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Top US general: Potential for ‘significant international conflic
t’ is increasing
By: guest55 Date: April 6, 2022, 11:43 pm
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Top US general: Potential for ‘significant international
conflict’ is increasing
[quote]The top US military officer told lawmakers Tuesday that
the world is becoming more unstable and the “potential for
significant international conflict is increasing, not
decreasing.”
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley and Defense
Secretary Lloyd Austin appeared before the House Armed Services
Committee in their first testimony before Congress since
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The two Pentagon leaders said the
threats from both Russia and China remain significant, while
they defended the US approach to the war and the flow of arms
the US is sending to Ukraine.
Milley said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is “the greatest
threat to peace and security of Europe and perhaps the world” in
his 42 years serving in the US military, but added it was
“heartening” to see the world rally around Ukraine.
“The Russian invasion of Ukraine is threatening to undermine not
only European peace and stability but global peace and stability
that my parents and a generation of Americans fought so hard to
defend,” Milley said.
“We are now facing two global powers: China and Russia, each
with significant military capabilities both who intend to
fundamentally change the rules based current global order,”
Milley added. “We are entering a world that is becoming more
unstable and the potential for significant international
conflict is increasing, not decreasing.”
Lawmakers in both parties focused at the hearing on the weapons
that were being provided to Ukraine, asking whether more could
be done as Ukraine has continued to ask for additional
capabilities.
“One of the biggest questions we’re going to have in this
committee is, ‘How can we do more?’” House Armed Services
Chairman Adam Smith, a Washington state Democrat, said at the
top of the hearing. “How can we make sure we’re doing absolutely
everything we can to help them?”
Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama, the panel’s top Republican, said he
would support the US setting up permanent bases in eastern NATO
countries like Poland and the Baltics in order to deter Russia.
Milley said that he would support establishing permanent bases
but added that he thought US forces should rotate through them
to create a deterrent without incurring the costs of moving
family, establishing schools and other measures required when a
permanent US base is established abroad.[/quote]
Entire article:
HTML https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/05/politics/mark-milley-ukraine-reaction-international-conflict/index.html
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Re: Atlantic Alliance Drifting Apart?
By: guest55 Date: April 7, 2022, 11:11 pm
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Expert: Some In NATO Expect Ukraine To Subsidize Russian Gas
‘With Their Blood'
[quote]The West continues to further isolate Russia amid growing
evidence of war crimes in Ukraine. The European Union has agreed
to ban Russian coal, but is still divided on Russian oil and
gas, which remains untouched. Joy and her panel discuss why this
needs to change.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXujkt5s1p4
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Re: Atlantic Alliance Drifting Apart?
By: guest55 Date: April 8, 2022, 9:20 pm
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Finland pursuing NATO membership | NewsNation Prime
[quote]Former U.S. Air Force Assistant Vice Chief of Staff Lt.
Gen. Richard Newton chimes in on Finland pursuing their NATO
membership.
#Finland #NATO[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06TUWplaU_U
Finland eyes NATO membership, hit with cyberattacks | NewsNation
Prime
[quote]As Finland weighs joining the NATO alliance, it was hit
by cyberattacks on government websites on Friday. The country
also had its airspace breached, while Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy was speaking virtually to members of
Finland's Parliament.
#Finland #NATO #Ukraine #Russia #Poland #America #VladimirPutin
#JoeBiden #VolodymyrZelenskyy [/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-_ECbep3TA
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Re: Atlantic Alliance Drifting Apart?
By: guest55 Date: April 8, 2022, 10:23 pm
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NATO must be ready for the worst case - war | NATO former
Commander
[quote]NATO’s former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe,
Richard Shirreff speaks to Times Radio about Putin's war on
Ukraine.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_RVtqQA404
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Re: Atlantic Alliance Drifting Apart?
By: guest55 Date: April 11, 2022, 11:58 pm
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Did NATO give Putin the green light to commit war crimes? |
Tobias Ellwood
[quote]Speaking to Jenny Kleeman and Chloe Tilley, chair of the
select defence committee Tobias Ellwood said that NATO was
partially responsible for Putin's war crimes in Ukraine.
He said: "We must learn and understand that our timidity, that I
spoke of, has actually given Putin the green light, he's
recognised that he can exploit how hesitant we've become, not
really wishing to cross that line, hiding behind that NATO
curtain if you like.
"And therefore, we've actually given Putin free rein to conduct
war crimes."
Commenting on General Richard Shirreff's analysis that the West
should prepare for war, he said: "We need to be get better as we
did in the Cold War, of estimating, assessing and taking risks.
"This is so critical, because as you say the geopolitics of this
are far far wider than just Ukraine itself.
