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<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4>by Rick
Rozoff</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.1in" align=justify>Twelve
months ago a new U.S. administration entered the White House as the world
entered a new year.<BR><BR>Two and a half weeks later the nation's new vice
president, Joseph Biden, spoke at the annual Munich Security Conference and said
"it's time to press the reset button and to revisit the many areas where we can
and should be working together with Russia."<BR><BR>Incongruously to any who
expected a change in tact if not substance regarding strained U.S.-Russian
relations, in the same speech Biden emphasized that, using the "New World Order"
shibboleth of the past generation at the end, "Two months from now, the members
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will gather to celebrate the 60th year
of this Alliance. This Alliance has been the cornerstone of our common security
since the end of World War II. It has anchored the United States in Europe and
helped forge a Europe whole and free." [1] <BR><BR>Six months before, while
Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he rushed to the nation of
Georgia five days after the end of the country's five-day war with Russia as an
emissary for the George W. Bush administration, and pledged $1 billion in
assistance to the beleaguered regime of former U.S. resident Mikheil
Saakashvili.<BR><BR>To demonstrate how serious Biden and the government he
represented were about rhetorical gimmicks like reset buttons, four months after
his Munich address Biden visited Ukraine and Georgia to shore up their "color
revolution"-bred heads of state (outgoing Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko
is married to a Chicagoan and former Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush
official) in their anti-Russian and pro-NATO stances.<BR><BR>While back in
Georgia he insisted "We understand that Georgia aspires to join NATO. We fully
support that aspiration."<BR><BR>In Ukraine he said "As we reset the
relationship with Russia, we reaffirm our commitment to an independent Ukraine,
and we recognize no sphere of influence or no ability of any other nation to
veto the choices an independent nation makes," [2] also in reference to joining
the U.S.-dominated military bloc. Biden's grammar may have been murky, but his
message was unmistakeably clear.<BR><BR>Upon his return home Biden gave an
interview to the Wall Street Journal, the contents of which were indicated by
the title the newspaper gave its account of them - "Biden Says Weakened Russia
Will Bend to U.S." - and which were characterized by the Center for Strategic
and International Studies as "the most critical statements from a senior
administration official to date vis-a-vis Russia." [3]<BR><BR>It took the Barack
Obama government eight months to make its first friendly gesture to Russia. In
September of last year the American president and Defense Secretary Robert Gates
announced that they were abandoning the Bush administration's plan to station
ten ground-based midcourse interceptor missiles in Poland in favor of a
"stronger, smarter, and swifter" alternative.<BR><BR>The new system would rely
on the deployment of Aegis class warships equipped with SM-3 (Standard
Missile-3) missiles - with a range of at least 500 kilometers (310 miles) -
which “provide the flexibility to move interceptors from one region to another
if needed,” [4] in Gates' words.<BR><BR>The first location for their deployment
will be the Baltic Sea according to all indications.<BR><BR>The proximity of
Russia's two largest cities, St. Petersburg and Moscow, especially the first, to
the Baltic coast makes the basing of American warships with interceptor missiles
in that sea the equivalent of Russia stationing comparable vessels with the same
capability in the Atlantic Ocean near Delaware Bay, within easy striking
distance of New York City and Washington, D.C.<BR><BR>Although Washington
canceled the earlier interceptor missile plans for Poland, on January 20 the
defense ministry of that country announced that not only would the Pentagon go
ahead with the deployment of a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 anti-ballistic
missile battery in the country, but that it would be based on the Baltic Sea
coast 35 miles from Russia's Kaliningrad district. [5]<BR><BR>The previous month
Viktor Zavarzin, the head of the Defense Committee of the Russian State Duma
(the lower house of parliament), said "Russia is concerned with how rapidly new
NATO members are upgrading their military infrastructure" and "that Russia was
especially concerned with the reconstruction of air bases in the Baltic
countries for NATO's purposes which include signal and air intelligence radio of
Russian territory." [6]<BR><BR>As it should be.<BR><BR>Since the Baltic Sea
nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were ushered into NATO as full members
in 2004, warplanes from Alliance member states have shared four-month rotations
in patrolling the region, with two U.S. deployments to date. <BR><BR>Shortly
before the patrols began almost six years ago the Russian media reported that
"Relations between Russia and Estonia have been tense ever since NATO built a
radar station on the Russian-Estonian border last year. On March 23, Russian
Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko warned Russia would retaliate 'if
NATO planes fly over Russian borders after the Baltic nations join the
alliance.'" [7] <BR><BR>Last year the Obama-Biden administration went ahead with
a series of major military exercises in the Baltic region:<BR><BR>The annual
BALTOPS (Baltic Operations), the largest international military exercise
conducted in the Baltic Sea, run by the U.S. Navy, NATO and the latter's
Partnership for Peace program which included naval forces from twelve nations -
Britain, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the
Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and the United States - led by U.S. Carrier Strike
Group 12.<BR><BR>The 10-day Loyal Arrow 2009 NATO military exercises in Sweden
with 50 jet fighters (the U.S. Air Force's F-15 Eagle among them) and NATO
AWACS.<BR><BR>The Cold Response 09 NATO exercises in Norway (north and west of
the Baltic) with over 7,000 troops from thirteen nations as well as air and
naval forces.<BR><BR>"Cold Response 2010 is expected to be even larger" than
last year's war games. [8] The U.S. Marine Corps "is planning Cold Response
2010, an exercise in Norway that could include a company of infantry Marines and
a detachment of trainers with Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command."
