Is the US and its NATO "allies" planning to attack Russia and start World War III?

"Get used to ENDLESS War," is how the Atlantic, that obvious Russian mouthpiece, explains US foreign policy going forward.

Pentagon's New Military Doctrine: Endless War

Then again, we can't trust those Roooooooooooosky stories? So let's have a direct link.

from the Horse's Mouth: The Atlantic Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel: Get Used to Endless War

No wonder even neo con Z Brzezinski openly laughed at the US policy of the War on Terror (ie, war on an abstract noun) and noted that such a war ... has no end.

A boot. In the face of humanity. FOREVER.

literally.

The Next Presidential Election Will Move The World Closer To War

Paul Craig Roberts wrote:

Glenn Greenwald has revealed that Hillary Clinton is the presidential candidate of the banksters and warmongers.  Pam and Russ Martens note that Elizabeth Warren is the populist alternative. I doubt that a politician who represents the people can acquire the campaign funds needed to run a campaign. If Warren becomes a threat, the Establishment will frame her with bogus charges and move her aside.

Hillary as president would mean war with Russia. With neocon nazis such as Robert Kagan and Max Boot running her war policy and with Hillary’s comparison of Russia’s president Putin to Adolf Hitler, war would be a certainty. As Michel Chossudovsky and Noam Chomsky have written, the war would be nuclear.

What is to be done? Roberts suggests ...

"As the US government now embraces pre-emptive arrest and detention of those who might someday commit a crime, the entire cadre of neocon warmongers should be arrested and indefinitely detained before they destroy humanity."

I'm not a supporter of preventative detention, but perhaps for these warmongers an exception could be made?

In fact, as the Russian FM pointed out, the US [and its NATO satellites] don't even try to hide that their aim is regime change in Russia. They're trying to overthrow an elected government and they don't much care who knows. That is, in fact a kind of un-declared war and, as we all know, the demonization of political leaders [like the current Western demonization of Russian President V V Putin] invariably PRECEDES invasions, bombings, colour revolutions, and regime change. 

This is all so boringly predictable that it surprises me that anyone not on the political right would even bother to challenge it. Then again, we had babblers who sided with the lidless eye in Washington trying to overthrow the wildly popular socialist leader of Venezuela, so perhaps it is no surprise that other babblers side with other targets of the lidless eye ...

Ron Paul: ‘US provoking war with Russia, could result in total destruction’

RT wrote:

Former congressman Ron Paul has lashed out at the resolution the House passed against Russia, branding it “one of the worst pieces of legislation ever.” It could even pave the way for a potential war with Russia, as it was with Iraq, he warns.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

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Ron Paul: ‘US provoking war with Russia, could result in total destruction’

You'd never know from the article that his son is a powerful U.S. Senator

lol. You'd never know from your quote that the vote took place in the Congress, after which the Bill goes to the Senate.

Wanna go for double jeapardy where the scores can really add up?

Legendary documentary film maker John Pilger has the USA preparing for war against China. Maybe I've picked the wrong country for Yanqui victimization?

You decide.

John Pilger - The Coming War documentary

The Coming War between America and China - the new documentary project from John Pilger

1. United States is Creating Three Military Bases in Ukraine

from domestic Russian media wrote:

... the document which the Senate has adopted is certainly very very telling. Look, everything is done in synchronicity, the new fascist Rada received a bill to cancel the neutral status of Ukraine, and immediately this document, which we are talking about, was adopted by the Americans. What does this mean? It means that the territory of Ukraine becomes a military platform. It means that in the nearest future Ukraine will be pumped with American weapons. It means that, as planned, Americans will first open three military bases in Ukraine. They will not be called military bases, they will be called "Centers for Preparation of Military Specialists for the National Army of Ukraine", but they will be de facto military bases.

and so on.

2. NATO tactical aircraft double flight intensity near Russia, Belarus borders

TASS wrote:

Tactical aircraft of North Atlantic Alliance states more than doubled flight intensity near borders of Russia and Belarus this year, Chief Commander of Russian Air Force Colonel General Viktor Bondarev told reporters on Tuesday.

“Overall number of flights by NATO tactical aircraft in regions bordering Russia and Belarus has more than doubled to exceed three thousand in 2014 against 2013,” Bondarev said.

And so on.

English-speaking mercenaries spotted 83 clicks from Donetsk.

Blackwater successors in Ukraine?

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According to a resident of Granitnoe Roman S., mercenaries often appear in the shops and markets, moving in small groups, they have new NATO uniforms, communicate with each other in English, bringing a translator along with them, not allowing to take photos of themselves under a threat of use of weapons.

USA! USA!

Winning hearts and minds!

"Mom!"

"He started it!"

From Energy War to Currency War: America’s Attack on the Russian Ruble

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya wrote:

A multi-spectrum war is being waged against Moscow by Washington. If there are any doubts about this, they should be put to rest. Geopolitics, science and technology, speculation, financial markets [including currency warfare], information streams, large business conglomerates, intelligentsia, mass communication, social media, the internet, popular culture, news networks, international institutions, sanctions, audiences, public opinion, nationalism, different governmental bodies and agencies, identity politics, proxy wars, diplomacy, countervailing international alliances, major business agreements, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), human rights, prestige, military personnel, capital, and psychological tactics are all involved in this multi-spectrum war. On a daily basis this struggle can be seen playing out on the airwaves, in the war theaters in Ukraine and the Middle East, through the statements and accusations of diplomats, and in the economic sphere.

