Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
On July 24th, the Times<\/em> of London did not headline as this news-report is headlined, but instead headlined much more obscurely, \u201cRussia fears prompt Nato to look east for HQ.\u201d Of course, people in the West tend not to care a lot about what \u201cRussia fears.\u201d They also don\u2019t care much about whether \u201cNato,\u201d or actually NATO [it\u2019s an acronym and so is supposed to be all-caps], would \u201clook east for HQ.\u201d So, this news-report did not garner much attention \u2013 as it was, indeed, not intended to.<\/p>\n Online (where the critical, analytical, readers increasingly are), it received even less, because that newspaper isn\u2019t online, except for its subscribers \u2013 people who are willing to pay for such poor journalism as the Times;<\/em> i.e, pay to read corporations\u2019 PR presented in the form of \u2018news reports.\u2019<\/p>\n The lengthiest excerpt from the article that\u2019s online is at NATO\u2019s own site, the PR delivered straight from the horses\u2019 mouth, http:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/natosource\/russia-fears-prompt-nato-to-look-east-for-hq<\/a>, which posting there is certainly validation that the article represents NATO\u2019s position accurately, even if it does so in \u2018appropriately\u2019 vague terms. (Of course, that\u2019s not \u201cappropriate\u201d for readers, but for NATO, which is the weapons-manufacturers\u2019 trade-organization, that\u2019s being served in this \u2018news\u2019 story.)<\/p>\n It reports that \u201ca military base in eastern Europe\u201d will be \u201cplacing supplies \u2013 weapons, ammunition and ration packs \u2013 at the headquarters [what \u2018headquarters\u2019? It\u2019s the first usage of this term there, and yet doesn\u2019t say] to enable a sudden influx of thousands of Nato troops to be ready for action in the event of a crisis.\u201d Furthermore, \u201cthe leading contender [for the \u2018headquarters,\u2019 though the vaguely written article doesn\u2019t explicitly say so] is Multinational Corps Northeast, in Szczecin, Poland. \u2026 It would be a 24\/7 fully functioning headquarters that forces [what \u2018forces,\u2019 whose \u2018forces\u2019?] could quickly fall in on to respond rapidly when needed.\u201d<\/p>\n This is a vague way of saying that the prepositioned weapons there would be for \u201cforces\u201d who are rushing in to grab their weapons and invade Russia at a moment\u2019s notice. The vague assumption embodied here is that this would be a defensive invasion against an offensive Russia. The news-report is written for people who have that assumption about NATO\u2019s being \u2018defensive\u2019, and who do not worry that they might have been fooled into believing it, but the report builds upon that unquestioning assumption on the reader\u2019s part. By this implicit instead of explicit means, the article is saying that to call NATO a purely \u2018defensive\u2019 organization isn\u2019t a lie \u2013 which it actually is \u2013 but is instead a perfectly reasonable assumption for intelligent people to hold (despite all historical evidence to the contrary); and that, consequently the idea of NATO\u2019s increasingly surrounding Russia with its missiles is purely a \u2018defensive\u2019 measure, nothing for Russians to find terrifying.<\/p>\n \u201cThe shift in posture is being proposed by General Philip Breedlove, Nato\u2019s top commander in Europe.\u201d In other words, to decode this corporate PR yet further, the American General, Breedlove, who is the organization\u2019s top commander regarding a war against Russia, has proposed this forward quick-strike (or, as Hitler called it \u201cblitzkrieg\u201d) base, and all of the weapons-manufacturing and sales that would be servicing the base, which the article says would be for “pre-positioned supplies, pre-positioned capabilities and a basing area ready to rapidly accept follow-on forces,\u201d to invade Russia (since, after all, that would require the biggest-possible military sales, which is what NATO is for).<\/p>\n In order to provide the article\u2019s readers with \u2018authoritative\u2019 support for its unmentioned and unquestioned assumption that NATO isn\u2019t aggressive, the article quotes an unnamed \u201cNato official\u201d as asserting: “The Russians have decided that they are willing to use force to achieve their aims . . . and that breaks with 25 years of building a security structure in Europe built around certain fundamentals.