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MINISTRY OF TOKYO
US-ANGLO CAPITALISMEU-NATO IMPERIALISM
Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies
Establishment of Sovereignty-Usurping Supranational Body Dictatorships
Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans
Enduring Program of PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR on Europeans
Enduring Program of European Displacement, Dismemberment, Dispossession, & Dissolution
No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
U.S. RULING OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR TO SALVAGE HEGEMONY
[LINK | Article]

*U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR*

Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
[info from Craig Murray video appearance, follows]  US-Anglo Alliance DELIBERATELY STOKING ANTI-RUSSIAN FEELING & RAMPING UP TENSION BETWEEN EASTERN EUROPE & RUSSIA.  British military/government feeding media PROPAGANDA.  Media choosing to PUBLISH government PROPAGANDA.  US naval aggression against Russia:  Baltic Sea — US naval aggression against China:  South China Sea.  Continued NATO pressure on Russia:  US missile systems moving into Eastern Europe.     [info from John Pilger interview follows]  War Hawk:  Hillary Clinton — embodiment of seamless aggressive American imperialist post-WWII system.  USA in frenzy of preparation for a conflict.  Greatest US-led build-up of forces since WWII gathered in Eastern Europe and in Baltic states.  US expansion & military preparation HAS NOT BEEN REPORTED IN THE WEST.  Since US paid for & controlled US coup, UKRAINE has become an American preserve and CIA Theme Park, on Russia's borderland, through which Germans invaded in the 1940s, costing 27 million Russian lives.  Imagine equivalent occurring on US borders in Canada or Mexico.  US military preparations against RUSSIA and against CHINA have NOT been reported by MEDIA.  US has sent guided missile ships to diputed zone in South China Sea.  DANGER OF US PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKES.  China is on HIGH NUCLEAR ALERT.  US spy plane intercepted by Chinese fighter jets.  Public is primed to accept so-called 'aggressive' moves by China, when these are in fact defensive moves:  US 400 major bases encircling China; Okinawa has 32 American military installations; Japan has 130 American military bases in all.  WARNING PENTAGON MILITARY THINKING DOMINATES WASHINGTON. ⟴  

July 31, 2016

Sweden Aids & Abets Murder-Terrorism While Arbitrarily & Unlawfully Detaining Australian Journalist



Sweden Aids & Abets Murder-Terrorism 
While Arbitrarily & Unlawfully Detaining Australian Journalist
SWEDEN RELEASES
MURDER-TERRORISM SUSPECT
SOUGHT BY RUSSIANS INTERNATIONALLY

While the European Arrest Warrant has been used to rubber stamp an act of political persecution by the American capitalist war criminal government's Swedish and British government proxies, who are engaged in political persecution and unlawful detention without charge of Australian journalist whistleblower publisher, Julian Assange (WikiLeaks), for 5.5 years, these same corrupt Swedish and European Union entities are aiding and abetting terrorists wanted internationally, including one that is suspected of subsequently masterminding a recently executed act of terrorism in Turkey.


RT NEWS
https://archive.is/forLy

Suspect on Russia’s terrorist list apprehended at Stockholm airport, later walks free

Published time: 29 Jul, 2016 19:38

Police at Stockholm Arlanda Airport in Sweden apprehended a suspect who was being sought internationally and was wanted by Russia on suspicion of terrorism and murder. After being questioned, however, the man was later released without charge.

According to Sweden’s Aftonbladet newspaper, the 36-year-old man, who was found to hold several passports, was on his way out of Sweden after a short stay in the country. The incident happened around 8.30am local time on Friday.

The case was reported to the International Public Prosecution Office. Prosecutor Ronnie Jacobsson informed reporters: “[The suspect] is in custody, and I have asked him to get a public defender.”

Several hours later though, the prosecution office decided to release the man from police custody, revealing little information both about the suspect and why the decision to let him go had been made.

"My decision is based on what has been said during interrogations and what has emerged about the man. My overall assessment is that there are no grounds for continued detention," Jacobsson said in a statement for the press.

