183-02-02-2019
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, please provide an update on the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, and the disarmament dossier in general. What is going on in terms of limitation of offensive arms?
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: Mr President,
Regarding the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, as you know, it has been in force since 1988. It had an indefinite term. According to the information at our disposal, the United States has been violating the Treaty since 1999, when it started testing combat unmanned aerial vehicles that have the same characteristics as land-based cruise missiles banned by the Treaty.
The United States went on to use ballistic target missiles for testing their missile defence system, and in 2014 they began the deployment in their missile defence system positioning areas in Europe of Mk 41 vertical launching systems. These launchers are fully suitable as they are for Tomahawk intermediate-range attack missiles.
Vladimir Putin: And this is an outright violation of the Treaty.
Sergey Lavrov: This is an outright violation of the Treaty. Launchers of this kind have already been deployed in Romania, and preparations are underway to deploy them in Poland, as well as Japan.
Another matter of concern for us is that only recently, just a year ago, the United States in its 2018 Nuclear Posture Review set the task of developing low-yield nuclear weapons, and it is probable that intermediate-range missiles will serve as a means of delivery for these weapons. It was also announced only recently that this provision of the US nuclear doctrine is beginning to materialise with missiles of this kind entering production.
In October 2018, the United States officially declared its intention to withdraw from the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. We did everything we could to save the Treaty considering its importance in terms of sustaining strategic stability in Europe, as well as globally. The last attempt of this kind was undertaken on January 15, when the US finally agreed to our request for holding consultations in Geneva.
In coordination with the Defence Ministry, we proposed unprecedented transparency measures that went far beyond our obligations under the INF Treaty in order to persuade the US that Russia was not in violation of this essential instrument. However, the US torpedoed these proposals. Instead, the US presented yet another ultimatum. It is obvious that we cannot accept it since it contradicts the INF Treaty in both letter and spirit.
The US announced that it was suspending its participation in the INF Treaty, launched the official withdrawal from it, and said that it will no longer consider itself restricted by the INF Treaty. As far as we can see, this means that the US will make missiles in addition to engaging in research and development activities that have already been factored into the current budget.
There is no doubt that these developments make things worse overall in the sphere of nuclear disarmament and strategic stability. It all started with the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, when the US decided to withdraw from it in 2002, as you know all too well. This was done despite numerous initiatives by the Russian Federation at the UN General Assembly to save the ABM Treaty. The UN General Assembly passed a number of resolutions supporting the ABM Treaty. However, this did not stop the United States from withdrawing from it.
As a partial replacement for the ABM Treaty, the US and Russia signed a joint declaration that same year, 2002, on new strategic relations with a promise to settle all issues related to the so-called third positioning area of the missile-defence system being deployed in Europe at the time. The declaration provided for holding consultations as a way to reach common ground. This did not happen due to the unwillingness of the United States to take up Russia’s concerns in earnest.
In 2007, we made another gesture of good will at your instructions by coming forward with an initiative that consisted of working together to resolve the problems related to US missile defence system’s third positioning area in Europe. Once again, the US backed out of this proposal.
However, at the Russia-NATO Summit in Lisbon in 2010, we once again called for Russia, the US and Europe to work together on a continental missile-defence system. This call was not heeded. Nevertheless, two years later, in 2012, at the NATO Summit in Chicago it was NATO that called for dialogue with Russia on missile defence. However, all this good will boiled down to the US insisting that we simply come to terms with their missile defence approach, despite all the obvious risks and threats to our security posed by this approach.
Let me remind you that in 2013 Russia once again called on the US Department of State to open consultations, and came forward with concrete proposals. There was no reply. And in 2014, the United States brought the dialogue on missile defence to a halt and declared the intention to deploy its positioning areas in Europe and Asia, while also strengthening other systems, including in Alaska and on the east coast.
Talking about other essential international security and strategic stability instruments, the approach adopted by the United States to performing its commitments under the universal Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons has been a matter of concern for Russia. In fact, despite numerous reminders on our part, the United States commits serious violations of the Treaty in its actions within NATO. The Treaty commits nuclear powers to refrain from transferring the corresponding nuclear technologies.
Despite these provisions, NATO engages in so-called joint nuclear missions whereby the United States together with five NATO countries where US nuclear weapons are deployed conduct nuclear weapons drills with countries that are not part of the five nuclear-weapons states. This is a direct violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Another treaty that had a special role in removing the threat of nuclear war, or, to be more precise, whose preparation was a source of hope for addressing these threats, was the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty [CTBT]. The United States did not ratify it even though doing so was among Barack Obama’s campaign promises when he ran for president.
Right now, this instrument is completely off the radar, since the United States has lost all interest in any consultations on joining this Treaty. Being a party to the CTBT and acting in good faith, Russia holds special events at the UN General Assembly every year in order to promote the Treaty and mobilise public opinion in favour of its entry into force, which requires the United States to join it, among other things.
