Project "ZZ". Slogans Mitt Romney - to life!
Today, not everyone remembers that in March 2012 of the year, during the pre-election race in the United States, Republican candidate Mitt Romney called Russia "the number one geopolitical enemy." Giving an interview to CNN, Romney said: “Today Russia, not Iran and the DPRK, is a geopolitical enemy for the United States. She always supports the worst in the world. ” The Republican candidate lost the election - partly because competitor B.H. Obama smiled to him with a grin that the number one enemy is not Russia, but Al-Qaida.
However, in 2014-2015. everything has changed exactly the opposite. Al-Qaida has long been forgotten, and the new-fangled "Islamic State" is listed secondly or thirdly in the United States, yielding to Ebola virus fever. And in the first place (recently Angela Merkel, the leading associate of Obama in Europe, recognized this) is Russia. Mitt Romney accidentally became something like a small biblical prophet. By the way, if he were a little smarter, he could use his “March theses” in the new election campaign. But, as you know, he did not want to participate in the 2016 election. Although not tired of publicly criticizing the Obama administration.
“Russia is an unfriendly figure on the world stage. The fact that the president is seeking greater flexibility in relations with the Russian Federation is a very disturbing sign. I am very, very concerned about this. This is Russia, without any questions, our geopolitical enemy number one, ”said Romney in March 2012.
And now these theses have been developed. Now they are repeated and developed by those who are just members of the Obama team.
The other day, a four-star American general spoke on this subject.
Daniel Allyn - Deputy Chief of Staff of the US Army. In his opinion, which leads a large edition "Military Times", Russia is a threat to Eastern Europe, since "it clearly demonstrated its intentions to impair the national borders of two states" (two states, without clarification).
Hence, there is a threat to the United States: after all, the American army must defend its allies in the NATO bloc. The general believes that US forces in Europe should continue to train forces to "contain" Russians.
Daniel Ellin announced this after a meeting between US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and the Ukrainian Minister of Defense in Brussels. Two spoke of the "continuing aggression of Russia in eastern Ukraine."
Western forces, including those stationed now in Romania and Bulgaria and operating on a rotational basis, said Ellin, continue to maintain the potential of "deterring threats", create a "security environment" and "strengthen determination".
The general also noted with satisfaction that the military forces in Europe are equipped with additional military equipment: tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
On the other hand, during the period of growing threats, the forces of the Western allies, according to Ellin, are “in very difficult conditions”. After all, the US military budget for 2015 year on 5 billion dollars less than the budget of the previous year. By the end of the current fiscal year, the army will lose its 80.000 soldiers (they will be “reduced”).
But there is a good news for American soldiers, the general said. Today they can influence the situation around the world. In this “exciting” era, it was not without pathos that Ellin said it’s time to "serve in the United States Army."
About the possible "confrontation" with Russia they write in Britain - in the newspaper Financial Times.
The correspondent of "FT" Jeff Dyer (Geoff Dyer) handed over a NATO statement from Germany. Officials of the North Atlantic Alliance said that its forces participating in military maneuvers are learning to hold defensive positions in order to withstand an aggressive opponent.
Considering how “the geopolitical landscape of Europe changed dramatically due to the Russian annexation of the Crimea last year,” NATO forces acquired additional military equipment in the EU states. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, reminds the journalist, this technique "largely inactive."
The ongoing military exercises and the equipping of European forces with tanks and artillery are aimed at “deterring potential Russian aggression”, as well as “reassure concerned allies”, first of all “in the Baltic countries,” the reporter writes.
True, the “by-product” of such weapons will be “creeping militarization.” And it will inevitably affect both the countries of Eastern Europe and the relations of the West with Russia.
But the US is not going to deviate from the plan. “The future looks different than it seemed last summer,” said US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. “As for this part of the world, Putin believes that he has a regional superiority,” Mr. Mikser (Estonian Minister of Defense) assents to him.
Last week, the Obama administration announced that American tanks and weapons would arrive in six countries in Eastern Europe, from Estonia to Bulgaria.
