Troops from Canada's 3rd Division participate at a NATO-led exercise with the U.S. Army's 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team and Poland's 6th Airborne Brigade. Canada is considering a request to supply troops for a new NATO force in the Baltics. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters)
CBC: Canada considers European troop commitment as CSIS warns Russia is 'mobilizing for war'
Putin 'is modernizing conventional military capability on a large scale'
The Trudeau government is considering a request to commit hundreds of troops to eastern Europe and take part command of a new NATO force being assembled to deter Russian aggression.
Canada's participation in the Baltic operation was discussed Tuesday by the military alliance's defence ministers, including Canada's Harjit Sajjan, at a meeting in Brussels.
This comes just days after the Canadian Security Intelligence Service quietly released an open-sourced global security analysis warning, among other things, that the hard-line policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin are becoming more deeply entrenched and that Moscow is retooling its military for a fight.
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WNU Editor: This Canadian Intelligence report is based on open source academic research and evaluations and not based on internal CSIS assessments ... which leads me to the next question .... who did they use to make this assessment? I asked around, checked their website, etc. .... no one has seen the report .... and it looks like no one will. As a Canadian citizen I do want to know why are we making these national security conclusions and policies .... but as of this moment no one has answered any of my inquiries .... and I will not be surprised if no one will.
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/06/computer-crash-wipes-out-years-air-force-investigation-records/129049/
ReplyDelete"The U.S. Air Force has lost records concerning 100,000 investigations into everything from workplace disputes to fraud.
A database that hosts files from the Air Force’s inspector general and legislative liaison divisions became corrupted last month, destroying data created between 2004 and now, service officials said. Neither the Air Force nor Lockheed Martin, the defense firm that runs the database, could say why it became corrupted or whether they’ll be able to recover the information."
All anti American, anti NATO fellows who visit this site are probably happy of the dis unity on the good guys side. But keep in mind, bullets, missiles, chemicals and nuclear pollution do not discriminate among those who 'love' the USA, NATO and the like, and those who 'despise' the West while some give praise and apologies for the tyrant and thug mentality of Russians and their leader. What psychological problems does this great leader have, that he would rather annihilate or threatened the same against those in the West, and reign the same miserable possibilities upon his own people, rather than recognizing common human interests in living and evolving together?
ReplyDeleteSomething is amiss within this mans psyche!
But many of you can only hate on Obama, Clinton and liberal democracy. They are not perfect, life in the West is not perfect, but in toto, Russia, China, and all the other bad actors and totalitarians show that the opposing options, less religious, press and individual freedoms, offer no value to their citizens or global citizens, whatsoever. We indeed need to be cautious of this hater, Putin. His delusions of grandeur will be the death of many, if he is not stopped in his tracks. Are the people of Russia so uptight and insecure that they would rather battle others rather that embrace the commonality in humans?
Peacelover if you support the sabre rattling, war drum beating and intrusion into the affairs of other countries the USA is infamous for and that incites world disorder you are no peace lover.
ReplyDeletetrue, Mr. Huntley. I am for peace, but also recognize that in order to maintain peace, one must prepare and defend against those who consider you a foe and to defend those international standards that maintain peace and stability. Or defend those allies who are being threatened by a bully nation. This is the state of affairs in this world. In essence, the modern and civil world is in a losing effort at a holding action against players like; China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and other various hangers on.
ReplyDeleteNone of us would be able to have this conversation in any of those countries, or freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or many other freedoms we take for granted.
So I am a freedom lover and a peacelover. And if necessary, I chose freedom over peace. In the hope that my freedoms can be maintained against the haters in positions of power and control.
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ReplyDeleteThe world is not a Disney movie of "good guys" versus "bad guys". Especially when the "good guys" align themselves with some of the most regressive elements of human society while naming them "freedom fighters", "moderate rebels" and "democratic forces". See: Libyan MB/al Qaeda militias, Ahead al Sham/al Nusra/al Qaeda, Right Scetor/Svoboda/Azov and Baltic SS legion marches.
Fuck that.
"We" need to get over ourselves.
Your peace is the PNAC followed by the peace of a mass graveyard called nuclear winter.
I'm not interested, my kids even less so, the Grandkids...look the FK out.
It's time for Canada to get out of NATO. It's time for a real and Frank discussion about our place is the world. NORAD can go too. The UN deserves a straight up cussing.
Jay Farquarson, I'm liking your F5 rebirth idea more and more everyday. Anything that says, "we can do it ourselves if we have to" is where it's at.
