Filed under: Arctic, Resource Wars, War | Tags: Arctic, canada, harper, NATO, obama, russia
Just continuing to monitor the ongoing resource conflict surrounding varying claims for the Arctic’s rich natural gas resources as well as its strategic military location.
UPI: Russia’s Arctic Circle claims worry NATO
NATO’s new European commander expressed concerns Friday about potential disputes over Russia’s claims to resources in the Arctic Circle.
U.S. Navy Adm. James Stavridis noted climate change, which is melting ice around the polar cap, is opening trade routes and access to billions of barrels of oil. That, in turn, could lead to competition and friction, he said.
But in a speech at the Royal United Services Institute in London, Stavridis said he hopes for cooperation, The Times of London reported.
“I look at the high north and I think it could either be a zone of conflict — I hope not — a zone of competition, probably,” said Stavridis, Supreme Allied commander for Europe. “There are certainly going to be areas of disagreement between the alliance and Russia, but the issues are so big and so important that a cooperative approach, finding zones of cooperation, will be very important in the time ahead.”
Russia sent a submarine to the Arctic seafloor in February to symbolically plant a flag and announced in March that it would establish military bases along the northern coastline.
Along with the United States and Russia, Canada, Denmark and Norway lay claim to parts of the Polar region.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said this week climate change had “potentially huge security implications” for NATO in the Arctic Circle.
It looks like the Canadian government, who has been quite bellicose in their claims, are preparing for the worst.
Portal for North America: Danish defense chief quietly tours Canadian Arctic.
The Chronicle Herald (CA): Military prepares for worst
…”The [Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare Centre] predicts oil prices could quadruple by 2019, unmanned attack aircraft will police the skies, and the Arctic will become the zone of interest for the world’s great powers.
An all-commando Canadian army will fight terrorists in a region called the “arc of instability,” stretching from western Africa, through the Middle East and into Southeast Asia.”
Filed under: Central Asia, China / SE Asia, Russia / Caucacus, War | Tags: china, india, iran, NATO, nuclear, obama, russia, us, venezuela, War
The force of NATO’s operational doctrine of continual expansion and disruption of opposing forces is now extending their presence into Asia. The battles for the favor of India and the so-called “string of pearls” around the eastern coast of China have set the stage for potential future conflicts. Now, with deepening ties to Western power, India represents another potential wedge for the U.S/NATO, bent on establishing strategic positions on the periphery of their two main economic and political rivals–China and Russia. Historical and geographical considerations also compel the Indians in their current position, to adopt a policy of “superalignment” with the West as opposed to “counteralignment”; represented by the Russia, China, Iran and the Bolivarian alignment based around Venezuela.
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya: Geo-Strategic Chessboard: War Between India and China?
Here is another great article from Rick Rozoff at ‘Stop NATO’. This also discusses U.S/NATO presence in Asia being used as a bulwark against Russia and China in a variety of arenas.
Rick Rozoff: Dangerous Crossroads: U.S. Expands Asian NATO Against China, Russia
Here is an article from Foreign Affairs in 2006 which suggests that the U.S could use preemptive first strikes against the arsenals of Russia and China.
“For four decades, relations among the major nuclear powers have been shaped by their common vulnerability, a condition known as mutual assured destruction. But with the U.S. arsenal growing rapidly while Russia’s decays and China’s stays small, the era of MAD is ending – and the era of U.S. nuclear primacy has begun.”
“It will probably soon be possible for the United States to destroy the long-range nuclear arsenals of Russia or China with a first strike.”
Filed under: China / SE Asia, Russia / Caucacus, War | Tags: afghanistan, fraud, mcchrystal, NATO, nobel, obama, peace, War
Wall Street Journal: Afghanistan: Top Troop Request Exceeds 60,000
Yahoo: Obama approved 13,000 more troops to Afghanistan
Global Research: October Surprise: Peace Prize to a War Criminal
Check out this article–it’s an excellent summary of the dizzying hypocrisy involved in Obama receiving what amounts to an modern oligarchical title of nobility. Remember that the nomination deadline for the Nobel Prize was only 1 month into Obama’s administration, when even less had done towards the advancement of the peace issue (if that’s possible).
Obama and the Nobel Prize: When War becomes Peace, When the Lie becomes the Truth
by Michel Chossudovsky
When war becomes peace,
When concepts and realities are turned upside down,
When fiction becomes truth and truth becomes fiction.
When a global military agenda is heralded as a humanitarian endeavor,
When the killing of civilians is upheld as “collateral damage”,
When those who resist the US-NATO led invasion of their homeland are categorized as “insurgents” or “terrorists”.
When preemptive nuclear war is upheld as self defense.
When advanced torture and “interrogation” techniques are routinely used to “protect peacekeeping operations”,
When tactical nuclear weapons are heralded by the Pentagon as “harmless to the surrounding civilian population”
When three quarters of US personal federal income tax revenues are allocated to financing what is euphemistically referred to as “national defense”
When the Commander in Chief of the largest military force on planet earth is presented as a global peace-maker,
When the Lie becomes the Truth
Filed under: Arctic, Central Asia, China / SE Asia, Empire, Latin America, Middle East, Resource Wars, Russia / Caucacus, War | Tags: afghanistan, Arctic, china, iran, NATO, obama, russia, War
The United States is continually expanding the presence of their forces to several points throughout the globe. The locations of these engagements form a “belt of conflict” which stretches the length of the globe. Now, the conflict in these areas is escalating to a point at which, some time in the future, the possibility of an international conflict with nuclear overtones can be seen. From military bases in Colombia, destabilization of Bolivia and Venezuela, funding and arming separatist groups in Africa, manufacturing humanitarian precepts for Sudanese involvement, the continuing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, NATO expansion in Eastern Europe, strategic maneuvering in the Caspian basin, attempts to gain control of the “string of pearls” and the escalating competition over Arctic resources– the U.S is pursuing a policy of confrontation for the sole purpose of gaining access to natural resources, subverting potential international coalitions and securing freedom of international military deployment.
RIA Novosti: U.S. could deploy missile shield in Arctic – Russia’s NATO envoy
Ice News: US could launch missiles from the Baltic Sea
GeoPoliticalMonitor.com: U.S weapons end up in al-Qaeda hands
Telegraph: NATO commander warns of conflict with Russia in the Arctic Circle
Rick Rozoff: U.S., NATO Poised For Most Massive War In Afghanistan’s History
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: georgia, japan, NATO, putin, random, russia
Here are some random articles for this week. I will be discussing them on my radio show.
To hear the show go to the “Duty Now For The Future Podcast”
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Vladimir Putin signals plan to reclaim old job as Russian president
The Guardian
Black Sea Port is Flash Point for Georgia and Russia
NY Times
Confronting Russia? U.S. Marines In The Caucasus
Global Research.ca
U.S will not “prejudge” leadership in Japan: Pentagon
Space War
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