The NATO prowling around the edges of the Russian Federation of northern Eurasia, has made Russia react with the expected pronunciations of increasing its defence capabilities on the south-west region of its frontier.

The rhetoric of the Western nations and their allies sees this as a provocation without reason against Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
To take in account the 10-day joint 'war' exercises by the NATO troops in June, raise the 'spector' as it being of a hostile plan for the future.

With that the NATO say that a deployment of four battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to deter the Russia aggression of increasing its defence capabilities from the NATO 'aggression', such as they say of the alleged 'annexation' of Crimea from the Ukraine in 2014.

The Foreign Minister of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, say that the NATO exercises in eastern Europe could make worse the tensions with Russia, with the NATO "saber-rattling and shrill war cries”. For this the Western Nations rebuked the Foreign Minister saying the “military exercises on Russia's western border do not amount to "saber-rattling".

The leaders of NATO and Russia are to meet after the joint NATO alliance summit in Warsaw in July to initiate a forum for 'dialogue'.

NATO sees Russia as forcefully annexing Crimea in 2014, and instigating 'separatis' movements in Ukraine. But, in the main western media, it is not mentioned of the NATO trained terrorists who have been in the Ukraine since 2014. That is to say that it be more of the private security companies doing what the NATO cannot do openly, and that is to train terrorists to destabilize the situation in the Ukraine, and then blame it on Russian intervention.

From Global Research of April 2014 NATO Trains Terrorists to Destabilize Ukraine

"We are talking about the continuation of US policy of military intervention in Ukraine and a preparatory stage for a massacre in southeastern Ukraine," Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of the National Defense monthly Russian-language magazine said, adding that the deployment of mercenaries from a private company Greystone Ltd. may be financed by Ukrainian oligarchs and organized in coordination with the US State Department.

Michel Chossudovsky told RIA Novosti that mercenaries are normally hired by governments, but options are numerous as they operate covertly and do not identify themselves.

"Within the Ukrainian National Guard there are western military advisors, they have senior military people. They are supposed to train protective services, but in fact they train terrorists," Chossudovsky said.
"NATO and the US won't acknowledge the presence of these special forces. What is happening is an influx of special forces in Ukraine which are there with the purpose to sustain the current government, but also to sustain the state of destabilization," Chossudovsky said stressing that mercenaries would infiltrate with grassroots movements to trigger violence across Ukraine.

--and, in June of 2014, the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine –(Supreme Council of Ukraine)-- Alexander Turchynov, say that representatives of security agencies “deliberately whipped up the situation systematically misinforming the country's leadership about Russia's possible military intervention, which had never happened”.

You will not hear of that in the main western media.

The new trend in defense spending, as NATO shows an increase in defence spending, after many years of reductions. For those in the command of NATO, this be “real progress”. We will see who is doing what on July 8-9, 2016, as NATO's Warsaw summit meet. Just to imagine the high security of the attendance of President Barack Obama at the summit, so close to the Russian frontier.

Then you have the Russian government firing 50 senior officers of the Baltic Fleet Command, which according to the media, is for coverups, and for failing to report the true state of the fleet.

It would be interesting to know if some other things are to blame, for as to make public this purging, be uncommon in Russia, especially after President Putin visited the fleet last year, and praised the fleets performance with emphasis.
Yes, to make public, so as to let everyone know, that he knows. Knows what? In the great scheme of things, that somebody knows something, of who is doing what to who, and with what, and that it be a fatal flaw to seek the dialogue and the diplomacy focused to the 'military'..

Is it to be the return of old enemies?

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Robert
Sarnia, Ontario
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