"So we need to brace ourselves, prepare ourselves for war in
order to defend peace. That's what we need to do now."
Asked whether sending more weapons to Ukraine would escalate the
war, he said: "We should be mindful of, but not scared of, not
spooked by the fact that he has nuclear weapons, and the fact
that Putin keeps mentioning this."
Listen to Tobias Ellwood's interview in full on Times
Radio.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1InDkQwZ6I
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Re: Atlantic Alliance Drifting Apart?
By: guest55 Date: April 12, 2022, 12:37 am
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Europe should 'escalate' to win the war with Russia | Riho
Terras
[quote]Estonian defence forces' former commander Riho Terras
told Times Radio that NATO and European countries should
"escalate" the war situation "to get the victory out of this
war" and send offensive weapons to Ukraine.
Speaking to Stig Abell and Kate McCann, Riho Terras said: "It
isn't about NATO, but at least every single NATO country needs
to understand that this war in Ukraine is not about Ukraine.
"This war is about Europe, and about the Western value
community.
"And the Ukrainians are fighting actually our war and Putin has
very clearly said that it is about fighting NATO, fighting
Western countries.
"And Medvedev a couple of days ago said that Putin wants to
create a space from Lisbon to Vladivostok."
He added: "I would quote Churchill who said, 'We don't need
peace, we need victory', because otherwise this evil will stay
around and come every now and then again, with new ideas."
[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PayXWLopgGQ
Putin has Western values. Russian leadership just hasn't changed
as much from the colonial era when European countries were just
as brutal as Russia still is today.
[quote]After a period of political instability between 1598 and
1613, which became known as the Time of Troubles, the Romanovs
came to power (1613) and the expansion-colonization process of
the Tsardom continued. While western Europe colonized the New
World, the Tsardom of Russia expanded overland – principally to
the east, north and south.
This continued for centuries; by the end of the 19th century,
the Russian Empire reached from the Baltic Sea, to the Black
Sea, to the Pacific Ocean, and for some time included colonies
in the Americas (1732–1867) and a short-lived unofficial colony
in Africa (1889) in present-day Djibouti.[2] [/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Russia
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/russia-the-last-colonial-empire/
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Re: Atlantic Alliance Drifting Apart?
By: guest55 Date: April 12, 2022, 11:30 am
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Will Finland and Sweden join NATO? | Retired NATO member Jamie
Shea
[quote]According to US officials, Finland and Sweden could join
NATO as soon as this summer, following Russia's war on Ukraine.
Speaking to Ayesha Hazarika, former nato emerging security
challenges deputy assistant secretary general Jamie Shea said:
"The more that Russia tried to bully countries in Central and
Eastern Europe out of joining NATO, the more fearsome that they
became naturally, and therefore, the more they wanted to join
the alliance.
"Russia is rather like the sort of pyrotechnic firefighter that
constantly is trying to solve a problem that it itself has
created."
He added that Finland had been the subject of repeated attacks
from Russia in the past few days. He said: "What Finland or
Sweden now see is that the security situation in Europe has
deteriorated and they see that there is a potential threat to
themselves.
"Just in the last couple of days, for example, Finnish airspace
has been violated, Finland has been subjected to quite severe
cyber attacks on its government institutions, its GPS signals
have been jammed repeatedly, and so on."
Jamie Shea also talked about the potential use of chemical
weapons in Ukraine by Russia, as well as the response NATO and
the West should give to these new attacks.
[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7tGmVP_tPw
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Re: Duginism
By: guest55 Date: April 13, 2022, 8:47 pm
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[quote]Within weeks, not months....[/quote]
[quote]Finland and Sweden could soon join NATO, moves that would
likely infuriate Moscow and that officials say would further
underscore Russia's strategic error in invading Ukraine. CNN's
Nic Robertson reports. #CNN #News[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ96rpnDy5I
Former intelligence officer warns Putin could force NATO into
war | 60 Minutes Australia
[quote]In an exclusive interview with 60 Minutes on the border
of Ukraine, former defence planner and intelligence officer with
the British Army Philip Ingram says if Putin takes control over
Ukraine, NATO has essentially given the ‘bully’ what he
wants.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt3_0ZnJdzY
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Re: Atlantic Alliance Drifting Apart?
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 14, 2022, 2:07 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVT11FDNw34
This is another reason why it is leftists who should want the US
to stop being a democracy.
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Re: Atlantic Alliance Drifting Apart?
By: guest55 Date: April 14, 2022, 10:28 pm
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Russia issues nuclear threat to Europe
[quote]Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has warned that
Russia would deploy nuclear weapons in a new location if a red
line is crossed.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBj4Tdti7LI
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