WAR WARNING: The New USSR Has Severed Ties With NATO

Cross posted from ANewtOne. H/T to Snooper.

~Snooper~

Not only has the USSR threatened Poland with a nuclear attack, they have now pulled out of NATO. Here we go again and Czarbama isn't up to the task at hand. There isn't an issue that matters at this point. None. Pet peeves? Shove them. This is not a drill.

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This is Moscow's payback for the US-NATO action to detach Kosovo from Serbia and launch it on the way to independence. It is also a warning to former Soviet bloc nations, Ukraine, the Caucasian and Central Asian peoples against opting to join up with the United States and the NATO bloc in areas which Moscow deems part of its strategic sphere of influence.....more.


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 Mideast.Jpost.com
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