If the specter of a deployment of the Obamagon "Rapid Defeat Force," a mere brigade diffusely sprinkled over the entirety of the Baltic States and eastern Europe, was intended to intimidate the rising Russian Federation, it appears that it is not having its desired effect:
After the Pentagon signaled that it may move heavy armor to several Baltic and Eastern European countries to stabilize the region against Russian aggression, Russia has issued a veiled statement "urging" the United States to back down.
According to the New York Times, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said it "hopes" that Washington will decide not to make deployments.
"We hope that reason will prevail and the situation in Europe will be prevented from sliding into a new military confrontation which may have dangerous consequences," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, according to the Times.
For those of us who grew up during the Cold War, the underlying threat of the Russians' "urgings" is not difficult to discern. It's as I translated it in the headline: "Don't deploy your little brigade, or we will reduce it to its constituent quarks and gluons". And the thinly veiled threat doesn't stop there: "Do not resist us, or there WILL be a new military confrontation that WILL have dangerous consequences FOR YOU."
Of course, there will be a military confrontation sooner or later in direct proportion to how long we tarry in seriously resisting Czar Vlad's "red storm rising". He's rebuilding the old USSR, including the Warsaw Pact, he's buzzing our and Europe's coastlines with nuclear bombers, he's upgrading, modernizing, and expanding his nuclear arsenal, plus he's got something his Soviet predecessors never enjoyed: a full-fledged alliance with Red China, which is busily rebuilding Imperial Japan's old "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere". It's almost like the Axis Alliance between Germany and Japan if both had been a lot bigger and shared a border. You could even say that the Sino-Russian Axis is the new center of the world, expanding outward, absorbing everything in its path.
But that blitzkrieg is still in its beginning stages, where their intended victims still have a chance of stopping them. Which isn't going to happen with token little cannon fodder gestures.
But the Russians are looking ahead, as they always do. And what they're seeing and attempting to avert is the end of the Obamidency or at least its animating kindredly Marxist governing paradigm, and its replacement by the return of a muscular neo-Reaganism (which President Scott Walker would most embody) that would seriously complicate the plans of Messrs. Putin and Xi.
Hence, the Russian warning. And, really, the decrypting of the Snowden files and the ChiComm cyber attack. They're both trying to advance as far as they can while their window of global opportunity remains open, including doing everything they can to keep it open.
Call the Russian Foreign Ministry statement above a bluff to call our bluff.
And no, I'm not taking bets on whether it will be successful:
On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia would be adding more than forty new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year.
"More than forty new intercontinental ballistic missiles able to overcome even the most technically advanced anti-missile defense systems will be added to the make-up of the nuclear arsenal this year," Putin said during a visit to a major exhibition of new Russian weaponry.
Russian officials are warning that Russia will retaliate if the United States deploys the weaponry. [emphasis added]
Remember in the 2000 campaign when George W. Bush used to say, "Help is on the way"? He had no idea.
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