Foreword by SouthFront: Russia has merged several branches of its military into the Aerospace Forces (VKO). The new branch will include the nation’s air force, air defense, anti-missile and space forces. But what is the VKO? Which tasks do they solve and how? SouthFront offers the exclusive translation of article answering the questions. The article was initially published in 2008, two years after confirming the Air/Space Defense Concept in 2006. Probably, it is the most detailed description of the reasons of creation, aims and approaches of the Russian VKO in open access:
What You Need to Know about the Russia’s Air/Space Defense System Concept
source: http://southfront.org/
Russia has merged several branches of its military into the Aerospace Forces (VKO). The new branch will include the nation’s air force, air defense, anti-missile and space forces. On August 3, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that it opens “the optimal way of improving the system of the nation’s aerospace defense.” But what is the VKO? Which tasks do they solve and how? SouthFront.org offers the article answering the questions. The article was initially published in 2008, two years after confirming the Air/Space Defense Concept in 2006. Probably, it is the most detailed description of the reasons of creation, aims and approaches of the Russian VKO in open access.
This article originally apeared at Vko.ru, translated from Russian by J.Hawk for SouthFront
Implementing the program laid out below would allow Russia to establish a layered anti-air and anti-missile defense system by 2020 and later a unified aerospace defense system.
The Air/Space Defense Concept confirmed on 5 April 2006 by the President of the Russian Federation determines the objective, direction, and priorities in its establishment. However, the pages of mass media and actual military development practices reflect a variety of approaches which are not always consistent with the conceptual document. Sometimes it has a negative influence on the quality and speed of establishing our country’s aerospace defense system (VKO).
The ideology underlying the need to establish such a system and the process of forming it was developed by Air Defense Forces (PVO) military scientists. The Air Forces (VVS) became the successor to PVO in 1997, ensuring the theory’s further development and establishing practices for creating the system’s components and also ensuring the concept’s adoption with the General Staff’s and MOD’s active support.
The current article represents a comprehensive overview at the Russian Federation efforts to create VKO under the conditions of the continuing Armed Forces reforms at their current phase.
The air/space defense, as a set of national and military measures, operations, and combat operations is being organized and implemented in order to ensure timely warning against air and space attack, its defeat, as well as the defense of national strategic sites, the Armed Forces, and the population from air and space attack.
From the military point of view, achieving these objectives can be ensured by accomplishing three main operational tasks:
– Continuous monitoring of airspace and outer space and of the adversary’s air/space strike systems, timely discovery of air/space attack preparations and warning the country’s highest political and military leadership;
– repelling enemy air/space strike assets and defending Armed Forces groupings, industrial regions, administrative-political centers, and population from such strikes;
– defeating enemy air/space strike assets, their command and control systems in their land bases, at sea, in the air, and in outer space.
The first operational task is achieved through organizing and sustaining VKO combat alert in peacetime. The current VKO alert force structure is shown on figure 2. The core of alert forces are the General Staff reconnaissance assets, fighter aviation, air defense missile and radiotechnical forces, air- and land-based EW assets of the VVS, and also units of the missile/space defense assets of Space Forces. VVS Main Command is the unified command structure responsible for organizing and maintaining VKO combat alert, and the PVO Main Command Point is their central command post. Space Forces (KV) assets are used to monitor the outer space and provide ICBM and SLBM strike warnings.
The second task–protecting key sites and defending the population from air and space attack–requires solving two important problems. The first is establishing a list of key sites under VKO protection in peacetime and wartime, and the second is perfecting its organizational system.
Key site VKO requires considerable forces and currently cannot be fully ensured due to economic considerations. Therefore the key site list ought to include a small number of critical sites whose functioning ensures the defensive system’s strategic stability and the country’s ability to continue waging combat operations. Considering their importance, they ought to be defended even during peacetime. VKO assets and capabilities ought to be appropriately distributed to protect critical sites, depending on enemy ability to strike them.
Parrying the enemy ICBM and SLBM threat ought to be accomplished mainly using Space Forces assets using monitoring, launch early warning, and ABM systems. The existing ABM and aerospace assets ought to be reinforced by future EW systems in order to suppress enemy carrier-based aviation, future mobile mobile anti-missile systems, and weapons using new physical principles [directed energy weapons] which would allow effective suppression of the US global ABM system on land, air, and in outer space.
Enemy’s future deployment of hypersonic missiles should be compensated by limited but sufficient number of modernized S-400 long range anti-air and anti-missile systems. Tactical and operational ballistic missile attacks can be thwarted by Favorit-modernized S-300PM and Buk systems, and future all-aspect land- and sea-based air defense missile systems.
Air- and missile defense effectiveness should be enhanced by their integration using automated and in some cases automatic ABM and air-defense command and control systems. The field experiments conducted in 2007-2009 not only confirmed the technical feasibility of such “functional integration” but proved their effectiveness when defending against non-strategic ballistic missiles.
Mass use of precision-guided munitions (PGMs) must be counteracted by mobile air defense. It should be based on future all-aspect medium-range SAMs, gun-missile systems like the Pantsyr, and specialized PGM active-passive defensive systems.
We assume this approach will be implemented in all current and future aeromissile defense groupings.
