Pentagon Preparing For War With The Enemy: Russia by Rick Rozoff

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Pentagon Preparing For War With The Enemy: Russia by Rick Rozoff

�Today the situation is much more serious than before August 2008�. possible recurrence of war will not be limited to the Caucasus.

�The new President of the United States did not bring about any crucial changes in relation to Georgia, but having a dominant role in NATO he still insists on Georgia�s soonest joining of the Alliance. If it happens, the world would face a more serious threat than the crises of the Cold War.

�Under the new realities, Georgia�s war against South Ossetia may easily turn into NATO�s war against Russia. This would be a third world war.�

On May 12 James Mattis, NATO�s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation and commander of the U.S. Joint Forces Command, spoke at a three-day symposium called Joint Warfighting 09 in Norfolk, Virginia, where NATO�s Allied Command Transformation is based, and stated: �I come with a sense of urgency. The enemy is meeting like this as well.� <1>

A local newspaper summarized his speech:

�Mattis outlined a future in which wars will not have clearly defined beginnings and ends. What is needed, he said, is a grand strategy, a political framework that can guide military planning.� <2>

He failed, for what passes for diplomatic reasons no doubt, to identify who �the enemy� is, but a series of recent developments, or rather an intensification of ongoing ones, indicate which nation it is.

Last week the head of the U.S. Strategic Command, Gen. Kevin Chilton, told reporters during a Defense Writers Group breakfast on May 7 �that the White House retains the option to respond with physical force � potentially even using nuclear weapons � if a foreign entity conducts a disabling cyber attack against U.S. computer networks�.�

An account of his talk added �the general insisted that all strike options, including nuclear, would remain available to the commander in chief in defending the nation from cyber strikes.�

Chilton �said he could not rule out the possibility of a military salvo against a nation like China, even though Beijing has nuclear arms,� <3> though the likely first target of alleged retaliation against equally alleged cyber attacks would be another nation already identified by US military officials as such: Russia.

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Thu May-14-09 09:03 AM
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1. NATO exercises provoke Russia VIDEO

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/nato-exercises-provoke-russia/

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Thu May-14-09 09:05 AM
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2. Collectively speaking, humanity is psychotic

we just can't seem to exist without having an enemy "at the gates".

What the hell is wrong with us? :crazy:

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Thu May-14-09 09:20 AM
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3. Insanity, Total insanity!!!n/t

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Thu May-14-09 09:28 AM
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4. It sounds

like a thief who shoots a homeowner claiming self-defense.

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