Guest Post by Ron Paul
Less than two weeks after NATO members reaffirmed allegiance to Article 5 – that an attack on one member was an attack on all members – the UK nearly put that pledge to the test. In a shockingly provocative move, the UK’s HMS Defender purposely sailed into Crimean territorial waters on its way to Georgia.
Press reports suggest that there was a dispute between the UK defense and foreign ministries over whether to violate Russia’s claimed territorial waters with a heavily armed warship. According to reports, Prime Minister Boris Johnson himself jumped in to over-rule the more cautious Foreign Office in favor of confrontation.
As Johnson later claimed, because the UK (and the US) does not recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea, the UK was actually sailing through Ukrainian waters. It was an in-your-face move toward Russia just weeks after the US and NATO were forced to back down from a major clash with Russia in eastern Ukraine.
This time, as was the case in eastern Ukraine, the Russians took a different view of the situation. Russian coast guard vessels ordered the HMS Defender to exit Russian territorial waters – an order they punctuated with rare live fire of cannon and dropping of bombs.
Having had their bluff called, the UK government did what all governments do best: it lied. The Russians did not shoot at a UK warship, they claimed. It was a previously-scheduled Russian military exercise in the area.
Unfortunately for the UK government, in its haste to create good propaganda about standing up to Russia, they had a BBC reporter on-board the Defender who spilled the beans: Yes, the Russian military did issue several warnings, yes it did buzz the HMS Defender multiple times, and yes there were shots fired in the Defender’s direction.
Similarly, in the spring, Russia rapidly deployed 75,000 troops on the border with Ukraine in response to a US-backed Ukrainian military build-up. The message was clear: Russia would no longer sit by as the US government and its allies intervened next door.
Russia now has demonstrated that it will protect Crimea, which voted in a 2014 referendum to re-join Russia. The Crimean vote was triggered by the US-backed coup in Ukraine. That is called “unintended consequences” of foreign interventionism.
The problem with the UK, the US, and their NATO allies is that they believe their own propaganda and they act accordingly. A famous 2004 quote attributed to George W. Bush advisor Karl Rove, clearly spelled out this line of thinking. Said Rove, “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.”
These two recent near-clashes with Russia demonstrate that the “reality” created by an almost religious belief in American or NATO exceptionalism can often crash hard against the reality of 75,000 troops or the Black Sea Fleet
The anti-Russia propaganda endlessly repeated by both political parties in Washington and amplified by the anti-Trump media for more than four years has completely saturated the Beltway and beyond. Even as the Russiagate conspiracy was proven to be a lie, the propaganda it spawned lives on.
Blustering Boris Johnson almost provoked a major war over an infantile desire to continue poking and prodding Russia in its own backyard. This time the war was averted, but what about next time? Will the adults ever be in charge?
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What will be the response of the Russian Federation to the NATO exercise Sea Breeze 21 held in the Black Sea this week?
Perhaps “the next time” is now.
Will the adults ever be in charge? Valid and important question but my pessimistic conclusion is no.
The situation in Wash DC is indeed depressing as they do evidently believe their own propaganda, however delusional it is. Psychopaths cannot look inward, cannot admit that they are in error. The group think is just too strong!
So what is the result. My read on this is that it will take a serious smack in the mouth, whether financial collapse, whether it is a military disaster, God help us, as the world will suffer, or whether a real civil war with a coup resulting (likelhood of this is almost nil, IMO).
Biden thinks everbody is CornPop.
Don’t poke the Bear
I thought someone leaked the radio exchange which indicated genuine incompetence by the British Captain. That itself raises many questions, but seems an important detail for the article.
Hail, Russia.
Just now, on Bannon’s Warroom, Sidney Powell released information that young men ages 25 and under are 50X more likely to die from the Covid19 injections than they ever were of Covid19.
If China wanted to invade us, who are the people they would least want to fight against?
Heh, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. I’m going to say something I do I’m wrong about: Most of those fools who took those Fake Virus shots will die within the next 2 to 4 years. Remember that website where they told everybody that the U.S. population would drop to 100,000,000 by 2025? The Bloodline Family Elites will always tell you what they’re going to do.
Some of y’all might burn me on this; so be it. I’m now a bit undecided about supporting the U.K. post-Brexit, where prior I was gung-ho. But seeing what a douchebag Boris Johnson turned out to be; Nigel Farage, I’m sorry but now it’s do I support those who such as myself, thought this was the only sovereign move the U.K. could possibly make? Or do I sit back and punish innocents because Boris screwed us all? I don’t know. I was prepared to make a conscious effort to buy Made in Britain goods when possible just to show my support. Although I’m only one non-wealthy American, I can account for more than ones purchase consumption. I doubt I’m alone, at least on this side of the pond, who expected Boris to be the conservative Teresa May failed to be. So I’m not blaming myself. I have to blame mop head.
The aggression by the Americans and British makes me want to root for the Russians. Ukraine was a cheap coupe as told by Nuland? The Russian-speaking people of Crimea decided(voted) to go with Russia instead of Ukraine. I guess any excuse for war is ok with Biden and friends.
Things tend to get quite sporty when a capital ship or three gets sunk. Someone is going to have to test the hypersonic missile theory in real time sometime, no?
Are NATO provocateurs feeling lucky? Spetsnaz and other fun groups (think Aloha Snackbar) are, no doubt, chomping at the bit for some alone time with the folks at Whitehall, Brussels and the Pentagram.
Keep up the fucking retarded klown work BoJo; playing with the gasoline and matches of WWIII, while you keep the British subjects prisoners on their little locked-down island.
Maybe we can find out real soon.
IDK. The sight of a bunch of (US sailors?) larger, POC fat chicks twerking on deck is a pretty frightening sight, to be sure. That may just put the fear of (well, not God) something in ’em.