Aeromissile defense groupings which have mobile ABMs and medium- and long-range SAMs, and anti-PGM systems can be deployed to cover critically important sites and large area sites such as naval bases or land-mobile ICBM patrol areas. They will have a high density of fire against non-strategic ballistic missiles, manned and unmanned aerial objects, cruise- and aircraft-launched missiles of all speeds and at all altitudes, and a high degree ECM resistance.
Using future land- and air-based ECM systems as part of air/missile defense groupings will greatly increase (in some cases by 25-30%) increase the ability to defend key sites by suppressing onboard electronics of enemy reconnaissance and strike systems, communication channels, data links, C4I systems, land-based air defenses, and also enemy air battle command centers.
The air/space asset fire defeat system that is being established on land, at sea, and in the air should and will be able to fulfill the mission of critical site protection.
The second and third VKO operational task is accomplished through an integrated application of all relevant assets of Russian Armed Forces and, under certain conditions, of the CIS unified air defense system. These assets should be able to ensure cover against air and space attack and guarantee the destruction of enemy critical sites. The leading role in accomplishing these tasks is assumed by VVS defensive and strike components, as well as the Navy strike assets.
The integrated and (depending on circumstances) simultaneous or sequential use of strike and defensive assets as part of VKO under centralized control will determine the overall success of combat operations. Moreover, our strike assets can weaken enemy air/space strike assets sufficiently to raise air/space defense effectiveness by 50%.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
The results of many years of research by leading MOD scientific and research institutions and practical PVO and VVS experience indicate that the process of reforming RF Armed Forces ought to include a range of practical steps to establish the country’s VKO.
Relevant measures ought to compensate for the enemy strike assets’ ability to operate from various directions against the entire range of targets on RF territory, and fulfill the three most important operational missions indicated above.
Therefore it is necessary to ensure:
–the military and state leadership is informed about the start of attack.
–centralized command and control, automated task assignment among zones of responsibility when repelling ballistic missile strikes (ICBM, SLBMs, operational and tactical missiles), destroying hypersonic vehicles and other aerial targets.
–the optimal distribution of assets among the zones of responsibility.
Moreover, it is necessary to ensure coordination of Ground Forces and VKO operations with combat aviation, including:
–long-range and frontline bombers attacking enemy targets in enemy’s operational and strategic depth.
–tactical fighters destroying C3I and air defense systems, cruise missiles, manned and unmanned aircraft in the air and on land.
–specialized airborne ECM systems suppressing enemy command, navigation, and communications systems.
–land- and air-based directed energy weapons ensuring the necessary effectiveness of RF strategic nuclear retaliatory strikes.
These tasks must be addressed in a systemic manner through centralized command and coordination of forces in real time.
1. VKO should be designed by through a system of zones of responsibility.
In view of the future shape of the Armed Forces announced by the Minister of Defense and General Staff Chief, there should be several VKO zones. Their borders should be defined in reference to the current VVS/PVO Command zones, and be compatible with the borders of the unified strategic command that are being established.
The defense of Moscow and of the sites and population of the Central Industrial Region requires a separate VKO zone along the borders of the Operational-Strategic Space Forces Command. It should be developed as the lead VKO sector, and the tactical and organizational approaches developed there should be adopted when establishing other regional VKO zones.
Coastal areas should have maritime VKO zones which can be established by naval PVO forces and ships equipped with future multi-role radars capable of detecting ballistic targets and armed with unified air/missile defense systems.
2. The reconnaissance and early warning system should be deployed in depth (figure 7):
–The first (operational-strategic) echelon based on space and land-based missile early warning systems and General Staff electronic reconnaissance with range of up to 9 thousand km.
–the second (operational) echelon based on land-based missile early warning systems, over-the-horizon radars, high-resolution long range air warning radars, and General Staff electronic reconnaissance systems with ranges of up to 4500km;–the third (tactical) echelon based on air and land-based radar and electronic reconnaissance systems of the General Staff, VVS, troop PVO, VMF with ranges of 600km or more. Tactical reconnaissance systems are consolidated within the federal reconnaissance and air space control system into a unified automated radar system.The echeloned deployment will ensure the ability to reliably detect all existing and future air/space strike assets.The systems development ought to follow these main priorities.
Missile attack early warning: establish a unified detection and control space system. It will include spacecraft on high elliptical and geostationary orbits with improved ability to detect ICBM and SLBM launches and the capability of detecting non-strategic missiles. The second main priority is the modernization of existing systems and phased deployment of new highly reliable radars in order to ensure radar coverage integrity, refusal to rely on radars outside of Russia, and establishing a national missile attack warning zone. The third priority should be the development of specialized radar systems for long-range detection of ballistic targets within VVS radio-technical forces and of detecting air/missile defense systems.
Monitoring the state and activity of foreign aviation forces: the presence and improvement of over-the-horizon (OTH) radar systems in the European strategic region, and establishing and deploying similar systems in the East-Asian and Central-Asian Strategic Regions. This task can be accomplished in the world ocean by aerial reconnaissance and long-range aviation patrols.
Airspace control and monitoring: the existence of short, medium, and high-altitude radars, close cooperation between VVS unit HQs with zone air traffic control and federal reconnaissance and airspace control systems.
