TTS VERY LONG AND SICK JOKE OF THE DAY

The winner of this prestigious award is...Ashton Carter, the US Secretary of Defense, for his ridiculous comments at the Reagan National Defense Forum yesterday.

The most ridiculous comments concern Russia:

“We must ensure that we and our partners are postured to defeat threats from high-end opponents in a complex set of environments,” he said.

To do so requires innovative strategies and operational plans to defend the United States and strengthen the principled international order that has well served the United States and its friends and allies, including Russia, China and many other countries, for decades, Carter said.

“The principles that serve as that order’s foundation -- including peaceful resolution of disputes, freedom from coercion, respect for state sovereignty and freedom of navigation and overflight -- are not abstractions,” the secretary said, “nor are they subject to the whims of any one country.”

Some actors, like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Russia, seem intent on eroding these principles and undercutting the international order, Carter said.

China, he added, grows more ambitious in its objectives and capabilities.

“In the face of Russia’s provocations and China’s rise,” Carter said, “we must embrace innovative approaches to protect the United States and strengthen that international order.”

Russia is violating sovereignty in Ukraine and Georgia and is trying to intimidate the Baltic states, and in Syria it is prolonging a civil war, the secretary added.

“At sea, in the air, in space and in cyberspace, Russian actors have engaged in challenging activities,” he told the audience, noting that Moscow’s nuclear saber-rattling raises questions about Russian leaders’ commitment to strategic stability.

“We do not seek to make Russia an enemy,”Carter said. “But make no mistake. The United States will defend our interests, and our allies, the principled international order, and the positive future it affords us all.”

Carter said the United States is modernizing its nuclear arsenal to ensure America’s nuclear deterrent, investing in new unmanned systems, a new long-range bomber, and innovation in technologies like the electromagnetic rail gun, lasers and new systems for electronic warfare, space, cyberspace, and others.

“And we’re accordingly transforming our posture in Europe to be more agile and sustainable,” the secretary said.

[source : Carter: Response to Russia, China Involves Innovation, DoD News, http://www.defense.gov/News-Article-View/Article/628144/carter-response-to-russia-china-involves-innovation, 7th November 2015]

"Russia's provocations"? You mean as in Russia destroying the CIA's cutthroat Jihadi legions in Syria?

Russia "undercutting the international order"? You mean as in Russia being the driving force behind the BRICS and offering an alternative to the blood-sucking IMF system that is dominated by The Federal Reserve?

Russia "is prolonging a civil war" in Syria? You mean as in Russia bombing Islamic State and other cutthroat Jihadis who were illegally unleashed onto Syria by the aggressive NATO/Zionist/Gulf state monarchies to oust Assad as they had done to Gaddafi in Libya?

He does "not seek to make Russia an enemy"? You mean as in NATO, against its founding principles, just used neo-Nazis to destabilise East Europe and oust a legitimately elected government so that a NATO-friendly government could be installed and vote to join NATO and give NATO permission to plonk first strike nuclear missiles aimed at Moscow, and Russia is just supposed to bend over and let NATO fuck them over and over and over again?

And for some reason Carter seems to think the South China Sea should be renamed The American Sea Somewhere Just South of China!!