{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "What would a U.S.-Russia war look like?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/178692509988/", "html": "<a href=\"http://theweek.com/article/index/257406/what-would-a-us-russia-war-look-like\">What would a U.S.-Russia war look like?</a>\n<p><a href=\"/post/83788807635/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"link_og_blockquote\">\n<div>War games are fun until somebody gets hurt</div>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Pf. For my money, the correct moves for Putin in case of NATO-Russia conflict would be first, to to push the Syrian conflict into a regional war and fan the Arab Spring embers in the Maghreb, which would create a second(/third) theater for Europe that he didn\u2019t have to supply himself and also create massive, destabilizing refugee flows - there\u2019d be domestic pressure to keep naval assets that could go to the Black Sea at home in the Mediterranean for (take your pick) interdiction or humanitarian assistance, and it\u2019d drive a wedge between the existing internationalist regimes and the continent\u2019s right-nationalist challengers (any electoral victory by which would both weaken the NATO coalition and reinforce his domestic \u201clet\u2019s do WWII again\u201d rhetoric of Russia as an anti-fascist counterweight).</p>\n<p>And second, to try and strike way behind the American lines by stirring up a civil war - people tend to interpret his moves to ratchet up \u201cChristian traditionalist vs. gay atheist\u201d tensions as a purely domestic thing and that\u2019s a mistake. Dude came up through the KGB.</p>\n</blockquote><p>4/24/2014</p><p>(Merkel opened the borders 8/25/2015)</p>"}