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The idea of the German warning is to scare people. People who are afraid can be easily manipulated. While buying supermarkets' shelves empty, they will ask for more police and military protection. That's precisely what Washington and the EU want - a militarization of Europe. Germany, being Obama's chief vassal, is the mouthpiece for the rest of Europe. At the same time, this scare tactic is an indirect warning of a threat of aggression from Russia. The past weeks of western lie-propaganda have shown Russia's protection of Crimea with heavy maneuvers in the Black Sea, depicting them as a preparation of war towards the west. Never mind that Ukraine's self-styled lord Poroshenko has threatened to take Crimea back, amassing troops and tanks at the border of this historic and strategic Russian peninsula.'The decision of the German government declaring Russia to be an enemy shows Merkel's subservience to the Obama administration.'
According to US officials, one instance involved the USS Squall. Operating in the Northern Persian Gulf, an Iranian ship came within 200 yards of the American vessel. Crewmembers aboard the Squall fired three warning shots into the water. "These were incidents that the crews deemed unsafe," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told reporters on Thursday. "These are incidents that carry a risk of escalation and we don't desire any kind of escalation. Our ships have been operating in that part of the world for years."
Separate encounters involved two US destroyers, the USS Nitze and Stout, and a another patrol ship, the USS Tempest. During the first reported incident, Iranian vessels came within 300 yards of the Nitze after crewmembers made a series of attempts to make their presence known. Attempts at making radio contact failed, and crewmembers sounded the ship's whistle, a naval signal meant to express that the ship is unclear about another vessel's intentions. The Nitze also fired ten flares, without response.
"President of Russia Vladimir Putin updated his colleagues on the crude provocation by Ukraine, which sent a group of subversives in early August to stage terrorist attacks in Russia. Kiev's use of such forceful measures is directly harming the Minsk process and
cooperation within the Normandy format."
Comment: "Real economists, if there were any, looking at the real economic picture would see an economy collapsing into widespread debt deflation and impoverishment." See also: How long can we be convinced to ignore economic reality?