\u201d That unquestioned assertion is, in turn, based upon a gross falsification of the history of what has happened in Ukraine this year, including of the populist-backed return of Crimea to Russia, because Russia had donated Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 and the residents there had not been consulted about the matter and still consider themselves to be Russians, and now are officially Russians, which they overwhelmingly<\/a> want to be<\/a>.<\/p>\n So, NATO is surrounding Russia with hostile forces (largely on the basis of lies about \u2018Russia\u2019s aggression against Crimea\u2019<\/a>), which are dedicated to hostility toward Russia, and yet it\u2019s presumed (certainly by the gullible readership of the Times<\/em> and of Rupert Murdoch\u2019s other rags) to be defensive, not offensive in nature, against Russia.<\/p>\n When Russia\u2019s predecessor, the Soviet Union, similarly prepared to position nuclear missiles near America, in Cuba, in 1962, U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was willing to lead America to nuclear war against the Soviet Union if they went ahead with their plan. So, why is Russia\u2019s leader Vladimir Putin waiting this long to do the same, even after his nation is already surrounded with NATO\u2019s hostile weapons (like the U.S. never was by the Soviet Unions weapons), even decades after the Soviet Union and its communist ideology have ended and there is no longer any justification for NATO\u2019s existence other than as Western arms-makers\u2019 marketing organization?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Isn\u2019t it time, then, for Russia\u2019s President Putin to demand \u2018the West\u2019 (actually NATO, the trade-organization of U.S. and European military suppliers) to stop doing this horrendous thing, and NATO itself either to disband or to admit Russia into its membership so that the new NATO won\u2019t threaten WW III \u2013 nuclear war?<\/p>\n How long will Putin wait, because NATO is already now a hot threat against not only Russia but the entire world; there will be only losers in a nuclear war; and those losers will be not only all humans, but all animals of all sorts, and all of posterity, all in order to sell these tons of weapons today.<\/p>\n Terminating NATO, or else admitting Russia into it, is essential for the future of the world, and so Putin should demand it now, just as JFK demanded an end to missiles-in-Cuba in 1962.<\/p>\n The future of the world should not be subordinated to the wills of the chief stockholders in companies such as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.<\/p>\n That news-report in the Times<\/em> was published on July 24th, and yet only on December 5th was its meaning introduced online (which is where the critical audience increasingly is). Professor Michel Chossudovsky headlined \u201cAmerica is on a \u2018Hot War Footing\u2019: House Legislation Paves the Way for War with Russia?\u201d and he placed the Times<\/em> article into its broader context to show that, yes, indeed, NATO is gearing up for an invasion of Russia. The marketing plan is a great success.<\/p>\n Why, then, was that Times<\/em> article so obtusely written and so boringly headlined? Once the new forward-strike headquarters is up and running just a stone\u2019s throw away from Russia, there is bound to be public discussion of what\u2019s happening and why. But, by then it will already be too late. More than four months have already passed and the world still hasn\u2019t noticed what\u2019s happening; so, NATO can say, \u201cBut, we announced it on July 24th.\u201d No, they didn\u2019t. The news was buried<\/em>, just like NATO wants to bury Russia.<\/p>\n Anyone who does not think that the U.S. is leading the global fascist charge now, just as Germany was doing in the 1940s, doesn\u2019t understand what is happening<\/a>, nor why<\/a>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s happening<\/a>.<\/p>\n ———-<\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> and of \u00a0CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse On July 24th, the Times of London did not headline as this news-report is headlined, but instead headlined much more obscurely, \u201cRussia fears prompt Nato to look east for HQ.\u201d Of course, people in the West tend not to care a lot about what \u201cRussia fears.\u201d They also don\u2019t care much about whether […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":142495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[115,32,96,535,59,757,527,524,523,49,76],"class_list":{"0":"post-142494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-cia","10":"tag-cover-up","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-nato","14":"tag-nuclear-war","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-usa-news","18":"tag-warfare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}