The man's lawyer, Johan Hansson, said that according to the arrest warrant, the events in relation to which his defendant is wanted are "old, between 12 and 17 years back." "There has never been any danger to Sweden," Aftonbladet cited the lawyer as saying.  [comment:  murder and terrorism is never 'old', you shifty bastards ]

Earlier in the day, the prosecutor declined to confirm if Swedish authorities had contacted their Russian counterparts, the Local reported.

The incident comes as Russia calls for increased cooperation on apprehending international terrorist suspects. The request was voiced by the Federal Security Service (FSB) following an international meeting of security chiefs which saw 100 delegations from 63 countries arrive in St. Petersburg on July 27-28.

The Russian federal agency has active warrants for some 260 terrorist suspects worldwide, all holders of Russian passports living abroad and accused of participating in terrorism.

And “there are over 220 potential ‘pseudo-Shakhids [suicide bombers]’ under operative supervision in Russia. FSB officers are systematically exposing persons involved in the preparation of kamikaze bombers and staging terrorist acts involving them,” FSB chief Aleksandr Bortnikov said on Wednesday.

According to Bortnikov, these suspects are “actively preparing to transfer their operations to Russia and other countries.”

The news also comes on the heels of what Russia says were repeated warnings to Turkey and the European Union that suspected terrorists were hiding out theresomething Moscow believes their security services ignored.

Further to that, it turned out the Chechen man suspected of masterminding the Istanbul Airport attack in late June that claimed 44 lives and left more than 230 injured, Ahmed Chataev, was also on Russia’s list, but, according to Moscow, was granted refugee status by Austria. This reportedly helped him avoid extradition multiple times.
  [comment:  Western assh*les are aiding terrorists (and currently trying to undermine the Assad government and Russian efforts to rid Aleppo of Western proxy terrorists). ]

READ MORE: Wanted in Russia: EU court blocked suspected Istanbul attack mastermind from extradition in 2010

To counteract terrorism more effectively, countries should consolidate their databases on terrorists into one, Bortnikov suggested.

“Almost every security service and law enforcement body possesses vast troves of information. However, these are isolated databases that have to be consolidated into one,” he said, referring to Interpol and EU crime databases in particular.

Russia’s initiative has already been backed by the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), Bortnikov said.
https://archive.is/forLy



July 29, 2016

GERMANY - Impact of Mass Immigration | German Police



OCCUPIED
GERMANY
vk.com emedded video


Impact of Germany's Mass Migration

{translation}

Outdoor pool in Neukölln (Berlin),
migrants engage lifeguard"

Would you feel safe there as a German, and feel assured of the safety of your wife and your children?



Meanwhile

German police state brutality


No way known are they dealing with the foreigners like this.
In fact, the police were beaten by foreigner at Frankfurt airport



 "Ganz normale Kontrolle"
vk.com emedded video



what I am seeing disgusts me


COMMENT

I get a really sick feeling in my stomach watching this and I'm scared.

It is hard for me to believe that war will not break out in Europe and that this will not affect all Europeans, wherever they are.

It is also hard for me to dismiss the knowledge that there is no longer  any safe society for Europeans, however removed from Europe.
While this is taking place, NATO appears to be preparing for war with Russia.


*I'm not certain that the embed codes have done their thing:  if not, link 'source' (as marked).

Adventures on VK



I'm Back

I got lost in space ... sort of.


Signing on today, five days after I last signed on having immersed myself in other focus, I got this crap from Google:

Google Pricks


What's Google doing?

Is this some censorship ploy?

As I got into Blogger on first shot, there's either been an intrusion attempt, or this is an automated Google potential censorship strategy of the demand-a-phone-number kind, much like Twitter's.

Whatever this is, it's left me feeling agitated and inclined to sign up to Russia's VK (V Kontakte) to get away from being harassed and spied on by Google.