Reconnaissance, detection of aerial targets, and target designation for active PVO systems: having a fleet of ECM-resistant radars on combat alert for low, medium, and high altitudes.
Reconnaissance and detection of aerial and ballistic targets and target designation for active PVO systems: having a fleet of high-resolution specialized surveillance and non-strategic ballistic missile detection Nebo-M, Protivnik-G radars, and the development of future means of detecting aerial and ballistic targets.
3. The VKO troop command system ought to be deployed on the basis of integrated aviation and air/missile defense C3I systems within the scope of responsibility of unified strategic commands.
The automated VVS command system should serve as the foundation of that system, since it already today has the best ability to handle information, support, and command tasks for both defensive and offensive operations. That system can simultaneously direct aviation operations to defeat cruise missile strikes, manned and unmanned aircraft, destroying aircraft at their bases, fire and electronic suppression of radar systems, command posts and communications centers, and other critically important enemy sites.
The command system’s development ought to ensure centralized control of all forces involved in VKOmissions from the VVS central command post, provide additional equipment in order to enable it to control Space Forces assets and to synchronize the automated systems of the Space Forces command posts, VVS and PVO commands, and Space Forces brigades in order to enable coordination and target designation between VVS, Ground Forces, and VMF anti-air/missile units and the SPRN (ballistic missile early warning system) HQ when dealing with non-strategic missile strikes.
In order to ensure centralized automated troop command and control which the General Staff assigned to the ADS mission, deploy an operational command center for air/space defense on the basis of the VVS Central HW. Similar command centers and ABM planning entities ought to be included into the structure of VVS and PVO commands and of the unified strategic commands, and VVS, Ground Forces, and Navy air defense regiments with ABM capabilities should receive anti-missile groups with structured tactical and special training in accordance with unified combat training regimen.
4. Place the responsibility for establishing and developing the VKO on a specific official, namely VVS Commanding Officer. This is a natural choice given the state of development of our armed forces and can cause no doubts with any right-thinking person who knows their history. VVS Commander has the legal responsibility to develop VKO and carry out the air defense mission using all alert forces of the RF Armed Forces.
In practical terms, PVO forces are already today the foundation of the country’s VKO and they are able to effectively defeat all types of air/space strike assets and can acquire the ability to defeat cruise missiles and carrier-based aircraft.
Missile/Space Defense (RKO) units which are part of Space Forces and which can detect and defeat a limited number of ICBM and SLBM warheads, until 1997 have been developing jointly with PVO forces. After 1997 RKO development lost its focus on maintaining integration within the country’s unified VKO. At first they were viewed as a means of improving the effectiveness of the Strategic Rocket Forces and in the future, after merging with the Space Forces, as a basis for waging “star wars.”
In order to effectively implement the tasks defined by the VKO Concept for the period of up to 2016 and beyond that date, it is necessary to carry out the following by the end of 2010:
1. Establish VKO Command as an agency, and part of the General Staff command structure, in order to accomplish the following:
–organization and leadership for creating and developing the national VKO.
–organization and direction of VKO combat alert using designated forces and assets from various branches of the Armed Forces, as well as forces and assets which are not part of various branches of the Armed Forces.
–organization and direction of operational preparation of command structures to prepare them for fulfilling the VKO mission.
–organization of training (planning) and actual battle management of a strategic aerospace operation.
VVS Commanding Officer is to assume the leadership of the VKO Command.
VVS Commanding Officer should be granted the title of VKO Commanding Officer.
VKO Command should be form relying on VVS Main Staff officers with General Staff, as well as VMF, Space Forces, and Ground Forces Main Staff officer participation.
VKO Command ought to be located within the VVS Main HQ infrastructure to make the best use of it and the highly effective control system.
2. Operational troop leadership of units designated for the aerospace defense mission should be exercised by deploying the VKO Operational Center on the basis of VVS Main HQ.
3. Subordinate SPRN and ABM assets, including the ABM Division which is currently part of Space Forces, to VKO Command.
These measures will fully correspond to the decisions made in 2005 by the President of the Russian Federation on perfecting the military structures of the Russian Federation, and to the general concept of perfecting military direction agencies and optimally distributing operational and administrative functions within the Armed Forces, which is being implemented by RF MOD,
The proposed measures are quite simple to implement and do not require a great deal of time or resources, nor a thorough overhaul of the existing and still effective national air defense system. Preserving both operational (for the VKO Command) and administrative (for VVS Main Command) functions in the hands of VVS Commanding Officer is consistent with the principle of unity of operational command and administrative direction which is adhered to when creating new military districts and unified strategic commands. Moreover, there is no need to make changes to the normative or legal systems of the Russian Federation concerning the responsibility for air defense and the protection of Russia’s state border in outer space.
These proposals are also fully consistent with world practice in the realm of administrative and operational responsibilities.
Thus, for example, the commanding officer of NATO’s AFNORTH air forces simultaneously fills the post of AFNORTH commander’s assistant for airpower matters. In addition, he plays the role of the air defense commander and the chief of the regional air/space monitoring system within the AFNORTH zone of responsibility. The US NORAD commander is simultaneously the commander of the North American unified command, and is subordinated to the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Chief of Staff of Canada’s national defense.
