Russia/Putin & the West Part 1
by Sam Parker
Behind the News Network
Background
(1991-Present)
The fall of the Soviet Union marked the beginning of a highly dangerous new
phase of American aggression against a severely weakened Russia. For the
Rockefeller Empire, it represented a golden opportunity to destroy their former
adversary, Russia, as a functioning agent. If they could succeed in destroying
Russia, they believed they could eliminate the only remaining serious obstacle
to what the Pentagon called Full Spectrum Domination – total control of land,
sea, air, space, and cyberspace. One Sole Superpower could dictate to the
entire world as it saw fit. This was the mad dream of David, his family and
allies.
The 1990s was a time of immense suffering for the Russian people. As the
impending collapse of the USSR became discernable, insiders created a planning
group to ensure the continued influence of Soviet-era officials by transferring
Russian state assets to offshore shell companies and thus stripping the
country’s wealth. One such offshore company, FIMACO, was used to pilfer an
estimated $50 billion from the nation. It was through this looting that liquid
capital was generated and used by future oligarchs to build their fortunes. An
early beneficiary of this arrangement was Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who had started
his career as a minor Soviet official and whose Yukos oil conglomerate was tied
to FIMACO. And FIMACO was tied to Jacob Rothschild, in London.
In 1991 the Soviet Union finally collapsed. That August, state treasurer
Nikolai Kruchina, responsible for Russia’s gold reserves, died by falling from
his window. He had been a member of the planning group which originated the
plot to steal state assets. His successor Georgy Pavlov fell to his death from
a window two months later: the oligarchs were cleaning house. In September, the
Russian central bank announced the Kremlin’s gold reserves had inexplicably
dropped from the estimated 1000-1500 tons to a mere 240 tons. Two months later,
Victor Gerashchenko announced Russia’s gold reserves had actually entirely
vanished. While the Russian public was horrified at the revelation, European
bankers were less surprised. It was whispered frequently among those circles
that Soviet transport planes had been flying to and from Switzerland for months
and selling off large amounts of gold. Boris Yeltsin announced his plans to
privatize the nation’s assets and the real looting began.
During the privatization period, the networks of the 2 families wasted no time
in opportunistically swooping in to take over Russian industries. The Clinton
administration sought to redesign the economic policies of the nascent Russian
Federation according to the Washington Consensus: privatization, deregulation,
austerity, and the opening up of Russia’s companies to purchase by
ultra-wealthy Americans. Foreign investors flocked in and the level of greed
among this fifth column of new Muscovites was truly astonishing.
Enter Putin
Soon after taking office in 1999, Vladimir Putin, a nationalist with a long
career in Russian intelligence, faced the daunting task of trying to undo, or
at least limit, the damage that the criminal cronies of Yeltsin and their
foreign partners had done to Russia .
Putin Kicks out the Rothschilds
The criminality was not limited to foreign speculators. During the early period
of privatization in the 90s, the Rothschilds organized a secret society of
seven Russian oligarchs entirely controlled Boris Yeltsin’s administration.
This group called itself Semibankirschina, named after the Seven Boyars who
controlled Russia during the 17th century. The secret society included the
following oligarchs: Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Mikhail Fridman,
Petr Aven, Vladimir Gusinsky, Vladimir Potanin, and Alexander Smolensky. They
all worked for the Rothschilds- or London- and more specifically, for Jacob
Rothschild.
In late 1999, Vladimir Putin became president of Russia and the fortunes of
these self-appointed rulers rapidly turned for the worse. A new group of Putin
insiders formed – the Slivoki (made up of Russian nationalists from the
security and business world) and began supplanting the previous access that the
Semibankirschina had to the president. From a strong position, Putin
negotiated a “grand bargain” with the remaining oligarchs: they retained most
of their existing assets in return for alignment with Putin’s vertical rule of
Russia. The era of financial gangsterism from the 1990s was over. In 2001, a
state takeover of media seized the television networks previously owned by the
Rothschild puppets. It was with these moves by Putin, from early March 2000,
that led to a break up of Rothschild control over Russia. These oligarchs all
belonged to Jacob Rothschild. And, they were stealing Russia blind.
David Rockefeller couldn’t be bothered with such small takings. Here, the key
was to bring Russia into the dollar world-this was more profitable for his
empire. In addition, a series of geopolitical confrontations on Russia’s
borders served his empire greatly. The first such was the Chechen wars of 1994,
and 1999/2000. This, Putin ended, quickly and ruthlessly.
The military occupation of Iraq was the first major step in this American
strategy to move oil into the oil companies of the 2 families. Then, Russian
investments in Iraq were lost after the US invasion in March 2003. In addition,
following the Afghanistan invasion in October 2001, the Pentagon began
spreading its presence in Central Asia- to the discomfort of both Russia and
China. For obvious military and political reasons, Washington could not admit
openly that since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, its strategic goal had
been to dis-member or de-construct Russia, thereby gaining effective control
over its huge oil and gas reserves.
These two wars were but the opening shots of a series of geopolitical oil and
energy “pipeline wars”- undeclared wars, but wars in every sense of the word.
They were wars, overt and covert, spanning Eurasia, the Middle East and Africa.
The energy wars were fought with bombs, with terror tactics, and with drones.
They also fought with sophisticated new methods of political destabilization of
uncooperative regimes through what were called Color Revolutions. The goal was
simple: Rockefeller control through the Pentagon and the CIA of all significant
oil and gas deposits PLUS pipelines to transport this in order to be able to
control the emerging Eurasian economic colossus, especially China and Russia
(and later India). The goal would be achieved by any means necessary. The NATO
encirclement of Russia, the Color Revolutions across Eurasia, and the war in
Iraq, were all aspects of one and the same American geopolitical strategy: a
grand strategy to de-construct Russia once and for all as a potential rival to
a sole US Superpower hegemony. The end of the Yeltsin era put a slight crimp in
Washington’s grand plans. Following the Wall Street-City of London guided
looting of Russia by networks of the 2 families, a shrewder and more sober
Putin cautiously emerged as a dynamic nationalistic force, committed to
rebuilding Russia.
Putin Breaks with the Rockefellers
A defining event in Russian energy geopolitics took place in 2003. Just as
Washington had taken over Iraq, Putin ordered the spectacular arrest of
Russia’s billionaire oligarch, Mikhail Khordokovsk- or MK, on charges of tax
evasion. Putin then froze shares of Khordokovsky’s giant Yukos Oil group,
putting it under state control. What had triggered Putin’s dramatic action?
MK was working for Jacob Rothschild. He was a Rothschild front. In March 2000,
MK was present with all the other oligarch’s called to a meeting by Putin. The
oligarch’s had made a pledge to Putin – that if they stayed out of Russian
politics, and repatriated a share of their stolen money (in effect, stolen from
the state in rigged bidding under Yeltsin) they would be allowed to keep their
assets. All of these oligarchs were Rothschild fronts. Most accepted, with the
exception of Rothschilds Jewish oligarchs. Putin went after that, as they broke
their pledge to him. And so did MK. He was busy buying up the Duma – Russia’s
parliament- as a first step, in a plan to run against Putin in 2004.
In the meantime Mikhail Khodorkovsky’ was negotiating with 2 Rockefeller oil
companies, Exxon and Chevron, to sell 40% of Yukos Oil (for the sum of $25
billion). Had this deal gone through, Russia’s economic and financial
independence would be over. This 40% stake would have given Washington, the US
oil giants, and the Rockefeller family a de facto veto power over future
Russian oil and gas deals and pipelines. At the time of his arrest, Yukos had
just begun steps to acquire Sibneft, a very large Russian oil company. The
combined Yukos-Sibneft enterprise, with 20 billion barrels of oil and gas,
would then have owned the second-largest oil and gas reserves in the world – in
private hands, and not state-owned. The Exxon buy-up of Yukos-Sibneft would
have been a literal energy coup-d’état. David Rockefeller and Jacob Rothschild
knew it. So did the White House. MK knew it. Above all, Vladimir Putin knew it,
and moved decisively to block it. Putin moved against him in October 2003, and
arrested him.
It was during the purge of oligarchs and vulture capitalists that the true
power behind Mikhail Khodorkovsky emerged. When it became likely he would be
arrested, he arranged to have all his shares from the Yukos Oil Company
transferred to the ownership of Jacob Rothschild. The transfer took place in
November of 2003, giving Jacob Rothschild a 40-45% control of Yukos, estimated
to be worth $25 billion. Putin subsequently liquidated and nationalized Yukos
by seizing and selling off its shares to state oil companies. Putin restored to
Russia what was stolen by Jacob Rothschild, once the richest man in the
country, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s fortunes turned for the worse. In 2003,
Khodorkovsky was criminally prosecuted by Putin for tax evasion and fraud for
which he ended up serving 10 years in Jail, and was subsequently exiled. When
the rigged auction sales of state assets took place in 1995/96, most of the
companies got sold for as little as 5% of its value. And, Yukos got “purchased”
for less than $400 million, when its true worth was far more than that.