Migrating is annoying, but making some provision beats finding you're locked out of a workspace and it beats giving Google a phone number (I think ... I've got a hang-up about that).  I feel I'd rather let the Russians have it.  If I must be spied on, let the Russians spy on me.  ;)

Not sure what to do about this space.  Hoping I don't get locked out.

If there's suddenly no further posts here, it's not because this has been abandoned it's because I have been locked out.

If I could do a mass delete and leave bare bones and notification of where I've migrated to next (if I find anywhere), that would be preferred.  But ... Blogger doesn't have a bulk delete command, although I can delete this entire thing in one shot (which means losing everything, including the URL, which I'm not keen to do just yet).

It wouldn't take me much to jump on some other space and get things happening to my satisfaction quickly.

Signed onto VK.  Took me forever to figure how to punch in my phone number.  It doesn't get any more simple than that.  Don't know what I was doing wrong.  Then I made it complicated looking for carrier codes particulars.  But that's the first digits of the mobile number (dropping the zeros).

Not really keen on handing over a number.  Almost feel like I've been raped by VK.  But it's either VK rape or Google rape, I guess.  I chose VK rape, as an act of defiance.  LOL

Not sure why I'm so angsty about this; the phone's not even in my name.  OMG, I'm so disorganised.  Name chosen for this blog was well chosen.  Half the time I can't even find my things ... like normal things:  car keys ... my phone ... still don't know how to use the new house phone ... and most days I don't know what day it is; but I know useless politics and associated trivia.

VK expect registrations in real names (or, obviously, something that sounds like a real name).

As there's no 'real name' sounding name I'm interested in using, my fake name #2 is going to VK moderators before I can use the service ... which I really don't know anything about.

Cancelled the moderation request, in the hope that I can get away with using my even more fake name first selection (that wasn't knocked back).

Loaded my groovy pic.  Blocked broadcast of my fake birthdate.

Wow, I've got a 'friend' already.  It makes a funny clicking noise to let you know you've been followed.

Not sure what to do with my friend:  accept as friend or leave as follower?  Accepted as 'friend'.  But the categories don't allow for whatever you may want to designate 'friend', and none of them match what this is:  stranger.  So, I've just left it at that.  My new-found 'friend' is without a category.

VK does not require an e-mail address, but I have chosen to create an e-mail addy specifically associated with VK, and have now entered that into VK.  Only problem is, I'll never remember my  passwords, e-mails and handles.  Wish I wasn't so reluctant to centralise and duplicate, because it would make record keeping easier.  I'm really slack with that.  But I'm slack with everything.  I've got a million pointless printouts, notes and scraps of paper all over the place, from back when I was in some manic politics news 'studying' mode and since, and I still haven't got rid of all my useless rubbish.  ;) 

Received VK notification in my new inbox and have hit the confirm button.

Well, it looks like I'm good to go.  I've got it set up for a number of different types of notices (by default), and I think that might be going overboard.  As I don't know what I'm doing, I'm going to let it be and work it out as I go along.

VK has networking ('communities'), photos, video, audio and games.

Games is definitely out for me.  I don't play anything, ever.  The rest sounds cool.  But I'm more into blogging than chatting, so I might have to hunt around for Russian blogging. 


Found a photo of Putin ... he looks just how I like him:  stern

Hello, Russia!
Feeling my way around, I've accidentally set up a community.  Oops.  Now I can't get rid of it.  There doesn't seem to be a button for deletion of the 'community'.  It's not something I need, when I've got my personal 'community' space and can just as well do my thing from that.

It's making me nuts having the unwanted 'community' I've created just hanging there.  I want to get rid of it.  Looks like I'm stuck with the space.  Can't find a way to get rid of it.

I've chain-smoked indoors again.  I'm going to get caught out.  It smells shocking in here.  Incense might help.

Wish Russia would buy out Google and take over Blogger.  It's my comfort zone here.  Guess that's not going to happen.

Clicked on 'articles'.  It's Western MSM, mainly American. 

Boris Johnson's cat Palmerston kicked out of Theresa May's residence after sneaking in, reports NBC.  

