• Watch Out, America: Russia Sends Super Advanced S-400 to NATO's Borders Zachary Keck

Watch Out, America: 

Russia Sends Super Advanced S-400 to NATO's Borders

Zachary Keck

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/watch-out-america-russia-sends-super-advanced-s-400-natos-13199

Russia’s beefing up its air and missile defense systems near its borders with NATO countries, according to local media reports.

• Vienna Forum Hears Warnings of a New U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Race by Jonathan Tirone

Vienna Forum Hears Warnings of a New U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Race
by Jonathan Tirone

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-24/u-s-risks-weapons-race-as-russia-adds-warheads-senate-stalls

A Russian self-propelled surface-to-air missile systems BUK-M2E during the 'Army-2015' international military forum in Kubinka, outside Moscow, on June 17, 2015.
Photographer: Vasily Maximov/AFP via Getty Images

• Russia Gen. Leonid Ivashov:"neither Russia, nor China or anyone else can destroy US cruise missiles" - by Russia Today

 Russia must always keep America at gunpoint

"Tactical nuclear weapons that are constantly threatening the United States must become the factor that will deter large-scale aggression. Holding it at gunpoint - this is the deterrent," General Colonel in reserve, MGIMO Professor, Leonid Ivashov, said in an interview with Pravda.Ru editor-in-chief Inna Novikova.

• Russian Navy RAMS US NAVY WARSHIP historic cold war footage - ArmedForcesUpdate

Russian Navy RAMS US NAVY WARSHIP historic cold war footage
ArmedForcesUpdate

An interesting video of a Russian Navy warship ramming into a US Navy warship in the black sea near Russia during the cold war. This incident occurred on 12th of February 1988. The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. 

• US sends more security equipment to Ukraine, sanctions rebels - By Andrew Beatty

US sends more security equipment to Ukraine, sanctions rebels
By Andrew Beatty

Washington (AFP) - The United States will deliver Humvees and drones to Ukraine and hit rebel leaders and their alleged supporters in Russia with further sanctions, after repeated ceasefire violations, officials said Wednesday.

• US to send Patriot missiles for drill in Poland - AFP

US to send Patriot missiles for drill in Poland - AFP

US soldiers on May 26, 2010 in front of a Patriot missile battery at an army base in the northern Polish town of Morag (AFP Photo/Wojtek Radwanski)

Washington (AFP) - A US Patriot missile battery will take part in a joint exercise this month with Poland designed to reassure NATO allies anxious over a resurgent Russia, the Pentagon said Friday.

• U.S. Army sending armored convoy 1,100 miles through Europe By Brad Lendon, CNN

U.S. Army sending armored convoy 1,100 miles through Europe
By Brad Lendon, CNN

(CNN)Eastern Europe, here comes the cavalry.

The U.S. Army says it will soon be sending armored Stryker vehicles on a 1,100-mile convoy through six European countries to show solidarity to allies in the wake of recent Russian actions in the Ukraine and Crimea that have Eastern Europe on edge.

• U.S. military vehicles paraded 300 yards from the Russian border - By Michael Birnbaum

U.S. military vehicles paraded 300 yards from the Russian border
By Michael Birnbaum

U.S. military combat vehicles rolled through Narva, a city in eastern Estonia that borders Russia, on the eve of Estonia’s Independence Day. (QPERTY via YouTube)

• Putin set to drop “truth bomb” on USA by Kevin Barrett

Putin set to drop “truth bomb” on USA
Will Russia blow 9/11 wide open?
by Kevin Barrett

As Gordon Duff reported here Tuesday – and as discussed on today’s False Flag Weekly News (posted above – click here for story links) – Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing the release of Russian satellite photos and other evidence showing that 9/11 was a false-flag operation by treasonous elements of the American national security community.

• U.S. Considers Supplying Arms to Ukraine Forces - By MICHAEL R. GORDON and ERIC SCHMITT

U.S. Considers Supplying Arms to Ukraine Forces
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and ERIC SCHMITT

Ukrainian soldiers preparing on Sunday to go to the town of Debaltseve, which came under heavy fire from separatists. CreditManu Brabo/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images 

WASHINGTON — With Russian-backed separatists pressing their attacks in Ukraine, NATO’s military commander, Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, now supports providing defensive weapons and equipment to Kiev’s beleaguered forces, and an array of administration and military officials appear to be edging toward that position, American officials said Sunday.

• Russian banks are set to lose 1 trillion rubles in 2015

Russian banks are set to lose 1 trillion rubles in 2015

By Tomas Hirst

REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev 
President Vladimir Putin.
The Russian central bank's rate drop last week will not be enough to prevent the country's banking system from posting heavy losses this year, which could run to as much as 1 trillion rubles ($14.5 billion; £9.6 billion).

• Russians buy dollars, hoard cash on rouble fears - Alexander Winning and Oksana Kobzeva

 Russians buy dollars, hoard cash on rouble fears

Alexander Winning and Oksana Kobzeva

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Many Russians are buying dollars and hoarding cash, increasingly concerned by a slide in the rouble and wary of possible restrictions on bank withdrawals as President Vladimir Putin blames currency woes on speculators and the West.