Press TV
April 26, 2014
US ‘waging economic warfare’ against Russia: Peace activist
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The United States is “waging economic warfare” against Russia over the situation in Ukraine, with a real possibility for the two countries to enter a direct military confrontation, a peace activist in Chicago says.
“The prospects for a direct US-Russian military confrontation in Eastern Europe around the Ukrainian crisis are, I’m afraid to state, a very real possibility,” said Rick Rozoff, a member of Stop NATO International.
“And as such, this would represent the potential for the most direct confrontation between the world’s two major military superpowers at least since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962,” Rozoff told Press TV on Saturday.
“The US is deploying military hardware and troops to several countries in Eastern Europe that either border Russian territory or are across the Black Sea from it,” he noted, which is “clearly a provocation.”
About 150 American troops arrived in Lithuania on Saturday as part of a contingent sent to the region amid escalating crisis over Ukraine. Another company of soldiers landed in Poland on Wednesday, some 150 troops arrived in Latvia on Friday and a further 150 are due in Estonia on Monday.
The US has called for more military exercises in the Baltic countries but did not say it had any plans to deploy a permanent contingent to the region.
In addition, the US and other members of G7 plan to impose further sanctions on Russia as early as Monday.
Tensions between the West and Moscow heightened after Crimea declared independence from Ukraine and became part of Russia following a referendum on March 16, in which almost 97 percent of the participants voted for rejoining the Russian Federation.
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