U.S. Military Leaders Are Worried That A War With Russia Could Start By Accident



David Wood of The Huffington Post says Russian jets are playing "chicken" with U.S. planes in international airspace with alarming frequency, and that a rash response could lead to all-out war.

TERRY GROSS, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, David Wood, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning military correspondent for The Huffington Post. In his latest article, he reports now that Russia is determined to destabilize the West, Russia and the U.S. are brushing up against each other in perilous ways with alarming frequency in international waters and airspace. He says one miscalculation by one startled pilot can lead to a world war. And that scenario is keeping the military establishment up at night.

Tensions between the U.S. and Russia are also escalating in Syria, where Russia is fighting in support of the Assad regime, and U.S. planes are dropping bombs on ISIS. Now that the U.S. appears to be considering the option of taking military action against Syria's Assad regime in response to its chemical attack on Syrians this past weekend, Russia and the U.S. could end up fighting on opposite sides of the conflict.

David Wood's new article on The Huffington Post Highline about the U.S. military's run-ins with Russia is titled "This Is How The Next World War Starts." Wood won his Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his reporting on veterans who returned home with severe life-changing injuries caused by IEDs. He was embedded with American troops in Iraq four times and Afghanistan five times and wrote a book about the moral injuries that soldiers suffer called "What Have We Done."..

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And that scenario is keeping the military establishment up at night.

Yes! That is the idea. We want you bastards to lose sleep since you chose to murder sleep by invading Iraq on false premise.

That wasn't enough. You instigated colour revolution in Libya & killed 1 of the greatest men that ever walked the face of the Earth - and then - you stole his “144 Tons of Gold” while turning Libya into a failed state & a terrorist hotbed - with no central government.

Was that enough? Absolutely not! You conjured up your usual abracadabra & positioned your propaganda compass against Syria - framing that perfect gentleman - Bashar Al-Assad of killing his people with Sarin Gas.

Who has the audacity to question or challenge you? No one!

Hugo Chavez tried it, you killed him with your “weaponized cancer”.

Malaysia tried it! You gave her double tragedy. Malaysian MH-370 and Malaysia MH-17. They still ring bell; a dead broken bell.

Rodrigo Duterte did it, and you unleashed your “ISIS & Al-Qaeda mercenaries” on his land & people.

Then came our saviour - Vladimirovich Putin - Haha! The anointed of the irunmoles & the 1st born of Obatala.

The bringer of hope and our bright morning star!

Amerika fired cluster bombs towards Syria. Vladimirovich Putin raised his left palm up in the sky against it & said NO! The cluster bombs came down like kuli-kuli

When Bashar Al-Assad saw that Putin has come to his aid, he yelled - “The Irunmoles fight my battle, therefore I shall live forever” !

When Putin talks, your perfumed military Generals in their rat holes quake & tremble! And when he walks, CNN goes into limbo

Oh beautiful Amerika! Even though you have become an abomination unto the world; I shall fall in love with you once again - when I see thick smoke rising atop every building in all your cities - triggered ofcourse by barrage of Russian, Chinese, North Korean & Iranian nuclear bombs - but until then, Gudnyte!