{"id":7803,"date":"2024-07-11T09:51:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=7803"},"modified":"2024-07-11T09:55:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:55:28","slug":"nato-buildup-in-finland-puts-hostile-anti-russia-army-on-putins-doorstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/11\/nato-buildup-in-finland-puts-hostile-anti-russia-army-on-putins-doorstep\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Buildup in Finland Puts Hostile Anti-Russia Army on Putin’s Doorstep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This would certainly fit a World War III scenario, and why the EU and America are working to restore conscription. The U.S. Senate was even including women, or at least taking away the ability of males to claim they’re a woman to escape being drafted. You’d have to imagine that a great many of these coddled youths will not report, which I wouldn’t fault them for as they’re being setup to enter a meat grinder in an OCGFC enrichment scheme. Now Putin was a WEF Young Global Leader<\/a> that used to get regular visits from Rockefeller main man Henry Kissinger, but you’d have to wonder if they think they can remove him and get control of all of Russia’s resources to further enrich themselves. Consequently, I always find it humorous that Putin pretty much tells the truth in his interviews and speeches, which endears him to the Russian people compared to our forked tongue leaders who are despised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the never-ending attempts by the current globalist liberal elites \u2026. to maintain their imperial status and dominance in one way or another, are \u2026. clearly contrary to the genuine interests of the American people. If it were not for this dead-end policy\u2026. international relations would have long been stabilized.<\/strong>.. President of Russia Vladimir Putin\u2019s speech at the meeting with senior staff of the Russian Foreign Ministry<\/a>, Moscow, June 14, 2024<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The Biden administration has settled on a plan to expand the war beyond Ukraine by deploying combat troops and lethal weaponry to 15 military bases in Finland. Whether the deployment will include nuclear-armed ballistic missiles is not yet known, but the threat to Russia\u2019s security is serious all the same. One can imagine what Washington would do if Moscow chose to build 15 fully equipped and operational military bases on the US-Mexico border. The US would swiftly eradicate the threat through force-of-arms. No one doubts this. The question is whether Putin will pursue the same course of action as the US or dillydally until the threat becomes too menacing to ignore. This is from an article at The Defense Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Finnish Parliament on Monday unanimously approved a defense pact with the United States<\/strong>, which will allow enhanced US military presence and storage of defense material in Finland\u2026. Aimed to strengthen Finland\u2019s security and defense capabilities, the agreement comes after the Nordic country joined NATO in April 2023<\/strong>\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finland\u2019s relations with neighboring Russia, with whom it shares a 1,340-kilometer (830-mile) border, have become increasingly tense after Finland joined the alliance last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deal gives the United States access to 15 military bases in Finland and enables the presence and training of US forces, and prepositioning of defense material in Finnish territory<\/strong>. It also strengthens cooperation between the two countries in crisis situations. Russia says it will respond to Finland giving U.S. access to bases<\/a>, The Defense Post<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Washington\u2019s so-called \u201cenhanced US military presence\u201d in Finland does not serve any national interest or provide any material benefit for the American people. It is a clear provocation designed to intimidate Russia and expand the war beyond Ukraine.<\/strong> Not surprisingly, it replicates the same conditions that triggered the conflict in February 2022, that is, it installs NATO\u2019s military infrastructure in locations that pose an existential threat to Russia\u2019s survival. Russia cannot be expected to live with hostile military bases and missiles on its doorstep any more than an ordinary man can live with a gun pointed to his head.<\/strong> Putin must respond in order to defend his country\u2019s national security. On Wednesday, a spokesman for Russia\u2019s foreign ministry issued the following statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI can only confirm that Russia will not leave unanswered the NATO military build-up on our border, which threatens the security of the Russian Federation,<\/strong>\u201d Deputy Spokesman Andrei Nastasin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe will also take the necessary measures, including of a military-technical nature, to counter aggressive decisions by Finland, as well as its NATO allies,\u201d he added. Russian Foreign Ministry: Moscow will respond to Finland giving US access to bases<\/a>, ibc.group<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Clearly, the Biden administration has no interest in Finland other than using it as a forward-operating base in the West\u2019s war on Russia.<\/strong> In effect, Finland\u2019s leaders have put their country in a position where it could face the same catastrophic destruction as their neighbor Ukraine, if Moscow feels sufficiently threatened by the proposed military build-up. Here\u2019s Putin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThere were no problems, but now there will be<\/strong>, because we will now create the Leningrad military district there and definitely concentrate military units there,\u201d Putin added in the interview \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey (the West) took Finland and dragged it into NATO! Why, did we have any disputes with Finland?<\/strong> All disputes, including those of a territorial nature in the middle of the 20th Century, have all been resolved long ago,\u201d Putin said in an interview published on Sunday. CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

