'Russian Troop Build-Up' - Eight Years Of Crying Wolf
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/russian-troop-build-up-eight-years-of-crying-wolf.html

Jul 30, 2014: Russia Has 15,000 Crack Troops on the Ukrainian Border - And Putin’s itching for a fight. - Foreign Policy Mar 19, 2015: Russia Expands Military Exercises To 80,000 Troops - Defense News Sep 1, 2016: Russia is...

NATO can't admit Russia because without Moscow as an enemy, the bloc has no purpose. It was founded as an anti-Soviet alliance, and has evolved into an anti-Russian one.

Also, if NATO cared about "democracy," it would expel Albania, Hungary, Montenegro, Macedonia & Turkey.

Basically, NATO now exists to combat threats caused by its own existence. And "fighting" Russia has become an existential necessity for the bloc, because if tensions are reduced it will have no purpose & a lot of people, will be out of work (and money).

US CIA hybrid warfare propaganda playbook

Anonymous US intelligence officials and an anonymous European official anonymously told #CNN that anonymous Russian officials anonymously worried about cost of "#Russia invasion of #Ukraine"🙃

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/07/politics/us-intel-russia-doubts-invasion-ukraine/index.html

‘Without Russia, we won't stop a full-on Ukrainian offensive’: What people in Donbass say about the ongoing military crisis

https://www.rt.com/russia/548202-donbass-residents-ukrainian-crisis/

Why U.S. Strategic Interests Do Not Include Ukraine

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-us-strategic-interests-do-not-include-ukraine%C2%A0-198801

The US literally claims the whole of North & South America as its “sphere of influence.” It’s known as the “Monroe Doctrine.”

The US literally claims the whole of North & South America as its “sphere of influence.” It’s known as the “Monroe Doctrine.”

Europe Should Leave NATO Behind And Integrate With Russia
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/europe-should-leave-nato-behind-and-integrate-with-russia.html

The ongoing scuffle over Russia's and China's efforts to rearrange the global order continues. The recent Chinese Russian statement made it look as if Russia has completely turned its back to Europe and is now locked into an Eurasian destiny...

#Russia #NATO

Russia has learned the lesson of its past weaknesses when it comes to dealing with NATO

https://www.rt.com/russia/548630-decades-long-standoff-nato/

Extremist ideology is causing grave problems in the Ukraine of late. Let’s have a look…
https://gpovanman.wordpress.com/2022/02/08/eastern-european-extremism/

Delighted to share an oped, which the Financial Times refused to publish, from Sergey Karaganov, an advisor to both Boris Yeltsin & Vladimir Putin.

He says Russia is not going to invade Ukraine & present tensions are about the broader European security order.

Karaganov reveals that Moscow knows that NATO’s Article Five is "hollow" & concedes that Russia itself is to blame for the current situation "by being weak and trusting our Western partners."

But he adds that the Kremlin has learnt its lesson & this won't happen anymore.

He goes on to say that "NATO is not an immediate threat," as it's not much of a fighting force (see Afghanistan), but Moscow reckons that "if NATO used to be a defensive bloc, it has degenerated into an aggressive one" & that's why it's determined to stop its growth.

He concludes: "Europe without Russia or even against it has been rapidly losing its international clout... we are too big & proud to be absorbed. Our pitch (to the West) was rejected then (in the 1990s), but there is always a chance it won’t be this time."

https://www.rt.com/russia/548630-decades-long-standoff-nato/

#EU #Borrell #Russia

Brussels disagrees with Washington’s assessment that war is around the corner

"I wouldn’t say that we are on the eve of a fully fledged war, second [world] war style, because I don’t believe Russia is going to invade Ukraine as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in 1941,” the EU diplomacy chief said. “I don’t think we’re facing an immediate fight, classical fight, with tanks and infantry and occupying cities and invading territory.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/548761-eu-not-brink-war/

Everyone who expresses his POV and speaks the truth about Ukraine is forced either to resign or apologise

First Germany Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schoenbach, then Croatia President Zoran Milanovic, now it's the head of the Finland Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee

https://www.rt.com/russia/548785-top-mp-resigns-over-poorly/

A French official said Wednesday that Paris was informed in advance six Russian warships would enter the Black Sea and the operation did not break a de-escalation commitment French President Emmanuel Macron claimed he secured from Russian President Vladimir Putin

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-russia-naval-exercise-in-black-sea-is-no-escalation-ukraine/

#Syria

Russian intelligence says US sleeper cells preparing to incite chaos in Syria

https://thecradle.co/Article/news/6771

Leaked Video Emerges Of US Stealth Jet Crashing On Carrier In South China Sea

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/leaked-video-emerges-us-stealth-jet-crashing-carrier-south-china-sea

#France #Macron backs #Putin's call for #Ukraine to stay neutral

https://www.rt.com/russia/548807-macron-offered-putin-deals/