June 14 2022
Six years ago, back in April 2016, the Trends Journal reported that U.S. European Commander chief and Supreme NATO Commander Air Force General Philip Breedlove was stepping down after enthusiastically overseeing a level of military confrontation between the U.S., its NATO allies and Russia unprecedented even during the darkest days of the Cold War.
To replace him, President Barack Obama, selected Army Gen. Curt Scaparrotti who has made clear that he too was determined to rush down the same fateful road toward Russian confrontation.
In testimony to an uncritical Senate Armed Services Committee, Scaparrotti said he was determined to maintain the forward presence of U.S. naval vessels in the Baltic and Black Seas despite the close encounter between Russian combat bombers and the Aegis missile cruiser USS Donald Cook on 12 April of that year.
“From a military perspective, we should sail and fly wherever we are allowed to by international law, and we should be strong, clear and consistent in our message in that regard,” he insisted.
Scaparrotti was equally unyielding in his determination to support the chaotic, corruption-filled and Nazi-militia-supported regime of President Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine.
“I believe that we should continue both assistance and aid in the kinds of assets that they (the Ukrainians) need in order to defend their country, their sovereignty and their territorial integrity, and that we ought to continue building partnership capacity to help them do that on their own,” Scaparrotti said.
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