combat

President Putin has just placed all Russian military forces on “Full Combat Alert”—a war stance last ordered in June-2014 when the Russian peoples in Ukraine came under direct threat—and which comes six months after Putin’s ominous warning that “the United States is raising the risk of nuclear war”—with the reason for this occurring being the unprovoked torpedoing of two oil tankers by an “unspecified state actor” while they were sailing in international waters off the coast of Iran in the Gulf of Oman.   […]

US National Security Adviser John Bolton (whom Russian officials are preparing to meet in Geneva today) warned that a “rogue faction” within the United States Navy (USN) appears ready to provoke a “Gulf of Tonkin” type incident against China—and that the first stirrings of occurred this past week after the US Navy deliberately flew one of its P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance planes into a Chinese military protected zone in the South China Sea—and after being warned by the Chinese to leave this area, saw the US Navy provocatively fire back with a war warning stating: “We will sail, fly and operate wherever international law allows. The United States will not be warned off from lawful operations in international waters and airspace”. […]