Despite NATO’s intense military buildup in Eastern Europe, the largest since World War II, US officials warn that, in the event of an invasion, alliance forces could be overwhelmed by Russia in less than three days. The ongoing military buildup along Russia’s borders has been criticized as an unnecessary provocation that threatens to destabilize the region. © AP…
The stakes could not be higher. Not only the future of the BRICS, but the future of a new multipolar world is in the balance. And it all hinges on what happens in Brazil in the next few months. Let’s start with the Kafkaesque internal turmoil. The coup against President Dilma Rousseff remains an unrivalled media theatre/political…
June 9, 2016 | Claire Bernish A troubling report by the Institute for Economics and Peace found a mere ten nations on the planet are not at war and completely free from conflict. According to the Global Peace Index 2016, only Botswana, Chile, Costa Rica, Japan, Mauritius, Panama, Qatar, Switzerland, Uruguay and Vietnam…
Deployment of a second US air carrier in the Mediterranean has been called to deter a Russian task force deployed in the region, a US official told the Wall Street Journal. “It provides some needed presence in the Med to check…the Russians,” a military official in Washington told the WSJ. “The unpredictability of what we…
Source: veteranstoday.com June 8, 2016 According to the document which was leaked on Israeli site, Hona, memorandum of understanding was signed between America and Saudi Arabia to cooperate on deploying advanced interceptor defense and radar system in King Faisal air base in Tabuk. http://www.hona.co.il/news-5,N-15860.html Zehava Gal-On, the leftist liberal chairperson of Meretz, in this document…
Source: ebonybay.com As NATO carried out its biggest exercise in Poland since the end of communism in 1989 – complete with a display of thousands of paratroopers – it emerged that Russian troops have been deployed to the Ukrainian border.Scores of U.S. troops and then military vehicles parachuted into a spacious, grassy training area on the outskirts…
