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Re: Is the use of chemicals by Syria related to their use by Russia in England

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 08 Apr 18 2:59 PM | 68 view(s)
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Here's an article talking about the rise of Russian-influenced strongmen within NATO. Putin likes to promote folks who are corrupt, because such people achieve two things: one, they can be manipulated more easily; two, they undermine confidence in democratic government.

Trump fits the pattern.

Weakening NATO is one of Putin's key goals, so that he can reestablish the territorial dominance of the Soviet Union.

"From Budapest to Warsaw to Ankara, a new generation of strongmen within the alliance seeks to govern in a manner closer to that of Putin than to that of the democratic reformers of the immediate post-Cold War epoch. Which raises the question of whether an alliance, designed to contain the Soviet Union and ostensibly organized around democratic ideals, can endure attacks on the rule of law by a growing subset of its members.

“Russia aims to weaken U.S. influence in the world and divide us from our allies and partners,” says the Trump administration’s 2017 National Security Strategy. The line, while accurate, reflects poorly on the strategy’s ostensible author, given that among other things it implicitly refers to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump. Left unwritten is that Russia’s goal of creating distance between the United States and its allies is part of what attracted it to Trump in the first place. As a candidate, Trump called NATO “obsolete.” As president, he initially declined to reaffirm America’s commitment to the alliance’s mutual defense provision, before begrudgingly reversing course at the insistence of his advisers."

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/04/nato-hungary-authoritarianism/557459/?utm_source=twb

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Re: Is the use of chemicals by Syria related to their use by Russia in England
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Sun, 08 Apr 18 2:06 PM 		Msg. 24391 of 54959

Here's an interesting article following the previous Litvinenko polonium assassination which suggests Putin's invasions are connected to the poisonings.

"Putin never paid a price, and in the manner of bullies everywhere, he was emboldened when the Brits failed to respond to Litvinenko's assassination in the middle of London. That is why Putin's invasion of the small, free, and democratic Republic of Georgia was predictable. Today the Russian threat to the Ukraine is just as obvious. So the issue is not just the Republic of Georgia: It is the Ukraine, the Baltics, Eastern Europe, and even the Middle East...

Just as the Polonium assassination was designed to send a message to bully the world, the Georgia invasion used a lot of over-the-top violence -- Russia having 146 million people, and George 4-5 million. Putin went so far as to send in Cossack and Chechen irregulars, a deliberate throwback to the Czars. Back then, the Cossacks were no better than the Vikings; they killed, plundered and raped civilians. They were the battlefield scavengers of dead and wounded soldiers. Even the Prussian von Clausewitz was appalled and shamed by the Cossacks, who had no sense of military honor as he understood it.
Well, Putin has sent the Cossacks and Chechens in again after the Russian army. This is a signal to Eastern Europe where people have long memories. Russia is back to barbarism.

Under its current KGB Mafia, Moscow will act purely by Machtpolitik, unrestrained by world opinion or civilized values. Meanwhile, the Germans have put themselves at the mercy of Putin by giving him a monopoly over their natural gas supplies. Russia's Gazprom even hired the last (and worst) German Chancellor, Gerhardt Schroeder, after he passed a concessionary gas agreement with Russia through the German parliament. Europe is governed by fools or cowards, who hope to buy the friendship of the KGB Mafia in Moscow. But as soon as the Russians bare their teeth, Europe looks to the United States again for help."

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/08/barry_the_unready_and_putin_th.html

Obama's failure to respond to the Syrian red line incident told Putin he could invade Ukraine.

The US now has its Schroeder. The guy you can buy.

The Baltics and the Middle East are likely Putin's actual targets. He has delivered the poison and is watching the result.

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