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US warns EU that Russia could invade Ukraine – reports
12 Nov, 2021 09:40
unimproved shore held by army corps and naval infantry units of the Russian Black Sea Fleet at the Opuk range,
in Crimea, Russia. © Sputnik / Konstantin Mihalchevskiy
US officials have warned their European counterparts that Moscow may be planning an invasion of Ukraine, with Washington opining that Russia is considering a “military operation,” American business outlet Bloomberg has reported.
Citing unnamed sources (of course), the news agency reported that US officials have briefed their partners in the EU over a “potential invasion,” noting that their concerns were backed by “publicly available evidence” and other information yet to be shared with European governments.
Washington’s fears of potential Russian aggression come during a historic low in relations between Russia and the US-led NATO bloc.
Following the article’s publication, Russia’s first deputy ambassador to the UN told reporters that Washington’s concerns were entirely unfounded, and noted that the country’s armed forces had the right to put troops anywhere within the country’s borders.
“We have never planned [an invasion] and never will, unless we are provoked by Ukraine or someone else, and it is a matter of defending our national sovereignty,” Dmitry Polyanskiy said, according to news agency RIA Novosti.
The report follows accusations that Russia is amassing troops on the Ukrainian border, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken telling the press on Wednesday that Washington was “concerned.”
“We don’t have clarity about Moscow’s intentions, but we do know its playbook,” he said, during a press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba. “Any escalatory or aggressive actions would be of grave concern to the United States.”
Earlier this month, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov called reports of a Russian military build-up near the borders with Ukraine “cheap fake news” that should be dismissed.
“It is not even worth commenting on the quality of these reports, and generally, such news should be ignored,” he told the press. “Russia has never threatened anyone, nor is it threatening anyone, and what’s more, it poses no danger to anyone.”
The danger is, if peace breaks out, where will the American war-machine oligarchs sell their weapons?
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Moscow plans ‘asymmetrical’ response to West’s ‘unfriendly’ acts
12 Nov, 2021 20:09
© Reuters / Maxim Shemetov
Moscow will respond to ongoing hostile moves by the West in a “reciprocal manner,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, warning that an “asymmetrical” response may also be on the cards.
Speaking at a press conference after meeting his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian in Paris on Friday, Lavrov cautioned the West on forthcoming consequences to its “unfriendly moves.”
“We reaffirmed our intention to continue to show an exceptionally restrained approach, not to create problems artificially, but we will, of course, react to the unfriendly steps that the West is taking,” the top diplomat said.
We will act in a reciprocal manner, and if necessary, also asymmetrically.
Lavrov also condemned the increasingly “aggressive” behavior of NATO towards Russia, noting the bloc’s “deployment of additional forces to the Black Sea region,” as well as sending “unusual” amounts of combat vessels into the region.
NATO is still looking for a real reason to exist. It needs Russia as an enemy to justify its being.
At the same time, Lavrov said he’d discussed with his French counterpart ways to break out of the deadlock in Moscow-EU relations.
Russia’s top diplomat also revealed it had earlier been possible to speak with the President of the European Council Charles Michel on the sidelines of the international conference on Libya, and the “need to somehow normalize the situation between Moscow and Brussels” had been discussed.
Persistently cold relations between Russia and the West have deteriorated further in recent days amid the ongoing migrant crisis along the Belarus-Poland border. Warsaw has explicitly blamed Russia for the crisis, claiming Moscow was behind the actions of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who it alleges has tried to spark a crisis by encouraging migrants into the EU. Russia has denied any involvement in the ongoing crisis.
Tensions were further stirred up by US media, which reported this week, citing high-ranking officials, that Washington had warned its EU partners of a “potential invasion” allegedly planned by Moscow against Ukraine.
Moscow strongly rejected the allegations on Friday, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying such headlines are “empty” and “unfounded.”
“This is not the first publication and not the first statement by the US that they are concerned about the movement of our armed forces in Russia,” Peskov told reporters. “We have repeatedly said that the movement of our armed forces on our own territory should be of no concern to anyone. Russia poses no threat to anyone.”
And now for something completely insane:
UK tabloid cheers US hypersonic nukes in Germany,
shows mushroom cloud over Moscow
12 Nov, 2021 23:08
UK papers are hyping the revival of a Cold War-era US artillery unit in Germany, supposed to be armed with ‘Dark Eagle’ hypersonic missiles that will be able reach Moscow in mere minutes, once they are developed.
‘Dark Eagle has landed’ proclaimed The Sun, originally reporting that the new US missiles could “blitz Russia” in just six minutes – before revising that to “21 minutes and 30 seconds” – along with a graphic showing Moscow being vaporized in a mushroom cloud.
The US has in fact reactivated the 56th Artillery Command at a ceremony in Germany earlier this week. The unit had been inactive since 1991. However, the fine print in the Sun article, as well as other British papers, notes that the command may have hypersonic missile capability when this technology is “fully developed and deployed,” supposedly sometime in 2023, according to the Pentagon.
Just a day before the 56th AC ceremony, the Pentagon announced that the very first “prototype hypersonic ground equipment” was delivered to a stateside artillery unit. A battalion of the US Army’s 1st Corps located at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state received trucks, trailers, four erector launchers and other components of the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), but no missiles yet.
The name “Dark Eagle” comes from Rob Strider, the official in charge of the Army’s hypersonic project office. The missile itself is being developed by the Alabama-based Dynetics, known for the Mother of All Bombs (MOAB), the Gremlin drone, some rocket engines and IT services. The principal weapon systems integrator will be Lockheed Martin, the company behind the controversial F-35 fighter jet project.
Well then we don't need to worry; it will never work.
The hypersonic missile race kicked into high gear in October, after another UK outlet reported that China had tested such a weapon in August, catching the US by surprise. Beijing officially denied the claim, saying the test involved a spaceship instead. Meanwhile, Moscow has tested its own Zircon hypersonic missile, which the Russia military says is just about ready for operational use by its naval forces.
Why would Germany accept such madness?
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