Impending Explosion: U.S. Intensifies Threats To Russia And Iran

[Purveyor]

Washington and its NATO allies launched two of the three major wars in the world over the past eleven years in March - against Yugoslavia in 1999 and against Iraq in 2003. The war drums are being pounded anew and the world may be headed for a catastrophe far worse than those in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq. The United States, separately and through the military bloc it controls, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is accelerating military deployments and provocations throughout Eurasia and the Middle East. Embroiled with fellow NATO members in the largest-scale military offensive of the joint war in Afghanistan launched eight years ago last October and well on the way to both extending and replicating the Afghan aggression in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula <1>, Washington and its allies are also taunting and threatening Russia as well as surrounding Iran with military forces and hardware preparatory to a potential attack on that nation.

The rapid pace of the escalation - almost daily reports of missile shield expansion in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, the Persian Gulf and Turkey; heightened and progressively more bellicose words and actions directed against Iran - is occurring at a breakneck and almost dizzying speed, drawing in larger and larger tracts of Europe and Asia.

On January 12 new U.S. ambassador to Bulgaria James Warlick, speaking "at his first public event in the country," announced that Washington is entering into negotiations with the Bulgarian government to station interceptor missile facilities, most likely at one of the three new military bases the Pentagon has acquired there in the past four years. "The US military already has bases in Romania and Bulgaria that were created some years ago for delivering troops and cargo to Iraq and Afghanistan...." <2>

"The United States is planning to expand its European missile shield to other parts of Europe" and "will consult closely with Bulgaria and other NATO allies on the specific options to deploy elements of the defense system in those regions," according to the American envoy. <3>

During the same speech Warlick also "called on Bulgaria to find other alternatives to stop its dependence on Russian gas," <4> a reference to sabotaging the Russian South Stream project to transport natural gas from the eastern end of the Black Sea to Bulgaria and from there to Austria and Italy.

An analyst at a pro-NATO think tank in Bulgaria said of the proposed missile shield components that "They can be deployed virtually anywhere. Naturally they will need special infrastructure that provides logistical processes, and technically everything should be enforced by NATO standards." <5>

The news of including Bulgaria in U.S. and NATO missile shield plans came eight days after a comparable announcement was made by Romanian President Traian Basescu that his country, where the U.S. has four new military bases, will host land-based U.S. interceptor missiles. The news from Romania in turn came only two weeks after Poland disclosed that a U.S. Patriot Advanced Capability-3 anti-ballistic missile battery will be stationed 35 miles from Russian territory as early as March. <6>

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[HeresyLives]

1. WHY, FGS??

[tom_paine]

3. "The situation is chaotic, and everything is wonderful."

For the Aristocracy this has always been true.

As we hurtle back to the Dark Ages, we shouldn't be surprised as the mask slips further and further off, as the Aristocracy deems it less and less necessary to waste their precious wealth on.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. shhh. Tiger Woods is speaking.

nothing to see here.

[leveymg]

4. WTF? This is an about-face from the conciliatory US agreement to not put ABMs in East Europe

Haven't seen this report elsewhere.

[louis-t]

5. I am suspicious, myself.

Sounds like a right-wing fantasy to me.

[pleah]

6. Other sources:

http://www.allvoices.com/news/5257786-us-intensifies-threats-to-russia-and-iran
http://iplextra.indiatimes.com/article/07iW2Fq5fZ7Ke?q=NATO
http://pidnews.com/?p=4539
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ROZ20100219&articleId=17709

There are others.

K&R

[Uncle Joe]

7. I hope we have more sense than to attack, Iran.

They're not a threat to us, we could blow them a way a hundred times over, we stood down the Soviet Union and now we're afraid of a nation with a quarter or less of that population and a second-third rate military?

Will the oligarchs and military industrial complex ever get sick of war!?

Thanks for the thread, Purveyor.

[bahrbearian]

8. Bush's third term

[Doctor_J]

9. After a couple years of President Palin, we may need

some overseas help liberating ourselves. What puzzles me is how people can be surprised at this kind of development, when our spokespeople are miscreants like Palin and Cheney

[Tutankhamun]

10. This is about restarting the cold war. We can't have peace; there's too much money to be

made from an enormous military buildup.

Of course, we do still have Osama Bin Boogeyman, Al Qaeda and the Taliban to scare our citizens, but there's only so much terror one can extract from terrorism. Truck bombs seem pathetically small when compared to nuclear missiles.

Truck bombs also don't give our leaders a reason to build missile "defense" shields. War profiteers and their politicians have had a hard-on for ridiculously expensive (read: profitable) missile "defense" since the eighties, when Reagan tried to sell us his "Star Wars" plan for the militarization of outer space.