[9]<BR><BR>"The Corps has used caves carved into the sides of mountains here
[Norway] for nearly 20 years, storing vehicles, equipment and ammunition later
shipped everywhere from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to training exercises
in Africa....[T]he Norwegians plan their security knowing that Marines will
defend Norway in an attack using everything from Humvees to Howitzers that are
already in place." [10]<BR><BR>The Defense Professionals website in Germany
published a report on January 26 of a meeting of the Nordic-Baltic Chiefs of
Defense (Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Norway, Finland. Lithuania and Sweden) to
plan the "Baltic Host, Sabre Strike, and Amber Hope exercises to be held in the
Baltics this and the following year." <BR><BR>"Exercise Baltic Host will be held
this year in Latvia for participants from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and the
US." [11] Last year's Baltic Host in Estonia included military personnel from
that nation and from Latvia, Lithuania, United States European Command (EUCOM)
and Strike Force NATO.<BR><BR>The earlier Amber Hope 07 was held in Lithuania
and included the participation of over 1,700 troops from NATO and Partnership
for Peace countries: Armenia, Britain, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Germany,
Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, as well as representatives from NATO multinational
headquarters.<BR><BR>Earlier this month a planning conference was held at the
Gen. Adolfas Ramanauskas Warfare Training Center in Lithuania for the Sabre
Strike 2010 military drills "where representatives of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
and the US prepare[d] documentation and draft plans for the exercise which is
scheduled to take place in Latvia in October 2010." <BR><BR>"Sabre Strike 2010
will be designed to tune together interoperability procedures of the three
Baltic States and the US with prospects of participation in the ISAF
(International Security Assistance Force) operation in Afghanistan and other
multinational operations in the future. This exercise for the first time will
pull together troops of the Baltic States and the US for a training event of
such character." [12]<BR><BR>2,000 troops from the four nations will take part
and the war games will end with "a complex field exercise." [13]<BR><BR>On
January 28 the Helsingin Sanomat announced that "Finland is to play host to what
is by far the largest naval military exercise that has ever been seen in Finnish
territorial waters" in September which "will be joined by 50 ships and 2,500
persons."<BR><BR>The Northern Coasts maneuvers will include warships and troops
from Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia, Poland, the Netherlands, Sweden
and the United States and will consist of both sea and land drills, and the
"maritime operations will be supported by air and special troops."
[14]<BR><BR>Not only hosting the largest naval war games in its history - ones
simulating "a conflict between two countries that has an effect on the
surrounding countries as well" - Finland will provide "nearly the entire Navy
fleet" for the operation.<BR><BR>A local reported inquired whether the maneuvers
were related to Russia's plans for a natural gas pipeline in the Baltic
Sea:<BR><BR>"At least according to the Finnish Navy, the exercise does not have
anything to do with the Baltic Sea's planned underwater gas pipeline, Nord
Stream.<BR><BR>"But at least off hand, Annele Apajakari, Chief Public
Information Officer at Navy Command Finland, was unable to say why also the
United States, the<BR>Netherlands, and France will be involved." [15]<BR>
<BR>The preceding day the same newspaper ran a story about prospective
NATO-Russia military tensions in the Baltic region and quoted retired
Lieutenant-General Matti Ahola as warning: "If the United States were to bring
its planned anti-missile vessels into the Baltic Sea, it would bring about a
reaction." [16]<BR><BR>That was a week after the announcement that U.S. Patriot
missiles and 100 troops were headed to Poland's - eastern - Baltic coast.
