COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
Russia 'simulated
full-scale war' against Nato, says military commander
'The scale and extent
of the entire exercise was far greater than officially stated'
This is the most revolting anti-Russian propaganda.
As with all propaganda which hopes to have some effect and
to avoid being laughed at as cartoonish exaggeration, this contains a grain of
truth – the Russians are preparing - but that truth is presented in the most
outrageous manner with no perspective and no context.
America – call it NATO if that somehow makes you feel better
– has tanks and other armor now clanking all over Europe, has new storage
depots for more tanks and armor, has new fortifications and walls, has
thousands of additional troops parading around, has spy planes and fighters over
the Baltic, has heavily-armed ships in the Black Sea, and it regularly has all
kinds of ugly noises about Russia being made by American and NATO officials, NATO,
of course, serving as America’s echo chamber to make all its dictates seem more
like widely-held views.
It goes back to Obama’s time – the man who oversaw the
destruction of Libya, the horrors of Syria and Yemen plus other violent and
threatening activities, and, simply put, it has been the most dangerous
activity on the planet, and it continues despite a change in the president.
Further, the US now literally occupies a part of Syria,
ignoring all international law.
How should Russia behave under such a constant rain of
threats and violent acts, other than by practice in countering a clear and
present danger?
Good God, they've had major invasions twice, with millions
of deaths, at the hands of European tyrants. Now they face a Europe almost
completely subservient to the world’s reigning bully imperial power, the United
states, a power which has been on a violent tear for the best part of two
decades.
