Pentagon Updating War Plans Against Russia
Longstanding US policy calls for regime change in all sovereign
independent countries – by color revolutions or wars, notably targeting
Russia, China, Iran and Venezuela, to eliminate major rivals and control
world resources, especially oil.
The Pentagon maintains war plans against all targeted countries,
updating them as needed, ready to act if ordered – risking potential
global war.
On September 18, Washington Post-owned Foreign Policy magazine
featured longtime anti-Russian writer Julia Ioffe’s article headlined
“Exclusive: The Pentagon Is Preparing New War Plans for a Baltic Battle
Against Russia,” saying:
For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet
Union, the US Department of Defense is reviewing and updating its
contingency plans for armed conflict with Russia.
Putin is “no longer a potential partner, but a potential threat.” An
unnamed senior defense official ludicrously warned of “potential
(Russian) aggression against” NATO allies.
Updated plans “have two tracks,” said Ioffe: responding along with
other NATO nations to an attack on one of its members or acting
unilaterally.
Both versions focus on hypothetical “Russian aggression” in the
Balkans, including so-called hybrid tactics, non-traditional warfare –
similar to accusations of nonexistent “little green men” in Ukraine, as
well as cyberwar and other destabilizing acts.
Claims about potential Russian aggression or other hostile acts are
fabricated rubbish. Fear-mongering is a longstanding US tactic – a
pretext to rev up military spending, enlist more allies in its war
machine, and divert public attention from what matters most
domestically: ending austerity, creating good full-time jobs and
governance serving everyone equitably.
In June, Putin denounced Western “scaremongering.” Its military
footprint is polar opposite America’s global empire of bases. Russia has
“virtually no bases abroad,” he explained.
The few remaining are Soviet era relics. “I think that only an insane
person and only in a dream can imagine that Russia would suddenly
attack NATO,” he stressed.
I think some countries are simply taking advantage of
people’s fears with regard to Russia. They just want to play the role of
front-line countries that should receive some supplementary military,
economic, financial or some other aid.
Ioffe’s article is thinly veiled propaganda for greater US-led NATO
military presence in Eastern Europe provocatively close to Russia’s
borders – based entirely on a nonexistent threat, the kind Washington
invents ahead of all its aggressive wars.