So Putin has declared war on the most powerful families on the planet. From
this moment on, it would a fight between Putin and the 2 families. Putin has
survived many attempts on his life by these 2 networks of power. Ever since
Putin arrested Khordolovsky in 2003, the Kremlin had been putting the engines
of economic control into state hands once again.
One of Putin’s first agenda items was to pay off all debt to the IMF and
holdover loans from the Soviet era, thus freeing itself from Rothschild
interference. This enabled Putin to reduce their influence over Russia’s
destiny.
The events in Russia were soon followed by CIA – financed covert
destabilizations in Eurasia – the Color Revolutions against governments on
Russia’s periphery.
Putin began to make a series of defensive moves to restore some tenable form of
equilibrium in the face of Washington’s increasingly obvious policy of
encircling and weakening Russia. Subsequent US strategic blunders made the job
a bit easier for Russia. Now, with the stakes rising on both sides – NATO and
Russia – Putin’s Russia moved beyond simple defense to a new dynamic offensive
aimed at securing a more viable geopolitical position by using its energy as
the lever.
By 2003, after Iraq was occupied by US and British forces, the most urgent
priority for the US, was the control of Russian oil, gas, and its associated
pipelines. For that to happen, a coup in the tiny Republic of Georgia was
deemed essential, as well as a similar coup in Ukraine. If pro-US regimes could
be installed in both countries, not only would the military security of Russia
itself be mortally threatened, but also Russia’s ability to control the export
of its oil and gas to the EU would be severely hampered.
In January 2004, the Rose Revolution put into power Washington’s candidate for
President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. With their man firmly installed in
Tblisi- BP and the Anglo American oil consortium moved swiftly to complete a
1,800 km pipeline from Baku via TYblisi to Ceyhan in Turkey’s Mediterranean, at
a cost of some $3.6 billion. With the construction of this (BTC) pipeline, a
major part in the weakening of Russia’s oil and energy independence appeared in
place.
In November 2004, the CIA put their man into power in the Ukraine. This coup
was dubbed the Orange Revolution. Ukraine was of greater strategic importance
for Russia than Georgia. This was due the several oil and gas pipelines
transiting Ukraine to the EU. To cut these pipelines at the Ukraine border
would have dealt a severe economic blow to Russia when she could ill afford
such a loss. With Poland already in NATO, a NATO membership for Ukraine and
Georgia would almost completely encircle Russia with hostile neighbors,
creating an existential threat to the very survival of Russia itself. Putin
knew this, but his options were limited. Washington knew what the stakes were,
and it was doing everything short of open war against a nuclear opponent to
push the agenda.
By 2005, the key oil companies of the two families (London) BP, Shell, Total);
New York (Exxon, Chevron) had gained control over most of the oil of the
Caspian Sea. The control of energy- globally- by the big Four oil companies of
the 2 families Chevron and Exxon (Rockefeller), and BP and Shell (Rothschild)-
was the cornerstone of their global strategy.
It was clear within the Rockefeller family discussions, and in Washington
policy circles that in order to control those global oil and gas flows, the US
needed to project its military power far more aggressive , to achieve a total
military supremacy, which was what Full Spectrum Dominance was all about. The
strategists of Full Spectrum domination envisioned control of pretty much the
entire universe, including outer and inner-space, from the galaxy, to the body,
to the mind. Now, you know the sick. Devious and cunning minds that brought
about Covid , in order to lock down the global economy- Why? – in order to save
the Rockefeller Empires financial and banking systems.
Russian Energy Geopolitics
In 2004, Russia was not a world-class power. In terms of energy, it was a
colossus. In terms of landmass it was still the largest nation in the world,
spanning 11 time zones. It had vast territory and natural resources, and the
world’s largest reserves of natural gas, while its oil reserves stood at 150
billion barrels, with the potential to increase this figure greatly, as large
parts of Russia are still not explored.
Russia’s state-owned natural gas pipeline network, the ‘unified transportation
system’, includes a vast network of pipelines and compressor stations extending
more than 400,000 kms across Russia. Just the modern replacement cost of this,
today, would be in the region of $1 -2 trillion! By law, only the state-owned
Gazprom was allowed to use the pipeline. This network was perhaps the most
valued Russian state asset other than the oil and gas itself. Here was the
heart of Putin’s new energy geopolitics. Putin was using Russia’s energy trump
card to build economic ties across Eurasia from West to East, North to South.
Washington was not at all pleased.
Russia had never stopped being a powerful entity that produced state-of-the-art
military technologies. While its army, navy and ait force were in a poor
condition in 1990, the elements for Russia’s resurgence as a military
powerhouse were still in place. Russia had consistently fielded top-notch
military technology at various international trade shows , using the world arms
export market to keep its most vital military technology base intact. Weapons
exports had been one of the best ways for Russia to earn much needed hard
currency in the 1990s till now. The Russian nuclear arsenal also played an
important role , providing fundamental security for the Russian state.
The Russian Central Bank had become the world’s 3rd largest dollar reserve
holder behind China and Japan. In addition, it was the only power on the face
of the earth with the potential military capabilities to match those of the US.
In 2005, in a speech delivered in front of Russia’s Federal Assembly, Russian
President Vladimir Putin said that the fall of the Soviet Union was the
greatest geopolitical catastrophe in Russia’s history. What he meant is that
the fragmentation of the Soviet Union would cost Russia the element that had
allowed it to survive foreign invasions since the 18th century: strategic depth.
For a European country to defeat Russia decisively, it would have to take
Moscow. The distance to Moscow is great and would wear down any advancing army,
requiring reinforcements and supplies to be moved to the front. As they would
advance into Russia, the attackers’ forces would be inevitably weakened. Hitler
and Napoleon reached Moscow exhausted. Both were beaten by distance and winter,
and by the fact that the defenders were not at the end of their supply line.
At the height of the Cold War, St. Petersburg was about 1,600kms from NATO
forces, and Moscow about 2,100kms. Today, St. Petersburg is about 150kms away
and Moscow about 800kms. For Putin, the primary threat to Russia is from the
west. It has always been the goal of the Rockefellers to secure total economic
and political control over Russia. The British father of geopolitics, Halford
Mackinder, stated in 1904, that control over Russia who determine who would
control the vast expanses of Eurasia, and by extension the entire world.
British foreign policy, from 1904, was dedicated to preventing, at all costs,
the emergence of a cohesive Eurasian pivot power centered on Russia and capable
of challenging British hegemony.
Mackinder summed up his ideas with the following dictum:
- Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland
- Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island
- Who rules the world- Island commands the world.
Mackinder’s Heartland was the core of Eurasia – Ukraine and Russia. The World
Island was all of Eurasia, including Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Britain
was never a part of Continental Europe; it was a separate naval and maritime
power, and should remain so whatever the cost.
The Mackinder geopolitical perspective shaped Britain’s entry into both World
War 1 and 2. It shaped American involvement in Europe from 1941.
The gradual re-emergence of a dynamic Russia in the Heartland of Eurasia , one
that was growing economically closer to China and to key nations of Western
Europe, was the very development that Nezezinski had warned could mortally
threaten American dominance. It was Halford Mackinder’s worst nightmare.
Ironically, Washington’s bingled invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq , and its
crude elaboration of its “war on Terror” had directly helped to bring that
Eurasian cooperation about. One of Putin’s favorite sayings is “We must trade
as a single market, from Vladivostok to Rotterdam” Both the families get a
heart attack when they hear Putin saying this. It also created the backdrop for
the Georgian conflict in August 2008.
But, first let’s look Putin’s speech at Munich – this changed the contours and
dynamics of international relations, from this point on.
Putin’s 2007 Munich Speech
At the 2007 annual Munich Security Conference, as the Bush administration had
announced plans to install US missile defense systems in Poland, Romania and
the Czech Republic, Russia’s Putin delivered a scathing critique of the US lies
and violation of their 1990 assurances on NATO. By that time 10 former
communist Eastern states had been admitted to NATO despite the 1990 US
promises. Furthermore, both Ukraine and Georgia were candidates to join NATO
following US-led Color Revolutions in both countries in 2003-4. Putin rightly
argued the US missiles were aimed at Russia, not North Korea or Iran.
In his 2007 Munich remarks Putin told his Western audience, “It turns out that
NATO has put its frontline forces on our borders, and we have the right to ask:
against whom is this expansion intended? And what happened to the assurances
our western partners made after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact? Where are
those declarations today? No one even remembers them.”
Putin added, “But I will allow myself to remind this audience what was said. I
would like to quote the speech of NATO General Secretary Mr Woerner in Brussels
on 17 May 1990. He said at the time that: “the fact that we are ready not to
place a NATO army outside of German territory gives the Soviet Union a firm
security guarantee”. Where are these guarantees?” That was 15 years ago.
