NATO Strategy: Use Small European Countries as Proxies for War with Russia

• NATO Strategy: Use Small European Countries as Proxies for War with Russia
  by Andrew Korybko, http://russia-insider.com/en  
  NATO may be working on a long-term strategy to create military blocs within Europe that would antagonize Russia and act as a bait for a larger US intervention.
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  While small, together the Eastern and Northern European countries could cause significant geo-political problems to Russia when NATO builds-up their military power.
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  This is an excerpt from a longer article of Andrew Korybko, a prominent political analyst and Russia Insider contributor.
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  Romania and Bulgaria are the two official members of the Black Sea Bloc, but they aren’t its only components. Shadow NATO members Moldova and Georgia round out the rest of the bloc, and all together, they occupy the western and part of the eastern reaches of the Black Sea.
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  Eric Draitser wrote a thorough report about US naval strategy in this region and the latest anti-Russian provocations that it partook in with Georgia. This explains the importance of the trans-Black Sea area and justifies the inclusion of Georgia into the larger Eastern Balkan pro-NATO concept.
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  Moldova, for its part, is an ideologically and politically divided land narrowly presided over by a pro-Western elite that wants to accelerate the Euro-Atlantic colonization of the country. Yet, pragmatic Russian-oriented citizens and the frozen Transnistrian conflict are currently standing in the way.
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  When one adds the Black Sea Bloc of Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Georgia to the Viking (Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway) and Commonwealth Blocs of Greater Scandinavia (Poland, Lithuania and “Shadow NATO” member Ukraine) a startling realization occurs – Pilsudski’s Intermarium “cordon sanitaire” has finally been created.
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  Stratfor’s George Friedman, who has advocated its revival, describes it as a belt of anti-Russian states stretching from the Baltic to the Black Seas, which is the pure geographic definition of the interlinked Viking-Commonwealth-Black Sea Bloc. This Intermarium allows NATO to form three separate fronts against Russian interests, targeting it from the Arctic/Baltic, Eastern Europe, and the Black Sea.
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  As an incidental strategic touch, however, it is the Black Sea Bloc, the weakest and least integrated of the three, that could ultimately destabilize Russian interests the most. This is because it threatens two important Russian-affiliated outposts, Transnistria and the security of Balkan Stream’s central peninsula corridor through Macedonia.
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  The Indirect Approach
  The Viking and Commonwealth Blocs directly target Russian territory or its overall border security, but the Black Sea Bloc’s intended victims are not immediately adjacent to Russia, and one of them (Macedonia) doesn’t have any direct connection to its military security.
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  By destabilizing Transnistria and Macedonia via the ambitions of Greater Romania and Greater Bulgaria (whether de-jure or de-facto), NATO hopes to chip away at the international security and stability architecture that Russia has built, aiming to score “cheap shots” while it’s still able to do so. Here’s how it looks more in-depth:
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