Good to see they're reporting on the important things, while ignoring trivia like reporter arrested by totalitarian American police at Philadelphia DNC event; protesters making their displeasure felt at DNC; the dirty, dirty politics and underhand tricks of the Democrats.

Clicked on games.  There's loads of games.  Different categories.  Might give that a miss.

Listening to 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' on VK.  Added to my music.  Nice.

Still playing with my space on VK.  Don't really know what I'm doing.  Listening to Pink Floyd now.  

The audio is really nice on VK.  Very clear.

Might have to stop for a while, tidy and throw together something to eat.  Had a craving for macaroni and cheese, with maybe some bacon and with a pesto or something.  That sounds good to me, but I'm not sure how that translates in real terms.  It's my craving.




*LOL:  I got caught smoking indoors.  Response was:  "It's not as you've chain-smoked in here; you've just had one."  

Ummmm, there was one in the improvised ashtray, but I've had more than that ... but I didn't say.   :)

Found what I consider a VK security flaw.

VK gives an automated email notification that your account has been accessed from 'X' Browser in 'X' country location.

Think I'm getting that because my location is set to Moscow.



RIGHT-CLICK, 'LEFT TAB'

Yuk!  This is the worst meal I have cooked and eaten in a long time.  It was revolting. 
We have parsley growing in the garden, and I asked for some to be picked ... but I got a bunch of parsley so fibrous that even a cow would find chewing hard going.  It was like plastic.  And so was the bacon.  I don't know what was with the bacon, but there was hard 'plastic' bits that I had to spit out.   Had to have a beer after this.  Now I feel like another one.  And I don't even drink.  LOL
Typing 'cow' got me thinking about cows.  Poor cows.  It's disgusting that we murder animals to eat, when we have other options:  animals that live in captivity and animals that are farmed intensively, purely for profit, and then sadistically destroyed.

Humans are vile.  I think I prefer cows.  I just have to figure out how not to eat them ... or bacon.  I don't eat much meat and when I do I usually don't think about it.  But every now and then I feel enormously guilty.




July 24, 2016

Laughable German Government Whitewash of Munich Massacre




WikiLeaks

SELL-OUT PROPAGANDA POODLES






FRENCH STATE PROPAGANIST REHASH OF GERMAN STATE PROPAGANDA

Agence France-Presse (AFP)
CEO is Emmanuel Hoog (fr)
Michèle Léridon, News Director
newsagency HQ Paris

2008, French govt announced plans to allow outside investors / attempt to privatise the agency / opposed by various

AFP is a government-chartered public corporation

AFP is administered by a CEO and a board comprising 15 members:

    8 representatives of the French press;
    2 representatives of the AFP personnel;
    2 representatives of the government-owned radio and television;
    3 representatives of the government.

  •     One named by the prime minister
  •     One named by the minister of finance
  •     One named by the minister of foreign affairs

[wikipedia]


'IRANIAN' SHOOTER I.D. LIKELY A LIE, LIKE THE REST OF THE MUNICH MASSACRE COVER-UP

[ ... ]

One clan member, Ziyad Sonboly likes sniping and he is clearly Syrian with a Syrian flag.

If Ali Sonboly was Iranian, what then is he doing with the flag of Turkey hovering behind him on his Facebook and on the Facebooks of his relatives and his contacts?

There is also a photo of him being arrested (but we only get the back of this big guy) and what few know is that Sonboly was being watched by Interpol. They show you his face as a kid when he is a mature individual as photos from eye witness video shows. So what is up with the baby face?  There are no photos of this man as is? This is a big guy.

http://linkis.com/shoebat.com/2016/07/kUL41


WATCH THESE TACTICS!
BABY PHOTO SPIN
HOW LOW CAN THE GERMAN POLITICIANS GO?



