NATO considering deployment of up to 300,000 troops on border with Russia

[The Magistrate]

48. And What Might That 'Truth' Be, Sir?

There has been no aggressive expansion of NATO. Former colonies of Russia's land empire have requested security guarantees against the prospect of invasion and recolonization. They have every right to do this, and on current showing, would have been foolish not to do so: revanchist restoration of the old Czar's domains are established Russian policy.

Nor does NATO present any military threat to Russia. NATO certainly has the capacity to defeat Russia handily in a conventional war, and to obliterate it in a nuclear exchange. It is true enough the axiom of military planning is to assess capabilities rather than intentions, the former being concrete. But it is in intent alone that any danger lies, and there is no, repeat no, intention on NATO's part to conquer Russia militarily, and everyone, including Putin, knows this is so. There is no need to do so, Russia is collapsing on itself through its grotesque excesses of corruption and the resultant immiseration of its populace. No one wants to live like Russians do, even Russians do not desire to they are simply acclimated to it. This is the real 'threat' posed to Russia in Europe today: the civil order of Western Europe, flawed as it may be in spots, is so clearly superior to that prevailing in Russia the latter cannot possibly prevail in any peaceful competition.