Latest News & PROPHECY Russia and NATO risk of war 27-08-2015

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Russia and NATO need new rules to cut risk of war

World | Wed Aug 26, 2015 Related:World  BRUSSELS | By Robin Emmott

NATO and Russian FlagsRussia and NATO must agree common rules to handle unexpected military encounters to reduce the risk of inadvertently triggering a war between Moscow and the West, a group of former foreign and defence ministers said on Wednesday.

With both Russia and NATO intensifying military exercises because of the crisis in Ukraine, incidents such as mid-air face-offs between rival military jets are on the increase.

Calling for a high-level NATO-Russia meeting, the group of 14 — including former Russian foreign minister Igor Ivanov, ex-German defence minister Volker Ruehe and colleagues from Britain, France, Spain and Turkey — said rules for communication at sea and in the air were paramount.

“The situation is ripe with potential for either dangerous miscalculation or an accident that could trigger a worsening of the crisis or even a direct military confrontation,” they said in a report published by the European Leadership Network.

The London-based think-tank, which this month said both sides were training for the possibility of war, said it had recorded 66 “close military encounters” between Russian and NATO military forces, and between Russia and neutral Sweden and Finland, which NATO counts as partners.

It has been keeping count since March 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine. The following month, a separatist war broke out in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian rebels and government forces.

NATO rejected any suggestion that its military exercises make war in Europe more likely and said even before any new agreements were made, Russia could take steps to ease tensions.

“Russia has many tools already available to avoid unintentional conflict, to reduce tensions and to increase transparency, ranging from arms control agreements to voluntary measures,” NATO’s chief spokesperson Oana Lungescu said. “It should … focus on implementing its existing commitments.”

Russia denies its exercises pose any hazard.

The group of former ministers said an agreement, possibly based on a similar pact between the United States and China, would set out actions to avoid, such as attack simulations near the other side’s military vessels and aircraft.

If such exercises or live weapons-firing did take place, there should be timely warnings and agreed radio frequencies and signals vocabulary.

NATO has suspended all practical and military cooperation with Russia but can still convene political meetings.

Russian snap exercises in March were one of the Kremlin’s biggest shows of force since the start of the Ukraine crisis. It put the navy’s Northern Fleet on full combat readiness in Russia’s Arctic North, close to Norway, a NATO member.

NATO has also held exercises — not on the same scale — mainly in eastern Europe and the Baltics. Along with its partners, the 28-nation alliance will hold its biggest military exercise in more than a decade from October, although they are taking place in Italy, Spain and Portugal and with a focus also any potential threat along NATO’s southern flank.

The report said an “action-reaction cycle” was now under way between NATO and Russia that could be hard to stop.

“History is littered with examples of international crises and tensions that developed a momentum of their own and resulted in conflict even when no one side intended it,” it said.

According to Bible Prophecy Europe and Russia will work together in fact Russia is termed in Ezekiel 38:7 as being “a guard” unto Europe, and together they will invade the Middle East just prior to Christ’s Return to Earth. 

According to Bible Prophecy the Leader of Russia at the time of the End is called “Gog” ie. a chief one a strong and authoratarian ruler.  Putin is very much fitting this description as today’s world news highlights.

Despite the current concern the EU has towards Russia at present, in time they will develop a close relationship, this could come from the present realisation of Russia that they can’t win against NATO, so if you can’t win you might as well join them.  This could very well happen as a result of the fall out when Britain leaves the EU.  Some leaders in Europe today have even been suggesting that Europe needs to work more closely with Russia.  Well Bible Students fully expect to see more developments on this over the next few years and especially when Britain withdraws from the EU.

Gog is also spoken of militarily as the “King of the North”.  Together the Bible says that Gog and the EU will invade the Middle East in the Last Days.  It may even be that Russia joins NATO as a result of a yet to develop British and American vaccum and that NATO becomes the EU confederated army of Ezekiel 38.

Yet again we see in Todays News Headlines words that show how the Nations are fulfilling the latter day alignment of Nations as Prophesied by the Bible. 

See these articles below to learn more about this and the latter day prophecies of the Bible. 

Learn why Britain must pull out of the European Union and why Europe and Russia will work together from the Bible

Alignment of Nations at the time of the END

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