[D66] Western threats against Russia increase danger of nuclear war

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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/08/30/ukra-a30.html

Western threats against Russia increase danger of nuclear war
By Johannes Stern
30 August 2014

The imperialist powers are intensifying their confrontation with Russia
in the run-up to today’s European Union (EU) meeting and next week’s
NATO summit in Wales. The escalation, which is being driven by
Washington and Berlin, is increasing the danger of a military conflict
between NATO and Russia that could result in a nuclear war.

The 28 NATO ambassadors came together briefly on Friday for an emergency
meeting in Brussels. “We condemn in the strongest terms the fact that
Russia is continuing to ignore its international obligations,” said NATO
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. “We are pushing Russia to halt
its illegal military action, end its support for armed separatists, and
undertake immediate and verifiable steps to deescalate this serious
crisis,” he declared.

In fact, the entire meeting confirmed that NATO’s policy is not
“deescalation,” but escalation, and that in the Ukraine conflict, it is
not Putin who is the aggressor, but the Western powers.

Rasmussen, along with the government heads of all of the NATO countries,
conveniently overlooks the fact that Berlin and Washington triggered the
crisis by organizing a coup in close collaboration with fascist forces
against the pro-Russian Ukrainian government of Viktor Yanukovych. Now
they are working closely with the puppet regime they installed, led by
the billionaire oligarch Petro Poroshenko, to brutally crush a
separatist insurgency in Russian-speaking parts of eastern Ukraine as
the first step in militarily encircling Russia and reducing it to a
neo-colonial status.