Pentagon Chief Planning For Longer-Term Rift With Russia

[Purveyor]

Source: Reuters

By Phil Stewart

BERLIN (Reuters) - The United States and its NATO allies are preparing militarily for the prospect that their rift with Russia could outlast President Vladimir Putin, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Sunday.

Russia's intervention in Ukraine has put NATO allies in eastern Europe on edge and triggered a series of military moves by the alliance, including an acceleration of exercises and the creation of a NATO rapid response force.

Carter, speaking at the start of a week-long trip to Europe, said the United States hoped Russia would return to a forward- looking course and noted areas of diplomatic cooperation with Moscow, including talks over Iran's nuclear program.

But ongoing changes to NATO's military posture, which are meant in part to deter a Russian intervention, illustrate preparations for longer lasting tensions, he said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-chief-push-u-allies-ditch-cold-war-110452788.html

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We can't even take out ISIS so lets poke the Bear and go for Russia...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. The Cold War Warriors miss the old days of fearmongering, vodka and hookers.

[newthinking]

2. The game continues

We are the propagandists: The real story about how The New York Times and the White House has turned truth in the Ukraine on its head
A sophisticated game of manipulation is afoot over Russia: power, influence and money. U.S. hands are not clean


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Germany's "Die Anstalt" on Manufacturing enemies

[blackhawk2415]

3. Russia Military

Apparently, the Russians just showcased a microwave gun capable of downing drones and missiles. It'll be interesting to see how this recent occurrence will affect negotiations

Article is on http://www.feedrover.com/

[jtuck004]

4. "the United States hoped Russia would return to a forward- looking course " < If by that you mean

making bank$ter/donors wealthy on the back of working people...

The U.S. telling someone to take a forward-looking course while we are doing our damnedest to get back to 1805 is irony in it's finest form.

[jakeXT]

5. Why would you want to take out ISIS, ISIL, IS?

The other prisoners did not take long to warm to him, Abu Ahmed recalled. They had also been terrified of Bucca, but quickly realised that far from their worst fears, the US-run prison provided an extraordinary opportunity. “We could never have all got together like this in Baghdad, or anywhere else,” he told me. “It would have been impossibly dangerous. Here, we were not only safe, but we were only a few hundred metres away from the entire al-Qaida leadership.”

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“He was respected very much by the US army,” Abu Ahmed said. “If he wanted to visit people in another camp he could, but we couldn’t. And all the while, a new strategy, which he was leading, was rising under their noses, and that was to build the Islamic State. If there was no American prison in Iraq, there would be no IS now. Bucca was a factory. It made us all. It built our ideology.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/11/-sp-isis-the-inside-story

[swilton]

6. Insanity

war with Russia was totally manufactured.

NATO should have been abolished 25 years ago.......Its resurgence happened under bill Clinton's watch btw beginning with its expansion and bombing the former Yugoslavia.