In general, the article does not explain how this new nuclear arms race has heated up again. How NATO expanded east in violation of promises to Gorbatchev to agree on German reunification. How the US staged a coup in the Ukraine (according to Strattfor "the most blatant coup ever"). How the west accused Russia of having shot down (or helped doing it) flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine without presenting a shred of evidence. Etc. etc. etc.
Russia is not interested at all in a military confrontation with NATO, it would be suicidal: NATO countries have a combined population of 930 million people, Russia has a population of only 150 million people and just recovering from its severe economic depression of the 1990s.
It would be easy to end this standoff with Russia. All it takes is for the US to stop its provocations toward Russia, accept that the US is no longer the global hegemon and abide again by international law (as defined by the UN charter, instead of bombing and destroying at will one country after another).
"Adding to such worries, the Russians have deployed the Iskander in Kaliningrad, a tiny chunk of Russian territory wedged between Poland and Lithuania that just happens to put it within range of many western European cities."
Measuring the distancees of Kalininggrad to other mayor European cities in Google Earth, shows that "many western European cities" is rather overstated. "A few" would be more preciese. Mayor cities within reach:
Warsaw (280 km), Vilnius, Lihuania (307 km), Riga, Latvia (340 km).
Cities out of reach: Copenhagen (520 km), Berlin (530 km), Stockholm (540 km), Helsinky (660 km), Prague (660 km), Viena (780 km), Frankfurt (950 km), Paris (1400 km).
If you don't read about Russian errors in the western media, it almost MUST be because they didn't make them. The western presstitutes take every half a chance to deride Russia.
In general, the article does not explain how this new nuclear arms race has heated up again. How NATO expanded east in violation of promises to Gorbatchev to agree on German reunification. How the US staged a coup in the Ukraine (according to Strattfor "the most blatant coup ever"). How the west accused Russia of having shot down (or helped doing it) flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine without presenting a shred of evidence. Etc. etc. etc.
Russia is not interested at all in a military confrontation with NATO, it would be suicidal: NATO countries have a combined population of 930 million people, Russia has a population of only 150 million people and just recovering from its severe economic depression of the 1990s.
It would be easy to end this standoff with Russia. All it takes is for the US to stop its provocations toward Russia, accept that the US is no longer the global hegemon and abide again by international law (as defined by the UN charter, instead of bombing and destroying at will one country after another).
"Adding to such worries, the Russians have deployed the Iskander in Kaliningrad, a tiny chunk of Russian territory wedged between Poland and Lithuania that just happens to put it within range of many western European cities."
Measuring the distancees of Kalininggrad to other mayor European cities in Google Earth, shows that "many western European cities" is rather overstated. "A few" would be more preciese. Mayor cities within reach:
Warsaw (280 km), Vilnius, Lihuania (307 km), Riga, Latvia (340 km).
Cities out of reach: Copenhagen (520 km), Berlin (530 km), Stockholm (540 km), Helsinky (660 km), Prague (660 km), Viena (780 km), Frankfurt (950 km), Paris (1400 km).
If you don't read about Russian errors in the western media, it almost MUST be because they didn't make them. The western presstitutes take every half a chance to deride Russia.