{"id":271657,"date":"2023-07-30T07:25:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T07:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271657"},"modified":"2023-08-01T06:56:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T06:56:19","slug":"russia-is-ready-for-confrontation-with-nato-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271657","title":{"rendered":"Russia is ready for confrontation with NATO \u2013 Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT.com \u2013 July 29, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Putin-warns-West-over-Ukraine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-258931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Putin-warns-West-over-Ukraine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Putin-warns-West-over-Ukraine.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Putin-warns-West-over-Ukraine-480x240.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 700px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia is <em>\u201calways ready for any scenario,\u201d<\/em> President Vladimir Putin told journalists on Saturday, commenting on a potential direct confrontation between the Russian and NATO militaries. The president was answering a question about recent near-collisions involving Russian and American aircraft in Syria.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNo one wants that,\u201d<\/em> the president added, pointing to the existing conflict-prevention lines that allow Russian and US officers to talk directly about <em>\u201cany crisis situation.\u201d<\/em> That fact that these lines still work shows that no side is interested in a conflict, he added. <em>\u201cIf someone wants it \u2013 and that\u2019s not us \u2013 then we\u2019re ready,\u201d<\/em> Putin added.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian military has reported a total of 23 dangerous incidents involving Russian aircraft and those of the US-led coalition since early 2023, said Admiral Oleg Gurinov, the head of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria. Most incidents took place in July, he added.<\/p>\n<p>In 11 cases the Russian pilots recorded being targeted with Western aircraft-targeting systems. Such actions on the part of the US-led coalition led to the automatic engagement of onboard defense systems, which saw Russian aircraft releasing decoy flares, the admiral told journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has also repeatedly warned Washington and its allies about the risks of a potential direct conflict between Russia and NATO, particularly amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Continued Western arms supplies to Kiev only extend the hostilities and make its Western backers engage in the conflict even deeper, Russia said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/580528-russia-is-ready-for-confrontation\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a clear message to the West over its support for Ukraine, the Russian president says that Moscow does not want war with the Western military alliance but is ready for any outcome. The question is: will the West take heed and back off over Ukraine? Or will America&#8217;s senile president continue his provocative policies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271657"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271674,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271657\/revisions\/271674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}