{"id":221321,"date":"2020-11-29T08:31:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T08:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=221321"},"modified":"2020-12-01T08:17:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T08:17:59","slug":"dangerous-crossroads-natos-attempted-infringement-of-russias-airspace-and-maritime-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=221321","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Crossroads: NATO\u2019s Attempted Infringement of Russia\u2019s Airspace and Maritime Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Korybko \u2013 Global Research Nov 27, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Recent attempted infringements of Russia\u2019s airspace and maritime borders by NATO are very dangerous instances of de-facto brinksmanship intended to provoke the Eurasian Great Power into reacting in a way that could then be manipulated as the \u201cplausible pretext\u201d for imposing further pressure upon it.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It seems like almost every week that Russian media reports on NATO\u2019s attempted infringement of Russian airspace and maritime borders, but two ultra-dangerous developments occurred over the past week which signify that this trend will intensify. The Russian Navy threatened to ram<\/a> the USS John McCain after it aggressively passed into the country\u2019s territorial waters near Peter the Great Bay off Vladivostok, after which it thankfully reversed its course. The second incident involved the US launching rockets<\/a> into the Black Sea from Romania that are capable of reaching Crimea in a wartime scenario. These two events deserve to be discussed more in detail because of their significance to NATO\u2019s grand strategy.<\/p>\n

The transatlantic alliance intends to provoke the Eurasian Great Power into reacting in a way that could then be manipulated as the \u201cplausible pretext\u201d for imposing further pressure upon it. It amounts to de-facto brinksmanship and is therefore incredibly dangerous since both parties are nuclear powers. Furthermore, it\u2019s the definition of unprovoked aggression since Russia doesn\u2019t partake in symmetrical provocations against NATO. If anything, every time that it\u2019s been dishonestly accused of such was just the country carrying out military exercises within its own borders which just so happen to abut several NATO states after the bloc extended its frontiers eastward following the end of the Old Cold War.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the eastern expansion of NATO and the alliance\u2019s recent activities in the Arctic Ocean that represent the greatest threat to peace between the two. On the eastern front, the US is once again provoking Russia in order to craft the false impression among the Japanese that Moscow is a military threat to their interests. Washington is greatly perturbed by their past couple years of technically fruitless but nevertheless highly symbolic talks over signing a peace treaty to end the Second World War and resolve what Tokyo subjectively regards as the \u201cNorthern Territories Dispute\u201d. Moscow\u2019s reclamation of control over the Kuril Islands following that conflict was agreed to by the Allies, but then America went back on its word in order to divide and rule the two.<\/p>\n

Their mutual intent to enter into a rapprochement with one another could in theory occur in parallel with a similar rapprochement between Japan and China, which might altogether reduce Tokyo\u2019s need to retain as robust of an American military presence on its islands. That in turn would weaken the US\u2019 military posturing and therefore reduce the viability of its grand strategic designs to \u201ccontain\u201d both multipolar countries in that theater. As regards the Arctic and Eastern European fronts, these are also part of the same \u201ccontainment\u201d policy, albeit aimed most directly against Russia and only tangentially against China\u2019s \u201cPolar Silk Road\u201d.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s understandable that the US will continue to compete with these two rival Great Powers, but such competition must be responsibly regulated in order to avoid the unintended scenario of a war by miscalculation. It\u2019s for that reason why the world should be alarmed by American brinksmanship against them, especially the latest developments with respect to Russia that were earlier described. All that it takes is one wrong move for everything to spiral out of control and beyond the point of no return. Regrettably, while Biden might ease some pressure on China, he\u2019ll likely compensate by doubling down against Russia.<\/p>\n

Trump should also take responsibility for this as well since it\u2019s occurring during his presidency after all, even if it might possibly be in its final months if he isn\u2019t able to thwart the Democrats\u2019 illegal seizure of power<\/a> following their large-scale defrauding of this month\u2019s elections. He capitulated to hostile \u201cdeep state\u201d pressure early on into this term perhaps out of the mistaken belief that \u201ccompromising\u201d with his enemies in the permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies would result in them easing their pressure upon him on other fronts, but this gamble obviously failed since it only emboldened them to pressure him even more.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unfortunate that Trump was never able to actualize his intended rapprochement with Russia for the aforementioned reasons, but he could have rebelliously defied the \u201cdeep state\u201d after this month\u2019s fraudulent elections by reversing his currently aggressive policy against Moscow if he truly had the political will to do so. He doesn\u2019t, though, and this might nowadays be due more to his support of the military-industrial complex than any \u201cdeep state\u201d pressure like it initially was. After all, war is a very profitable business, and artificially amplifying the so-called \u201cRussia threat\u201d by provoking Moscow into various responses could pay off handsomely.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s therefore extremely unlikely that this dangerous trend will change anytime in the coming future. To the contrary, it\u2019ll likely only intensify and get much worse under a possible Biden Administration. Nevertheless, Russia doesn\u2019t lack the resolve to defend its legitimate interests and will always do what\u2019s needed in this respect, albeit responsibly (so long as it\u2019s realistic to react in such a way) in order to avoid falling into the Americans\u2019 trap. The ones who should be the most worried, then, are the US\u2019 NATO and other \u201callied\u201d vassals who stand to lose the most by getting caught in any potential crossfire for facilitating American aggression.<\/p>\n

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Andrew Korybko<\/em><\/strong> is an American Moscow-based political analyst specializing in the relationship between the US strategy in Afro-Eurasia, China\u2019s One Belt One Road global vision of New Silk Road connectivity, and Hybrid Warfare. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.<\/em><\/p>\n

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