Where Will America Invade Next? Pentagon Plans to Deploy Troops ‘Anywhere’

The Department of Defense wants to prepare personnel for the conflicts of tomorrow by dispatching troops in tiny deployments to remote locations throughout the world.

This weekend the Pentagon announced changes to military training protocols, with an eye toward preparing troops to go “anywhere.” The ramp-up of the American war machine, during a time of relative peace, marks the latest shift by the Obama administration to a position to the right of George W. Bush’s foreign policy, in the waning hours of the former’s final term in office.

In recent months, the US has expanded military spending along the Russian border to prevent a threat for which there is no evidence; that Moscow will invade NATO members along its eastern border, a charge that Russian President Vladimir Putin has consistently denied.

"I think that only an insane person, and only in a dream, can imagine that Russia would suddenly attack NATO. I think some countries are simply taking advantage of people’s fears with regard to Russia. They just want to play the role of front-line countries that should receive some supplementary military, economic, financial or some other aid," said President Putin one year ago, amidst renewed rumblings by the American military establishment of the specter of 'Russian aggression.'

An increasing US military presence around the world has focused recently on containing China, with President Obama offering a deluge of concessions to Vietnam, including dropping a five-decade arms embargo, as well as appealing to Japan by apologizing for America’s World War II atom bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Along with promoting a regional counter alliance to blunt China’s ambitions, the US has had several heated exchanges with Beijing over the South China Sea, with the Obama administration accusing Chinese President Xi Jinping of militarizing the disputed Paracel and Spratly Islands.

In addition to reigniting the Cold War, the US has increased its military presence in South Korea, incited the unstable North Korean regime of Kim Jong Un to accelerate its nuclear program, as well as converting the entire Middle East and North Africa into an expanding zone of endless war.

With the ouster of Muammar Gadhafi, Libya became a failed state and fertile ground for Daesh violence. In Syria, the US continues to arm rebels seeking the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad with heavy munitions, knowing that these arms end up in the hands of al-Nusra and Daesh. Regional conflicts rage on and are recently taking on expanded life, especially in Iraq and Syria. There are also ongoing Saudi atrocities in Yemen undertaken with a fresh supply of next-generation US weapons.

Having declared war in a substantial majority of the world, the Pentagon now calls for training soldiers for combat "anywhere," seeking to undertake a systematic program of small, remote deployments throughout the world, per a Defense Department statement.

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Looking at all the indicators, it seems that the US Empire wants biffo with the Russians. Sad, but this seems to be the case. Could it be revenge for the Russians beating them at Ice Hockey in the World Championship? Or for testing their latest weapons against the cream of Russian arsenal? As one US Airforce Kolonel or Komandant intoned: "the Russians build their planes like tanks, we build ours like Swiss watches"... So what will it be?

As the guided missile destroyer USS Porter enters the black sea to "promote peace", one can smell the next step of cacadom. The US would not attack Russia front on. The price would be to high. No. As a devious strategist Gus would "help their friend" — the Ukrainian — to retake Crimea. Not counting that Crimea is populated by about 95 per cent Russians, there would be a propaganda to demonise the Russians, spurring a few Ukrainian thugs to create skirmishes inside Crimea, with the inevitable retaliation from the Russians wanting freedom in Ukraine and a continued blackening of the Russian and praise of the moral Ukrainians rights... Ukraine is preparing some doomed armed forces to "retake" Crimea — this is a known quantity. I say doomed because the Ukrainians would have to know they have Buckey's chance of succeeding on their own, but with the help of the Americans, this little adventure would become a pretext to punch Russia in the gonads... 

From there on, it's good bye world peace — or whatever is left of it in regard to the Middle East. Of course, in regard to the morality of this conflict, our media would be full of praise for the US and complete denigration of the Russians, as usual. This is where I sense some sanity in Rupert Murdoch. He supports Trump (no so obviously as you would call him a Trump supporter) but he does it because he would guess that with Clinton, there is too strong a chance that "we could be in for the big one". This would tend to lead to untold uncontrolled destruction everywhere. Furthermore, with Trump being "friendly" with Putin, this could open new market to promote Uncle Rupe's mediatic propaganda and make some serious cash. Yep, you can have war, as long as it does not destroy the cash printing machines.

 

 

 

Hillary Clinton became the first woman to capture the presidential nomination of one of the country’s major political parties on Monday night, according to an Associated Press survey of Democratic superdelegates, securing enough of them to overcome a bruising challenge from Senator Bernie Sanders and turn to a brutal five-month campaign against Donald J. Trump.