<BR><BR>In an article bearing the headline "Thanks to Poland, the alliance will
defend the Baltics," the British weekly the Economist on January 14 wrote that
NATO would "stand by its weakest members — the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia
and Lithuania" - and was elaborating "formal contingency plans to defend
them."<BR><BR>The magazine reported that "The main push came from Poland, a big
American ally in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was the first to gain contingency
plans — initially only against a putative (and implausible) attack from Belarus,
a country barely a quarter of its size....Poland accelerated its push for a
bilateral security relationship with America, including the stationing of
Patriot anti-missile rockets on Polish soil in return for hosting a
missile-defence base." [17]<BR><BR>"Formal approval is still pending and the
countries concerned have been urged to keep it under wraps. But sources close to
the talks say the deal is done: the Baltic states will get their plans, probably
approved by NATO’s military side rather than its political wing. They will be
presented as an annex to existing plans regarding Poland, but with an added
regional dimension. That leaves room for Sweden and Finland (not members of the
alliance but increasingly close to it) to take a role in the planning too. A big
bilateral American exercise already planned for the Baltic this summer is likely
to widen to include other countries." [18]<BR><BR>Poland is the prototype for
and the foundation upon which the Pentagon and NATO are constructing a
formidable military - naval, air, ground and interceptor missile - network in
the Baltic Sea region on Russia's northwest frontier.<BR><BR>Late last year
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Usackas delivered a lecture
called "The New NATO Strategic Concept: Lithuania's Vision" to participants of
the Higher Command Studies Course of the Baltic Defense College (BALTDEFCOL) in
which he stated "NATO is the embodiment of transatlantic relations. NATO should
remain open to western countries, such as Finland or Sweden, to eastern
countries like Ukraine or Georgia, as well as to the Balkan countries: Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and other countries." [19] (The Baltic
Defense College is based in Estonia and in addition to instructing officers from
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania also trains personnel from other NATO and EU
states and countries like Bosnia, Georgia, Moldova, Romania and
Ukraine.)<BR><BR>As well as advocating the incorporation of states neighboring
Russia to its west and its south into NATO, the Lithuanian foreign minister
asserted "that Article 5 was the basis of the organisation and it should remain
the cornerstone of NATO in the future." [20]<BR><BR>NATO's Article 5 is a mutual
military assistance obligation, the main substance of which is in its first
paragraph, which reads:<BR><BR>"The Parties agree that an armed attack against
one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack
against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack
occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective
self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will
assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in
concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the
use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic
area."<BR><BR>The outlines of a NATO "defense force" in the Baltic area and
beyond were further delineated last November when it was revealed that Poland,
Lithuania and Ukraine are to establish a "joint army." The combined military
unit "may have a political objective. It is meant to set up an alternative
center of military consolidation for West European projects, a center which
could embrace former Soviet republics (above all Ukraine), now outside NATO.