Therefore the proposed VKO organization and command structure for forces engaged in the air/space defense mission in both peacetime and wartime:
–is consistent with RF military and political leadership decisions on improving the national military organization;
–places personal responsibility on VVS Commanding Officer for establishing and developing the national VKO system as well as mission fulfillment by VKO-designated forces;
–creates the necessary conditions for implementing the key provisions for creating the national VKO system (unity of responsibility for organizing and ensuring effectiveness of forces assigned to the VKO mission, their coordinated employment, and rational balance between centralized direction and decentralized battle command);
–allows the concentration of main forces and assets used to fulfill all operational VKO missions in one branch of the Armed Forces under the leadership of a single official;
–it permits unified military-technical policy and its systematic development, as well as the perfection of both forms and means of their application in order to improve the level of mission accomplishment;
–it will allow the established of echeloned, by altitude and by depth, strategic air/space defense of the city of Moscow, the central industrial region, and critical key sites and population within the VKO unified strategic command and VVS and PVO commands on the entire territory of the country.
–it will allow systematic use of all forces and assets of the VKO in accordance with a unified operational concept and plan, with centralized control and delineation of PVO (VKO) planning and command authority over forces and assets designated for the VKO mission on strategic, operational-strategic, and operational levels;
–it will not require a revision of the existing normative and legal acts of the Russian Federation or modifying existing intergovernmental agreements concerning the functioning of the CIS unified air defense system.
–it will not require the creation of additional command posts in order to direct PVO, ABM, and aviation forces and assets (until the unified VKO C3I system is created, the VKO command post may be “distributed”, as the general VKO direction and command as well the direct PVO command may be implemented by the VKO Operational Center, while the SPRN and strategic ABM direct command may be exercised from the SPRN command post);
–it will not require additional funds to develop the VVS Main Command and to locate the VKO Command, only a slight reinforcement (20-30 individuals).
Implementing these proposals will allow Russia to create by 2020, if need be also over the territory of its allies, an echeloned air/missile defense system and later a unified aerospace defense system and ensure its effective future development.
Sounds necessary but there’s a lot of bureaucracy and acronyms here and change always has its perils. I hope nothing falls through the cracks -as in a Dr. Strangelove doomsday device.
I like the last part about potentially extending this Defensive Shield to Russia’s ”allies”.
Candidate number 1 in this regard shoud be Iran. Why? Iran and Russia for the most part share the same enemies, and both are high up on the list of countries in which the West would like to effect ”regime change”……
The West have already done regime change in Iran!
And you know this how? Mod ME
Thanks for translating this article.
The ZPC/NWO obviously intends to attack Russia and China, they already are doing so. Since the oligarchs running the ZPC/NWO freakshow are not suicidal, they obviously want to make war on Russia and China in such a way they themselves don’t die in the process. Being greedy megalomaniac sods, they also do not want to inherit a post nuke wasteland, either. They want to extend their control, not dictate to a few denizens surviving in an underground bunker. This means the ZPC/NWO freakshow wants to de-nuke Russia and China in a way that wont cause a “Dr. Strangelove” or a “Threads” scenario.
How to do this?
A couple options I can think of off hand.
1) A very specific, precision nuclear attack, taking out the rival’s nuclear assets in totality before the majority can be launched. Then relying upon ABM defenses to knock the few which survive the first strike and which are then launched. Presumably, the nuclear radiation and nuclear winter mutually fatal side effects would be minimised by using very small, but highly accurate nuclear weaponry.
2) A conventional first strike taking out the opposing nuke forces in a similar manner to a precision nuclear first strike, followed up with the same ABM assets neutralising the surviving opposing nukes.
It doesn’t have to be either or, both strategies can be combined. This is what the zionazi/nazi oligarchs running the west are directing their military gofers to accomplish.
Russia, and everybody else independent of this ZPC/NWO freakshow, will need the best defenses against this planned attack strategy in order to neutralise it before it decapitates them. Good to see the Russians saw this coming 10 years ago.
I agree with you there.But I’d add one more to your list.To effect a “regime change” and chaos ,by means of 5th column elements, in allied states of Russia’s and China’s.And if possible in those two countries as well.We see them working on that plan right now.
Your suggestion may well be what myopic Zio-Neocons are thinking but a subset of those, the self-appointed deity chanellers, will do all they can to bring on end-times.
The problem for the myopia set though are the Rumsfeldian known unknowns and the unknown unknowns.
How good is the intel? What did you miss? Do you really know where all those mobile ICBMS are? What about the nuclear subs? Will the ABMs actually work against Russian ICBMs and their decoys? In essence it would be a first time test and a fatally risky one.
I think they are pushing the financial and regime change corrosion. Divide and conquer, poison from the inside -and this with massive domestic opposition funding and propaganda works well in just about any democracy.
Russia (people) is hip to NGO NWO BS-Putin’s popularity can attest to that. All thanks to the behavior of Rome.
I agree, the empire will probably work with all other means except a full blown military ww3, kind of a slow motion multi front ww3 (already going on, but it will probably get intensified…).
I don’t see such an attack succeeding militarily, or stopping a retaliatory strike, but I think it would likely be the trigger for massive civil uprising in the US with destruction of the US government — and also other nations in the empire. For a start at least, the uncertainty in the markets would result in financial chaos and collapse. The entire system is already on the edge.
