{"id":382136,"date":"2018-10-24T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T01:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-earthquake-in-international-alliances-3\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T01:20:09","slug":"the-earthquake-in-international-alliances-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-earthquake-in-international-alliances-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Earthquake in International Alliances"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2022 Author\u2019s Note: (Update<\/b> about the Khashoggi case, posted at end.)<\/p>\n

America\u2019s international alliances are transforming in fundamental ways. The likelihood of World War III is increasing, and has been increasing ever since 2012 when the U.S. first slapped Russia with the Magnitsky Act sanctions. In fact, one matter driving these changing alliances now toward unprecedented realignments is that some nations\u2019 leaders want to do whatever they can to prevent<\/i> WW III.<\/p>\n

On October 17th, America\u2019s Military Times<\/i> bannered \u201cWhy today\u2019s troops fear a new war is coming soon<\/a>\u201d and reported:<\/p>\n

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About 46 percent of troops who responded to the anonymous survey of currently serving Military Times<\/i> readers said they believe the U.S. will be drawn into a new war within the next year. That\u2019s a jarring increase from only about 5 percent who said the same thing in a similar poll conducted in September 2017.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Their special fear is of war against Russia and\/or China: \u201cAbout 71 percent of troops said Russia was a significant threat, up 18 points from last year\u2019s survey. And 69 percent of troops said China poses a significant threat, up 24 points from last year.\u201d The U.S. spends around half of the entire world\u2019s military budget<\/a>; and, after 9\/11, has invaded Afghanistan, Iraq<\/a>, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, and perpetrated a bloody coup turning Ukraine into a rabidly anti-Russian government on Russia\u2019s very doorstep<\/a> and even an applicant for NATO membership, though in 2009,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2022 Author\u2019s Note: (Update about the Khashoggi case, posted at end.) America\u2019s international alliances are transforming in fundamental ways. The likelihood of World War III is increasing, and has been increasing ever since 2012 when the U.S. first slapped Russia with the Magnitsky Act sanctions. In fact, one matter driving these changing alliances now toward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382136","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}