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Dr. Strangelove is alive and well in the pentagon. Specifically, the U.S. navy,
apparently fixated on provoking nuclear World War III with Russia, regardless of
president Joe Biden's duplicitously stated goal of avoiding global
incineration. But then, you can't blame U.S. military sociopaths for not taking
Joe "Nuclear Doubletalk" Biden at his word. No sooner does he swear up and down
that he will NEVER give a certain weapon to Ukraine, than he turns around and
supplies it to them. Any first-class dingbat pentagon warmonger, looking at this
abysmal record of about-faces on Patriot defense systems, Abrams tanks, cluster
bombs, F-16s and now maybe ATACMS, might well conclude the time is ripe for a
show of force, a brazen NATO provocation. And that is exactly what occurred
between September 11-15, when the western axis did what it does best - cause
trouble - by holding a wargame with Romania, Turkey, France and the U.S. in the
Black Sea.
Operation Sea Breeze kicked off on September 11, 2023. According to a U.S. navy
press release, "This is a land and sea-based exercise with multinational Allies
and Partners, aimed to enhance the capabilities of Black Sea and Partnership for
Peace maritime security forces while progressively training and preparing the
Ukraine Maritime Command Staff." Partnership for peace? Ho ho! Never mind that
Ukraine's currently an inferno of war between the country with the world's most
deadly nuclear arsenal, namely Russia and NATO - and I say NATO because, let's
not kid ourselves, without NATO weapons, training and intelligence, Kiev's
military would have folded last year. Never mind that, as the very informed
observer Col. Douglas MacGregor remarked, Moscow regards the Black Sea the same
way Washington regards the Great Lakes. Skip all that. The geniuses in the
pentagon decided now was a great time further to provoke Russia by sending
U.S. warships into its back yard.
There was speculation, also reported by MacGregor, that this war game would
shield freighters shipping arms to Ukraine via the Black Sea - something Russia
insists occurred under cover of the now-defunct grain deal. That was partly why
Moscow ditched the deal. That and the fact that the west deliberately failed to
uphold its end of the bargain - proving once again that its leader, the U.S. is,
as Russian officials say, agreement averse, or more bluntly, not to be trusted,
because the "rules-based order" means Washington can lie, cheat or steal and
defy any treaty or deal it signed whenever and wherever it wants (just look what
happened to the One China policy). So Russian grain and fertilizer couldn't get
to market or even be delivered gratis to regions of famine (that's some grain
deal!). Russian ships couldn't get insurance, and without access to the west's
SWIFT banking system, everything stalled. Which was clearly the western
intention. Meanwhile the lion's share of Ukrainian grain went not to starving
Global South nations, ostensibly the purpose of the arrangement - but to
well-fed Europe to keep food prices low!
So after this subterfuge, and Kiev using grain ships to import weapons, Moscow
was fed up. But the U.S. navy wasn't, that is, if MacGregor's sources about Sea
Breeze concealing arms transfers was correct. Even without weapons smuggling,
this "freedom of navigation" exercise was wildly reckless. It's exactly the sort
of idiocy that provoked the Ukraine War in the first place. It risked open
confrontation between Russian and NATO, and we should thank our lucky stars (and
the probable Kremlin calculation that Sea Breeze could only do minimal damage)
that didn't happen. But trusting to luck is all people have, who suffer under an
insane regime. Sea Breeze should have been cancelled.
Not doing so makes you wonder what our military men were thinking. Did they want
a Gulf of Tonkin incident on steroids - to wit, one that was for real, not just
a false flag? That is, were they hoping Russia would snap and sink some NATO
ships? They knew very well, again per MacGregor, that NATO had no room to
maneuver in the Black Sea and that if Moscow went ballistic over this, NATO
could not retreat. They also knew Russia has superior force in the area. So did
our so-called leaders intend to sacrifice some soldiers to ignite a nuclear
holocaust? Because as we all know, that's where a direct showdown between Russia
and NATO leads.
Or, more likely, did they think Moscow wouldn't dare strike back because so many
red lines have already been crossed that none any longer exist? If so, that is a
very perilous assumption. Because if such aggression keeps up - and the biggest
NATO war game ever is planned for the Baltic Sea, also in Russia's backyard, in
early 2024, just as those U.S. "freedom of navigation" joyrides through the
Taiwan Strait occur more and more frequently - at some point the opposing sides
may very well collide. And to repeat the obvious: that leads ultimately to
hundreds of millions of people glowing in the dark at once, while five billion
take the slower route to the cemetery, namely starving due to nuclear winter.
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-- Cont'd at https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/22/the-insanity-of-nato-war-exercises-in-the-black-sea/
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