There is no doubt who will control this process, considering U.S. influence in
Poland and the Baltics." [21] <BR><BR>Additionally, it will be linked to the
Multinational Corps Northeast which was initially formed of Danish, German and
Polish troops and later joined by forces from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the
Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. And the U.S. "[T]he Baltic
military has cooperation experience with Polish troops. The Ukrainian military,
too, has cooperation experience with NATO within the Partnership for Peace
program....Establishment of a permanent brigade-class joint unit is expected to
improve teamwork, allowing Ukrainians to grow into NATO's command, staff,
tactical and logistic culture." [22] <BR><BR>The Multinational Corps Northeast
has been used in Afghanistan where it has acquired direct combat zone
experience.<BR><BR>The American client responsible for Ukraine's abrupt pro-NATO
orientation, President Viktor Yushchenko, barely won 5 percent of the vote in
this year's January 17 presidential election and is on his way out of office
barring a reprise of the "orange revolution" of six years ago. Though at the
NATO Military Committee meeting on January 27 Colonel-General Ivan Svyda, Chief
of the General Staff and Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces,
announced that his nation was training troops for the NATO Response Force, a
25,000-troop global strike force. "The NATO Response Force (NRF) is a highly
ready and technologically advanced force made up of land, air, sea and special
forces components that the Alliance can deploy quickly wherever
needed.<BR><BR>"It is capable of performing missions worldwide across the whole
spectrum of operations...." [23] <BR><BR>The Ukrainian military chief
announced "We selected 12 detachments that are undergoing training in line with
NATO standards and represent all types and branches of troops, including
engineer units, the marines, field engineers, chemical and biological defense
troops and others. Up to 500 Ukrainian servicemen will participate in the
[alliance's response] force." [24]<BR><BR>The U.S. and NATO intend Ukraine to
serve as a bridge between their new outposts on the Baltic Sea to the north and
Georgia and Azerbaijan on Russia's southern border.<BR><BR>Ukraine is being
mentored and shepherded into the NATO pen with the U.S. employing the Baltic
states of Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as both models and guides. The
same mechanism with the same actors is being used for Georgia.<BR><BR>Last month
the defense ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania signed a communique on
joint military collaboration which "welcomed closer military cooperation in the
security sector between the Baltic States and the USA which also included joint
exercises in the Baltic region." [25]<BR><BR>After releasing the statement, the
three defense chiefs visited the Adazi Training Base in Latvia and "met with
Gen. Roger A. Brady, Commander US Air Forces in Europe and NATO Allied Air
Component.<BR><BR>"In the communique the NATO operation in Afghanistan was
underscored as a priority of all the Baltic States." [26]<BR><BR>On January 1
the Trilateral Baltic Battalion (BALTBAT) - with troops from Lithuania,
Latvia and Estonia - began duty in the 14th rotation of the NATO Response Force.
"On the same date Lithuanians...also enter[ed] a half-year standby period in the
EU Battle Group." [27]<BR><BR>On the Western end of the Baltic, on January 17
Swedish Defense Minister Sten Tolgfors spoke on the Targeting Decisions on
Strengthening Defense Capability (TDSDC) program launched on January 1, pledged
that "Sweden will develop its national defense in cooperation with NATO and
neighbors Finland, Denmark and Norway" and added:<BR><BR>"Our defense policy
adds a new neighborhood perspective. The structure and direction of Sweden's
Armed Forces will continue to have a clear Baltic profile. We have northern
Europe's largest and most qualified Air Force that is twice as large as any of
our neighbors, and it has a full operational range."<BR><BR>"It is the biggest
renewal of security and defense policy for decades in Sweden. We will use 2010
to make the requisite decisions to carry out the modernization of our military,
and civilian crisis, management capabilities." [28]<BR><BR>Under the new program
all members of the Swedish armed forces, now transitioned from a conscript to an
all-volunteer (according to NATO demands for military "professionalization" of
member and partner states) status, "are to be available for deployment at home
or abroad in five to seven days in situations of 'heightened alert.'"
[29]<BR><BR>"In the old system, a third of the forces - which in 2008 meant
11,400 military personnel - were supposed to be able to deploy within one year
from mobilization. In the new defence system, all 50,000 members of the forces
would have to be 'usable and available' within a week....The soldiers in the
conscript army could never be used for missions outside Sweden's borders, but
now that all soldiers will either be full-time employees or on contract, they
will be available to deploy anywhere....New is also the focus on the Baltic Sea
Region." [30]<BR><BR>Last autumn a German Luftwaffe Eurofighter intercepted a
Russian plane over the Baltic Sea. "After the German jet challenged the radar
plane, the Russians scrambled two fighters, which approached at supersonic
speed. Finnish jets then escorted the Russians back to international airspace,
averting a further escalation of the situation." [31]<BR><BR>This month NATO
extended its Baltic warplane deployments until 2014. "The Baltic skies are
presently secured by the so-called NATO air police, which<BR>in addition to
fighter planes also provide air defense systems and manpower." [32]<BR><BR>Added
to the permanent presence of Western military aircraft are now American Patriot
missiles and troops to operate them in Poland, "a demonstrative anti-Russian
move" according to a leading general of the latter nation.
