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2014-11-12
Posted by:ryuge

#1  OTOH see JAPAN TIMES > NATO SAYS RUSSIAN TROOPS POURING INTO UKRAINE AS KIEV READIES FOR COMBAT, MH17 REMAINS FOUND.

Vlad unilater forcibly securing Russia's "land bridge(s)" to the Crimea???

* TOPIX > TURKEY'S [Secular] ISLAMIST PROBLEM IS RUSSIA'S JIHADIST PROBLEM.

VERSUS

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > RUSSIA TO DECLARE THE US A [strategic] "THREAT" AND "ADVERSARY" IN NEW MILITARY DOCTRINE.

"US" - you know, THE [Nuclear?] HARD BOYZ???

* SAME > A FIERY PHONE CALL BETWEEN TURKEY'S LEADER ERDOGAN AND RUSSIA'S VLADIMIR PUTIN ENDS IN MUTUAL THREATS, RUSSIA WARNS TURKEY TO STOP TRYING TO OVERTHROW ASSAD AND INTERVENE IN SYRIAN AFFAIRS.

* TOPIX > [ABC News] RUSSIAN NAVAL SHIPS [Australia visit] A SHOW OF POWER AHEAD OF G20. SAYS FORMER ARMY CHIEF.

* GROONG > [Putin's]EURASIAN UNION RULES OUT POLITICAL INTEGRATION: ANALYST.

* Lest we fergit, TOPIX [old = repost] > [Eurasia Net] CSTO [Russia-led] SAYS ISIS THREATENS POST-SOVIET STATES [Ex Soviet "-Stans" = CENTASIA], BLAMES NATO [ + US].

But blames espec the US.

Given also ... ...

* TOPIX > [The Atlantic] CHINA HAS NOW ASSUMED "GREAT POWER" STATUS, wid success + acceptance of China's preferred FTAAP schema at APEC over that of Obama/US-supported TPP.

FEAR NOTTETH, OWG AMERIKA, IMO OBAMA WILL SAVE THE DAY + TPP FOR THE US WID HIS "EXECUTIVE ACTION(S)"???.

OTOH, iff China is now a post-APEC, official "Great Power", HISTORICALLY SUCH NEWBIE "GREAT POWERS" ATTEMPT TO PROVE OR VALIDATE THEIR STATUS BY ENGAGING IN VARIOUS UNILATERAL AGGRESSIVE REGIONAL + INTERNATIONAL ACTIONS, MOST NOTABLY VEE WAR.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-11-12 23:12  

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