Peacelover .... the road to hell is always paved with good intentions .... and in the West we have pursued a unilateral policy that we are the ones who know best with little if any any appreciation on what is the cultural/historical/political/and social makeup of the country that we are focusing our attention on. The result .... destruction and hatred on an unprecedented scale. The U.S. is not an empire .... nor should it be for the simple reason that it is lousy and incompetent when it tries to do it. What the U.S. is good at is forming alliances, identifying the threat and why it is a threat, and to then act upon it. Unfortunately for the U.S. and for the West .... since 9/11 we are lurching from one mess to another, and all the trend lines are indicating that the situation is going to get worse. I also choose freedom over peace, liberty over tyranny .... but your interventionist approach will guarantee that I will eventually lose it.
ReplyDeleteYou'll lose a lot more than that Editor.
ReplyDeleteYou'll lose the only inhabitable world we know of.
Times, and threats, have changed. Canada needs to change with them.
Every time Russia reacts to the NATO build up and saber rattling or their military patrolling along their waters it's "aggression" or "steps towards war". I hear people repeating this nonsense everywhere I turn. To be honest, Russia's response has been minuscule compared to how the USA would reacts if Russia started build "Missile Defense" systems in Cuba, South America and start patrolling the Gulf of Mexico and the coast off of Washington with Missile cruisers and spy planes.
ReplyDeleteOne would have thought that those articles by the few remaining "Russian Experts" in the West, pointing out that Putin is a cold, careful, rational actor illing to "work with the West", as an equal partner,
ReplyDeleteAnd the people who would replace him ( were he no longer around) are the "worst" kind of violent, reactionary Nationalist Militants, ( almost as bad as our Neocons, NeoLibs and NATO Secretary Generals),
Would be manditory reading at Senior Levels, but they are not.
The West keeps dreaming that the Next Russian President will be a easily conned Gorbachov or a easily manipulated drunken egotistical Yeltsin, when in fact the next Russian President is more likely to be a Stalin/Ivan the Terrible hybrid.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176152/tomgram%3A_noam_chomsky%2C_tick..._tick..._tick.../#more
"The last time the Doomsday Clock reached three minutes before midnight was in 1983, at the time of the Able Archer exercises of the Reagan administration; these exercises simulated attacks on the Soviet Union to test their defense systems. Recently released Russian archives reveal that the Russians were deeply concerned by the operations and were preparing to respond, which would have meant, simply: The End.
We have learned more about these rash and reckless exercises, and about how close the world was to disaster, from U.S. military and intelligence analyst Melvin Goodman, who was CIA division chief and senior analyst at the Office of Soviet Affairs at the time. “In addition to the Able Archer mobilization exercise that alarmed the Kremlin,” Goodman writes, “the Reagan administration authorized unusually aggressive military exercises near the Soviet border that, in some cases, violated Soviet territorial sovereignty. The Pentagon’s risky measures included sending U.S. strategic bombers over the North Pole to test Soviet radar, and naval exercises in wartime approaches to the USSR where U.S. warships had previously not entered. Additional secret operations simulated surprise naval attacks on Soviet targets.”
In my opinion the .U.S. No longer possess any sovereignty do not have the ability to recognize that is a republic.NOT a democracy or monarchy .
ReplyDeleteThe .U.S. have lost their morale compass,and has become a corporate Nation, ruled out by especial interest ànd bank'ters that will start war with Russia If they think they can make a buck make no mistake .
Putin is not crazy. He is an "autistic Asperger" which means socially problems but High IQ and overwhelming rationalize. I don't share anything with him but I have to take the facts as they are.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is not Putin, the problem is Obama. What anybody do with the last days of a super weakness president of America? Take advantage of it , of course!
Every country noticed that (Russia and China included, of course) and the world will change forever.
You probably didn't notice, but back in 2002, 2003, with the French saying "non", the Russians saying "nyet" and the Chinese saying 不在 to the US Invasion of Iraq, it became pretty clear to everybody that it wasn't a unipolar world any more.
DeleteThe US, 14 years later, still has not adjusted to that idea.
Funny thing is Jay,
ReplyDeleteI have a hard time believing a lot of the shit going on today would be happening if Stalin, "good or evil", like him or not, was running the show.
As for western "Russian Experts",
here's one
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/video-stephen-cohen-asks-why-western-media-ignoring-new-cold-war/ri14981
Stephen Cohen .... I've shared a few drinks with him in Moscow a few years back. This is a good video. I do not share his view that we are now in a Cold War .... nor his criticism of President Obama for putting us in this situation .... but he is right about the main stream media.
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