6 FEET of TERROR


BBC LIES




'BALCONY ARGUMENT' LIES
 & A HEAP OF OTHER DISTRACTION WITH IRRELEVANT DETAIL


The crew at WikiLeaks tweeting French government media outlet propaganda, of rehashed shameless German government propaganda and post-Munich Massacre whitewash spin-doctoring, must think the public is exceptionally stupid.

What's next?  Mossad and CIA propaganda for utopian 'good'?


EDIT: 
I felt rather strongly when I posted this. LOL

But now that I've seen the Louise Mensch piece, in a Murdoch magazine, accuse WikiLeaks of being run by Putin, I've regained some perspective. LMAO



Detour

This keeps getting more and more insane ... LOL

Because WikiLeaks has released the DNC (Democratic National Committee e-mails, the capitalist press has taken the opportunity to attack (in defence of Hillary Clinton and the Democrats), conveniently tying in three (3) capitalist intelligentsia 'enemies', ingeniously smearing all in one hit:

1. Donald Trump, Republic (opponent of Democrat witch & Wall Street shill, Hillary Clinton).

2.  Vladimir Putin / Kremlin.

3.  WikiLeaks (the journalist / 'messenger').

OMG, these press pigs have got no subtlety whatsoever.  They're in your face propagandists, making up the most preposterous sh*t.  As if US millionaire, Donald Trump, would be a Kremlin agent or something.  Trump may have some conservative goals, but he's far from an 'extremist', a 'Nazi' or a Kremlin agent, and anyone with half a brain would know that.  So this media 'fear' piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, Aussie paper, is hilarious.
The corporate press is fucked, and I'm beginning to think it's most f*cked in Australia (Australia that doesn't even get the whole news and nothing but the news ... and what it gets is just the abridged version, full of state propaganda). 

Anyway, it looks like maybe the Australian capitalists want a warhawk Wall Street puppet, Killary Clinton, which is why their papers are promoting her cause.  What c*nts.
*Hope this part makes sense ... I'm on a marathon session without sleep, & can hardly see straight or keep my eyes open.  Must have a cigarette and crash, before I plant my face on the keyboard.  LOL

PS ... the attempts to paint this Munich Massacre as anything but the terror attack that it was are getting more and more ludicrous.

At this point in time, there's no bullsh*t detail that will budge me.  This is a lies and over-ups op and it's all over the place in the media, because it's all about distraction, dilution and labelling this as anything but what it is.
These are the same lowlifes that have covered the rape of German women.
Oh, and if a 'depressed' white nationalist who was having money or marital troubles began a mass shooting spree by shouting "Free Anders Breivik", do you think the media would spin this white nationalist as shooter 'victim' story, like they are attempting to, or do you think the media and the government would head in the opposite direction, milking it for all it was worth in terms of vilifying white nationalism?  Yet, here we have someone who has shot up several people, someone who was very well prepared with 300 rounds of ammo and appeared very confident of himself, as well as someone who had shouted an Islamic declaration ... but the propaganda spinners would have us believe that's an 'irrelevant' detail (oh, and do overlook their lies about his nationality, their attempt at whitewashing him as Western, and their pathetic f*ckig attempt to portray a 6ft tall man as a 'child'.   
Go f*ck yourselves.



No Borders Cockroaches Molest Greece



SJW Commie Menace
GREECE
https://youtu.be/WGa3ZaF8dio

RT NEWS

‘Open the border!’ Pro-refugee group tries to breach Greek-Turkish border cordon (VIDEO)

Published time: 23 Jul, 2016 23:31

Clashes broke out in the Greek town of Kastanies as dozens of pro-refugee protesters rallied against the fence set up at the Turkish border and attempted to breach police lines. Authorities resorted to stun grenades and tear gas to stop the unruly crowd.

According to Greek media, on Saturday over 200 members of the group known as “No Border Camp” held a rally in Kastanies against the closed door policy. Chanting “open the border” and carrying placards reading “Beyond Borders” the demonstrators urged authorities to dismantle the fence set up on the Turkish border to prevent the entry of illegal migrants into Greece.

