During recent NATO war “games” in the Baltic region the US simulated a nuclear attack on St. Petersburg (for a time, “Leningrad”) using B-52 bombers. It was a needlessly and aggressively provocative act, conducted at very close range, in Russia’s backyard.
aww crap, just when I thought US forces were looking to extricate themselves from this Ukraine messup, they go and do this stupid game of escalation bravado.
The Two Alexes made the excellent point that while the neocon nutjobs are obsessing about Ukraine, the Middle East and 70 years of diplomacy have just slipped away from them, probably forever. The China-Saudi-Iran deal may well be looked back on (if we are allowed that privilege) as the point when US unipolarism died. And the neocons were completely blind-sided by this crazed fixation with a country of little consequence. They make Jimmy Carter seem like Bismarck.
aww crap, just when I thought US forces were looking to extricate themselves from this Ukraine messup, they go and do this stupid game of escalation bravado.
Are they wanting a S400 launch?
The US escalated with threats to Russian territory to gain leverage.
And Russia response was body bags.
The Two Alexes made the excellent point that while the neocon nutjobs are obsessing about Ukraine, the Middle East and 70 years of diplomacy have just slipped away from them, probably forever. The China-Saudi-Iran deal may well be looked back on (if we are allowed that privilege) as the point when US unipolarism died. And the neocons were completely blind-sided by this crazed fixation with a country of little consequence. They make Jimmy Carter seem like Bismarck.
Speaking of cannon fodder: When will nuland move her HQ to Kiev? One of those hardened locations?