NATO\u2019s expansion into Finland shows how the Alliance\u2019s development has dramatically altered the security environment in Europe. In the 33 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991), Russia has never launched a war of territorial aggression against any of its neighbors. Compare that to NATO\u2019s record of belligerence in Kosovo, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan. The facts speak for themselves. Now NATO is continuing its inexorable march eastward despite Russia\u2019s modest security demands or the growing threat of a third world war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, the US routinely insists that sovereign nations (like Finland) have the right to choose whatever security arrangement they want. But that is clearly not the case.<\/strong> The United States and every nation in NATO have signed treaties (Istanbul in 1999, and Astana in 2010) that stipulate they cannot improve their own security at the expense of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The principle underlying these agreements is called \u201cthe indivisibility of security\u201d, which means that the security of one state can\u2019t be separated from the security of the others. In practical terms, that means that signatories to these treaties are not free to develop their own military capability to the point where it poses a danger to their neighbors.<\/strong> These terms are especially applicable to Ukraine and Finland which seek to join a military alliance that is openly hostile to Russia.<\/strong> NATO membership has always been a \u201cred line\u201d for Putin who has stated repeatedly that he will not allow NATO bases, combat troops and missile sites to be located on his western border where they\u2019d be less than 10 minutes flight-time to Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s also worth mentioning that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently boasted that the Biden administration has effectively reconstructed an Iron Curtain that prevents Russia from economically integrating with Europe, which is an arrangement that benefited the EU more than it did Russia. (For example, the cutoff of NordStream\u2019s cheap gas has intensified Germany\u2019s de-industrialization while delivering a blow to the economy.) Here\u2019s Blinken:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe now have a network of defense cooperation agreements that stretches from northern to southern Europe, from the Norwegian Sea to the Black Sea, <\/strong>providing security and stability for people all across the continent.\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sounds like an Iron Curtain to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The evolving story of Finland\u2019s transformation into a launching pad for US aggression against Russia has received almost no coverage in the mainstream media, which is understandable given the media\u2019s penchant for concealing the details of Washington\u2019s relentless incitements. Unfortunately, the confrontation between NATO and Moscow is not going to vanish because it is not reported in the legacy media. Conditions will get progressively worse until some unexpected incident serves as the catalyst for a direct conflagration between the rival elements. What this latest fracas in Finland shows us, is that western foreign policy elites have decided to expand the conflict beyond the confines of territorial Ukraine which\u2014in all likelihood\u2014will plunge an even larger portion of eastern Europe into a full-blown war.<\/strong> Why else would they build up Finland\u2019s military infrastructure the same way they built up Ukraine\u2019s before the war?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answer\u2014Because they want the same outcome. That much seems obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s also been scant coverage of the dramatic change in Putin\u2019s approach to the conflict since Ukraine\u2019s missile strike on a beach in Crimea in late June that killed four citizens including two children.<\/strong> The missiles that were used in that attack were US-supplied ATACMS that require US contractors, intelligence and coordinates all provided by the US military. Putin addressed the use of these missiles in a speech in May in which he said the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026.the final target selection\u2026 can only be made by highly skilled specialists who rely on this reconnaissance data, technical reconnaissance data. \u2026 Launching other systems, such as ATACMS, for example, also relies on space reconnaissance data, targets are identified and automatically communicated to the relevant crews that may not even realise what exactly they are putting in. A crew, maybe even a Ukrainian crew, then puts in the corresponding launch mission. However, the mission is put together by representatives of NATO countries, not the Ukrainian military.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The point Putin was making was simple and can be summarized like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n