Baloo or Grizzly? NATO Baiting Russia But the Bear Won’t Bite
SputnikNews.com
19.03.2015
Austrian journalist Von Marco Maier argues that Russia has conducted itself in an extremely restrained manner amid constant NATO provocations.
In an article for the Austrian weekly Contra Magazin this week, journalist Von Marco Maier argues that by ignoring US provocations in the form of NATO exercises right on its borders, Russia is saving the world from a new World War.
“US warships are putting around in the Black Sea, NATO is holding exercises only a few hundred meters from the Russian border, a rocket shield aimed against Russia [is being built] – the list of provocations by the US and its NATO vassals is long,” Maier argues. “However, the reaction of “the ‘Russian Bear’ looks more like the friendly Baloo from The Jungle Book than an aggressive grizzly…Even if Moscow ever decides to flex its muscles, it will not be in order to provoke; that is NATO’s specialty.”
Maier’s article, entitled “Military Maneuvers: Equal Rights for All?” asks how the US would react if Russia conducted military exercises near Florida: “Imagine if Russia and China, together with Cuba and Venezuela, were to hold military maneuvers…directly in the Gulf of Mexico, right in the United States’ backyard. Imagine the outcry in Washington, the massive media smear campaign that would unfold in the face of this ‘indescribable military provocation’. One can only imagine…”
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