‘Trump to end Obama warmongering against Russia’

The first batch of Belgian and German soldiers has arrived in Lithuania as part of a NATO troop deployment allegedly aimed at building up a deterrence force against Russia. Moscow is seriously wary of the US-led alliance’s military buildup near its borders. In response to the aggressive measures, Russia has beefed up its southwestern military capacity, deploying nuclear-capable Iskander-M missiles to its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, bordering Poland and Lithuania.

A former US army psychological warfare officer believes that NATO’s latest deployment of troops to Lithuania was “engineered and planned” under former president Barack Obama as part of the “military leverage” against Russia.

“This was an Obama operation, an Obama agenda where the president was using this as one of leverage points in the US policy towards Russia which has been very hostile since the Ukrainian CIA coup,” Scott Bennett told Press TV in an interview on Wednesday.  

He also noted that the United States has been trying to pry Ukraine out of the Russian orbit ever since the 2014 coup which ousted Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych.

According to Bennett, the reunification with Russia of the strategic Black Sea peninsula of Crimea was viewed as hostile by Washington.

He further predicted that President Donald Trump will pull back NATO forces and not allow this military activity to go on. Trump will halt all NATO’s aggressive activities that could be misinterpreted by Russia as an “act of war,” the analyst said.

Bennett is of the opinion that Trump does not have an animosity towards Russia and he is trying his best to cultivate dialogue and an opportunity to work with Moscow.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Bennett stated that the Soviet Union’s threat of the Communist era, which was the point of assembling NATO, does not exist anymore.

Thus, with the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the pulling back of Russia, there is no need for NATO, he argued.   

“There are threats of terrorism which incidentally the United States itself facilitated. There are threats of small-scale terrorist attacks that need to be understood and counter-measured. But it is not through the typical NATO massive tanks and soldiers and Jeeps and forces. That was for a different era. That was for the Cold War,” he said.

Bennett believes that President Trump will reconstruct NATO in a more “counter-terrorism fit” and will establish himself as a bridge between Europe and Russia by lifting the sanctions and ending the economic and diplomatic war that Obama was waging against Moscow.

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