‘US tied to global security role’ – shameless and blatant BBC propaganda
Mark Urban is the diplomatic and defence editor of BBC’s Newsnight that goes by the strap-line “This is where the global struggle for peace and security gets incisive, informed, coverage”
He has just written and headlined with “US remains reluctantly tied to global security role” – categorised under US/Canada.
Urban’s article starts with “America’s military finds itself
pulled in several directions – and even the $582bn (£403bn) defence
budget rolled out earlier this month will not be enough to satisfy all
of its needs. New challenges – from Russia and the so-called Islamic
State (IS) group – are forcing the Pentagon to change its plans, and
reopening old arguments about whether its allies are doing enough. One
of the headlines to come out of the new budget was a quadrupling of
spending on US military preparations to defend allies in Europe. When
Nato boss, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, says the alliance is
facing its “most challenging security environment in a generation”, he
is thinking principally of the challenge posed by a “newly assertive
Russia”.
Urban continues with a quote; “The US is doing what they’ve
always done – bail out Europeans unprepared to fund defence properly,”
says General Sir Richard Shirreff, Nato’s number two soldier until two
years ago, “but more than that it’s recognition that Europe is
strategically vital for the US and that the withdrawal of the last of
the US heavy brigades a couple of years ago went too far in the face of
the very real threat posed by Putin.”
Urban is clearly deluded. The ‘new challenges’ the US are facing are
self imposed. ISIS, a deliberately manufactured and well funded terror
group is designed to carry out American operations in Syria. In the
meantime, Russia has made no threat of any kind to the European Union
or any members of it in the context of his report.
