Pentagons push to put Tomahawks in Germany signals 'death rattle' of US hawks failing to defeat Russia

Pentagon’s push to put Tomahawks in Germany signals ’death rattle’ of US hawks failing to defeat Russia The Biden administration’s escalatory behavior may constitute a “death rattle of the West against the East,” a “last-ditch effort to try and bolster and show ‘strength’ at a time when they’re failing,” former senior DoD security policy analyst Michael Maloof told Sputnik. NATO’s continued deliberate escalation of tensions with Russia through provocative measures like the deployment of missiles in the heart of Europe may turn the risk of a hot war with the country into a self-fulfilling prophecy, and demonstrates once and for all that the Western bloc is an “offensive alliance,” the Pentagon analyst fears. “NATO has clearly now become an offensive alliance. I think this is worrying more and more people, and it makes it a much more dangerous world,” Maloof said. In such a situation, even a minute escalation may quickly spiral out of control and engulf the planet in a world-ending co... Source: Sputnik International