NATO is rattling their sabres.
NATO will conduct one of the largest navy exercises in the Black Sea . US, Turkish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Italian forces will conduct joint exercises off the coast of Crimea, starting from the Bulgarian port of Varnu. Russian Foreign Ministry already issued a statement that it views these exercises as a provocation. It bears the signs of a large defence-mapping operation, just like the ones that Americans conducted, flying into Soviet space and triggering and mapping radar responses. One such operation went too far, almost ending in a direct war between USA and USSR (see the KAL-007 incident as investigated by Michel Brun).
Maybe Russia, China, Cuba and India should conduct joint exercises off the coast of Florida. I am sure USA will have no objections whatsoever.
At the same time, Norway and its NATO contingent will conduct some of the largest exercises in the last decade in the North, right on the Russian border.
Add to that regular flights of the American warplanes along the Russian border in the Estonian airspace.
EDIT: And 120 units of USA's armour arrived in Latvia. Looks like a concentration of forces on all fronts before an assault on Russia..?
By the way, about Estonia. One of its MPs said bitterly that Estonia has been turned into a banana republic for the West, rubber-stamping all the laws passed on from above. Welcome to the reality. Russia was infected with the same virus in the 90s, when not a single law was passed without an American advisor's approval.
PS:
NATO seeks regime change in Russia - envoyhttp://rt.com/politics/238325-nato-seeks-maidan-russia/The latest statements by the deputy head of NATO testify to the fact that the leaders of the bloc want to intervene in Russia’s internal politics, and are “dreaming of Russian Maidan.” This is the view of Russia’s permanent envoy to NATO.
“The speech in Riga demonstrates the concern about Russia’s democracy and internal policy. At last, now we know that NATO has a dream, and this dream is a Maidan in Russia,” Aleksandr Grushko said in comment that was tweeted through the Russian representation office in the alliance.
Grushko referred to the words of NATO's deputy secretary general, Alexander Vershbow, who had told a conference in the Latvian capital Riga that President Vladimir Putin's "aim seems to be to turn Ukraine into a failed state and to suppress and discredit alternative voices in Russia, so as to prevent a Russian 'Maidan.'"
Both officials used the Ukrainian word ‘Maidan’ to describe a string of protest actions that eventually turned into mass unrest and the ousting of the legally elected president and parliament.
“By demonizing Russia, NATO creates a virtual reality, disconnecting itself from real threats to security,” the Russian envoy said.
Grushko added that NATO itself has used “hybrid warfare” against foreign states and now the alliance is attempting to accuse Russia of starting such a war in Ukraine.
“NATO has a long history of hybrid operations. Any country or organization can take a lesson from it. We have earlier seen these signs of military intimidation, hidden involvement, weapons supplies,economic blackmail, diplomatic duplicity, mass media manipulations and open disinformation,” the Russian envoy stated.
“The statement made in Riga is yet another set of arguments seeking only to justify NATO’s confrontational attitude to Russia,” he said.
“It is not likely that NATO has the right to consider itself the sole source of truth. The alliance has repeatedly discredited itself by spreading false information both about its own behavior and about the actions of others,” Grushko said in conclusion. “Not many will follow NATO’s advice to return to the times of the Cold War,” he forecasted.
