First, hello to the Russian bots and hackers.
Okay, there was Libya and that failed post Qaddafi. Then there was Iraq and that has failed. Then there is Afghanistan and yes that has failed. Then there is the civil war in Syria and that was handed over to Russia to deal with. Then comes Iran’s nuclear program….remember that? Add in the failed peace talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, that is over. The White House mandated a pivot to Asia and now John Kerry is pivoting to Sudan. But what about Ukraine/Crimea and the Baltic States?
Putin is making his moves to the red zone where getting closer to the goal post of the New Russia which includes the old Novorossiya, so one needs to turn back to the Orange Revolution and further to the Ottoman Empire. The New Russia is emerging.
When is a war called a war and who is noticing? The White House is fighting on behalf of Ukraine with shallow sanctions and John Kerry moved on to Sudan. Today was the deadliest day in the war in Odessa with 41 dead. This is precisely how the conflict in Syria started. In the Eastern part of Ukraine, pro-Russian militias used surface to air missiles and blew two helicopters out of the sky, killing the pilots. No one will admit Russian troops are in Ukraine yet the truth is Putin has admitted he dispatched saboteurs inside the borders in Slovyansk where mercenaries, terrorists and criminals have been unleashed at the of Putin. There are still pro-Ukraine hostages being held in Donetsk.
Last month, Russia stopped taking calls from anyone in Washington, DC. The radio silence from Russia spells trouble for the West as Russia asserts her power in the Baltic States, such that success has already been achieved with closer Russian relationships with Iran, Egypt, Syria and Latin America including Venezuela and Cuba. Putin is working a calculated consolidation plan where his eyes are set on Georgia, Armenia, Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. The ultimate goal is a Eurasian Union and Germany is at the core to stop this however, in a very feeble posture to stop the Russian global power objective. Stopping the Putin red zone mission by sanctions is not so much as a penalty flag and the Russian Oligarchs are moved money out of the United States already and their investments in Europe are protected for the sake of power resources such as natural gas and economic ventures. Merkel has pushed back on approving sanctions authored by the United States that have real teeth due to energy institutionalization of Russia in Europe.
The United States is war-weary, NATO is war-weary but enemies of the West are growing out of the weakness of the West and the future challenges are in front of us. NATO is an intergovernmental military organization established for the defense of Soviet aggression and the prospect of their nuclear programs.
The most proactive measure now would be to admit Georgia and Ukraine into NATO, where Article 5 would apply, an attack on one is an attack on all NATO members.
NATO Deputy Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia region James Appathurai said in Tbilisi today that he believed the Alliance would discuss whether NATO allies should deploy “defensive assets” in Georgia.
Appathurai announced this in response to the Georgian Defence Minister Irakli Alasania’s suggestion to put “air defense and anti-armour capabilities in Georgia,” which he made in Washington at the Atlantic Council’s conference “Toward a Europe Whole and Free” on Wednesday. More here.
