Dealing With The Russian Nuclear Horn

The “war on terrorism” is part of a broader agenda by the United States to stay in military conflict until it can “conquer Syria and re-conquer Iraq” and contain a nuclear Russia, says an analyst.

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel issued a warning to US armed forces Wednesday, saying they should be prepared to confront a “revisionist” Russia.

“Threats from terrorists and insurgents will remain with us for a long time, but we also must deal with a revisionist Russia — with its modern and capable army — on NATO’s doorstep,” Hagel said.

US Military officials “expect to be fighting terrorism, which is what they call themselves doing as they try to conquer Syria and re-conquer Iraq, for a very long time,” American journalist and radio host Don DeBar told Press TV on Saturday.

“We also have to deal with this new ‘revisionist’ Russia that is at the doorstep of NATO, leaving out the fact that the only reason Russia is the doorstep of NATO is that they’ve moved NATO’s doorstep to Western Europe to Russia’s front door,” he said, explaining Hagel’s remarks.

“So we’re looking at, according to our secretary of defense,… planning to be at war for a very long time, including planning a major war with a nuclear-power Russia,” he added.

In recent weeks, former and current US officials have raised the specter of a prolonged war against the ISIL terrorist organization in Iraq and Syria.

Former CIA director and defense secretary Leon Panetta said earlier this month “we’re looking at kind of a 30-year war.”

Gen. Lloyd Austin, the head of the United States Central Command, said on Friday, “The campaign to destroy ISIL will take time, and there will be occasional setbacks along the way.”

DeBar said, “This is going to continue because no resistance manifests itself that’s effective or even troubling to the power elite here” in the United States.

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