TTS DAFT ATLANTIC COUNCIL TWEET OF THE DAY

Eliot Higgins' new employers, The Atlantic Council, which was founded by the same men who created NATO, have tweeted this about General Breedlove's latest comments on Russia:

.@JohnEdHerbst on why it's time for NATO to start getting tough with Russia: https://t.co/J0xZs8gWgF pic.twitter.com/FL7GXVazsL

— AtlanticCouncil (@AtlanticCouncil) January 13, 2016

Former US Ambassador to Ukraine, John Herbst, believes there has been a change in attitudes in aggressive rhetoric towards Russia, that many more now agree with them, but also that the same logic that Russia used to annex Crimea could also be applied to the Baltic states (fear, fear, fear).

The original CS Monitor article dumps all the blame on Russia: Russia invaded Ukraine; Russia started war in Syria. All that kind of stuff, which then apologises for Breedlove's anti-Russia statements.

But under Breedlove, Ukraine was destabilised by a gang of neo-Nazi thugs, who chased out Yanukovich after he had decided to align with Putin. His replacement, Yatsenyuk, was a partner of NATO through his foundation Open Ukraine (and also partners of NED and US Embassy in Kiev), and was handpicked by Victoria Nuland. NATO media portrayed these neo-Nazi thugs as romantic revolutionaries rebelling against a Soviet-style tyranny, when it was they who actually shot dead both protestors and police in Maidan to provoke the violence that ultimately led to Yanukovich fleeing. This was against NATO's founding principles of stabilising Europe and opposition to extreme nationalists. Following this coup, NATO then began to instill fear of Russia taking over the whole of East Europe, when it was NATO who started the destabilisation by supporting the neo-Nazis.

And as for Syria, as shown by Seymour Hersh's article The Redirection, which was published in March 2007, the USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia had by 2007 agreed that the latter would unleash the nastiest international cutthroat Jihadis onto Syria, Lebanon and Iran. After nearly 5 years of this covert invasion, Syria was close to defeat, so Assad invited Russia to help him take out the Jihadis. NATO calls this 'Russian aggression'. And in response to Russia's successful rolling back of these Jihadis, what happens? There is a terrorist attack in Paris, which, surprise surprise, was run out of a base just a few miles from NATO HQ (after NATO had run Operation Gladio a few decades ago to terrorise Europe). The Paris attack persuaded an initially sceptical British and French public to bomb Syria.

It's just relentless Atlantic Council bollocks.