The article is a good, short summary of this multi-spectrum US-sponsored war against Russia. It's important, I think to note: "If the crisis in Ukraine did not happen, another pretext would have been found for assaulting Russia." Nazemroaya notes importantly ...

1. Rather than a second Cold War, or a post-Cold War cold war, this war is simply a continuation of a war that never really came to an end. "The mentality of the Cold War never died in the Washington Beltway." After the fall of the Soviet Union, the aim changed to a dismembered Russia and a aggressive NATO expansion right to Russian borders;

1b. The aim is not simply for Russia to change foreign policy but at regime change. Maps of a divided Russia are already being distributed by Radio "Free" Europe. Let us also remember that even US functionary Madeline Albright made reference to the "unfair" territory and resources that Russia was endowed with. Literally, the thinking is, "Give us Siberia or we will nuke you."

2. "Petro-politics have been a major feature of this multi-spectrum war too. Not only have energy prices been a factor in this struggle, but so are financial markets and national currencies." In so doing, the aime was to create a "double whammy" of market manipulation combined with massive price drops in key energy commodities.

3. Key neo-conservatives made clear their aims here, for example, with public statements last May 2014 [from US Assistant-Secretary of State Victoria Nuland — the wife of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) co-founder and neo-conservative advocate for empire Robert Kagan — and US Assistant-Secretary of the Treasury Daniel Glaser] "that the objectives of the US economic sanctions strategy against the Russian Federation was not only to damage the trade ties and business between Russia and the EU, but to also bring about economic instability in Russia and to create currency instability and inflation."

4. The Kremlin has not, however, been goaded into senseless burning their enormous currency reserves but instead chose other methods, including increasing interest rates while providing financial assistance in the form of lending resources, using reserve funds instead for diversification of the national economy and strengthening of the social and public sectors, strategic investments in so-called human capital in Russia (all sorts of wages have been raised rather than the neo-conservative austerity of reducing wages), etc.. There are also other ways to respond to what is called "economic terrorism" by what Argentina has provided an example of: default and refusal of payment to sidestep vulture funds in NYC.

5. The abandonment of South Stream and closer economic ties with Turkey -  announced by Russian President Putin while in Ankara in a master stroke - in the form of the new "Turk Stream" has effectively detonated tendencies to blow apart the fragile EU front. A final shot to the head of the EU was Putin's public statement about compensation for the Bulgarians for the lost South Stream. Turk Stream will also likely see improved Turkish-Iranian relations and the possibility of joint political efforts to resolve the Syrian conflict.

6. Russia's long term plans of pivoting to the Asia-Pacific region is now bearing considerable fruit, for example with the Sino-Russian mega gas deal and other Russian projects in east Asia.

7.  Key Kremlin advisor Sergei Glaziev has spoken of a  "«systemic and comprehensive» response «aimed at exposing and ending US political domination, and, most importantly, at undermining US military-political power based on the printing of dollars as a global currency». His solution includes the creation of «a coalition of sound forces advocating stability — in essence, a global anti-war coalition with a positive plan for rearranging the international financial and economic architecture on the principles of mutual benefit, fairness, and respect for national sovereignty». " 

The Eurasian century is at hand. The American century is over.

Market Watch: Perhaps you missed it: We’re at war with Russia

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The U.S. has been waging economic, financial, trade, and political war against Russia and even kinetic war-by-proxy in Ukraine. Worryingly, nobody in power in the U.S. or Europe really seems willing to tell us exactly why....

The U.S. (via John Kerry) and NATO have steadily accused Russia of having funneled hundreds of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other heavy equipment to the separatists in eastern Ukraine....

The sorts of weaponry that NATO and the U.S. have charged Russia with providing are virtually impossible to conceal from the air. Snapping high-resolution photos of such war machinery is child’s play for today’s military satellites, and even civilian ones too. If the assertions were true, we should have seen a flood of photographs of Russian heavy equipment every step of the way as it passed into Ukraine.

But none have been offered, not even one so far. And the simplest explanation for this is that none exist. If they did, you can be 100% certain they’d have been released and replayed over and over again on CNN until everybody and their uncle could distinguish a T-72 tank outline from that of a T-64.

Lies, damn lies, and Yanqui propaganda.

In addition to the above, the author makes reference to 2 ill-conceived and confrontational pieces of legislation: House-Resolution 758 which accuses Russia of "invading" Ukraine without a scrap of evidence to back it up, and the Ukraine Freedom Support Act that allows aircraft loads of military armaments, weapons, stinger missiles, anti-tank missiles, supplies, etc. to be funneled to Ukraine.

Just imagine if Russia made a fraudulent claim that the US had invaded Mexico and started supplying the land of Mariachi with surface to surface missiles and the like. Think the USA might be annoyed?

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In response, Russia is rapidly withdrawing from additional dialog with the U.S. and Europe, while drawing ever closer to China, Turkey and India. Russians feel that they are already under siege from the U.S., and that acts of war have already been committed.

Despite being almost completely out of the U.S. news cycle, events are in and around the Ukraine situation are actually picking up pace. On Jan. 15, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree mobilizing 50,000 new servicemen to the front lines, and Russia just announced that Europe will have to accept gas via Turkey as the Ukraine route is being shut down.

"If it looks like a war, acts like a war and smells like a war, it may just be a war. Everyone should be very concerned by these events, but especially European readers."