Putin spoke in Munich in general terms about Washington’s vision of a “unipolar
“ world, with one center of authority, one center of force, one center of
decision making, calling it a “world in which there is one master, one
sovereign. And at the end of the day this is pernicious not only for all those
within the system, but also for the sovereign itself because it destroys itself
from within.”
Putin was talking about the US. Then Putin got to the heart of the matter:
“Today we are witnessing an almost uncontained hyper use of force – military
force- in international relations, force that is plunging the world into an
abyss of permanent conflicts. Finding a political solution becomes impossible.
The United States has overstepped its national borders in every way. This is
visible in the economic, political, cultural and educational policies it
imposes on other nations. Well, who likes this? Who is happy about this?
Putin warned about the destabilizing effects of space weapons
“It is impossible to sanction the appearance of new, destabilizing high-tech
weapons – – – a new era of confrontation, especially in outer space Star wars
is no longer a fantasy. In Russia’s opinion, the militarization of outer space
could have unpredictable consequences for the world, and provoke nothing less
than the beginning of a nuclear era – – – plans to expand certain elements of
the anti-missile defense system to Europe cannot help but disturb us. Who needs
the next step of what would be, in this case, an inevitable arms race.”
Few people were aware that the US, a month earlier, had announced that it was
building massive anti-missile defense installations in Poland and the Czech
Republic. As Putin replies to this at the same Munich Conference, “Missile
weapons with a range of 5 to 8,000kms that really pose a threat to Europe do
not exist in any of the so-called problem countries. And any hypothetical
launch of a North Korean rocket to American territory through Western Europe
obviously contradicts the laws of ballistics. As we say in Russia, it would be
like using the right hand to reach the left year.
Moscow Reacts
Moscow lost little time in reacting to the announcement of US plans for its
ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems in Eastern Europe. The commander of
Russia’s strategic bomber force said on March 5, 2007 that his forces could
easily disrupt or destroy any missile defense infrastructures in Poland and the
Czech Republic – precisely where the US is preparing to install them. In clear
words, Putin was responding to the escalating Washington provocations by
declaring openly that a New Cold War was on. It was not a new Cold War
initiated by Russia, but one where Russia, out of national survival
considerations, was forced to respond. A new, nuclear-based arms race was in
full bloom.
This statement of Putin sent shock waves through the world, especially the
highest policy levels of the West. Putin was declaring that – “enough is
enough!” From this moment on, Putin knew that a military confrontation between
Russia and the West was only a matter of time. Wasting no time, he used his
energy trump cards to beef up his military, and after the 2008 crash, to beef
up Russia’s financial strength.
Nuclear Primacy
What Washington did not say, but Putin alluded to in his speech, was that the
US missile defense was not at all defensive. It was offensive. If the US was
able to shield itself effectively from a potential Russian retaliation for a US
nuclear First Strike, then the US would be able to dictate its terms to the
entire world, not just to Russia. That would be Nuclear Primacy. For the
Rockefeller Empire and its chief vassal, Washington, the Cold war never ended.
They just forgot to tell the rest of the world.
The US attempt to take control of oil and energy pipelines worldwide, its
installations of military bases across Eurasia, its modernization and upgrades
of nuclear submarine fleets and bombers only made sense when seen through the
perspective of the relentless pursuit of US Nuclear primacy. In December 2001,
Washington withdrew from the US-Russian Ballistic Missile Treaty. This was a
critical step in Washington’s race to complete its global network of ‘missile
defense’ capability as the key to nuclear primacy. The US missile talks with
Poland and the Czech Republic began at the end of 2003. The Pentagon found two
sites in the mountains of southern Poland for radar stations. This site would
be the first such installation outside America and the only one in Europe. A
missile fired from these silos in Poland or the Czech Republic would be within
minutes of potential Russia targets. No one would be able to say whether they
contained nuclear warheads or not. That would put the world on a hair-trigger
to possible nuclear war, by design or miscalculation. Then, in the March 2006
Foreign Affairs, the journal of the CFR, an article by two US military analysts
came to the following conclusion: –
“Today, for the first time in almost 50 years, the US stands on the verge of
attaining nuclear primacy. It will probably soon be possible for the US to
destroy the long-range nuclear arsenals of Russia or China with a first strike.
Unless Washington’s policies change or Moscow and Beijing take steps to
increase the size and readiness of their forces, Russia and China – and, they
concluded: “The sort of missile defenses that the US might deploy would be
valuable in an offensive context, not a defensive one – as an adjunct to a US
First Strike capability, NOT as a standalone shield. If the US launched a
nuclear attack against Russia or China, the targeted country would be left with
only a tiny surviving arsenal – if any at all. At that point, even a relatively
modest missile defense system might be well enough to protect against any
retaliatory strikes “.
This was the real agenda in Washington’s Eurasian Great Game.
Then, in August 2008, Georgia foolishly invaded Russia, and were promptly
defeated by the Russian military. Not long after this, Putin began an upgrade
of the Russian military. He knew that a confrontation was in the making. In
2016, Putin unveiled some of the new weapons being rolled out. The west was
shocked- nay, they had a heart attack. It was at that moment that the Pentagon
knew they could not win a military confrontation with Russia. Then, in
September 2015, Russia was called in by the Syrian government to help defeat
ISIS (a creation of the CIA/Mossad/British Intelligence). That Russian military
action signaled a new era in global politics, with Russia appearing as a
formidable force to be reckoned with for the first time since the end of the
Cold War. America was no longer the sole military superpower. The world was
visibly moving towards a new world war, one claiming to have religion at its
core, but in reality a war, as all wars, about money and power. Islam was being
instrumentalised as a weapon of that global war – by the two families.
Why was it so important for London and New York to gain control of Russia? The
answer to that question lies in the fields of geopolitics, especially oil and
gas.
Eurasian Geopolitics
Geopolitical advisor to David Rockefeller, Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote a book, in
1997, called “The Grand Chessboard”. It shows the thinking of the Rockefeller
Empire in regards to Eurasia. Let us show a few extracts from the book, to get
an idea of how to control Eurasia.
“For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia-“
“Ever since the continents started interacting politically, some five hundred
years ago, Eurasia has been the center of world power.”-
“… But in the meantime, it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges,
capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America. The
formulation of a comprehensive and integrated Eurasian geostrategy is therefore
the purpose of this book.”
To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient
empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are to prevent
collusion, maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries
pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarian (Russian, Chinese, and Arabs)
from coming together”. “It follows that America’s primary interest is to help
ensure that no single power comes to control this geopolitical space and that
the global community has unhindered financial and economic access to it.”
“America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe’s central
arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian
continent will be of decisive importance to America’s global primacy and to
America’s historical legacy.” “Without sustained and directed American
involvement, before long the forces of global disorder could come to dominate
the world scene” With warning signs on the horizon across Europe and Asia, any
successful American policy must focus on Eurasia as a whole and be guided by a
Geostrategic design.”
“That puts a premium on maneuver and manipulation in order to preempt the
emergence of a hostile coalition that could eventually seek to challenge
America’s primacy…”
“The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of
states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to
diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role “.
“Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China,
Russia, and perhaps Iran, an “anti-hegemonic” coalition united not by ideology
but by complementary grievances. It would be reminiscent in scale and scope of
the challenge once posed by the Sino-Soviet bloc, though this time China would
likely be the leader and Russia the follower. Averting this contingency,
however remote it may be, will require a display of U.S. geostrategic skill on
the western, eastern, and southern perimeters of Eurasia simultaneously “.
We see that US foreign policy followed the advise closely. But, the US failed.
Iran, China and Russia are close allies, and all three are working to expell
the US, the West, NATO and Israel from dominating Eurasia. They dismissed Putin
when he formulated a new paradigm in Munich in 2007 – or when he returned to
the Kremlin in 2012. Putin made it very clear that Russia’s legitimate
strategic interests would have to be respected again, and that Russia was about
to recover its de facto “veto rights” in managing world affairs. Well, the
Putin doctrine was already being implemented since the Georgian affair in 2008.
The Caucasus
There is another potential entry into Russia from the south. The Russian Empire
used this route as a buffer zone with Turkey, especially during the numerous
Russo-Turkish wars. Russia was protected by the Caucasus, a rugged, mountainous
region that discouraged any attacks to the point that NATO never considered
this option. But if anyone managed to force their way through the mountains,
they would be about 1,500kms from Moscow on flat, open terrain in far better
weather than attackers from the west would face.