Apart from the INF Treaty, there is the Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty [START] that remains in force. It is also essential for preserving at least some measure of strategic stability and global parity. It is also under threat, since its effective functioning has come into question after the recent move by the United States to remove from accountability under the treaty 56 submarine based Trident launchers and 41 heavy bombers by declaring them converted into nun-nuclear.
This is possible under the treaty, but the other party has the right to make sure that once converted these weapons cannot be reconverted back into nuclear arsenals.
Vladimir Putin: An inspection has to be carried out.
Sergey Lavrov: Yes, an inspection. And there have to be technical means to persuade us that these systems cannot be reconverted and returned into the nuclear arsenal.
We have been holding talks since 2015 to make sure that the United States complies with its obligations on this matter. So far, there have been no results. The technical solutions we have been offered so far cannot persuade us that more than 1,200 warheads, which is an enormous amount, cannot be returned to the nuclear arsenal. Unfortunately, repeated proposals by Russia to launch talks on extending the Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty beyond 2021, when its first term is set to expire, have fallen on deaf ears in the United States. All we hear is that the decision on the New START has yet to be taken.
All in all, the situation is quite alarming. Let me reiterate that the decision taken by the United States on the INF Treaty is of course a matter of serious concern for the entire world, especially for Europe. Nevertheless, the Europeans followed in the footsteps of the United States with all NATO members speaking out in explicit support of the position adopted by the United States to refrain from any discussions on mutual concerns. All we hear are groundless ultimatums requiring us to take unilateral measures without any evidence to support unfounded accusations.
Vladimir Putin: Thank you.
Mr Shoigu, what is the Defence Ministry’s view on the current situation? And what do you propose in this regard?
Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu: Mr President, it is obvious to us, despite the murky language that we hear, that apart from openly conducting research and development on the production of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles, there have been actual violations of the INF Treaty, and this has been going on for several years. To put it simply, the United States has started producing missiles of this kind.
In this connection, we have the following proposals regarding retaliatory measures.
First, we propose launching in the coming months research and development, as well as development and engineering with a view to creating land-based modifications of the sea-based Kalibr launching systems.
Second, we propose launching research and development, followed by development and engineering to create land-based launchers for hypersonic intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles.
We ask you to support these proposals.
Vladimir Putin: I agree. This is what we will do. Our response will be symmetrical. Our US partners announced that they are suspending their participation in the INF Treaty, and we are suspending it too. They said that they are engaged in research, development and design work, and we will do the same.
I agree with the Defence Ministry’s proposals to create a land-based version of the Kalibr launchers and work on a new project to develop a land-based hypersonic intermediate-range missile.
At the same time, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that we must not and will not let ourselves be drawn into an expensive arms race. I wanted to ask you, would it be possible to finance these initiatives using the existing budget allocations to the Defence Ministry for 2019 and the following years?
Sergey Shoigu: Mr President, we closely studied this matter, and will propose adjustments to the 2019 budget in order to be able to carry out these initiatives within the limits set by the state armaments programme and the defence procurement orders for 2019 without going over budget.
Vladimir Putin: This should not entail any increases in the Defence Ministry’s budget.
Sergey Shoigu: Yes.
Vladimir Putin: Good.
In this connection, there is one more thing I wanted to ask you. Every six months we hold meetings in Sochi to discuss the implementation of the state defence order with the commanders of the Armed Forces and the defence sector representatives.
Starting this year, I propose modifying this format. I want to see how efforts to deploy our systems are progressing. This refers to the Kinzhal hypersonic air-launched ballistic missile, the Peresvet combat laser weapon, which has already been delivered to the army, and the Avangard system, which is now in serial production, having completed the test phase. I want to see how the production of the Sarmat missile is advancing alongside preparations for placing it on combat duty.
Several days ago, you reported to me on the completion of a key stage in testing the Poseidon multipurpose strategic unmanned underwater vehicle. We have to look at how these efforts are advancing.
We are aware of the plans by some countries to deploy weapons in outer space. I want to hear a report on how this threat can be neutralised.
There is another important topic I wanted to raise with both the Foreign Ministry and the Defence Ministry.
For many years, we have been calling on numerous occasions for holding meaningful disarmament talks on almost all aspects of this matter. In recent years, we have seen that our partners have not been supportive of our initiatives. On the contrary, they always find pretexts to further dismantle the existing international security architecture.
In this connection, I would like to highlight the following considerations, and I expect the Foreign Ministry and the Defence Ministry to use them as guidance. All our proposals in this area remain on the table just as before. We are open to negotiations. At the same time, I ask both ministries not to initiate talks on these matters in the future. I suggest that we wait until our partners are ready to engage in equal and meaningful dialogue on this subject that is essential for us, as well as for our partners and the entire world.
Another important consideration I would like to share with the senior officials of both ministries. We proceed from the premise that Russia will not deploy intermediate-range or shorter-range weapons, if we develop weapons of this kind, neither in Europe nor anywhere else until US weapons of this kind are deployed to the corresponding regions of the world.
I ask the Foreign Ministry and the Defence Ministry to closely monitor developments and promptly submit proposals on ways to respond.
