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| August 30, 2008 at 13:03:03 by Lord |    |
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NATO
attention of the America public is focused on the American election, with the
Democratic Convention having just ended, and the announcement today of McCain's
female running mate, and the Republican Convention next week, the public has
missed something. Something not missed by Europeans, even mainstream European
news media have given broad coverage to the story. Just a minor story, really,
no need to turn your attention away from the political puff that is American
electoral politics. Just something about Russia (you know the big country with
tens of thousands of nuclear weapons and advanced delivery systems) and a clear
WAR WARNING TO NATO.
In what is the most
serious international crisis since the Cuban Missile Crisis almost caused World
War III forty-five years ago, Russia has issued a War Warning
to NATO and America.
"If NATO suddenly takes military actions against Abkhazia and South Ossetia,
acting solely in support of Tbilisi, this will
mean a declaration of war on Russia," said the Russian Ambassador to
NATO, Mr. Dmitry Rogozin. Further, Russia is
making it clear that military assistance to Georgia will be considered an act of
war. Ambassador
Rogozin likened the current crisis to the fevered diplomatic atmosphere in
Europe just before the start of the First World War. World War I was said to
start when "the lights went out in the chancelleries of Europe" and diplomatic
measures failed.
A top Russian military figure,
the President of the Academy of Geopolitical Studies (in Moscow) Colonel General
Leonid Ivashov said "We are close to a serious conflict". With regard to the
Georgia-South Ossetian conflict, General Ivashov said that one of the principal
goals of NATO's "geopolitical operation" was to neutralize Russia as a global
player in the run-up to a war with Iran.
The British publication, 'This is
London', calls the Russian position, as articulated by Ambassador Rogozin, an
"extraordinary warning to the West".
Another leading London newspaper,
'The Mail', said "Tensions between Russia and the West were ratcheted even
higher today after Moscow
warned that the American naval build-up in the Black Sea could be seen as a
'declaration of war'."
While I am not heading for the
nuclear bomb shelter, I do think that this is serious. One of the main fears has
been what the crazy neo-con Administration of George Bush and Dick Cheney would
do in its final months in power. Would they begin yet a third war, this time
with an Iran armed with advanced biological weapons of mass destruction capable
of killing maybe a third of the human race? The answer to that is still up in
the air, but it appears that the overall answer is much worse than anyone
thought.
The
Bush Administration funded a buildup of the Georgian Army and recently sent
about a thousand US Marines to train the Georgian troops. Israel and the United
States sold a large amount of military technology and hardware to Georgia.
Israeli companies, headed by reserve Israeli generals, brought in excess of a
thousand Israeli mercenaries into Georgia and two senior, recently retired
Israeli generals provided senior command "consulting" to the Georgian General
Staff. All of this turned very ugly, when on 8/8/08 the Georgian forces attacked
lightly armed Russian peace keepers along with many innocent Russian civilians
using volley fire from massed tubeless artillery. Over 1,400 men, women, and
children were killed in their own homes without warning, in the opening minutes
(with over 2,000 killed in the five day war). In response to this, Russia sent
in her troops and most Georgian troops retreated (some "retreated" so fast that
they threw away their uniforms, guns, and equipment as they ran home).
The
Russians, by most accounts, behaved well and stopped short of the Georgian
capital. However, to hear the neo-con political leaders in the United States,
France, and the United Kingdom tell it, the Russians attacked a defenseless
nation that had done nothing to provoke the attack. Increasingly the neo-con
owned mainstream news media is spinning the story into one of Russian
aggression, making the Russians out to be the bad guys and ignoring the murder
of thousands of civilians by the Georgian/Israeli forces.
Russian's deputy military
chief, Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, has warned that NATO has already exhausted
the number of naval forces it can have in the Black Sea under the Montreux
Convention (an international treaty dating to 1936 that governs the number,
type, and tonnage of warships allowed to pass the Turkish Straits ~ the Bosporus
and the Dardanells ~ into the Black Sea) and warned Western nations against
sending more ships. The Montreux Convention allows the NATO ships to stay no
longer than 21 days and limits the total number to nine warships (the current
number).