If the South Caucasus states formed an anti-Russia coalition, and the United
States, for example, supported a rising in the North Caucasus, the barrier
might be shattered and a path northward opened. Therefore, Russia followed a
strategy of imposing strong controls in the North Caucasus while engaging in a
war in 2008 with Georgia, its most significant southern threat, based on
geography and Georgia’s alliance with the U.S. The war demonstrated the limits
of American power while it was engaged in wars in the Muslim world. It was
successful strategies save for the fact that the long-term threat from the
south was not eliminated. Russia needed a strategy in the west and one in the
south. In the west, part of that strategy evolved in Ukraine, keeping it from
being a threat without the use of major Russian force. A tacit agreement was
reached with Washington: The United States would not arm Ukraine with
significant offensive weapons, and Russia would not move major force into
Ukraine beyond the insurgencies already in place. At that time, neither Russia
nor the U.S. wanted war. Each wanted a buffer zone. That is what emerged.
Belarus
Another piece of the lost buffer became, so to speak, available. Belarus is
about 600kms from Moscow. Poland, to its west, is hostile to Russia and
contains some American forces. This represents a significant threat to Russia,
unless Belarus could be brought into the Russian fold. The elections in
Belarus held last year created an opportunity. President Alexander Lukashenko,
a long-time ruler who faced serious opposition. This was another attempt by the
CIA to start a Color Revolution in Belarus. Had the CIA succeeded in Belarus,
the squeeze on Russia would have been fatal, in case of war.
The Russians backed Lukashenko and have essentially preserved his position.
Alexander Lukashenko has been the head of state of Belarus since 1994, and did
not have a serious challenger in the previous five elections. On 23 September
2021, Belarusian state media announced that Lukashenko had been inaugurated for
another five-year term in a brief ceremony which was held privately. The
following day, the EU published a statement that rejected the legitimacy of the
election, called for new elections, and condemned the repression and violence –
standard tactics from the West. Strategic depth is vital in the very long term,
and its importance is burned into Russia’s memory.
Destabilization of Kazakhstan
The year 2022 started with Kazakhstan on fire, a serious attack against one of
the key hubs of Eurasian integration. Leaders of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization (CSTO) held an extraordinary session to discuss Kazakhstan.
The head of the Russian National Security Council, Nikolae Patrushev, is
Putin’s right man. He is the head of all the security and intelligence services
of Russia, a very powerful man indeed, a master of how to foil the CIA and MI6.
Just to give you an example: Between 2018 and 2021- a period of three years,
Russia caught more than 2,000 spies, and foiled many plots. So he is extremely
well aware of the plots and plans of Russia’s enemies.
Putin was aware that the West were intent on creating a wave of hybrid-war
across Central Asia.
Back in November, Patrushev’s laser was already focused on the degrading
security situation in Afghanistan. Tajik political scientist Parviz Mullojanov
was among the very few who were stressing that there were as many as 8,000
imperial machine Salafi-jihadi assets, shipped by a rat line from Syria and
Iraq, loitering in the wilds of northern Afghanistan. That’s the bulk of
ISIS-Khorasan – or ISIS reconstituted near the borders of Turkmenistan. Some of
them were duly transported to Kyrgyzstan. From there, it was very easy to cross
the border from Bishek and show up in Almaty.
It took no time for Patrushev and his team to figure out, after the imperial
retreat from Kabul, how this jihadi reserve army would be used: along the 7,500
km-long border between Russia and the Central Asian ‘stans’. That explains,
among other things, a record number of preparation drills conducted in late
2021 at the 210th Russian military base in Tajikistan.
Virtually no one knows about it. But last December, another coup was discreetly
thwarted in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. Kyrgyz Intel sources attribute the
engineering to a rash of NGOs linked with Britain and Turkey. That introduces
an absolutely key facet of The Big Picture: NATO-linked Intel and their assets
may have been preparing a simultaneous color revolution offensive across
Central Asia. During his 29-year rule, Nazarbayev played a multi-vector game
that was too westernized and which did not necessarily benefit Kazakhstan. He
adopted British laws, played the pan-Turkic card with Erdogan, and allowed a
tsunami of NGOs to promote a Western agenda. The breakdown of the messy Kazakh
op necessarily starts with the usual suspects: the US Deep State, which all but
“sang” its strategy in a 2019 RAND corporation report, Extending Russia.
Chapter 4, on “geopolitical measures”, details everything from “providing
lethal aid to Ukraine”, “promoting regime change in Belarus”, and “increasing
support for Syrian rebels” – all major fails – to “reducing Russian influence
in Central Asia.” That was the master concept. Implementation fell to the
MI6-Turk connection.
The CIA and MI6 had been investing in dodgy outfits in Central Asia since at
least 2005, when they encouraged the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), then
close to the Taliban, to wreak havoc in southern Kyrgyzstan. Nothing happened.
It was a completely different story by May 2021, when the MI6’s Jonathan Powell
met the leadership of Jabhat al-Nusra – which harbors a lot of Central Asian
jihadis – somewhere in the Turkish-Syrian border near Idlib. The deal was that
these ‘moderate rebels’ – in US terminology – would cease to be branded
‘terrorists’ as long as they followed the anti-Russia NATO agenda. That was one
of the key prep moves ahead of the jihadist ratline to Afghanistan – complete
with Central Asia branching out.
MI6 is deeply entrenched in all the ‘stans’ except autarchic Turkmenistan –
cleverly riding the pan-Turkish offensive as the ideal vehicle to counter
Russia and China.Yet both Russia and China are very much aware that Turkey
essentially represents NATO entering Central Asia.
Every color revolution needs a ‘Maximum’ Trojan horse. In our case, that seems
to be the role of former head of KNB (National Security Committee) Karim
Massimov, now held in prison and charged with treason. Hugely ambitious,
Massimov is half-Uyghur, and that, in theory, obstructed what he saw as his
pre-ordained rise to power. His connections with Turkish Intel are not yet
fully detailed, unlike his cozy relationship with Joe Biden and son. A former
Minister of Internal Affairs and State Security, Lt Gen Felix Kulov, has weaved
a fascinating tangled web explaining the possible internal dynamics of the
‘coup’ built into the color revolution.
According to Kulov, Massimov and Samir Abish, the nephew of recently ousted
Kazakh Security Council Chairman Nursultan Nazarbayev, were up to their necks
in supervising ‘secret’ units of ‘bearded men’ during the riots. The KNB was
directly subordinated to Nazarbayev, who until last week was the chairman of
the Security Council.
When Tokayev understood the mechanics of the coup, he demoted both Massimov and
Samat Abish. Then Nazarbayev ‘voluntarily’ resigned from his life-long
chairmanship of the Security Council. Abish then got this post, promising to
stop the ‘bearded men,’ and then to resign. So that would point directly to a
Nazarbayev-Tokayev clash. It makes sense as, Tokayev is a very smart operator.
Trained by the foreign service of the former USSR, fluent in Russian and
Chinese, he is totally aligned with Russia-China – which means fully in sync
with the masterplan of the BRI, the Eurasia Economic Union, and the SCO.
Tokayev, much like Putin and Xi, understands how this BRI/EAEU/SCO triad
represents the ultimate imperial nightmare, and how destabilizing Kazakhstan –
a key factor in the triad – would be a mortal coup against Eurasian
integration. Kazakhstan, after all, represents 60 percent of Central Asia’s
GDP, massive oil/gas and mineral resources, cutting-edge high tech industries:
a secular, unitary, constitutional republic bearing a rich cultural heritage.
It didn’t take long for Tokayev to understand the merits of immediately calling
the CSTO to the rescue: Kazakhstan signed the treaty way back in 1994. After
all, Tokayev was fighting a foreign-led coup against his government.
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev framed it succinctly. Riots were “hidden
behind unplanned protests.” The goal was “to seize power” – a coup attempt.
Actions were “coordinated from a single center.” And “foreign militants were
involved in the riots.”
Putin went further: during the riots, “Maidan technologies were used,” a
reference to the Ukrainian square where 2013 protests unseated a
NATO-unfriendly government. Defending the prompt intervention of CSTO
peacekeeping forces in Kazakhstan, Putin said, “it was necessary to react
without delay.” The CSTO will be on the ground “as long as necessary,” but
after the mission is accomplished, “of course, the entire contingent will be
withdrawn from the country.” CSTO forces left after a week, whereby they
crushed the CIA coup. But here’s the clincher: “CSTO countries have shown that
they will not allow chaos and ‘color revolutions’ to be implemented inside
their borders.” Putin was in synch with Kazakh State Secretary Erlan Karin, who
was the first, on the record, to apply the correct terminology to events in his
country: What happened was a “hybrid terrorist attack,” by both internal and
external forces, aimed at overthrowing the government.
Yet, they are just one nexus in western nebulae of Hybrid War fog deployed
across Central Asia, and West Asia for that matter. Here we see the CIA and the
US Deep State crisscrossing MI6 and different strands of Turkish Intel. When
President Tokayev was referring in code to a “single center,” he meant a so far
‘secret’ US-Turk-Israeli military-intel operations room based in the southern
business hub of Almaty, according to a highly placed Central Asia Intel source.
