Crimea has been Russian/Soviet territory since before this country was even born.
Actually, this nation was *born* in 1776...Crimea was annexed in 1783... So, once again you're *wrong*...
Ok, so I was off by a couple of years. However, Crimea did win its independence from the Ottomon Empire in 1774 due to the outcome of the Russian/Ottomon war, and was annexed not long after. The point it, it's been Russian territory for ALMOST as long as our own nation has existed. The people there are Russian.
Not indigenously...
Well I suppose not one person here in the US are really here indigenously either, even the native Americans came from elsewhere.
Most of the people in the US have generational ties to this nation. The Russians in Crimea, do not. They were posted there for some reason or another. The *plebiscite* that they had there was a joke. Most of the people who *favored* annexation won't be living there in another year or so.
The Russians in Crimea, do not. They were posted there for some reason or another. The *plebiscite* that they had there was a joke. Most of the people who *favored* annexation won't be living there in another year or so. Pure BS. The people who live in Crimea have generational ties that go back to the 1700s. Most people here have ancestors who came to this continent less than two hundred years ago. And since 96% of the Crimean voting populace chose to rejoin Russia, do you imply that only 4% will still be alive in another year?
Of course there are. Not very many of them are Russian.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestNo country goes more all-out for world peace and stability than Russia.
#2. To: war (#1)
And they say that right wingnuts don't make good comedians.
#4. To: FormerLurker (#2)
Now tell me how many counties the Russian Federation has attacked
#9. To: war (#4)
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Crimea...Georgia...Ukraine...they have troops, mostly unwelcome, in all of the *independent* Southern and western nations that were former soviets...they are advising Syria and, in some instances, are actually manning some of the weapons systems there.
#15. To: FormerLurker (#9)
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Crimea hosted the Russian Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol for centuries.
#16. To: war (#15)
Okay...so the US has the *RIGHT* to be wherever it puts troops.
#18. To: FormerLurker (#16)
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Crimea has been Russian/Soviet territory since before this country was even born.
#21. To: war (#18)
Actually, this nation was *born* in 1776...Crimea was annexed in 1783...
#22. To: FormerLurker (#21)
The people there are Russian.
#26. To: war (#22)
Not indigenously...
#28. To: FormerLurker (#26)
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Well I suppose not one person here in the US are really here indigenously either, even the native Americans came from elsewhere.
#30. To: war (#28)
Most of the people in the US have generational ties to this nation.
#31. To: FormerLurker (#30)
The people who live in Crimea have generational ties that go back to the 1700s.
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