[D66] Sleepwalking into a big war

[J.N.]

http://nypost.com/2016/10/12/putin-could-be-readying-for-war-calls-russians-back-to-fatherland

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Putin could be readying for war, calls Russians back to Motherland

By Jamie Schram
October 12, 2016 | 9:55am

Russian President Vladimir Putin could be prepping for global war, in
the wake of deteriorating relations with the United States and other
Western countries, according to an incendiary new report.

Putin sent out an order to top Russian officials, politicians and their
children across the world demanding that they return to the Motherland,
the Daily Star claimed.

The order comes amid rising tensions with the US over Syria and Putin’s
last-minute cancellation of a planned trip to Paris to meet with French
President François Hollande.

“This is all part of the package of measures to prepare elites to some
big war,” Russian political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky told the Daily Star.

Retired Russian Lt. Gen. Evgeny Buzhinsky told the BBC Russia that US
interests would suffer if the situation escalates.

“If you want a confrontation, you’ll get one. But it won’t be a
confrontation that doesn’t harm the interests of the United States. You
want a confrontation, you’ll get one everywhere,” Buzhinsky warned.

US-Russian relations have cratered in the past few weeks following
President Obama’s decisions to pull out of talks on Syria and point a
finger at Russia for hacking into computers at the Democratic National
Committee.

Making matters worse, Putin scrapped plans to visit Paris after Hollande
accused Russia of carrying out airstrikes to aid Syrian forces, which
had committed a “war crime” in the devastated city of Aleppo.

Russian foreign policy analyst Fyodor Lukyanov considered Putin’s
cancellation of his Paris visit a “serious step” toward Cold War
relations with the West.

“This is part of the broader escalation in the tensions between Russia
and the West, and Russia and NATO,” he told Agence France-Presse.


On 12-10-16 10:13, J.N.  wrote:
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/10/gorbachev-warns-world-is-at-dangerous-point-amid-us-russian-face/
>
>
> Mikhail Gorbachev warns world is at 'dangerous point' amid US-Russian
> face off over Syria
>
>     Roland Oliphant
>
> 10 October 2016 • 1:54pm
>
> Soaring tensions between the United States and Russia have brought the
> world to a “dangerous point,” Mikhail Gorbachev warned on Monday.
>
> The former Soviet leader’s intervention came amid a collapse in
> East-West relations over the war in Syria that has seen the Kremlin
> openly threaten to shoot down Western aircraft, drawing comparisons with
> the worst crises of the Cold War.
>
>
>
> On 10-09-16 14:49, J.N.  wrote:
>> http://mondediplo.com/2016/09/02war
>>
>> West fearful as it loses military advantage
>> Sleepwalking into a big war
>>
>> The major powers are planning for war and claim that’s the best way to
>> defend against war. Will this mutual hawkishness lead to armed conflict?
>> by Michael T Klare
>>
>> Le Monde diplomatique
>> Sleepwalking into a big war
>> ↑
>>
>> As the US presidential race approaches its climax and European officials
>> ponder the implications of the UK’s Brexit vote, public discussion of
>> security affairs is largely confined to strategies for combating
>> international terrorism. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are
>> trying to persuade voters of their superior qualifications to lead this
>> battle, while European leaders scramble to bolster their countries’
>> defences against homegrown extremists. But though talk of terrorism
>> fills the news media and the political space, it is secondary in the
>> conversations of generals, admirals and defence ministers: it’s not
>> low-level conflict that commands their attention but rather what they
>> call ‘big wars’ — large-scale, high-level conflict with great-power
>> adversaries like Russia and China. Such major conflicts, long considered
>> most unlikely, are now deemed ‘plausible’ by western military
>> strategists, who claim that urgent steps are needed to deter and, if
>> necessary, prevail in such engagements.
>>
>> This development, overlooked by the media, has serious consequences,
>> starting with heightened tension between Russia and the West, each
>> eyeing the other in the expectation of a confrontation. More worrying is
>> the fact that many politicians believe that war is not only possible,
>> but may break out at any moment — a view that historically has tended to
>> precipitate military responses where diplomatic solutions might have
>> been possible.
>>
>> ...
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