US preparing for 'attack on Russia'

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The United States is placing its “military resources into the theater” to launch a military attack against Russia, an American political commentator says.

“The US is placing the military resources into the theater for an attack on Russia. It appears to me that’s what’s going on,” Don DeBar, an anti-war activist and radio host in New York, said in a phone interview with Press TV on Saturday.

He was commenting on a Washington Post report which says that the US is planning to send troops to Poland.

A day after meeting with US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon on Thursday, Polish Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak visited the Washington Post and told the newspaper that Poland and the US will announce next week “the deployment of US ground forces to Poland as part of an expansion of NATO presence in Central and Eastern Europe in response to events in Ukraine.”

“At the heart of the Russian position with respect to what’s been happing in Ukraine is their concern over the apparent further encirclement of Russia by NATO,” DeBar said.

“And the Russians have invoked the agreement that was reached in the period following the collapse of the Soviet Union with the West that NATO would not move eastwards — at that time it was at the east border of West Germany and did not include Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic,” he added.

“If you look at a map since then East Germany, Poland — it was all of Germany because East Germany was part of Germany – Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, a number of other states, the former Yugoslavia — half of that — are members of NATO, and the coup government in Ukraine is also seeking to have NATO come in there.” 

“So their argument that there is encirclement effort directed at them (the Russians) by NATO is a pretty valid one even before this. Now Poland is looking for 10,000 NATO troops, essentially US troops, to come into its land,” DeBar stated.

“Those troops obviously are directed at Russia and they are obviously not for defense, because Russia has not threatened Poland or anyone else. Rather, it appears to me, it’s a very frightening thought, but on the heels of the deployment of more fighter jets to the Baltic republics and more naval resources to the Black Sea that the US is placing the military resources into the theater for an attack on Russia. It appears to me that’s what’s going on. I hope I am wrong, but that’s what it looks like,” he concluded.

(Source: presstv.ir)