Authored by Alastair Crooke, originally posted at ConsortiumNews.com,
Official Washington is awash with tough talk about Russia and the need to punish President Putin for his role in Ukraine and Syria. But this bravado ignores Russia’s genuine national interests, its “red lines,” and the risk that “tough-guy-ism” can lead to nuclear war, as Alastair Crooke explains.
ubio wants the U.S. to take more aggressive steps against Russia in Ukraine. He would send more arms and more aid to the corrupt Ukrainian government, virtually insuring an escalating war in the region. He'd move U.S. troops to Russia's border and increase sanctions on Russia. He does not explain why a harsh confrontation with Russia is in the U.S. interest.
Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,
My warning that the neoconservatives have resurrected the threat of nuclear Armageddon, which was removed by Reagan and Gorbachev, is also being given by Noam Chomsky, former US Secretary of Defense William Perry, and other sentient observers of the neoconservatives’ aggressive policies toward Russia and China.
War With Russia: Alastair Crooke agrees with PCR
Here is Alastair Crooke’s full article:
http://www.conflictsforum.org/2015/cornering-russia-risking-world-war-iii/
Alastair Crooke, a British diplomat, was a senior person in British intelligence.
Crooke has come to the same conclusions as I have:
Compare Crooke:
“we should perhaps contemplate the paradox that Russia’s determination to try to avoid war is leading to war”
Another day, another military escalation between Russia and Turkey , this time not in the air, but on the war in the northern part of the Aegean sea, where as Sputnik reports the crew of the Russian "Smetlivy" destroyer was forced to use firearms on Sunday to prevent a collision with a Turkish seiner vessel according to Russia's Ministry of Defense.
Turkey's version of events is comparable, with Hurriyet reporting that "a Russian warship had to fire warning shots at a Turkish vessel in the Aegean Sea to avoid collision.