NATO Expands Along Russia’s Borders, Has Gall to Call Moscow the Aggressor

Tuesday, May 3, 2016
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
03.05.2016

Paleo-conservative commentator Pat Buchanan slams NATO hawks for working to expand the alliance’s presence all along Russia’s borders, while calling Russia out as the aggressive power. Instead of touting Putin’s belligerence, Buchanan suggests, observers should think about what it would be like to walk a mile in the Russian president’s shoes.

On Friday, Buchanan recalls, “a Russian Su-27 did a barrel roll over a US RC-135 over the Baltic, the second time in two weeks. Also in April, the US destroyer Donald Cook, off Russia’s Baltic [exclave] of Kaliningrad, was twice buzzed by Russian planes.”

“Vladimir Putin’s message: Keep your spy planes and ships a respectable distance away from us. Apparently, we have not received it.”

In his latest piece for in The National Conservative, the commentator quoted US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work, who announced late last week that 4,000 NATO troops, including two US battalions, would be moved into Poland and the Baltic countries.

“The Russians have been doing a lot of snap exercises right up against the border with a lot of troops,” Work said, adding that this was “extraordinarily provocative behavior.”

“But how are Russian troops deploying inside Russia ‘provocative’, while US troops on Russia’s front porch are not?” Buchanan asks. “And before we ride this escalator up to a clash, we had best check our hole card,” he adds.

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