This is from a column today by Lyudmila Chernova (RIA Novosti):
NATO is using the Ukrainian crisis as a smoke screen for a war plan
and the US has already decided to permanently station troops in Eastern
Europe, says Harvard-educated professor Francis Boyle, a US-based expert
on Russia.
NATO leaders are poised to meet in September to debate the initiative to permanently base additional forces in Eastern Europe.
“This is just a trial balloon, but in reality it is a war plan
unfolding here,” Boyle told RIA Novosti Thursday. “The Ukrainian crisis
had been planned as well as the war. There was a war plan, there was a
war game. Then it was revised and implemented.”
Asked whether the Ukrainian crisis could lead to the permanent
stationing of NATO troops in Eastern Europe, US General Philip
Breedlove, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, said it is
“something we will have to consider.”
“We are seeing steps now being taken that were planned in advance,”
Boyle said, adding that Russia has not presented any threat to NATO
members. “This is all being used as a pretext to bring NATO military
forces, as Rasmussen said, by air, sea, and land right up to the borders
of the Russian Federation. They are clearly going ahead with this.”
francis a. boyle
