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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on May 18, 2016, 10:01:48 AM

Title: Nato risks a nuclear war with Russia 'within a year', senior general warns
Post by: BlueStateSaint on May 18, 2016, 10:01:48 AM
Ain't this special? :whistling: :fuelfire:

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Nato risks a nuclear war with Russia 'within a year', senior general warns

The West has been advised to act now to avert 'potential catastrophe'

Charlie Cooper Whitehall Correspondent |@charliecooper8 |2 hours  ago|381 comments

Nato risks a nuclear war with Russia within a year if it does not increase its defence capabilities in the Baltic states, one of the alliance's most senior retired generals has said.

General Sir Richard Shirreff, who served as Nato’s Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe between 2011 and 2014, said that an attack on Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia – all Nato members – was a serious possibility and that the West should act now to avert “potential catastrophe”.

He has written a fictional book 2017: War with Russia, but told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme the events it describes were “entirely plausible”.

General Shirreff said: “The chilling fact is that because Russia hardwires nuclear thinking and capability to every aspect of their defence capability, this would be nuclear war.”

“We need to judge President Putin by his deeds not his words,” he added. “He has invaded Georgia, he has invaded the Crimea, he has invaded Ukraine. He has used force and got away with it."

“In a period of tension, an attack on the Baltic states…is entirely plausible.”

Just when the Oministration wants to cut the number of active soldiers in the Army to levels not seen since before WWII.  Perfect timing! ::) :banghead: :censored:

The rest of this is here:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/nato-risks-nuclear-war-with-russia-within-a-year-senior-general-warns-a7035141.html


Title: Re: Nato risks a nuclear war with Russia 'within a year', senior general warns
Post by: Fourwinds on May 18, 2016, 04:13:30 PM
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on May 18, 2016, 10:01:48 AM
Ain't this special? :whistling: :fuelfire:

Just when the Oministration wants to cut the number of active soldiers in the Army to levels not seen since before WWII.  Perfect timing! ::) :banghead: :censored:

The rest of this is here:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/nato-risks-nuclear-war-with-russia-within-a-year-senior-general-warns-a7035141.html

I'm taking it with a grain of salt. The guy is selling a book after all.
Title: Re: Nato risks a nuclear war with Russia 'within a year', senior general warns
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on May 18, 2016, 04:28:16 PM
Pretty far-fetched, not absolutely impossible, but it would take a quite particular and unlikely series of events to put us in that spot.

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“He has invaded Georgia, he has invaded the Crimea, he has invaded Ukraine. He has used force and got away with it."

All on Obama's watch, with Clinton as Secretary of State with a little John Kerry at the end just to French it up a bit.  Not exactly a ringing endorsement of the idea of having the Witch Queen for Prez.
Title: Re: Nato risks a nuclear war with Russia 'within a year', senior general warns
Post by: thundley4 on May 18, 2016, 04:30:17 PM
Obama's weakening of America was a deliberate plan and this is what he wants.
Title: Re: Nato risks a nuclear war with Russia 'within a year', senior general warns
Post by: txradioguy on May 19, 2016, 03:25:21 AM
Meanwhile we're having to take this seriously here and come up with responses to the media over it.