In this “center,” there were 22 Americans, 16 Turks and 6 Israelis coordinating
sabotage gangs – trained in West Asia by the Turks – and then rat-lined to
Almaty.
The op started to unravel for good when Kazakh forces – with the help of
Russian/CSTO Intel – retook control of the vandalized Almaty airport, which was
supposed to be turned into a hub for receiving foreign military supplies.
The Hybrid War west had to be stunned and livid at how the CSTO intercepted the
Kazakh operation at such lightning speed. The key element is that the secretary
of Russian National Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, saw the Big Picture
eons ago. So, it’s no mystery why Russia’s aerospace and aero-transported
forces, plus the massive necessary support infrastructure, were virtually ready
to go.
Putin, among others, has stressed how an official Kazakh investigation is the
only one entitled to get to the heart of the matter. Rushed to only a few days
before the start of the Russia-US ‘security guarantees’ in Geneva, this color
revolution represented a sort of counter-ultimatum – in desperation – by the
NATO establishment.
Central Asia, West Asia, and the overwhelming majority of the Global South have
witnessed the lightning fast Eurasian response by the CSTO troops – who, having
now done their job, and left Kazakhstan in a couple of days – and how this
color revolution has failed, miserably. It might as well be the last. Beware
the rage of a humiliated Empire.
This spectacular run of defeats suggests that the age of the U.S. dominating
the world as its one remaining superpower is now at a cross-roads. It suggests
that the fearsome spectre of violent military might is losing its fangs. It
seems the era of the U.S. Empire is coming to an end. Then there’s the
clincher, revealed by a high-level U.S. Intel source.
In 2013, the late Zbigniew “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski was presented with a
classified report on Russian advanced missiles. He freaked out and responded by
conceptualizing Maidan 2014 – to draw Russia into a guerrilla war then as he
had done with Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Chronology
- 1999: Putin become President. He faces his first challenge from the two
families in Chechnya. He crushes the jihadist insurrection in the Caucasus.
- 2001 June: The SCO is formed, which leads a panicked Rockefeller Empire
to activate a military move into Central Asia , which then took place on
September 2001 – 9/11.
- 2003 March: The US invades Iraq – Putin helps the Iraqi Resistance with
military equipment, including the Kornet anti-tank missiles.
- 2005 May: The CIA attempts a Color Revolution and a coup in Uzbekistan.
The leader, Karimov, then cuts US ties, and closes a US base next to the Afghan
order. Uzbekistan moves closer to Russia, while the US is out.
- 2007 February: Putin’s speech at Munich shocks the 2 families- now the
gloves are off
- 2008 August: Georgia invades Russia – and is defeated within 3 days
- 2008 September: Financial crash
- 2010 December: Arab Spring
- 2011 March: Destabilization of Syria begins
- 2012: Xi Jinping becomes President of China- and the US “pivots” East
- 2014: the Maidan coup in Ukraine
- July 2014: As Putin was returning to Russia after the BRICS summit in
Brazil, his plane overflew Ukraine. The CIA targeted his plane, but the wrong
plane was shot down – Malaysian Airlines MH17.
- 2015 September: Russia goes to help Syria
- 2018: Putin unveils Russia’s advance military hardware – the Pentagon has
a cardiac event
- 2021 September: Belarus color revolution fails against Putin ally
Lukashenko
- 2021 December: Russian intelligence thwarted a coup attempt in Bishkek,
capital of Kyrgyztan. NATO missile systems in Romania and Poland about to
become operational. This last point has been explained above.
- 2022 January: Russia puts down an attempted CIA/MI6 coup in Kazakhstan
And here we are now: it’s all a matter of unfinished business. And, now we come
to Ukraine.
Russia/Putin & the West Part 2
by Sam Parker
Behind the News Network
Ukraine
Ukraine and Russia were so intertwined economically, socially and culturally,
especially in the east of the country, that they were almost indistinguishable
from one another. Most of Russia’s natural gas pipelines from West Siberia
flowed through Ukraine on their way to Germany, France and other European
states. In military strategic terms, a non-neutral Ukraine in NATO would pose a
fatal security blow to Russia. In the age of advanced US weapons and
anti-missile defenses, this was just what Washington wanted.
A look at the map of Eurasian geography revealed a distinct pattern to the
CIA-sponsored Color Revolutions after 2000. They were clearly aimed at
isolating Russia and ultimately cutting her economic lifeline – her pipeline
networks that carried Russia’s huge reserves of oil and gas from the Urals and
Siberia to Western Europe and Eurasia-straight through Ukraine.
The unspoken agenda of Washington’s aggressive Central Asia policies after the
collapse of the Soviet Union could be summed up in a single phase: control of
energy. So long as Russia was able to use its strategic trump card- its vast
oil and gas reserves – to win economic allies in Western Europe, China and
elsewhere, it could not be politically isolated. The location of various Color
Revolutions was aimed directly at encircling Russia and cutting off, at any
time, her export pipelines. With more than half of Russia’s dollar export
earnings coming from its oil and gas exports, such encirclement would amount to
an economic chokehold on Russia by US-led NATO.
Russia was the only power with enough strategic nuclear deterrence potential,
as well as sufficient energy reserves, to make a credible counterweight to
global US military and political nuclear primacy. Moreover, a Eurasian
combination of China and Russia, plus allied Eurasian states (mainly Central
Asian ), presented an even greater counterweight to unilateral US dominance.
Following the 1998 Asian financial crises, Beijing and Moscow formed a mutual
security agreement with surrounding states, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. In June
2001, Uzbekistan joined, and the group renamed itself the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization, or the SCO. This was the catalyst that forced the Rockefeller
Empire to carry out the terror act of 9/11, in order to justify an invasion of
Central Asia- with the aim to disrupt this alliance.
One of the leading advocates of an American global supremacy – Rockefeller
strategist and close friend – Zbigniew Brzezinski, described the pivot
significance of Ukraine in his 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard. He wrote:
“Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a
geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps
to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire…If
Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major
resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again
regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe
and Asia…”
Brzezinski, a student of Halford Mackinder geopolitics, described the role of
“pivot” states:
“Geopolitical pivots are the states whose importance is derived not from their
power and motivation but rather from their sensitive location… which in some
cases gives them a special role in either defining access to important areas or
in denying resources to a significant player…”
“It cannot be stressed enough that without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an
empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically
becomes an empire”
Ukraine, like few other Eurasian countries, is a product of its special
geography, as it uniquely straddles east and west. It is what Halford
Mackinder, the British father of geopolitics—the study of the relations of
political power to geography—called a “pivot” state. Ukraine uniquely
transforms the geopolitical position of Russia, for better or worse.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Washington went all out to
support a break between Russia and Ukraine. The goal was to use Ukraine as a
buffer to block closer integration between Russia and Europe, especially
Germany.
The country Ukraine itself is an historical anomaly. Almost 1000 years ago,
Kievan Rus under Vladimir the Great had been the empire of the East Slavic
peoples of today’s Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. For more than 350 years, Kievan
Rus east of the Dnieper River had been a part of the Russian Czarist Empire.
After 1795 Ukraine was divided, as a result of wars of partitioning Poland,
between the Orthodox Tsardom of Russia and Roman Catholic Habsburg Austria.
As such a pivot state, Ukraine’s history has been tragic. In 1922 it was forced
to become one of the founding republics of the Soviet Union after a bloody war
with the Red Army. In the 1930’s, Stalin initiated a gruesome chapter in both
Russian but especially Ukrainian history, which still burns in the memories of
the descendants in the Catholic rural agricultural west of Ukraine. In 1932 and
1933, millions of people, mostly peasants, in Ukraine starved to death in a
politically induced famine, the Holodomor, due to Stalin’s “liquidation of the
Kulak class,” the more or less independent farmers to introduce forced
collectivization of agriculture. Some 6 to 8 million people died from hunger in
the Soviet Union during this period, of which at least 4 to 5 million were
Ukrainians. Ironically, Nikita Khrushchev, the man who in the 1950’s initiated
de-Stalinization, was the head of the Ukrainian Communist Party in 1935
overseeing Stalin’s Holodomor.
After Stalin’s death, now as head of the Communist Party of Soviet Union,
Khrushchev decided to administratively transfer the Crimea to the Ukraine
within the USSR in 1954, though the Crimean population was overwhelmingly
ethnic Russian.
In the largely agricultural west of Ukraine, the famous “breadbasket of
Europe,” the population is historically Roman Catholic, going back centuries.
The Eastern parts of Ukraine—Donbass, Donetsk, Crimea—are historically Eastern
Orthodox in religion and are Russian-speaking. The east is also the center of
most Ukrainian industry from military manufacture to steel, to coal to oil and
gas.
