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Baltic/Black Sea Power Games and Red Lines Intersect in a “Strange War”
Strategic waters: Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO positioned Russia as the only non-member bordering the Baltic Sea. No one ever lost money betting on the batshit crazy “policies” of the ferociously yapping Baltic chihuahuas. Their latest power play of sorts is a drive to turn the Baltic Sea into a NATO lake. Continue reading
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Week after Biden-Putin meeting, crunch time is coming
Russia is reiterating its ‘red lines’ seeking long-term legal guarantees against NATO’s further advancement to the east and the deployment of weapons on Russia’s western borders. The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on December 10 putting on record its expectation that long term legal guarantees must be given “within a specific time-frame and on the… Continue reading
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Biden avoids diplomacy with Russia
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov exhorted today in an extraordinary statement that the state authorities and the society at large must mobilise their resources amid the West’s pressure. Addressing an audience in Vladivostok, Lavrov said, Continue reading
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Black Sea: NATO drill practiced strafing Russian ships
NATO reports that it conducted what is described as air defense exercises in the Black Sea on July 2. Evidently the maneuvers were independent of the 32-nation Sea Breeze naval and air exercises occurring simultaneously. And of the recent port visits and participation in exercises by the HMS Defender guided-missile destroyer and the HNLMS Evertsen… Continue reading
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‘Leaked’ Documents: British HMS Defender Stunt Near Crimea Was An Intentional Provocation
Last week someone ‘leaked’ a number of confidential papers from the British Ministry of Defence to the BBC: Continue reading
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Warmongering British Actions in the Black Sea
The pre-positioning of the BBC correspondent on HMS Defender shatters the pretence that the BBC is something different to a state propaganda broadcaster. It also makes plain that this propaganda exercise to provoke the Russian military was calculated and deliberate. Indeed that was confirmed by that BBC correspondent’s TV news report last night when he… Continue reading
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These Uppity Brits Need A Slap-like Lesson
The Brits were getting a bit uppity today so the Russians responded by opening fire: Continue reading
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Why The U.S. Might Want War In Ukraine
Yesterday CNN said that the US is considering sending warships to the Black Sea amid Russia-Ukraine tensions. That the U.S. is ‘considering’ this is however disinformation: Continue reading
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Talk of Western intervention in the Black Sea is pure fantasy By Pepe Escobar
Crimea is essential to Russia strategically and economically, but speculation over Ankara helping to boost the US presence in the Black Sea is far-fetched given Turkey’s energy deals with Moscow Continue reading
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Video: Ukraine, Endgame Of 15 Years Of NATO Expansion
Press TV has conducted an interview with Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO International Network in Chicago, about Russia’s move to take control of Ukrainian naval bases situated inside Crimea. Continue reading
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Crisis in Ukraine: Russia Extends its Control over the Black Sea and Strategic Waterways By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The union of Crimea with Russia redefines both the geography as well as the geopolitical chessboard in the Black Sea basin. Continue reading
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Vlad the Bad steals a march on the West By Eric Margolis (USA)
Russia’s hard-eyed president, Vladimir Putin, is following the same strategy over Ukraine and Crimea. Putin swiftly moved his knight into the empty chess square of Crimea, thereby regaining full control of one of Russia’s four strategic port regions: Sevastopol, Murmansk, St Petersburg and Vladivostok. Continue reading
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Foreign Office: How not to handle a Black Sea crisis By Mark Almond
Diplomacy is often best when it provides a smokescreen for a retreating from a foolish policy. Maybe if William Hague could act like his hero Pitt, he could persuade the White House to declare Vladimir Putin’s permission of a referendum on the future of Crimea to be a triumph of Western ideals to spread democracy… Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: February 27, 2012: Qatari Prime Minister: Arm Syrian Rebels, Intervene Militarily
27 February 2012 — Stop NATO News Turkey Says Military Intervention In Syria Discussed In Tunis Civilians Flee As Turkish Artillery Pounds Northern Iraq Russian Bombers Over Black Sea Amid Syria, Iran Crises Drones, Anti-Aircraft, Missile Defense: $1.6 Billion Israeli-Azeri Deal U.S. Soldier, Afghan Civilian Killed As Protests Grow Germany Pulls Advisers Out Of Afghan Ministries Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 19, 2011
19 December 2011 — Stop NATO Black Sea: New Flash Point For U.S./NATO Versus Russia Conflicts Romania: U.S. Marines Plan Six-Month Mission In Eastern Europe Romania: Pentagon Military Outpost On The Black Sea Romania Again Offers Troops For Global NATO, EU Missions U.S. Senate Bill Adds Arms For Georgia Afghan Provincial Council Closes To Protest Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: September 8, 2011
Stop NATO U.S. Marines Black Sea Force To Be Replicated In Africa South Sudan: Next NATO Intervention? Provincial Government: NATO Forces Guilty Of Deadly Pakistani Raids NATO Chief In Czech Republic To Discuss Global Transformation Million Dead, $1.8 Trillion Spent On Decade-Long U.S. ‘War On Terror’ Continue reading
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Syria On The Boil, U.S. Warship In The Black Sea By M K Bhadrakumar
-Without doubt, the US is stepping up pressure on Russia’s Black Sea fleet. The US’s provocation is taking place against the backdrop of the turmoil in Syria. Russia is stubbornly blocking US attempts to drum up a case for Libya-style intervention in Syria. Moscow understands that a major reason for the US to push for… Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 12, 2011: NATO Wars Lead To Near Quintupling Of U.S. Arms Sales In Past Decade
12 June, 2011 — Stop NATO Libya: 10,686 NATO Air Missions, 4,050 Combat Sorties NATO Wars Lead To Near Quintupling Of U.S. Arms Sales In Past Decade Russia: U.S. Interceptor Missile Ship In Black Sea Threat To National Security U.S. Congressmen Demand Iraq Pay For Eight Years Of War, Occupation Lithuania Hosts NATO Military Training Continue reading
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U.S. And NATO Accelerate Military Build-Up In Black Sea Region By Rick Rozoff
In the post-Cold War era and especially since 2001 the Pentagon has been steadily shifting emphasis, and moving troops and equipment, from bases in Germany and Italy to Eastern Europe in its drive to the east and the south. That process was preceded and augmented by the absorption of former Eastern Bloc nations into the… Continue reading
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Global Warfare USA: The World is the Pentagon’s Oyster By Rick Rozoff
“Not only does one country account for the overwhelming plurality of world military expenditures, but that nation also has troops and bases on all six habitable continents (as well as a 54-year military mission in Antarctica, Operation Deep Freeze) and eleven aircraft carrier strike groups and six navy fleets that roam the world’s oceans and… Continue reading
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