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Belmont Club: Sword and shield
[PJMedia] After the Theresa May gave Russia an deadline to explain why a Russian-made nerve agent was used against Sergei Skripai and his daughter Kremlin spokesman Maria Zakharova replied "one should not threaten a nuclear power". This dare of course made it a necessity for Britain to do just that.The US led strike on Assad's chemical weapons facilities was probably more about the Salisbury than Syria. So, the British provided the "Steele Dossier" - which is the basis of the entire "collusion" investigation. And now they engineer a shooting conflict between USA and Russia. What's going on? About the need to draw a line somewhere because it had never been drawn before. In many ways the strike was an attempt to make amends for years of policy inaction that emboldened Putin until, perhaps without realizing it, he went too far. The Kremlin strongman refined his hybrid warfare tactics against the training set of Obama/Clinton and may have been genuinely shocked when the tactics which once served him so well have suddenly stopped working. ...If Congress really wanted a strategy that would work it would be to contain Russia only as necessary with measured force but principally rely on lower oil prices to bring the Kremlin down. Unfortunately it will only be days before we are back to the news cycle of scandal and social justice. The really significant collusion is occurring where Mueller will never look: in the self-interested policies of members of the Western alliance itself. It is in the billions of dollars of gas sales, not a few hundred thousand spent on Facebook that the problem lies. I betcha there is a considerable merriment in Beijing and Teheran Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-04-15 |
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