At the same time, NATO is increasing the scale and number of military exercises, which makes it possible to speak of "an almost constant presence in several countries of Eastern Europe."
Given the creation of a new rapid reaction force, NATO will be able to "deter any attempts by Russia to intimidate any member of the alliance," even if it is a question of the Baltic countries, in relation to which Russia has "significant strategic advantages."
According to Ivo Daalder, the former US ambassador to NATO, the steps taken by NATO do not mean that the alliance can stand against the "Russian invasion of the Baltic states". However, "this means that Russia will then be at war with NATO ..."
As for the solution of some operational issues, NATO is also working on this. Ursula von der Layen, the German defense minister, points out that NATO members must remove legal obstacles that slow down the redeployment of troops across state borders.
Along with these statements, there are others. It follows from them that NATO members are afraid to get involved with Russia.
Now NATO sends signals to Moscow, conducting exercises and arming. Russia responds: its airplanes fly near the air borders of the NATO countries, and the ships ply the corresponding maritime spaces.
The said Mr. Daalder, who now holds the office of president of the Chicago Council on global issues, believes that the West and Russia speak each other in the language of military symbols and use the rhetoric of "taking military action." Therefore, "the risk of disaster increases ..."
Western strategists, who want to arm themselves to the teeth and see only the aggressor and the enemy in Russia, are echoed by renowned human rights activist and chess player Garry Kasparov.
Being in Poland, 52-year-old Mr. Kasparov, who heads the "Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights", gave an interview to an influential magazine Newsweek.
The first thing Kasparov told the magazine about the feeling of "threat". He explained that he had not returned to Russia for two and a half years now and lives in New York.
When asked by a reporter whether the interviewee really considers Putin to be “the most dangerous person in the world,” Kasparov replied: “That's right.”
West Putin underestimated. According to Kasparov, Putin "worked Bush and Blair ten years ago." The owner of the Kremlin needed “respectability” - to “preserve power”. Now he needs something else: he wants Russia to be perceived as a besieged country. Therefore, Putin "friends are no longer needed." He "needs enemies," said the chess player.
After these words, the correspondent Robert Chalmers thought about the sanity of the interlocutor.
“There is a tradition to consider chess champions irresponsible until the opposite is proved,” he writes. - History full of examples: anti-Semite psychopath Bobby Fisher; Wilhelm Steinitz, who claimed that he was playing chess with God, controlling the figures with the help of invisible wire ... ”Some, the journalist continues, believe that Kasparov’s“ fiery opposition mood ”towards Putin is“ a symptom of paranoia ”.
However, we will listen to Kasparov himself. After all, he does not give advice to Russians, he advises the West.
“First of all,” says the chess player, “Ukraine should be armed”.
And what about the Baltic republics? How will NATO react if Russians invade Latvia or Estonia?
“This is an important question,” said Kasparov. - I think they have no choice. After all, if Putin creates chaos in a small area that is the territory of NATO, it means: NATO is dead. And this is his (Putin's) goal. "
The correspondent, not without irony, informs readers that Kasparov has told him much more than was envisaged in the interview.
Publications in the Western press of the last days and weeks, we add from ourselves, allow us to draw one conclusion. The West, including the structures of NATO, is riven by contradictions. On the one hand, military officials piously believe in the NATO myth of the Russian threat, do everything to equip a number of European countries with heavy military equipment, and also conduct frequent exercises. On the other hand, the EU states, from Estonia to Bulgaria, actually signed up to maintain American military equipment for their short budgets and feed foreign soldiers. In addition, NATO members themselves are seriously frightened by the growing number of military "signals" that the North Atlantic Alliance and Russia are sending to each other: exercises, ships, airplanes and harsh rhetoric. Any mistake can lead to either a battle or a war.
Advisor Kasparov, pushing the planet to the Third World War, was recorded in the West as paranoids.
However, despite the apparent fear of collision with Russia, Washington continues to call Russia “the aggressor” and “threat” to the US and its allies from Europe. The Pentagon has already reached the use of tracing paper from the election slogans of Mitt Romney, who declared Russia the number one US geopolitical enemy in 2012 year.