The 2014 Maidan Coup d’état
In 2013 there was intense debate inside the cabinet. The issue was the economic
future of the floundering Ukraine—whether east with Russia into the new
Eurasian Common Market together with Belarus and Kazakhstan, or to the west
with a “special” association (not even a real full membership) with the
European Union.
After a period of vacillation, and a final economic offer from Russia,
Janukovich told EU ministers in November, 2013 that Ukraine would postpone
talks for EU association and would join Russia’s Eurasian Economic Union, in
the situation, a far more attractive proposition for Ukraine.
At that point, within minutes of Janukovich’s announcement, Ukraine’s “Second
Color Revolution,” was initiated. The protests started in the night of 21
November 2013. Via Twitter, Yatsenyuk called for protests, which he dubbed as
Euromaidan, on Maidan Square, outside the main Government buildings.
What then ensued in Ukraine is to this day almost entirely unknown in the West.
The reason is a total media blackout, led by CNN, BBC, the New York Times, and
Washington Post. It has been a de facto NATO wartime press censorship,
originating in Washington at the highest levels
That Kiev coup regime proceeded after February 22, 2014 to wage a war of
extermination and ethnic cleansing of Russian-speakers in eastern Ukraine, led
to a large degree by a private army of literal neo-Nazis from Pravy Sektor
(Right Sector), the same ones who ran security in Maidan Square and launched a
reign of terror against Russian-speaking Ukrainians. Battalions were formed of
neo-Nazi mercenaries. They were given official state status as “Ukrainian
National Guard” soldiers, the Azov Battalion, financed by Ukrainian mafia boss
and billionaire oligarch, Ihor Kolomoisky, the financial backer of Zelenskyy as
president.
Today
By the late 2021, a huge military buildup had taken place within eastern
Ukraine. The aim was to crush, kill, and destroy the Donbass region, and its
citizens. There was a calculation by the CIA that Putin would be forced to
enter Ukraine in order for this conflict not to enter into Russia itself.
The Russian military was undergoing exercises on its borders with Ukraine
during the last quarter of 2021. It moved equipment and troops to its western
front. Putin was receiving reports from his intelligence services of an
imminent attack by the Ukrainians towards the Donbass region.
In late November, Putin sent a demand to Washington that peace requires
guarantees from Washington. These were three: Ukraine to be a neutral state. No
nuclear missiles to be stationed in Ukraine. Ukraine will not be a member of
NATO. Weeks had passed, but Washington did not respond. Their intention was to
force Putin to enter the Donbass in support of the Russian-speaking people
there.
Starting on February 17th, the Ukrainian military began shelling the Donbass,
practically non-stop. A few days later, Putin received intelligence that
Ukraine has prepared a “dirty nuclear “bomb, and were prepared to use it. The
tipping point was when confirmation came that Washington was preparing to
install nuclear-tipped missiles (which would take 5 minutes from launch to
target –meaning not enough time for the Russian military to detect, confirm,
and launch counter measures) were poised to strike Moscow from either Poland or
Western Ukraine. On February 19, at the Munich Security Council ,(the very same
place where Putin shocked the world in 2007), Ukrainian President Zelenskyy
made his threat to deploy nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory. He expressed
this as his unilateral revocation of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, although
Ukraine was not a signatory of the agreement. Two days later on the evening of
February 21, Putin made his speech recognizing the sovereign independence of
the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, and the start of the military
campaign in the Ukraine. He explicitly referenced Zelenskyy’s Munich nuclear
weapons pledge: “This is not empty bravado,” Putin stressed in his speech. The
next morning, Russia began its special operations, by moving into Eastern
Ukraine, and removing the threat to Russia.
Gas Pipelines from Russia into China
The truth is that the Empire has been preparing a war against Russia since at
least the mid-90s and that these preparations dramatically accelerated in the
past eight years. It means that while western politicians spent the past 30
years or so slowly encircling Russia, Russian force planners successfully
reformed the Soviet/Russian armed forces (which were in a terrible shape in the
90s and in a very uneven shape during most of the 80s) into a military capable
of taking on all of NATO at once and quickly and very painfully defeat it.
PS: Russian Defense Minister Shoigu just reported that in November the USAF
used 10 strategic bombers coming in from both the east and the west to rehearse
nuclear strikes on Russia and that they changed course only 20km from the
Russian border. It’s a game called “nuclear chicken “. Let’s begin by looking
at the AngloZionist policies towards Russia.
The West’s Actions
Second is the now total colonization of Western Europe into the Empire. While
NATO moved to the East, the US also took much deeper control of Western Europe
which is now administered for the Empire. The Russians are most dismayed at
the re-colonization of Western Europe. The ‘loss’ of Western Europe is far more
concerning for the Russians than the fact that ex-Soviet colonies in Eastern
Europe are now under US colonial administration. Why? Look at this from the
Russian point of view.
The Russians all see that the US power is on the decline and that the dollar
will, sooner or later, gradually or suddenly, lose its role as the main reserve
and exchange currency on the planet (this process has already begun). Simply
put – unless the US finds a way to dramatically change the current
international dynamic the AngloZionist Empire will collapse. The Russians
believe that what the Americans are doing is, at best, to use tensions with
Russia to revive a dormant Cold War v2 and, at worst, to actually start a real
shooting war in Europe. So a declining Empire with a vital need for a major
crisis, a spineless Western Europe unable to stand up for its own interest, a
subservient Eastern Europe just begging to turn into a massive battlefield
between East and West, and a messianic, rabidly russophobic rhetoric as the
background for an increase in military deployments on the Russian border. Is
anybody really surprised that the Russians are taking all this very serious?
The Russian Reaction
So let us now examine the Russian reaction to Empire’s stance.
First, the Russians want to make sure that the Americans do not give in into
the illusion that a full-scale war in Europe would be like WWII which saw the
continental US only suffer a few, tiny, almost symbolic, attacks by the enemy.
Since a full scale war in Europe would threaten the very existence of the
Russian state and nation, the Russians are now taking measures to make sure
that, should that happen, the US would pay an immense price for such an attack.
The Russians are now evidently assuming that a conventional threat from the
West might materialize in the foreseeable future. They are therefore taking the
measures needed to counter that conventional threat.
Since the USA appears to be dead set into deploying an anti-ballistic missile
system not only in Europe, but also in the Far East, the Russians are taking
the measures to both defeat and bypass this system.
The Russian effort is a vast and a complex one, and it covers almost every
aspect of Russian force planning, but there are four examples which would best
illustrate the Russian determination not to allow a 22 June 1941 to happen
again:
- The re-creation of the First Guards Tank Army
- The deployment of the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system
- The deployment of the Sarmat ICBM
- The deployment of the Status-6 strategic torpedo
The Re-creation of the First Guards Tank Army
To put it simply – Russia clearly did not believe that there was a conventional
military threat from the West and therefore she did not even bother deploying
any kind of meaningful military force to defend from such a non-existing
threat. This has now dramatically changed.
Russia has officially announced that the First Guards Tank Army – 1TGA. Make
no mistake, this will be a very large force, exactly the kind of force needed
so smash through an attacking enemy forces.
The Deployment of the Iskander-M Operational-Tactical Missile System
The new Iskander-M operational tactical missile system is a formidable weapon
by any standard. It is extremely accurate, it has advanced anti-ABM
capabilities, it flies at hypersonic speeds and is practically undetectable on
the ground. This will be the missile tasked with destroying all the units and
equipment the US and NATO have forward-deployed in Eastern Europe and, if
needed, clear the way for the 1TGA.
The Deployment of the Sarmat ICBM
Neither the 1TGA nor the Iskander-M missile will threaten the US homeland in
any way. Russia thus needed some kind of weapon which would truly strike fear
into the Pentagon and White House in the way the famous RS-36 Voevoda (aka
SS-18 “Satan” in US classification) did during the Cold War. The SS-18, the
most powerful ICBM ever developed, was scary enough. The RS-28 “Sarmat”
(SS-X-30 by NATO classification) brings the terror to a totally new level.
The Sarmat is nothing short of amazing. It will be capable of carrying 10-15
MIRVed warheads which will be delivered in a so-called “depressed” (suborbital)
trajectory and which will remain maneuverable at hypersonic speeds. The missile
will not have to use the typical trajectory over the North Pole but will be
capable of reaching any target anywhere on the planet from any trajectory. All
these elements combined will make the Sarmat itself and its warheads completely
impossible to intercept.
The Sarmat will also be capable of delivering conventional hypersonic warheads
capable of a “kinetic strike” which could be used to strike a fortified enemy
target in a non-nuclear conflict. This will be made possible by the amazing
accuracy of the Sarmat’s warheads.