In a yearlong nomination fight full of surprise twists, from the popularity of Mr. Sanders to the success of Mr. Trump, the revelation that Mrs. Clinton had clinched the nomination was another startling development — especially coming on the eve of major primaries in California, New Jersey and other states. Mr. Sanders added to the drama by refusing to accept the A.P. survey and vowing to fight on, while Mr. Trump argued that he had done more for women than Mrs. Clinton.

Mrs. Clinton was ebullient but also restrained as she received the news at an uncanny moment — almost eight years to the day after she ended her campaign against Barack Obama before a crowd of many teary women and girls. On Monday night, she shared the breakthrough with a jubilant audience at a campaign stop in Long Beach, Calif.

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Google is directly engaged with Hillary Clinton’s campaign,” the WikiLeaks founder claimed, as quoted by the Sputnik news agency. He added that the company used the State Department as part of “a quid pro quo.”

J'accuse! #Assange claims @google made deal with @HillaryClintonhttps://t.co/U60T8jWRUd (FULL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO) pic.twitter.com/0sgAsVkjj9

— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) June 7, 2016

The journalist behind the world’s most well-known whistleblower website appeared via videoconference at a session of ‘End of the Monopoly: The Open Information Age’, part of the ‘New Era of Journalism: Farewell to Mainstream international media’ forum organized at the Rossiya Segodnya International Multimedia Press Center in Moscow.

Assange is far from the only one to notice the link between Google and the Clinton campaign. Behavioral Psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein has pioneered research on how search engines affect elections and much more. He told Lee Camp, host of RT America’s ‘Redacted Tonight’, that “when one candidate is higher in search rankings ‒ that is, looks better than another candidate in search rankings ‒ that shifts a lot of votes to that candidate. And it’s not a tiny number. It’s a very, very big number of votes.”

Humans are trained to believe that the higher ranking links are “better” and “truer,” Epstein explained.

Last year, billionaire Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt created a little-known start-up company called The Groundwork, “the sole purpose of which is to put Hillary Clinton in office,” he said. “It’s a very secretive organization, super high-tech stuff, and [it’s] very likely they’re using these techniques that we’ve been studying in our research to make sure that votes are shifted to Hillary Clinton in November."Assange believes that unlike Donald Trump, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is predictable and will constitute a problem for freedom of speech in the US if elected.

“Of course she when she is in power… She is a problem for freedom of speech,” the whistleblower said. "We know what she is going to do. And she made the chart for the destruction of Libya, she was involved in the process of taking the Libyan armory and sending it to Syria."

“Google is heavily integrated with Washington power, at personal level and at business level… Google, which has increasing control over the distribution channels,… is intensely allying itself with the US exceptionalism,” Assange said, speaking in a video link from the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

“It [Google] shows the will to use that at different levels. It will inevitably influence its audience,” Assange said, recalling the occasion when Google leased its front page to “promote [US State Secretary] John Kerry's call for bombing on Syria in 2013,” along with conspiring with “Al Jazeera to encourage Syrian defectors.”

“Google is an intensely Washington, DC-aligned company,” the famous whistleblower said.

Washington and Google likewise feel threatened by China and view the country as a rival, with  Schmidt viewing China as “his enemy,” the WikiLeaks founder said.

“I see a Google exit from China… It seems much more to do with Google's feeling that it is part of ‘family America’ and that it is opposed to the Chinese,” said Assange.

‘80 percent of NSA budget privatized’

Another shocking claim from Assange is that 80 percent of the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) budget has been privatized as part of the merger between power and big business.

“There is a merger between the corporate organizations and state… 80 percent of the National Security Agency budget is privatized,” Assange said, stressing that the NSA “is the core of the US deep state… There has been a smoothing out between the government and the corporations,” the whistleblower said.

Assange has been stuck inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London since he took refuge there in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden. In Sweden, the Australian is wanted for questioning by the authorities regarding allegations of sexual assault against two women in 2010. The 44-year-old has denied the accusations; he says that being taken to Sweden would only pave the way for further extradition to the US, where he charges of espionage, conspiracy, theft of government property and computer fraud, which could result in up a minimum of 45 years behind bars for his role in helping the currently-imprisoned Chelsea Manning leak US diplomatic cables in 2010.

WikiLeaks published over 250,000 classified US military and diplomatic documents that year in a move that amounted to the largest information leak in United States history. Hillary Clinton was secretary of state during the so-called ‘Cablegate’.

 

https://www.rt.com/usa/345749-assange-us-google-clinton/