And today, the brave NATO soldiers are learning to keep the defense in Europe: the “aggressor” is on the way!
However, in 2014-2015. everything has changed exactly the opposite. Al-Qaida has long been forgotten, and the new-fangled "Islamic State" is listed secondly or thirdly in the United States, yielding to Ebola virus fever. And in the first place (recently Angela Merkel, the leading associate of Obama in Europe, recognized this) is Russia. Mitt Romney accidentally became something like a small biblical prophet. By the way, if he were a little smarter, he could use his “March theses” in the new election campaign. But, as you know, he did not want to participate in the 2016 election. Although not tired of publicly criticizing the Obama administration.
“Russia is an unfriendly figure on the world stage. The fact that the president is seeking greater flexibility in relations with the Russian Federation is a very disturbing sign. I am very, very concerned about this. This is Russia, without any questions, our geopolitical enemy number one, ”said Romney in March 2012.
And now these theses have been developed. Now they are repeated and developed by those who are just members of the Obama team.
The other day, a four-star American general spoke on this subject.
Daniel Allyn - Deputy Chief of Staff of the US Army. In his opinion, which leads a large edition "Military Times", Russia is a threat to Eastern Europe, since "it clearly demonstrated its intentions to impair the national borders of two states" (two states, without clarification).
General Ellin. Photo: Jennifer Milbrett / Staff
Hence, there is a threat to the United States: after all, the American army must defend its allies in the NATO bloc. The general believes that US forces in Europe should continue to train forces to "contain" Russians.
Daniel Ellin announced this after a meeting between US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and the Ukrainian Minister of Defense in Brussels. Two spoke of the "continuing aggression of Russia in eastern Ukraine."
Western forces, including those stationed now in Romania and Bulgaria and operating on a rotational basis, said Ellin, continue to maintain the potential of "deterring threats", create a "security environment" and "strengthen determination".
The general also noted with satisfaction that the military forces in Europe are equipped with additional military equipment: tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
On the other hand, during the period of growing threats, the forces of the Western allies, according to Ellin, are “in very difficult conditions”. After all, the US military budget for 2015 year on 5 billion dollars less than the budget of the previous year. By the end of the current fiscal year, the army will lose its 80.000 soldiers (they will be “reduced”).
But there is a good news for American soldiers, the general said. Today they can influence the situation around the world. In this “exciting” era, it was not without pathos that Ellin said it’s time to "serve in the United States Army."
About the possible "confrontation" with Russia they write in Britain - in the newspaper Financial Times.
NATO soldiers at the exercises. Photo: Getty
The correspondent of "FT" Jeff Dyer (Geoff Dyer) handed over a NATO statement from Germany. Officials of the North Atlantic Alliance said that its forces participating in military maneuvers are learning to hold defensive positions in order to withstand an aggressive opponent.
Considering how “the geopolitical landscape of Europe changed dramatically due to the Russian annexation of the Crimea last year,” NATO forces acquired additional military equipment in the EU states. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, reminds the journalist, this technique "largely inactive."
The ongoing military exercises and the equipping of European forces with tanks and artillery are aimed at “deterring potential Russian aggression”, as well as “reassure concerned allies”, first of all “in the Baltic countries,” the reporter writes.
True, the “by-product” of such weapons will be “creeping militarization.” And it will inevitably affect both the countries of Eastern Europe and the relations of the West with Russia.
But the US is not going to deviate from the plan. “The future looks different than it seemed last summer,” said US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. “As for this part of the world, Putin believes that he has a regional superiority,” Mr. Mikser (Estonian Minister of Defense) assents to him.
Last week, the Obama administration announced that American tanks and weapons would arrive in six countries in Eastern Europe, from Estonia to Bulgaria.
At the same time, NATO is increasing the scale and number of military exercises, which makes it possible to speak of "an almost constant presence in several countries of Eastern Europe."
Given the creation of a new rapid reaction force, NATO will be able to "deter any attempts by Russia to intimidate any member of the alliance," even if it is a question of the Baltic countries, in relation to which Russia has "significant strategic advantages."