The Sarmat’s silos will be protected by a unique “active protection measures”
which will include 100 guns capable of firing a “metallic cloud” of forty
thousand 30mm “bullets” to an altitude of up to 6km. The Russians are also
planning to protect the Sarmat with their new S-500 air defense systems.
Finally, the Sarmat’s preparation to start time will be under 60 seconds thanks
a highly automated launch system. What this all means is that the Sarmat
missile will be invulnerable in its silo, during its flight and on re-entry in
the lower parts of the atmosphere.
It is interesting to note that while the USA has made a great deal of noise
around its planned Prompt Global Strike system, the Russians have already begun
deploying their own version of this concept.
The Deployment of the Status-6 Strategic Torpedo
What is shown here is an “autonomous underwater vehicle” which has advanced
navigational capabilities but which can also be remote controlled and steered
from a specialized command module. This vehicle can dive as deep as 1000m, at a
speed up to 185km/h and it has a range of up to 10’000km. It is delivered by
specially configured submarines.
The Status-6 system can be used to target aircraft carrier battle groups, US
navy bases (especially SSBN bases) and, in its most frightening configuration,
it can be used to deliver high-radioactivity cobalt bombs capable of laying
waste to huge expanses of land. The Status-6 delivery system is capable of
delivering a 100 megaton warhead which would make it twice as powerful as the
most powerful nuclear device ever detonated, the Soviet Czar-bomb (57
megatons). Hiroshima was only 15 kilotons.
Keep in mind that most of the USA’s cities and industrial centers are all along
the coastline which makes them extremely vulnerable to torpedo based attacks
(be it Sakharov’s proposed “Tsunami bomb” or the Status-6 system). And, just as
in the case of the Iskander-M or the Sarmat ICBM, the depth and speed of the
Status-6 torpedo would make it basically invulnerable to interception.
Take the Kalibr cruise-missile recently seen in the war in Syria. Did you know
that it can be shot from a typical commercial container, like the ones you will
find on trucks, trains or ships? Just remember that the Kalibr has a range of
anywhere between 50km to 4000km and that it can carry a nuclear warhead. How
hard would it be for Russia to deploy these cruise missiles right off the US
coast in regular container ships? Or just keep a few containers in Cuba or
Venezuela? This is a system which is so undetectable that the Russians could
deploy it off the coast of Australia to hit the NSA station in Alice Springs if
they wanted, and nobody would even see it coming.
The reality is that the notion that the US could trigger a war against Russia
(or China for that matter) and not suffer the consequences on the US mainland
is absolutely ridiculous. So sometimes things have to be said directly and
unambiguously – western politicians better not believe in their own imperial
hubris. So far, all their threats have achieved is that the Russians have
responded with a many but futile verbal protests and a full-scale program to
prepare Russia for WWIII.
First, he confirmed that the Sarmat ICBM would replace the old but already
formidable SS-18 “Satan”. Then he turned to new weapon systems:
- A nuclear powered cruise missile with basically unlimited range
- A nuclear powered unmanned submersible with intercontinental range, very
high speed, silent propulsion and capable of moving a great depths
- A Mach 10 hypersonic missile with a 2’000 kilometer range (named: Kinzhal)
- A new strategic missile capable of Mach 20 velocities (named: Avangard)
All of these systems can be armed with conventional or nuclear warheads. Just
think of the implications! Not only does that mean that the entire ABM effort
of the USA is now void and useless, but also that from now US aircraft carrier
battle groups can only be used against small, defenseless, nations!
It Is Official and It Is Over
While the whole Western media are shaking (incompetence will do this to one) in
their boots from Vladimir Putin’s address, where he demonstrated, among many
things, new RS-28 Sarmat ballistic missile, behind that revolutionary weapon
system, one was almost completely ignored by media. Again, “education” based on
catch phrases (such a “nuclear weapon) will do this to one. By far most
shocking (albeit inevitable) revelation was deployment of a new hyper-sonic
missile Kinzhal weapon. The missile is… well, for the lack of better word, is
stunning–it is M10+ highly maneuverable missile with the range of 2000
kilometers. The naval warfare as we know it is over. Without any
overly-dramatic emphasis–we are officially in new era. No, I repeat, NO, modern
or perspective air-defense system deployed today by any NATO fleet can
intercept even a single missile with such characteristics. The salvo of 5-6 of
such missiles is a guaranteed destruction of any Carrier Battle Group (CBG).
The mode of use of such weapon, especially since we know now that it is
deployed (for now) in Southern Military District is very simple–the most likely
missile drop spot by MiG-31s will be international waters of the Black Sea,
thus closing off whole Eastern Mediterranean to any surface ship or group of
ships. It also creates a massive no-go zone in the Pacific, where MiG-31s from
Yelizovo will be able to patrol vast distances over the ocean. It is, though,
remarkable that the current platform for Kinzhal is MiG-31–arguably the best
interceptor in the history. Obviously, MiG-31’s ability to reach very high
supersonic speeds (in excess of M3) is a key factor in the launch. But no
matter what are the procedures for the launch of this terrifying weapon, the
conclusions are simple:
- It moves aircraft carriers into the niche of pure power projection against
weak and defenseless adversaries;
- It makes classic CBGs as main strike force against peer completely
obsolete and useless; it also makes any surface combat ship defenseless
regardless its air-defense capabilities.
- Sea Control and Sea Denial change their nature and merge. Those who have
such weapon, or weapons, simply own vast spaces of the sea limited by the
ranges of Kinzhal and its carriers.
I don’t want to sound dramatic and I knew that there were and are always
surprises in Soviet/Russian weapons but today’s revelations from the highest
podium in Russia about Kinzhal were shocking. The balance of power just shifted
dramatically, with it the naval warfare as we knew it is no more.
It is OVER!
“There is nothing in the U.S. arsenal now and in the foreseeable future which
can intercept Mach 9-10+, let alone M20-27, targets. That’s the issue. It is
indeed set, match and game over for the Empire: there is no more military
option against Russia. So what do these people want? They want to provoke
Moscow by all means available to exercise “Russian aggression”, resulting in an
attack on Ukraine, but with zero casualties for NATO and the Pentagon. Then the
Empire of Chaos will blame Russia; unleash a tsunami of fresh sanctions,
especially financial; and try to shut off all economic links between Russia and
NATO.
All exponents of Russian leadership, starting with President Putin, have
already made it clear, over and over again, what happens if the Ukro-dementials
start a blitzkrieg over Donbass: Ukraine will be mercilessly smashed – and that
applies not only to the ethno-fascist gang in Kiev. Ukraine will cease to exist
as a state.
It’s all about Minsk
It remains to be seen how this “de-confliction” will happen in practice when
Defense Minister Shoigu revealed U.S. nuclear-capable bombers have been
practicing, in their sorties across Eastern Europe, to enhance “their ability
to use nuclear weapons against Russia”. Shoigu discussed that in detail with
Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe: after all the Americans will certainly
pull the same stunt against China. The root cause of all this drama is stark:
Kiev simply refuses to respect the February 2015 Minsk Agreement. In a
nutshell, the deal stipulated that Kiev should grant autonomy to Donbass via a
constitutional amendment, referred to as “special status”; issue a general
amnesty; and start a dialogue with the people’s republics of Donetsk and
Lugansk.
Over the years, Kiev fulfilled exactly zero commitments – while the proverbial
NATO media machine incessantly pounded global opinion with fake news, spinning
that Russia was violating Minsk. Russia is not even mentioned in the agreement.
Moscow in fact always respected the Minsk Agreement – which translates as
regarding Donbass as an integral, autonomous part of Ukraine. Moscow has zero
interest in promoting regime change in Kiev. On the Minsk agreements, Putin’s
to Zelinsky message was blunt: “The President of Ukraine has said that he does
not like any of the clauses of the Minsk agreements. Like it, or not – be
patient, my beauty. They must be fulfilled.”
Looking at all of these moves against Russia since taking office, plus knowing
full well the aim of the Rockefeller Empire was to “de-construct Russia, and
break it up into three parts, Putin said “enough is enough” It was time to
fight back. Since 2000, Putin bided his time, making Russia strong, getting rid
of internal and external enemies, building up her military and financial
strength, and producing such advanced weapons for which the West has no defense
against. For the first time in a century, a military superpower Russia, having
had enough of U.S./NATO bullying, is now dictating the terms of a new
arrangement.
Coming straight from President Putin, it did sound like a bolt from the sky:
“We need long-term legally binding guarantees even if we know they cannot be
trusted, as the U.S. frequently withdraws from treaties that become
uninteresting to them. But it’s something, not just verbal assurances.” And
that’s how Russia-U.S. relations come to the definitive crunch – after an
interminable series of polite red alerts coming from Moscow.
