{"id":162108,"date":"2015-06-26T15:01:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T15:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=162108"},"modified":"2015-06-26T15:01:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T15:01:02","slug":"pentagon-anti-russia-propaganda-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/pentagon-anti-russia-propaganda-intensifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Anti-Russia Propaganda Intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>A senior\u00a0Pentagon official says Russia is &#8220;playing with fire&#8221; by threatening to expand its nuclear weapons arsenal in response to a rising military presence by the United States and its NATO allies in Eastern Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who thinks they can control escalation through the use of nuclear weapons is literally playing with fire,&#8221; US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Escalation is escalation, and nuclear use would be the ultimate escalation,&#8221; Work said before a House Armed Services subcommittee, The Independent reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that Moscow would add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles, able to overcome even the most advanced anti-missile systems, to the make-up of the Russian nuclear arsenal this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Senior Russian officials continue to make irresponsible statements regarding its nuclear forces, and we assess that they are doing it to intimidate our allies and us,&#8221; Work said. &#8220;These have failed. If anything, they have really strengthened the NATO alliance solidarity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/26\/417575\/US-Russia-nuclear-arsenal-Pentagon-Rober-Work-NATO-Ukraine-Vladimir-Putin-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior\u00a0Pentagon official says Russia is &#8220;playing with fire&#8221; by threatening to expand its nuclear weapons arsenal in response to a rising military presence by the United States and its NATO allies in Eastern Europe. &#8220;Anyone who thinks they can control escalation through the use of nuclear weapons is literally playing with fire,&#8221; US Deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-162108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news","10":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162108","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}