According to Ivo Daalder, the former US ambassador to NATO, the steps taken by NATO do not mean that the alliance can stand against the "Russian invasion of the Baltic states". However, "this means that Russia will then be at war with NATO ..."
As for the solution of some operational issues, NATO is also working on this. Ursula von der Layen, the German defense minister, points out that NATO members must remove legal obstacles that slow down the redeployment of troops across state borders.
Along with these statements, there are others. It follows from them that NATO members are afraid to get involved with Russia.
Now NATO sends signals to Moscow, conducting exercises and arming. Russia responds: its airplanes fly near the air borders of the NATO countries, and the ships ply the corresponding maritime spaces.
The said Mr. Daalder, who now holds the office of president of the Chicago Council on global issues, believes that the West and Russia speak each other in the language of military symbols and use the rhetoric of "taking military action." Therefore, "the risk of disaster increases ..."
Western strategists, who want to arm themselves to the teeth and see only the aggressor and the enemy in Russia, are echoed by renowned human rights activist and chess player Garry Kasparov.
“What are you talking about?” Photo: Ezequiel Scagnetti / Reuters
Being in Poland, 52-year-old Mr. Kasparov, who heads the "Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights", gave an interview to an influential magazine Newsweek.
The first thing Kasparov told the magazine about the feeling of "threat". He explained that he had not returned to Russia for two and a half years now and lives in New York.
When asked by a reporter whether the interviewee really considers Putin to be “the most dangerous person in the world,” Kasparov replied: “That's right.”
West Putin underestimated. According to Kasparov, Putin "worked Bush and Blair ten years ago." The owner of the Kremlin needed “respectability” - to “preserve power”. Now he needs something else: he wants Russia to be perceived as a besieged country. Therefore, Putin "friends are no longer needed." He "needs enemies," said the chess player.
After these words, the correspondent Robert Chalmers thought about the sanity of the interlocutor.
“There is a tradition to consider chess champions irresponsible until the opposite is proved,” he writes. - History full of examples: anti-Semite psychopath Bobby Fisher; Wilhelm Steinitz, who claimed that he was playing chess with God, controlling the figures with the help of invisible wire ... ”Some, the journalist continues, believe that Kasparov’s“ fiery opposition mood ”towards Putin is“ a symptom of paranoia ”.
However, we will listen to Kasparov himself. After all, he does not give advice to Russians, he advises the West.
“First of all,” says the chess player, “Ukraine should be armed”.
And what about the Baltic republics? How will NATO react if Russians invade Latvia or Estonia?
“This is an important question,” said Kasparov. - I think they have no choice. After all, if Putin creates chaos in a small area that is the territory of NATO, it means: NATO is dead. And this is his (Putin's) goal. "
The correspondent, not without irony, informs readers that Kasparov has told him much more than was envisaged in the interview.
Publications in the Western press of the last days and weeks, we add from ourselves, allow us to draw one conclusion. The West, including the structures of NATO, is riven by contradictions. On the one hand, military officials piously believe in the NATO myth of the Russian threat, do everything to equip a number of European countries with heavy military equipment, and also conduct frequent exercises. On the other hand, the EU states, from Estonia to Bulgaria, actually signed up to maintain American military equipment for their short budgets and feed foreign soldiers. In addition, NATO members themselves are seriously frightened by the growing number of military "signals" that the North Atlantic Alliance and Russia are sending to each other: exercises, ships, airplanes and harsh rhetoric. Any mistake can lead to either a battle or a war.
Advisor Kasparov, pushing the planet to the Third World War, was recorded in the West as paranoids.
However, despite the apparent fear of collision with Russia, Washington continues to call Russia “the aggressor” and “threat” to the US and its allies from Europe. The Pentagon has already reached the use of tracing paper from the election slogans of Mitt Romney, who declared Russia the number one US geopolitical enemy in 2012 year.
And today, the brave NATO soldiers are learning to keep the defense in Europe: the “aggressor” is on the way!
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