Washington Wants War with Russia!
- Washington Wants War with Russia!
by Stephen Lendman, http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/
French newspaper Le Point says NATO wants war with Russia. NATO means America. It dominates Alliance policy. Le Point cited the following provocations:
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* Eastern European Alliance expansion;
* encroaching menacingly on Russia’s borders;
* encirclement with US bases; and
* using Ukraine as a pretext for confrontation.
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Sputnik News (SN) discussed what demands worldwide reporting. Citing Le Point, it headlined “NATO Pushes for War by Encircling Russia.”
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Getting involved in Ukraine is a way to justify its existence, said SN. US-dominated NATO needs enemies to warrant spending hundreds of billions of dollars for offense, not defense.
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Ukraine’s conflict is important for NATO. “If (it) get(s) involved…and has a military confrontation with Russia, (it) will find irself back in action and subsequently more funds will flow into (its) budget,” said SN.
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According to Le Point columnist Pierre Beylau:
“NATO leaders regularly ‘wave a red flag’ (at Russia), sticking out their chest and throwing inflammatory comments. They would have done a big favor to the world if they kept quiet.”
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In 1989, GHW Bush promised Mikhail Gorbachev NATO wouldn’t expand East. It wouldn’t encroach on Russia’s borders provided Moscow let its former republics become independent.
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Another promise made. Another broken. Former Russian republics Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are NATO members. Other Eastern European ones include Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovenia. Washington wants all remaining Eastern European nations co-opted. It wants them part of NATO.
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US bases menacingly encircle Russian and Chinese borders. So-called missile defense systems intended for offense target their heartlands. Neither country threatens America. Positioning strategic weapons near their borders shows Washington’s real intent – regime change by any means necessary including war.
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“…Russia’s only buffer zones (protection against) a complete NATO encirclement on its western border are Finland, Belarus and Ukraine,” said SN.
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Plans to make Georgia and Ukraine Alliance members crosses a red line, according to Le Point. So should headlines like Stop NATO saying “US Infantry Division Deploys (to Europe) for Anti-Russian Mission.”
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