The enormous barrage of lies spewing from Obama, Biden, Kerry and Hillary — and repeated endlessly by the captive US media — against Russia after the 2014 coup in Ukraine has got most US citizens convinced that Putin is the devil and Russia his reluctant hell, just awaiting “liberation” by the US military. They would most likely cheer the assault, and at the least would fail to do anything at all about it.
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The Kurds, according to a Venezuelan action group wish to establish a society which meets the Bolivarian ideals of Chavas.
http://nsnbc.me/2015/08/07/hundreds-attend-caracas-forum-on-kurdish-revolution-in-rojava/ Excerpt:
“Rojava secured its autonomy from the Syrian state in the course of a people’s war waged over the past several years by popular militias called People’s Defense Units (YPG) against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS / ISIL), which has seen Kurdish forces liberate village after village, laying the foundations for a new society based on participatory democracy, communal ownership and worker’s control, gender equality, and ecological sustainability.
“It’s a struggle that doesn’t just involve military victories, but cultural, social and political victories in the sense that they are building new villages, communities, and communes centered on the construction of an alternative social model in the face of a totally barbaric world, whether it’s ISIS/ISIL or the fascist [President] Erdogan in Turkey,” Denis told Venezuelanalysis.”
wow, Penelope…sounds great…how it comes into full creation…amazing.
I’m more inclined to think the allies Russia would be interested in extending this over are those that border her – the “stans” and China, who would surely be extremely interested. Which would be a huge income boost for Russia. It’s an intriguing idea, and there’s noway it’s not going to be effective I would think.
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Fantastic! Govt submits a bill to Duma that limit the legal immunity of foreign states and impound their property on Russian territory if a court rules that the actions of these states violate the sovereignty of the Russian Federation. Also a govt commission recommends reciprocal impounding of foreign property in Russia.
http://www.rt.com/politics/311736-russian-govt-drafts-bill-allowing/
About time. Start with the vermin who worked for the Yukos parasites. Putin’s greatest ever error was releasing Khodorkovsky. Using morally corrupt and biased Western ‘courts’ to continue looting Russia, as if the Yeltsin era had never ended, must be stopped. The same evil parasites are targeting Argentina, too.
The real test will only be held once…
I suspect that the “asteroid/meteor” that almost hit Russia in February 2013 was really a test of Russia’s ballistic missile defence system . Remember how it looked like a laser or something similar hit it just as it exploded?
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I wonder when Russia will release the truth with regard the downing of MH17?
Donald 7063,
I haven’t followed MH17 very closely, but found this interesting.
http://theinternationalreporter.org/2015/08/05/the-mh17-pilots-corpse-more-on-the-cover-up/ Eric Zeusse.
Also covers 17 min video not previously seen of Novorossiyan just arrived at burning crash site, saying Sukuoi took down psngr jet & “we” took down the sukuoi (5 people parachuted out of it)
5 people parachuting from a Sukhoi doesn’t make sense. The SU-25 is single seat and any of the other fighters would be 2 seat at most. So the 5 would have to be from a transport plane unless at least 3 fighters were shot down in close proximity which seems unlikely.
I am going to assume that the fog of war/connecting the wrong dots and muddled communications through multiple people led to this exchange.
It seems very likely that the bodies of the pilots would have contained shrapnel/shell fragments that with chemical and metallurgical analysis would have defined the weapon(s) used to target MH17. Probably the quantity and distribution of tiny fragments was such that removal was iimpossible.
I would also think it highly likely that the main reason that the coffin could not be opened was because it did not contain the body of the pilot.
How anyone could fail to see the massive cover-up is beyond me as is the lack of any whistleblower in the large number of people involved in the ‘investigation’.
“It seems very likely that the bodies of the pilots would have contained shrapnel/shell fragments…”
Sanctuary,
Crash site photos of the pilot’s body, still strapped into the pilot”s seat amid cockpit debris, showed multiple entry wounds in the torso. Judging by the size of the entry holes, the “fragments” would be approximately a centimeter in breadth. The body appeared otherwise intact, and completely recognizable. If any projectiles remained in the body or lodged in the seat back, a definitive autopsy would have been a trivial matter.
You may be right that the pilot’s body was not in the coffin, but it is just as likely that the coffin couldn’t be opened because it did contain the pilot’s intact corpse and opening it would have exposed the cover-up to all.
As you say, the cover-up is obvious, but it’s actually more than that. It’s another flagrant, in-your-face demonstration of the contempt governments have for their people, and of their common interests and collaboration in maintaining that contempt. Even the Kremlin and Kuala Lumpur, who’s interests should be diametrically opposed to the 4 parties doing the investigating, have shown little interest in getting the truth out.
Erebus, after the naked lying regarding the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, ‘yellow rain’ in Indochina, KAL007, the KGB ‘hit’ on Wojtyla, Lockerbie, Saddam’s WMD, Assad’s nerve gas attack, Srebrenica, ‘genocide’ in Kosovo, Gaddafi’s ‘container-loads of Viagra’, Russian aggression in Ukraine etc ad nauseam, you really need to be a masochistic, recidivist, imbecile and ignoramus to believe a word that the Atlanticist psychopaths utter. But, far, far, worse, are the Western MSM vermin who peddle these lies over and over again, long after they have been revealed to be either total lies, or, rarely, only partial truths. Big Brother and the Ministry of Truth were rank amateurs in comparison to these invertebrate liars.
