The wager Putin believes he has to play is energy dependence. It is winter. Putin believes he can simply walk all over sovereignty of Ukraine and put missiles in the middle of NATO because of energy issues in Europe and Ukraine.
That is a ridiculous gamble and he has to be stopped. Energy issues are completely different than nuclear capacity missiles. If Europe wants to 'wait and see' than I don't believe the USA has to be vigilant to a NATO outcome.
I am sure Norway has plenty of capacity for Europe, they have to be asked. Norway's sovereign waters could easily become another front as well. There were the fly overs with drones in France and military maneuvers adjacent to Europe's borders. He is attempting to weaken resolve because no one wants war. The 'mind tricks' have to stop and real military strength has to take over. This is crazy to believe Putin isn't going to take on Europe. He and China both for all we know.
October 19, 2014
By Peter Walker
That is a ridiculous gamble and he has to be stopped. Energy issues are completely different than nuclear capacity missiles. If Europe wants to 'wait and see' than I don't believe the USA has to be vigilant to a NATO outcome.
I am sure Norway has plenty of capacity for Europe, they have to be asked. Norway's sovereign waters could easily become another front as well. There were the fly overs with drones in France and military maneuvers adjacent to Europe's borders. He is attempting to weaken resolve because no one wants war. The 'mind tricks' have to stop and real military strength has to take over. This is crazy to believe Putin isn't going to take on Europe. He and China both for all we know.
October 19, 2014
By Peter Walker
...Sweden’s military has spent three days (click here) scouring the waters off Stockholm for what has so far been officially described only as “foreign underwater activity”. However, intelligence briefings to local newspapers suggest a Russian submarine might have had mechanical problems while on a secret mission in the region.
In scenes reminiscent of the 1970s and 80s – when neutral Sweden regularly hunted for Soviet spy submarines in the Baltic Sea around the capital – 200 service personnel were mobilised along with helicopters, minesweepers and an anti-submarine corvette fitted with stealth-type anti-radar masking.
The operation began late on Friday following what Sweden’s armed forces said was a reliable tipoff about something in the Stockholm archipelago, which has 30,000 islands and rocky outcrops around which a submarine could lurk. The officer leading the operation declined to give more details, saying only that there had been no armed contact....
Put unlimited war in the middle of this and what comes of this "new power agreement?" Either Beijing is attempting to lull the USA to sleep or China is scared silly about Putin and Russia.
November 9, 2014
By Jane Perlez
BEIJING — When Xi Jinping (click here) stood next to Hillary Rodham Clinton and addressed a high-powered lunch audience on the seventh floor of the State Department nearly three years ago, he was still China’s vice president and only the heir apparent to the Communist Party leadership. But even during that visit he spoke expansively of forging a “new type of great power relations” with the United States....
Now that Mr. Xi is president and has consolidated power as China’s undisputed leader, that phrase has taken on new significance....
There is nothing like launching short range nuclear missiles into Syria and Iraq while USA troops are deployed there. The Crimea is located in an area where short range nukes could be launched throughout Europe and into the Middle East.
Put unlimited war in the middle of this and what comes of this "new power agreement?" Either Beijing is attempting to lull the USA to sleep or China is scared silly about Putin and Russia.
November 9, 2014
By Jane Perlez
BEIJING — When Xi Jinping (click here) stood next to Hillary Rodham Clinton and addressed a high-powered lunch audience on the seventh floor of the State Department nearly three years ago, he was still China’s vice president and only the heir apparent to the Communist Party leadership. But even during that visit he spoke expansively of forging a “new type of great power relations” with the United States....
Now that Mr. Xi is president and has consolidated power as China’s undisputed leader, that phrase has taken on new significance....
There is nothing like launching short range nuclear missiles into Syria and Iraq while USA troops are deployed there. The Crimea is located in an area where short range nukes could be launched throughout Europe and into the Middle East.