Putin once again had to specify that Russia is looking for “indivisible,
equitable security” – a principle established since Helsinki in 1975 – even
though he no longer sees the U.S. as a dependable “partner”, that
diplomatically nicety so debased by the Empire since the end of the USSR. So in
the end it comes down to Europeans facing “the prospect of turning the
continent into a field of military confrontation.” That will be the inevitable
consequence of a NATO “decision” actually decided in Washington.
Incidentally: any possible, future “counter threats” will be coordinated
between Russia and China.
Most people by now know the content of the Russian draft agreements on security
guarantees presented to the Americans. Key provisions include no further NATO
expansion; no Ukraine admission; no NATO shenanigans in Ukraine, Eastern
Europe, Transcaucasia and Central Asia; Russia and NATO agreeing not to deploy
intermediate and short-range missiles in areas from where they can hit each
other’s territory; establishment of hotlines; and the NATO-Russia Council
actively involved in resolving disputes.
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs extensively reiterated that the Americans
received “detailed explanations of the logic of the Russian approach”, so the
ball is in Washington’s court.
In fact, whether U.S. and NATO functionaries like it or not, what’s really
happening in the realpolitk realm is Russia dictating new terms from a position
of power. In a nutshell: you may learn the new game in town in a peaceful
manner, civilized dialogue included, or you will learn the hard way via a
dialogue with Russia’s missile stars – Iskandr, Kalibr, Khinzal , Zircon,
and many more in the pipeline. The Pentagon has nothing close to any of these.
These weapons are game-changing.
Do note that the US military has been on a technological decline over the past
two decades. In addition, the cost structures of new systems are such, that its
peer competitors –Russia and China – do build better equipment at FAR LOWER
COSTS. And, they work, unlike many new systems in the Pentagon and western
militaries. Finally, the adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan have broken the
back of the US military. It is not what it once was.
President Putin declared that the Russian ultimatum was not an ultimatum, as
have several other Russian officials. Putin said:
“We already see that some of our ill-wishers, frankly speaking, interpret them
as an ultimatum from Russia. Of course not. I remind you once again, I want to
remind you: everything that our partners did, so we will call them, Yugoslavia
was bombed under what pretext? What, with the sanction of the Security Council,
or what? Where is Yugoslavia and where is the USA? Destroyed the country. Yes,
there is an internal conflict, there are their own problems, but who gave the
right to strike at the European capital? No one. They just decided that, and
the satellites ran behind them and nodded. That’s all international law.
And under what pretext did you enter Iraq? Development of weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq. We entered, destroyed the country, created a hotbed of
international terrorism, and then it turned out that we were mistaken, and then
they said: “The intelligence let us down.” Wow! The country was destroyed!
Intelligence failed – and the whole explanation. It turns out that there were
no weapons of mass destruction there, no one was preparing. On the contrary,
once it was, [but] everything was destroyed as it should be.
How did you go to Syria? With the approval of the Security Council? No. They do
what they want. But what they are now doing on the territory of Ukraine, or
trying to do and planning to do, is not thousands of kilometers from our
national border – this is at the doorstep of our house. They must understand
that we simply have nowhere to retreat further.
Specialists sit here; I am in constant contact with them. There are no
hypersonic weapons in the United States yet, but we know when they will appear,
the same cannot be hidden. Everything is recorded: the tests are successful –
unsuccessful. Clearly, we roughly understand when it will be. They will supply
Ukraine with hypersonic weapons, and then under its cover – this does not mean
that they will use them tomorrow, because we already have Zircon, but they do
not have it yet – they will arm and push extremists from a neighboring state
into including to certain regions of the Russian Federation, say the Crimea,
under favorable, as they believe, circumstances for themselves.
Do they think we don’t see these threats? Or do they think that we will
helplessly look at the threats posed to Russia? This is the whole problem, we
simply have nowhere to move on – that is the question.”
This then is Putin’s red line.
In plain English, this means this: oh no, this is not at all an ultimatum. But
we remind you that you attacked other countries and all we are saying is that
if you continue or do not heed our warnings, then we will be free to do
whatever we deem necessary. But no, of course not, this is not an ultimatum at
all.
First, Putin is both very predictable and, at the same time, very
unpredictable. The predictable thing about Putin is that he only uses force
when there is no other option left. The very unpredictable thing about Putin
is how and where he is willing to use force. Russia has a huge advantage over
US+NATO in electronic warfare (from the tactical to the strategic level) and
she can easily use it to a devastating effect while NATO has nothing to
retaliate in kind. This, by the way, also applies to the Middle-East where,
apparently, Russia has the means to disrupt/spoof GPS signals over the entire
region.
The power of the Russian ultimatum is precisely in the fact that the Russians
have promised to do “something” military and/or military-technical, but have
not spelled out what that “something” might be. In reality, we are not dealing
with one single “something”, but a succession of gradual steps which will bring
more and more pressure to bear on the US and NATO/EU . Keep in mind that while
the USA can make counter-proposals they are in no position to make any credible
threats, hence the fundamental asymmetry between the two sides: Russian can
make credible threats, while the US can produce only more words, something the
Russians have basically stopped paying attention to.
From now on, the game is simple: Russia will gradually turn up the “pain dial”
and see how the Empire will cope with this. China will be doing the exact same
as Russian and Chinese actions are obviously carefully coordinated. At which
point Russia and China would have won.
How soon will Russia turn up the pain dial? Putin has just repeated today that
no US delaying tactics will be acceptable to Russia. A not-so-diplomatic
message was sent to the West. “If you don’t want to talk to Lavrov, then you
will have to deal with Shoigu” – the best one-liner in years.
Putin has declared today that he is “fed up” with the West: “And when
international law and the UN Charter interfere with them, they declare all this
obsolete and unnecessary. And when something corresponds to their interests,
they immediately refer to the norms of international law, the UN Charter, and
international humanitarian rules. I’m fed up of such manipulations”.
Now, a very high-level Deep State intel source, retired, comes down to the
nitty gritty, pointing out how “the secret negotiations between Russia and the
US center around missiles going into Eastern Europe, as the US frantically
drives for completing its development of hypersonic missiles.”
The main point is that if the US places such hypersonic missiles in Romania and
Poland, as planned, the time for them to reach Moscow would be 5 minutes. It’s
even worse for Russia if they are placed in the Baltics. The source notes, “The
US plan is to neutralize the more advanced defensive missile systems that seal
Russia’s airspace. This is why the US has offered to allow Russia to inspect
these missile sites in the future, to prove that there are no hypersonic
nuclear missiles. Yet that’s not a solution, as the Raytheon missile launchers
can handle both offensive and defensive missiles, so it’s possible to sneak in
the offensive missiles at night. Thus everything requires continuous
observation.”
The bottom line is stark: “This is the real issue behind the present crisis.
The only solution is no missile sites allowed in Eastern Europe.” That happens
to be an essential part of Russia’s demands for security guarantees. The West
slowly is discovering that that it has no pressure point versus Russia (its
economy being relatively sanctions-proof), and its military is no match for
that of Russia’s.” In parallel, how “the threat to US dominance is that China,
Russia and Mackinder’s Eurasian World Island heartland are offering better
trade and investment opportunities than are available from the United States
with its increasingly desperate demand for sacrifices from its NATO and other
allies.”
The Rockefeller Empire and Washington are at the end of American geopolitical
control over Eurasia. Occupied Germany and Japan enforcing the strategic
submission of Eurasia from the west down to the east; the ever-expanding NATO;
the ever de-multiplied Empire of Bases, all the lineaments of the 75-year-plus
free lunch are collapsing.
Way back in August 2020, “the goal of Russian and Chinese policy is to recruit
Germany into a triple alliance locking together the Eurasian land mass a la
Mackinder into the greatest geopolitical alliance in history, switching world
power in favor of these three great powers against Anglo-Saxon sea power.”
The new groove is set to the tune of the New Silk Roads, or BRI; Russia’s
unmatched hypersonic power – and now the non-negotiable demands for security
guarantees; the advent of RCEP – the largest free trade deal on the planet
uniting East Asia; the Empire all but expelled from Central Asia after the
Afghan humiliation; and sooner rather than later its expulsion from the first
island chain in the Western Pacific, complete with a starring role for the
Chinese DF-21D “carrier killer” missiles. So the rules have changed
drastically. The Hegemon is naked. The new deal starts with turning the
post-Cold War set-up in Eastern Europe completely upside down. The East Med
will be next. The Bear is back, baby. Hear him roar.
To achieve its Full Spectrum Dominance, Washington needed not only the
resources of its Color Revolutions across Eurasia to encircle Russia. The
Pentagon also needed to draw the rope tight around the emerging colossus of
Asia, China. There, a different approach was required, given the extreme US
financial dependence on China and its economic ties and investments there. To
that end, our next article is on China.
A true lover of wisdom has hands too busy to hold on to anything! He learns by
doing and every pebble in the path becomes her teacher! Oink