Still seems absurd to me that entire nations have to go to war when only a small group are the planners and bribers/instigators of the filthy New World Order whose success is the motive for all their aggression.
If a substantial group of nations– like BRICS– simply left the two institutions which are the primary implementers of the NWO it would be stopped bloodlessly.
The two institutions are the IMF/Fed system which controls the issuance of currency & investment credit, and the WTO/similar “free trade” agreements which impoverish less developed nations.
The obstacles to de-fanging the NWO in this way seem to be the following:
1. Those who might oppose it are instead preoccupied w having a share in running it. This they call multipolarity.
2. China is for the moment benefitting from the existence of the NWO system more than she suffers from it, and so will not join in dismantling it. It is obvious that the global banking cabal and its powerful transnationals which now control at least 40% of global wealth wish to co-opt China, merely changing horses from the US.
The much-vaunted “collapse of the dollar & the US” I don’t see as a solution: Provided the institutions of the NWO remain intact, the IMF will issue SDRs to nations w digital currency to citizens. The international power cabal needs the US for only one thing, the manufacture of weapons, which can be secured w/o saving the nation. The military personnel have become less necessary as mercenaries and proxies are mostly replacing them. The ships and planes need not remain under loyal US command, if such a thing any longer exists at the upper levels.
From the point of view of the NWO advocates the defeat of resisting nations is unnecessary– only that they fail to resist effectively. And that they are already accomplishing with their endless distracting wars & destabilizations.
Russia — and China if her rhetoric is to believed — resist absolutely the ideology of the NWO. But it is composed of the powerful institutions of IMF/WTO/BIS, etc. Resisting the ideology is not enough. One must resist the substance:
If one reassembles the parts of a cuckoo clock with the firm intention of making pretty chimes, one will get . . . a cuckoo.
Your understanding of the so-called New World Order itself is … false, to be blunt.
The “New World Order” is a euphemistic mask for global American Empire. With the end of the Cold War and the launching of Operation Desert Storm against Iraq, George Bush Sr. explicitly announced the birth of a New World Order, by which he meant a unipolar American world, in a speech delivered on Sept. 11, 1990 before Congress.
That is when the NWO idea itself was popularized, though it can be traced back to American rulers like Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson in the early 20th century, who advocated similar concepts and terminology.
In Goebbelsian fashion, however, American propagandists–including
most American pseudo-opponents of the NWO–stand reality on its head and insist that the NWO is external or foreign to America, or even that America is a “victim” of the NWO plot. This “argument” is akin to insisting that Pax Romana was a foreign plot against the Roman Empire, even though the idea was spawned by Rome itself!
In short, American “anti-NWO” posturing is self-serving disinformation designed to deflect blame away from the American Empire and its world dominance agenda.
And it is designed to deny that the New World Order = American World Order.
As for Russia and China, they know very well there is no role for them within this American World Order as sovereign entities but only as American vassal states.
Anonymous,
The New World Order, Neoliberal Economic Globalism, The Washington Consensus– all have the same aim: Rule of the entire world by an international oligarchy in which nations become unimportant. One can already see that most nations are ruled by the corporations , the banks and transnationals, who simply buy the elections or the sitting politicians.
The US is only an instrument of this several hundred years old plan. Powerful propaganda and the cartoonish aggression of the US are designed to make you believe that the only task is to defeat US militarism. Please consider the following:
To develop every country requires investment capital– just as companies & corps do. Before the post-WWII invention of the IMF & World Bank countries had financial sovereignty and decided the amount of currency and credit to issue, depending upon their needs. The IMF/Fed system put an end to this. Issuing one’s own currency is now linked to earning export dollars, hence the need to borrow dollars or euros (at interest).
The need to export in order to create one’s own currency creates tremendous distortion of national economies, so that any degree of self-reliance is lost. The WTO requires that all countries open their markets to trade and investment by the more developed West, thus de-industrializing the less developed countries.
The de-industrialization of the less developed is easily observed within the EU.
It cannot be the case that the US alone is desirous of ruling the world. If this were the case, why would she de-industrialize in order to send her jobs to China? The US oligarchs are internationalists, very well integrated into the international oligarchy by marriage & other economic ties.
I know it is attractive to think that you understand fully what is occurring by watching the military actions. Please consider reading Ellen Brown or Michael Hudson as to how the economic power is wielded. Greece was just defeated more fully than any bullets could have accomplished. And Russia is in a far more precarious economic position than you are being told– mostly by non-military causes.
I know that when one becomes comfortable w a worldview it becomes difficult to consider other factors. I hope you will. In any case, thank you for your response to my post. Regards, Penelope
The empire (NWO) has long been US based and is still largely so, with some of it based overseas, but it is shifting as capitalism moves from the US (a ‘mature’ market) and the oligarchs set up shop in other places as they throw the US under the bus. The new markets now emerge in the East as people there get more to spend (and can then borrow more too) and enter the rat race which was predominant in the US for so long. These oligarchs may be based in the US or EU but are so from convenience, not any loyalty, and are inherently international — and interplanetary when technology gets that far. When the prey starts to run think the predators move where there’s better hunting.