If the Convention treaty is violated by NATO it will
be a technical state of war. Russia has warned Turkey that she will be
held responsible if additional warships are allowed into the Black Sea; already
Turkey has prevented some US naval ships from entering. The total tonnage limit
on naval ships is 45,000 tons. The US sought to send the USNS Comfort and the
USNS Mercy, hospital ships whose tonnages both exceeded 69,000 tons each,
through the Turkish Straits but Turkey would not allow it. As the hospital ships
are not really needed, this was simply an attempt by the Bush Administration to
violate the Montreux Convention and to get by with it by insisting that no
rational nation could object to hospital ships. General Nogovitsyn has pointed
out that US Navy ships in the Black Sea have nuclear armed cruise missiles
capable of striking at most of European Russia including St. Petersburg and that
these ships are considered "a serious threat to our security".
The Russians suspect
that the US Navy is delivering arms to Georgia under the cover of civilian aid.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said, "Normally battleships do not
deliver aid and this is battleship diplomacy, this does not make the situation
more stable".
Russian Admiral Eduard Balin
(former commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet) was quoted by Russian news
media as saying, "Despite the apparent strength of the NATO naval group in the
Black Sea....a single salvo from the Moskva missile cruiser and two or thee
missile boats would be enough to annihilate the entire group. Within twenty
minutes the waters would be clear." The Moskva is the world's only currently
serving 'heavy battle cruiser' and the most powerful non-carrier surface ship in
the world.
British neo-con leader, Prime
Minister Gordon Brown will attend an unprecedented emergency summit of leaders
of the EU's 27 member states this coming Monday, in Brussels, to discuss the
EU's response to Russia's actions. Sanctions are expected to be on the agenda to
punish Russia for its "aggression". Fears are being expressed in Europe that
Russia may restrict oil deliveries to Western Europe over the next few days, in
response to the threat of EU sanctions and NATO actions in the Black Sea. This
would be a dramatic escalation of the Georgian crisis and would play hell with
global oil markets.
In a related story, Lebanese
television and other sources are reporting that the Israeli government has
reached a "strategic decision on Iran". That Israel will strike Iran, eventually
(alone if necessary). The Jerusalem Post says that the Israeli government is
moving forward with plans for the purchase of special aircraft and working on
receiving US government approval to use US controlled Iraqi airspace for an
attack on Iran.
It is interesting that more and
more publications, from the right, center and left (including pro-neo-con and
anti-neo-con), are speaking of World War III. An interesting article by Stratfor
(generally pro-Israel and pro-neo-con) and reprinted by finchannel.com (a
strongly pro-neo-con publication) speaks of Turkey's Options in the coming Third
World War.
What the crazy evil Bush/Cheney
Administration has done is to move the world close to World War III by bringing
the Russians into the neo-con ever growing nightmare of war; 8/8/08 was the
Russian 9/11 brought to you by the same people who gave America its 9/11,
Britain its 7/7, etc.
There are various theories as to
why the United States (or more specifically why the neo-cons who control the US
government) would want to push Russia into a global war; just as there are
various theories why tiny Israel would want to involve itself in a battle
against a massive nuclear power like Russia, who could turn Iran and Syria into
nuclear armed states overnight if it chose to. Many say that the neo-cons are
simply crazy and that their maneuvers have failed. Others would say that the
neo-cons are simply pawns in a larger Grand Strategy game that the global
banking families have been playing for a couple of centuries and that a Third
World War is required to establish the New World Order/global government that
they intend to establish and establish soon. If the latter is the case, a little
thing like advanced 21st Century warfare will get in the way. There is simply NO
WAY that mankind can survive a Third World War, except for Divine intervention.
The levels of destructive firepower and technology are simply too great.
Stirling
https://europebusines.blogspot.com/
Earl of Stirling, Hereditary Governor and Lord
Lieutenant of Canada. Author of CASH FOR PEERAGES: THE SMOKING GUN (Lulu Press
at www.lulu.com/content/953682). Web site:
https://europebusines.blogspot.com/