[33]<BR><BR>Persistent U.S. and NATO military moves are threatening to turn the
Baltic Sea region into a powder keg that another hostile encounter between
Western and Russian military aircraft could ignite at any time.<BR><BR>As to
government officials and the news media in Russia, a year is a sufficiently long
period of time to awaken from the illusion of an imaginative rest button that
will reverse a decade of NATO penetration of the Baltic Sea and the
consolidation of military infrastructure there aimed squarely - and exclusively
- at their own nation. <BR><BR><BR><BR><STRONG>Related
articles:</STRONG><BR><BR>Scandinavia And The Baltic Sea: NATO’s War Plans For
The High North<BR><A
href="http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/scandinavia-and-the-baltic-sea-natos-war-plans-for-the-high-north"
target=_blank>http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/scandinavia-and-the-baltic-sea-natos-war-plans-for-the-high-north</A><BR><BR>Afghan
War: NATO Trains Finland, Sweden For Conflict With Russia<BR><A
href="http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/afghan-war-nato-trains-finland-sweden-for-conflict-with-russia"
target=_blank>http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/afghan-war-nato-trains-finland-sweden-for-conflict-with-russia</A><BR><BR>End
of Scandinavian Neutrality: NATO’s Militarization Of Europe<BR><A
href="http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/end-of-scandinavian-neutrality-natos-militarization-of-europe"
target=_blank>http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/end-of-scandinavian-neutrality-natos-militarization-of-europe</A><BR><BR>ABC
Of West’s Global Military Network: Afghanistan, Baltics, Caucasus<BR><A
href="http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/abc-of-wests-global-military-network-afghanistan-baltics-caucasus"
target=_blank>http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/abc-of-wests-global-military-network-afghanistan-baltics-caucasus</A><BR><BR><BR><STRONG>Notes</STRONG><BR><BR>1)
Berlin Wall: From Europe Whole And Free To New World
Order<BR> Stop NATO, November 9, 2009<BR> <A
href="http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/berlin-wall-from-europe-whole-and-free-to-new-world-order"
target=_blank>http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/berlin-wall-from-europe-whole-and-free-to-new-world-order</A><BR>2)
Associated Press, July 23, 2009<BR>3) Center for Strategic and International
Studies, July 28, 2009<BR>4) Russia Today, September 17, 2009<BR>5) With
Nuclear, Conventional Arms Pacts Stalled, U.S. Moves Missiles And
<BR> Troops To Russian Border<BR> Stop NATO,
January 22, 2010<BR> <A
href="http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/with-nuclear-conventional-arms-pacts-stalled-u-s-moves-missiles-and-troops-to-russian-border"
target=_blank>http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/with-nuclear-conventional-arms-pacts-stalled-u-s-moves-missiles-and-troops-to-russian-border</A><BR>6)
Voice of Russia, December 8, 2009<BR>7) RosBusinessConsulting, March 26,
2004<BR>8) Barents Observer, March 4, 2009<BR>9) Marine Corps Times, July 21,
2009<BR>10) Ibid<BR>11) Defense Professionals, January 26, 2010 <BR>12)
Lithuanian Armed Forces, January 11, 2010<BR>13) Ibid<BR>14) Helsingin Sanomat,
January 28, 2010<BR>15) Ibid<BR>16) Helsingin Sanomat, January 27, 2010<BR>17)
Economist, January 14, 2010<BR>18) Ibid<BR>19) Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, November 28, 2009<BR>20) Ibid<BR>21) Russian Information Agency
Novosti, November 18, 2009<BR>22) Ibid<BR>23) <A
href="http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_49755.htm"
target=_blank>http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_49755.htm</A><BR>24)
Ukrinform, January 28, 2010<BR>25) Defense Professionals, December 14,
2009<BR>26) Ibid<BR>27) Defense Professionals, January 4, 2010<BR>28) Defense
News, January 25, 2010<BR>29) Ibid<BR>30) Radio Sweden, January 18, 2010<BR>31)
The Local (Germany), November 3, 2009<BR>32) Russian Information Agency Novosti,
January 4, 2010<BR>33) Interfax-Ukraine, January 20,
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