(See http://www.rdwolff.com/content/global-capitalism-july-2015-monthly-economic-update-0 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En4rRo07axE for some discussion of this).
Unfortunately Penelope, yours is the only story which makes sense.
@ Penelope
Your rhetoric about the “New World Order” is itself cartoonish and is a favored propaganda meme of American nationalists to alibi and downplay the reality of American aggression and of the American Empire itself.
I would advise you to ask the people of Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya whether American aggression is “cartoonish.” Better yet, ask the Native Indians, whose land Americans stole and occupies whether it is cartoonish.
But as an American, you aren’t on the receiving end of, say, American Predator strikes and indeed identify with America , which makes it easy to dismiss any criticism of it.
American aggression is not cartoonish. It is genocidal–since 1776.
And you conflate many different issues like NeoLiberalism and the Washington Consensus with the so-called New World Order–which makes me think that you don’t really understand these concepts and are merely mouthing them as catchphrases.
The so-called NWO is a *geopolitical* concept based on the idea of American global dominance, whereas NeoLiberalism and Washington Consensus are examples of America’s free market economic dogma (i.e. the Chicago School) calling for deregulation, privatization, and austerity measures.
Moreover, the concept of the New World Order was itself specifically promoted and advanced by George Bush Sr. with his famous 1990 speech that I mentioned above.
What’s more, you (willfully) misunderstand the process of globalization itself. America is “sending its jobs” to developing nations like China out of naked self-interest. America obviously seeks to exploit Chinese workers and reap higher profits as a result.
The complaint about “job outsourcing” that you always hear from Americans is a self-serving nationalist one that conveniently downplays the issue of American capitalist exploitation of labor in other nations. Analogous to the US “antiwar” movement’s phony opposition to American wars of aggression (based upon only the cost in blood and treasure… for the USA), the “opposition” to outsourcing is essentially whining about the “blowback” to the USA of America’s exploitation of other nations.
Moreover, “globalist” institutions like the IMF, WTO, or World Bank in particular are largely dominated and controlled by American imperial power–not the other way around, as you would insist.
– Thus, how can you explain the fact that America is the only nation that possesses a tacit veto in the IMF?
– Or that the head of the World Bank is traditionally reserved for an American in all but name?
– Or that America was able to “regime change” the former head of the IMF, Dominque Strauss-Kahn, in favor of a more malleable puppet, Christine Lagarde, through a trumped sex scandal?
American “oligarchs” are not internationalists, as you insist. They are IMPERIALISTS.
Indeed, like most American nationalists, you carefully avoid addressing the issues of Capitalism and Imperialism, with your NWO rhetoric.
Anti-globalization/NWO ideology is designed to deflect attention away from Capitalism and Imperialism in general, and Americanism in particular.
It is a classic tactic of a Controlled Opposition, which is the only type of dissent that one finds from America or the self-styled “Free World.”
Anonymous,
My description of the aggressiveness of the US empire as “cartoonish” is not meant to minimize its consequences. Rather I point out that very little is done to camouflage its brutality or its total injustice. Even its rhetoric so transparently lies. When Obama or Pinocchio Kerry gives a speech about how the time has passed when powerful countries can attack weaker ones, I always expect the audience to burst out laughing.– However can an official of the US attempt righteousness?!
By “cartoonish” I mean over-emphasized in image. Look at it this way: We are the bull mesmerized by the red cape of military action– and never seeing the vulnerability of the planning hand that lies behind it.
Do you never get the feeling that the media is fairly shouting at you, “Over here, look over here. No need to look at banking or trade structures. Just look over here at the action, folks. Nootthhing else to see here, folks.”
Of course the military aggression is important. But it’s not the whole thing, and they make a cartoonish show of the military & the political rhetoric to distract us from thinking– to so outrage us that we are incapable of seeing the more subtle attacks. It is in the institutions that they’ve set up that they are vulnerable.
Nations weaken their economic sovereignty, their development & strength thru belonging to the IMF/Fed system, the WTO and BIS. Were they not distracted by agression and intimidation they wd begin to dismantle these structures or at least opt out.
Moreover, it is precisely as a consequence of these institutions and arrangements that the US became rich enough to acquire such a military. And its these institutions that maintain its wealth and hegemony.
Anonymous on August 14, 2015 · at 3:40 pm UTC said:
“America obviously seeks to exploit Chinese workers and reap higher profits as a result.”
Nope.
I wish people on this blog would stop making the mistake that countries do NOT represent all (or even many) of the characteristics of the individuals who (mostly by accident) live there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_number_of_US_dollar_billionaires
List of countries by the number of US dollar billionaires:
US = 615
World = 1,826
It’s obviously Politically Incorrect here to critique the very idea of the New World Order as a meme,
But Lada Ray offers some insightful comments about how this NWO meme, beloved by many supposed “dissidents,” oh so conveniently functions to excuse the United States of responsibility:
“Is the global elite preparing to dump the poor United States, along with the dollar? Those who ask these kinds of questions obviously think that America is just a poor, innocent victim. Americans obviously never massively benefitted from the unlimited free money US dollar status as world reserve currency gave them.
So, are the NWO elites getting ready to dump the dollar and move collectively to Moscow, or to the new “NWO headquarters” in the futuristic Asian city of Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan?
