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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Tue May 3, 2016, 01:47 AM May 2016

U.S., NATO Look to Combat an Aggressive Russia


A trek to Europe by Pentagon chief Ash Carter underscores a shift in strategy.


By Paul D. Shinkman | Senior National Security Writer May 2, 2016, at 6:53 p.m.

STUTTGART, Germany — The U.S. and its NATO allies are dusting off their old playbooks this week during a trip abroad by Defense Secretary Ash Carter, citing the myriad threats facing Europe as the impetus for the Pentagon's pushing the Cold War alliance back onto a continental war footing.

The specter of Russia to the east will hang over a Tuesday ceremony in which Carter will oversee the change of command for U.S. European Command, based here in Germany. Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti will take over the post from Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, moving into a role that traditionally also makes him the supreme allied commander of NATO's European forces.

"This is more than just a change-of-command ceremony," said a senior defense official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity about U.S. policy for Europe and goals for Carter's trip. "[Carter] will talk about Europe and the challenges facing EUCOM. … That means steps that need to be taken to deter Russian aggression."

Scaparrotti, a counterinsurgency veteran of the war in Afghanistan, spent his latest tour leading U.S. forces supporting the South Korean military against the threat of its northern neighbor.

The Pentagon sees this change as marking a transition away from the commander serving as the principal organizer of an alliance – responsible for maintaining America's strong ties with European allies and coordinating NATO military action – to one charged to a greater extent with preparing for and preventing war.

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U.S., NATO Look to Combat an Aggressive Russia (Original Post) Purveyor May 2016 OP
The Old Playbook: Ghost Dog May 2016 #1
How's your Russian? Igel May 2016 #2
Funny, I can read Russian too and don't see what you do. newthinking May 2016 #3
 

Ghost Dog

(16,881 posts)
1. The Old Playbook:
Tue May 3, 2016, 05:34 AM
May 2016

1. Portray the defender as aggressor;
2. Employ saturation propaganda / psyops techniques;
3. Prepare for (& provoke) war.

Igel

(35,191 posts)
2. How's your Russian?
Tue May 3, 2016, 08:56 AM
May 2016

Because I've been reading that playbook in operation for years.

Pop literature, news articles, broadcast news, op-eds. All amerikosy ("Amerifags&quot are bad, Obezyama "Chimpama" is bad and weak, the US arranged the humiliation of Russia by subversion because of all powerful Jews running the CIA, and what's especially bad are the ubernationalist Eurogay Jewish Nazis in the Ukraine (because we all know that all the rank-and-file Nazis were Jewish, European-integrationist, and gay).

It always strikes me as humorous to see Yatseniuk called a Nazi. I wonder if he had families rounded up by the Nazis. But his family's probably from Ukraine because of Russian anti-Jewish policies, exiling them to the Pale unless there was a good reason to let a Jew into a Russian city.

Before it was "Obezyama" is was Bush, but it was harder to twist his name and there was no anti-black racism at issue.

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