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Selected Comments on  Military analysis of what Russia really wants reveals nuclear dangers by  Commodore Philip Thicknesse Mar 10, 2015 2:23 pm UTC Tosh. Read Anna Politkovskaya for what Putin wants. The summary of the article is Putin pushes and the West must give in.                                                Posted by IanCa Mar 10, 2015 2:42 pm UTC One can ponder how many forces and how much momentum there is in the USA for developing confrontation with Russia. There is not much “buffer” left between Russia and NATO, so they tend to “contain” each other with “red lines”, with the obvious exception in Ukraine and maybe Moldova. But most days, the US is more occupied with the Middle East … Israel, Iran, Islamic State, Saudi, Iraq, Egypt, … and things can go from bad to worse and worser. In the wider sense, China is more of a competitor than Russia, in many aspects including basic research, patents, advanced manufactu

Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, said Russia under Mr Putin represented the “single greatest threat” to UK security, in some of the strongest comments yet made by a minister for the Government since the start of the Ukraine crisis. He said Russia’s “increasingly aggressive” stance showed that attempts to draw the nation into the international fold since the Cold War had failed. “We are now faced with a Russian leader bent not on joining the international rules-based system which which keeps the peace between nations, but on subverting it,” he said.  Vladimir Putin says he only ordered the annexation of Crimea to Russia because an 'unofficial survey' told him to do so Tuesday March 10 th , 2015  at  6:48 PM - Europe RSS Feed 1 Share Vladimir Putin has claimed that the decision to annex Crimea to the Russian Federation was only made after officials carried out an “unofficial survey” of the people living there.