[williampemberton3]

What seems rather insidious about all the NATO and media posturing over “unheard of troop buildup” on the Ukrainian border, and “we haven’t seen numbers of troops like these since 2014”, when a report published in 2018 in the “NATO Review” discussed Putin’s development of large-scale troop exercises rotating through Russia’s military districts. (Here: https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2018/12/20/vostok-2018-ten-years-of-russian-strategic-exercises-and-warfare-preparation/index.html)
In fact their chart outlining the annual exercises show that the actual troop numbers participating in the exercises in the South (Kavkaz) disctrict in 2016 numbered about 120,000 troops. There was no expressed concern over 120,000 troops in the region in 2018. Meanwhile NATO has been aggressively deploying more troops, and co-ordinated international military exercises in such operations as DEFENDER EUROPE 20 & 21. The narrative around Russian exercises has provided a “convenient truth” for this military adventurism and irresponsibly deadly rhetoric.

[williampemberton3]

Raúl—I love your aggregator, and your often enlightening comments. But cheap, uneducated potshots at Christianity, while a recognized liberal pastime, are rather beneath the quality we have come to expect here. Everything about Christianity enforces the idea that man is NOT God. Nothing suggests that man is the “master” of creation, but rather that man is RESPONSIBLE FOR creation. It is rather liberal moral relativism, i.e. I determine what is right and wrong for myself, that attempts to put man in the place of God. Some neoconservatives use the language of Christianity to shield their unfettered greed, but that is no more “Christianity” than it is an argument against capitalism.

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