Before we proceed, I want to say a word about “the poor, innocent Americans.” My readers know that my goal is to get to the bottom of the real truth, and I don’t do truth substitutes. And here it is: it’s not so much NWO everyone has to fear. It is US, and by extension UK. The NWO would get nowhere IF without the US – its military brawn and financial muscle. It is understandably hard for some Americans to admit that it is in fact their beloved motherland that is the evil empire everyone has to fear, that it’s in fact their country that craves the unchallenged global hegemony. (That said, there are also healthy forces and smart people in the US, just like in any other country.)
From this I can make an inevitable and very sad conclusion: those Americans in the alternative media who are perpetuating the “Putin is NWO and global elites are about to move to Astana” myth are in fact trying to absolve USA from responsibility. Clearly, they see much more than they admit. They know that US is to blame directly or indirectly for the vast majority of distortions and imbalances in today’s world. However, being American, they can’t bear the truth.”
https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/is-putin-part-of-nwo/
Penelope, beware the cuckoos in the nest.
I read this morning this comment in the New Eastern Journal by the well known and respected international lawyer from Canada, Christopher Black:
“Iran, an ancient and great power throughout history, has now been essentially disarmed by its enemies in the NATO powers and also by its neighbours, China, and Russia, which latter country, while complaining about the French double dealing regarding the Mistral Affair, itself reneged on a deal to supply Iran with anti-aircraft defence systems that could protect it against US or Israeli air attack. No doubt this was due to pressure from the US as well and perhaps can be forgiven if not forgotten in its own struggle to avoid war.
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/08/10/the-iranian-debacle”
Has anyone else heard of this action by Russia? I am a little bemused by his (Blacks’) contention that Russia has succumbed to pressure from the USA. I remember in his recent address to the FSB Mr Putin stating that such threats “don’t work with Russia. They never have and they never will” and somehow I don’t see Russia or China succumbing to threats so much as finding a smarter, cleverer way to stop America than just relying on bombs alone. (In regards to China getting involved in the Special Drawing Rights issue, for example, it may be it considers it can do more harm being inside the tent and doing its damage from there, rather than from outside the tent with limited access).
Given this new news, that Russia is / has developed such an excellent comprehensive air cover, is it perhaps possible that it is ready to extend it to allies such as Iran, which is why it has withdrawn a plan to supply Iran with it’s own cover? This would seem logical but I’d appreciate any other informed insight. I have to admit to feeling a bit concerned that Russia has apparently withdrawn an agreement to supply Iran with defence.
Isabella,
You say, ” (In regards to China getting involved in the Special Drawing Rights issue, for example, it may be it considers it can do more harm being inside the tent and doing its damage from there, rather than from outside the tent with limited access).”
In the recent example of Greece’s trying to “work from within” the EU Eurozone, we have been shown vividly that this did not work.
The IMF/Fed system, that is, the part of the IMF which doesn’t lend money, but which rules the central banks of all nations, is a system which robs them all of economic sovereignty. Therefore, it is impossible for citizens to have any influence over their govts regarding monetary matters– because the govt itself has none. This system does not need reform; it needs to be erased. If you are interested read Ellen Brown.
Oh I’m not arguing against your premise there Penelope. I agree that trying to beat an aggressor by playing by his rules – which he has made to suit himself – can only ever lead to failure and disaster.
I am more trying to plumb how the rulers themselves might see things. I doubt China’s leaders would consider Greece to be in the same league as China in any way whatsoever, so they would make the same mistake maybe.
I’d still l like to get some confirmation regarding Mr. Blacks’ claim that Russia has reneged on a deal to supply Iran with defence hardware !!
Isabella,
The circumstances of China’s choice to stay w/in the IMF system are entirely different than the Greeks’ choice to stay w/in the Eurozone. I had only meant to indicate that it isn’t always useful to try to change a system from w/in.
Re: Russian reneging on a deal to sell Iranians anti-aircraft weapons, this is true. Don’t remember the exact details. Medvedev may have been the one who made the decision. Don’t have a link for you either. If you really want to know go to globalresearch.ca. Enter into their search box “Russia reneges on weapons sale to Iran”. That or some similar term will get you their articles on it.
Globalresearch.ca is a great research tool cuz they’ve been around a long time & their search of their own articles is really effective.
8/10/15 Syria is winning. So says Prof Tim Anderson.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/why-syria-is-winning-advancing-towards-a-strategic-victory-that-will-transform-the-middle-east/5468277 excerpts:
“The government ensures basic foods are affordable and maintains education, health, sports, cultural and other services. A string of formerly hostile states and UN agencies are resuming their relations with Syria. An improved security situation, the recent big power agreement with Iran and other favourable diplomatic moves are all signs that the Axis of Resistance has strengthened.”
“western-backed terrorists have made no real strategic advance since a flood of foreign fighters helped them take parts of northern Aleppo, back in mid-2012.”
“[In July 2015] we were able to travel freely by road from Sweida to Damascus to Homs to Latakia, with just one minor detour around Harasta. In late 2013 there was daily mortaring of eastern Damascus; this year it was far less common. The army seems to control 90% of the heavily populated areas.”
I recommend the full article, worth reading.