U.S. Leads Largest Air Combat Exercises In Bulgaria’s History by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
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April 25, 2012

On April 18 U.S. Air Forces in Europe began the largest air exercise in the history of Bulgaria, no doubt in that of the Balkans as a whole, when 24-32 American F-16 fighter jets and 500 airmen joined Bulgarian counterparts for the opening of the almost month-long Thracian Star 2012.

Described by the Sofia News Agency as “the most large-scale military aviation drills of their type,” they include both squadrons of the U.S. 31st Fighter Wing based at the Aviano Air Base in Italy and the air forces of Bulgaria and Romania.

The Stimulator: No Fracking Way!

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stimulator on Jan 23, 2012

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1. Oh Frack it!
2. Bullshit detector
3. Fugitive Methane
4. Romanian carbon offsets
5. Chinese rebellion

Rick Rozoff: Hypersonic Missiles: Who Is The Target?

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November 28, 2011

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November 28, 2011

Hypersonic missile: who is the target?
John Robles

Interview with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and mailing list and a contributing writer to Global Research.ca.

The first thing that is on everybody’s minds is President Medvedev’s statement regarding NATO. Why at this late date exactly, at this juncture?

Rick Rozoff: U.S. Furthers Reagan’s Star Wars Plans With Global NATO + Bruce Gagnon: Missile Offense: US shield real aim to cordon Russia & China

Updated: Sept. 17, 2011 added 2 videos; Sept. 15, 2011 added a video

by Rick Rozoff
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September 9, 2011

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Voice of Russia
September 9, 2011

U.S. furthers Reagan’s Star War plans with global NATO
John Robles

Interview with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and mailing list and a contributing writer to Global Research.ca. conducted on September 4

They tried to shut you down over the weekend. Can you tell us what happened?

President Basescu: Romania will stand by Israel in the event of a conflict with Iran

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12 August 2010



1) President Basescu: Romania will stand by Israel in the event of a conflict with Iran (12 August 2010)

2) Israeli Air Force trains in Hungary, Romania, Greece, Italy and Germany for future wars (6 August 2010)

U.S. And NATO Accelerate Military Build-Up In Black Sea Region by Rick Rozoff

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May 20, 2010

In the post-Cold War era and especially after 2001 the Pentagon has been steadily shifting emphasis, and moving troops and equipment, from bases in Germany and Italy to Eastern Europe in its drive to the east and the south.

That process was preceded and augmented by the absorption of former Eastern Bloc nations into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization beginning in 1999. In one of the first nations in that category, Poland, the initial contingent of what will be over 100 U.S. troops arrived in the town of Morag this week, as near as 35 miles from Russian territory, as part of a Status of Forces Agreement between Washington and the host country ratified this February.

U.S. Black Sea Military Buildup Could Trigger Missile War by Rick Rozoff

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March 2, 2010

Last month news reports confirmed that the United States is to station interceptor missiles in Bulgaria and Romania as an extension of the Pentagon’s European (and international) missile shield project. Details are still forthcoming, but what is all but certain is that the missiles are to be land-based versions of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System with Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) medium-range anti-ballistic missiles, though there is already speculation that even more advanced deployments are planned.

Until last month discussions of U.S. missile shield plans to replace the earlier one of basing ground-based midcourse missiles in Poland and an accompanying X-band missile radar facility in the Czech Republic centered on the Baltic and Eastern Mediterranean Seas and on Israel and the Persian Gulf, with Turkey and the South Caucasus expected to be the next links.

Romania: U.S. Expands Missile Shield Into Black Sea by Rick Rozoff

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February 6, 2010

When Romanian President Traian Basescu disclosed on February 4 that his nation’s Supreme Defense Council had “approved a U.S. proposal that Romania takes part in the anti-rocket shield system” and that “Terrestrial interceptors will be located inside the national territory,” [1] many readers may have been taken by surprise.

They need not have been, though, as the expansion of the U.S. global, layered, integrated interceptor missile system into the Black Sea was as foreseeable as it is inevitable.

Previous articles in this series forecast just such an eventuality. Just that certainty. [2]

Shield Shock: Romania to host US missiles?

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RussiaToday
February 04, 2010

Romania says it’s prepared to host anti-ballistic interceptors as part of a U.S. defense shield in Eastern Europe. The Romanian president Traian Bashescu says the move has been approved by the country’s supreme defense council and the plan has been submitted to parliament, for its backing.

Bulgaria, Romania: U.S., NATO Bases For War In The East by Rick Rozoff

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October 24, 2009

“U.S. efforts in Romania and Bulgaria are part of a global redeployment strategy started in the early years of the Bush administration to shift U.S. forces out of Germany and move them eastward.”

“The number of US military men at the two bases is not going to be large, but who can say that it will not be doubled, tripped or quadrupled in the future? Furthermore, the appearance of NATO bases on the Black Sea coast will come as an addition to the US military [deployments] in the Baltic region. As a result, Russia will find itself trapped.”

“[T]he new land, sea and airbases along the Black Sea will provide much improved contingency access for deployments into Central Asia, parts of the Middle East and Southwest Asia.”
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Last week was an eventful one in Eastern Europe.

Black Sea: Pentagon’s Gateway to Three Continents and the Middle East by Rick Rozoff

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February 22, 2009

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The Black Sea region connects Europe with Asia and the Eurasian land mass to the Middle East through Turkey on its southern rim, which borders Syria, Iraq and Iran.

The northern Balkans lie on its western shores and the Caucasus on its eastern end, the latter a land bridge to the Caspian Sea and Central Asia.

Ukraine, Russia and the strategic Sea of Azov are on its northern perimeter.

Given its central location the Black Sea has been coveted for millennia by major powers: The Persian and Roman empires, Greeks and Hittites, Byzantines and Huns, Ottoman Turkey and Czarist Russia, even by Napoleon’s France and Hitler’s Germany in their wars to unite Europe to Asia and the Middle East.

The famed Trojan War was fought for control of Troy/Dardania/Ilium, the entrance to the Sea of Marmara which connects the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. The strait connecting the two is still called the Dardanelles after ancient Dardania.

Going back to antiquity a third continent has also been involved, Africa; the Greek historian Herodotus claimed that the Black Sea city of Colchis, now in modern Georgia, was founded by Egyptians and in Virgil’s if not Homer’s account of the siege of Troy Memnon, king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), is slain by Achilles fighting in defense of Troy.