CONTINUES
https://www.rt.com/news/352936-clashes-greece-turkey-border/




http://www.ekathimerini.com/210682/article/ekathimerini/news/tolerance-of-no-border-camp-thin


NEWS 23.07.2016 : 11:03

Tolerance of No Border Camp thin

Residents of Thessaloniki are running out of patience with activists taking part in the unauthorized, pro-refugee No Border Camp at the Aristotle University (AU), Kathimerini understands, while authorities of the University of Macedonia (UOM) are concerned about becoming the target of vandalism like the AU.

A demonstration staged in central Thessaloniki by activists on Thursday night did not go down well with locals. One observer told Kathimerini that participants carried large wooden poles and painted slogans on walls.

He added that the demonstrators had brought children into their ranks in a bid to gain sympathy for their cause. “But that’s impossible after what has happened over the past 10 days.”

On Thursday, around 150 self-styled anarchists attacked a building housing the Thessaloniki City Hall. The perpetrators, who targeted the premises of the EU’s Europe Direct Thessaloniki branch as well as the municipality’s administrative offices, caused damage to equipment, threw paint and sprayed slogans.

On Friday, the rector of the UOM, Achilleas Zapranis, ordered guards to close the faculty earlier than usual to avoid similar incidents.

Some of the Spanish participants in the camp were due to leave Friday, Kathimerini understands. Meanwhile, remaining activists – who include Greek, Italian and Dutch nationals – were to travel to Skouries in Halkidiki to protest against a foreign gold mine operating there.
On Saturday, camp participants are to travel to Evros in northern Greece to protest against the border fence that has been set up to stop migrants sneaking across the border.




COMMENT

“No Border Camp”, a group of 200 filthy commie cockroaches, demonstrate in Kastanies, in favour of invasion and rape of Europe.

They're professional agitators, moving from one protest to another, and apparently dragging children along.  That means they're either trust fund pieces of crap, or they're on benefits of some kind.  Sling them in cells long enough for them to be cut off benefits and remove the unfortunate children. Oh, and f*ck off the insanity of the Schengen borders and the EU, asap.

Where's Golden Dawn?

What I'd like to see Golden Dawn do to these morons isn't printable.

God, I'm sick of these idiots. 

If I were the police, I'd be firing live rounds on these cockroaches.



Australia - 'Permanent Resident' Refugee Charged With 4 Counts of Rape, Bailed



Australia - 'Permanent Resident' Refugee Charged With 4 Counts of Rape, Bailed
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/qld/2016/07/23/refugee-bailed-for-alleged-tinder-date-rape.html
 

Refugee bailed for alleged Tinder date rape

Published: 2:05 pm, Saturday, 23 July 2016


A former refugee who allegedly raped a woman he met on Tinder has been granted bail.

It's alleged the Brisbane man raped the woman last week after meeting her online on Tinder and dating site Plenty of Fish.

He has been charged with four counts of rape, all relating to the same incident.

Police opposed a bail request from the man, a political refugee from the Middle East who spent two years on Christmas Island before arriving in Australia, on the grounds he was not an Australian citizen and could be a flight risk.

But defence lawyer Nic Tobin told Brisbane Magistrates Court the 26-year-old man was a permanent resident and was employed.

He also said the four counts of rape against the man related to a 'relatively tenuous consent issue case'.

'Consent will be a real, live issue in this case,' he said.

Magistrate Bronwyn Springer granted the man bail and ordered he undergo a disease test.

But she decided against imposing a condition that he not access dating sites and apps like Tinder on the grounds that such orders were often 'problematic' and because there was no evidence the man had committed any other offences linked to similar sites.  [comment:  how many women have to complain of getting raped before the 'problematic' condition of stay the f*ck off dating sites and apps is ordered by the piss weak Aussie courts, I wonder? ]

The case was adjourned until August 15.

AAP

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/qld/2016/07/23/refugee-bailed-for-alleged-tinder-date-rape.html



COMMENT

Hey, Australian government ... are you wilfully blind, or do you see a pattern here (and everywhere else around the world), you negligent capitalist serving pricks, continuing to employ illegitimate and destructive post WWII 'human rights' treaties.

