NATO’s Shadow of Nazi Operation Barbarossa

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

By Finian Cunningham

....The US-led Operation Atlantic Resolve has seen a surge in American military presence in the Baltic countries and other eastern European members of the NATO alliance over the past year. Technically, it is claimed that the US forces are «on tour duty» and therefore not transgressing past agreements with Russia to limit NATO permanent forces on Russia’s borders. But semantics aside, it is hard not to see that Washington has, in effect, significantly stepped up its military footprint in a geo-strategically sensitive region, in brazen contravention of erstwhile commitments made to Moscow. NATO warplane sorties have increased four-fold in the Baltic region over the past year, as have NATO warships in the Black Sea.

Citing «Russian aggression», Washington and amenable rightwing governments in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, are giving themselves a licence to do what they are forbidden to do under binding accords, such as the NATO-Russia Founding Act signed in the 1990s, – namely, to expand military forces on Russia’s western borders. Operation Atlantic Resolve is predicated on unsubstantiated US-led claims – propaganda – that Russia is the source of aggression, primarily in Ukraine, and to the rest of Europe. Fact: Russia is not in Ukraine or any European country.

Such blatant inversion of reality is part of the «psyops» in the US-led propaganda offensive.

US commanded military exercises, including live-fire drills and the installation of Patriot and Cruise missiles, are scheduled to take place over the next months in the Baltic countries, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, as well as Ukraine and Georgia on Russia’s southern flank. The latter two reveal the wider non-NATO dimension of Washington’s geopolitical agenda....

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/03/13/nato-shadow-of-nazi-operation-barbarossa.html

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[Judi Lynn]

2. Interesting. Thanks. n/t

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

6. You're very welcome Judi.

[Blue_Tires]

3. "Fact: Russia is not in Ukraine or any European country"

Thanks...I had a bet with a friend that I could find some nutbar pseudo-leftist loon who still denies with a straight face that Russia invaded Ukraine...

Finian Cunningham clearly hasn't been Mister Current Events, has he??

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4. Not even close. Now Putin ginning up an imperialist war, there's the news that born of fact.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

7. See my post #5.

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8. "Putin should just take East Ukraine" by Finian Cunningham

http://mycatbirdseat.com/2015/02/putin-should-just-take-east-ukraine/

Typical Poot-licking fascist, imperialist warmonger who sucks up to Moscow and hates Western Europe because his side lost the Cold War.

This crowd isn't progressive, just fascist.

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9. Cunningham also hates criticism of Russia's persecution of GLBT

citizens.

http://m.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/01/10/sochi-olympics-western-games-begin-as-us-aims-for-propaganda-gold.html

Probably on Putin's payroll. Complete stooge. And a homophobe.

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10. Why do Poot-Lickers not care about GLBT rights in Russia?

Answer: they are fascists, not progressives. More from this fascist asswipe:

http://m.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/02/07/sochi-games-politics-not-sport-tops-western-media-agenda.html

Then there is the issue of «gay rights» given prominence by the British Guardian which published a lengthy article on the eve of the opening of the Games, along with an open letter from more than 200 international authors and activists, who claimed that Russia’s new law last year banning homosexual literature is a «violation of free speech». The issue was amplified by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who is attending the opening ceremony. The hapless UN figure head, who slavishly follows political orders from Washington on every issue, from Syria to North Korea, from Iran to Afghanistan, called on the International Olympic Committee to «defend the rights of gays and lesbians».

This gender issue is why US President Barack Obama and a few other prominent Western leaders have decided to, in effect, boycott the Sochi Games, in what is seen by many observers as an unprecedented snub to Russia.

Note the scare quotes.

[Blue_Tires]

11. I'll just leave this here, ok?

http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-russia-putin-crimea-20150315-story.html