Ferndale, WA
\nJuly 15, 2016<\/p>\n
by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n
It’s bad enough the US has been mired in costly and failing wars in the
\nMiddle East and South Asia for almost 15 years.<\/p>\n
Now the geniuses at the Pentagon, the White House and Foggy Bottom Perhaps there is some rational motive lurking underneath these efforts When Obama announced his Asia Pivot several years ago, everyone knew Both of these moves were a further attempt to culminate the post Cold War NATO’s vigorous expansion has proceeded unabated in recent years pushing\u00a0up against Russia’s borders by absorbing virtually the entire Warsaw Pact\u00a0and now seeing the placement of arguably first strike missiles in Romania\u00a0and Poland.\u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SFVGWZmAL5c&feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n With the dispute over the islands in the South China Sea escalating almost daily, Kerry’s visit to Moscow yesterday to address the ongoing Syrian crisis may have Is WWIII imminent? Will it go nuclear? Are these the End Times? Will there even With South America and Africa also in play, can there be any doubt that we are All these questions will be answered soon enough. How much pain will result from
\nhave decided to up the ante by simultaneously taking on both China and
\nRussia, two of the world’s major nuclear powers.
\nhttp:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45104.htm<\/a><\/p>\n
\nthat escape most observers. But to me and countless other writers,
\nthese moves constitute an escape from reality not seen in many decades.<\/p>\n
\nit was designed to constrain China. After the coup in Ukraine, the imposition
\nof sanctions was meant to elevate the containment of the allegedly aggressive
\nRussian Federation.<\/p>\n
\nplans of the Neocons and other NWO advocates to implement hegemonic
\ncontrol of the planet and a form of Pax Americana outlined by Henry
\nKissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Paul Wolfowitz and others.<\/p>\n
\nthat arena seems poised for direct military confrontation as push comes to shove
\nafter efforts to resolve the matter peacefully through the machinery of international
\nlaw seem doomed to failure.
\nhttp:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-us-led-militarization-of-southeast-asia-china-russia-north-korea-and-iran-are-targets-in-pentagon-world-war-iii-scenarios\/5535932<\/a><\/p>\n
\nproduced some positive results. But we have already been down this road and yet
\nthe stalemate continues, largely because of US insistence that Assad must go.<\/p>\n
\nbe an election in 2016? Will there even be two political conventions to nominate the
\npresumptive candidates, Trump and Clinton? Will so-called Islamic Terrorism provide
\nthe basis for unifying diverse groups and nations leading to new political arrangements
\nsimilar to what followed the previous world wars?
\nhttp:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2016\/07\/15\/russia-defense-report-challenging-the-monroe-doctrine\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nmoving in the wrong direction.
\nhttp:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2016\/07\/15\/russia-defense-report-challenging-the-monroe-doctrine\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nthese many disruptions which are speeding up remains to be seen. With today’s coup
\nin Turkey as more evidence of the dramatic volatility of current events, the immediate
\nfuture will be fraught with enormous danger as well as great opportunity for peaceful efforts\u00a0to forego war and establish peace.
\nhttp:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2016\/07\/15\/coup-underway-turkish-military-in-uprising-against-erdogan-istanbul-in-lockdown\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}