The f*cking courts are as pathetic as the state.



Putin Warns of American Threat of Nuclear War



NUCLEAR WAR




AMERICAN
CAPITALIST OLIGARCHY

PROVOKING
NUCLEAR WAR



USING
non-existent 'Iran threat' lies as pretext 

TO POSITION
NATO Tomahawk long-range Missile System in Europe

CURRENT RANGE
500km territorial penetration range

INCREASED RANGE
1000km territorial penetration range (with future technology upgrades)

THEREBY DIRECTLY THREATENING

  • Russia's nuclear potential
  • representing a serious national security threat to Russia
  • creating conditions that may lead to nuclear event


WASHINGTON'S BLOG
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/02/emeritus-russia-scholar-princeton-obama-us-testing-provoking-russia-pushing-towards-hot-war.html

Emeritus Russia Scholar at Princeton: Obama, US are ‘Testing, Provoking Russia’, Pushing towards Hot War

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Robert Barsocchini

Points from interview with Stephen F. Cohen, Emeritus scholar of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University:

“The US in its history has never put troops so close to Russia, going back to the eighteenth century.”  (Okay, this is factually incorrect; the US invaded Russia with some 13,000 troops in 1918.)  Now the US is “right on Russia’s borders. … Obama cannot hide from this one in the shadows as he sometimes does regarding foreign policy.  This is his decision” and now “NATO is going to quadruple its military power around Russia.”

“The new Cold War has become much hotter because of a decision taken in Washington” and is “more dangerous than the preceding Cold War”.

Saying the new Cold War is “solely due to Putin’s ‘aggression'” is “simply not true.  At a minimum, both sides were responsible”, and in fact, as Cohen details, the US is the aggressor (which makes sense, as it has been expanding militarily since its inception, and is by far the largest military force in the world.)

On the US/NATO using Turkey to ignite the hot war: “We do know, I think, one thing: that for whatever reason, possibly because of its lucrative bootleg relations with the Islamic State, mainly involving oil, Turkey is trying to provoke a military conflict with Russia on the assumption that that would bring NATO directly in against Russia. … on the surface, there is no other explanation … NATO can tell Turkey to knock this off, but it goes on”; Washington doesn’t stop it, just as it does not, as Dr. Prashad points out, invoke the NATO charter to force Turkey to close its border to stop relations with ISIS.

“What’s going on at the moment” in terms of Turkey, Syria, and NATO’s expansion, is the US “testing Russia… provoking Russia… awaiting Russia’s reaction.”

Russia’s reaction so far is talk of “fortify[ing] its Western border.”

In the West, “all this is blamed on Russian aggression. But who’s the aggressor here?  Russia didn’t move its military equipment toward NATO.  NATO moved its toward Russia.  So I would say what you have here is a proactive NATO/American policy against Russia and a highly predictable reactive policy on the part of Russia.”

In Ukraine, “the provocations and the initial punch came from the West, and Putin reacted in a way that Yelstin could not have or would not have, but Putin is Putin.”

Cohen says we are now at the most dangerous nuclear moment since the nuclear crisis of the early 1960s, and “Obama cannot hide from this now.  All his silences and his ellipses and his vanishing moment… this is his decision.  The buck stops there.  He signed off on this, and it is an enormous escalation of the Cold War in the direction of hot war.”

Perhaps the most notable statement of the interview comes at the end, when Cohen points out:

“Not one question about it has been raised in all this multitude of presidential debates.  … You and I tonight have talked about something that is unknown to the American public.”


How’s that for a propaganda system?

Robert Barsocchini is an internationally published author who focuses on force dynamics, national and global, and also writes professionally for the film industry.  Updates on Twitter.  Author’s review of the historical background to the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/02/emeritus-russia-scholar-princeton-obama-us-testing-provoking-russia-pushing-towards-hot-war.html