It was interesting to watch this unfold today. Russia also followed up with satellite proof that US has been in breach of the Treaty.
https://sputniknews.com/us/201902021072066039-satellite-images-inf/
I liked the fact that President Putin told the Ministries not to make the effort to start talks again – its all in the US court now. (Hope that’s to NATO/EU too).
The US carries on with its usual demands – thinking by saying it can revoke its decision to leave if Russia is in compliance will have any effect:
https://sputniknews.com/military/201902021072067815-uk-russia-inf-treaty/
It is the US who is not in compliance and they just want to do what they want. Russia understands this. The part about space too – means Russia is preparing for the US pull out from START.
It is good to see all these senior Russian cabinet members talking openly of what next steps are for public consumption. Is anyone of any intelligence in the US taking heed though?
Russia has been on this since inception. Russia monitors the Titan missile site not eighteen miles from Raytheon in Tucson Az. under agreement. Clever no?
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Raytheon/31.9027108,-110.999352/@31.9037294,-111.0153413,13.5z/data=!4m8!4m7!1m5!1m1!1s0x86d67b8297155faf:0x7b15ef52e3105b3!2m2!1d-110.9513345!2d32.1053683!1m0?hl=en
http://www.titanmissilemuseum.org/
I visited the Titan site Tuscon. I was permitted to read the repair manual for the inertial guidance (it’s public) That gadget was made by AC Delco/autolite, I seem to recall. It was a carefully designed and rugged guidance system… Given fairly calm wind at launch it was accurate enough, and the bomb was huge…
Before I visited I had created a myth for myself > That the guidance was so poor that the rocket was pretty unreliable. I was fooling myself out of vain hope… I had told myself for years that probably half of the rockets would fail to get anywhere near their target.
So 10 year old boy asked his pop what this stuff was…the bunker, the fuel piping, the massive rocket lying outside…and his dad fumbled the reply…so I interjected :
” It is a sort of cannon, son, a cannon that can shoot all the way to the other side of the world and burn down a major city with one shot”
Dad thought my explanation pretty good, and agreed. This kid? He did not believe us…
This example illustrates a dangerous pervasive denial, even while one’s eyes rest on the machinery…
We need to remember that Pompeo, that obscene bladder of lying thuggery, and Pence are religious fanatics of the anti-Christian (as in following the true teachings of Jesus)’Pentecostal’ villainy, and that the Trump regime is heavily influenced by these Evil fanatics. These creatures actually want a thermo-nuclear war to usher in The Rapture, the End Times, Armageddon, the battle with Gog and Magog (Russia and China)etc, the whole lunatic circus of exterminationist ‘religion’. In league with the similar fiends of Saud Wahhabism, a genocide cult, and that Judaic Talmudic clerico-fascism that dominates the Israeli Right and the heights of the Israeli political-military-intelligence-surveillance apparatus, these creatures represent Thanatos, or Morbido, the psychopathological death drive that was always going to prove our Achilles Heel as a species. When Evil creatures like these exist, humanity has a problem, but when they dominate humanity and not only refuse to allow the true ‘human’ beings to exist anywhere in societies not based on insatiable greed and hatred of others, but also act, ceaselessly,to destroy any such efforts, with as much killing and destruction as possible (which are sacrifices to their blood-soaked deity, Death), then our destruction is assured.
It looks like humanity has indeed a problem, the more we approaching the limits, the less power humanity as a whole has. Yes we hear here, there voices and some little action but in overall is silence, as lambs who accept their fate to be led to slaughter. This blindness is terrifying, the dumbness is even more. Will it be a revival or the total destruction will occur ? Yes I know, the hope is the last thing we can lost.
Makes you wonder what the US hopes to achieve by pulling out of the INF Treaty. Install medium range and short range missiles in Europe, hoping to launch a sneak attack against Russia ? Does the US really think that Europe wants to be reduced to a battle ground for Wall Streets’s interests ?
The unfortunate impression is that the Washington political establishment thinks that Europe would consent to fighting World War Three, since two world wars were already fought. Nothing could be further from the truth.
I see that the US Congress has introduced a Bill preventing Trump from pulling the US out of NATO. If this does not prove that US politicians are not under Wall Streets control, I don’t know what does.
The US better curtail it’s imperial tastes. Both the EU and NATO are unpopular in Europe. Any more anti-Russian rhetoric by the US and we shall see both the EU and NATO dissolve.
The Thantopia ruling psychopaths have been openly boasting, even in their elite journals, for some years that the USA would ‘prevail’ in a thermo-nuclear ‘exchange’. The lunatic confidence is, naturally, based on a sneak first-strike, to decapitate the Russian state and destroy most of the retaliatory Russian capacity. Any Russian retaliatory capacity would be mopped up by ‘missile defence’, which, as we all know, is not about ‘defence’ but aggression. The sneak first-strike would be carried out by cruise missiles fired from Eastern Europe, or submarines, or perhaps from the X-37 ‘space plane’ that the US has been working on for decades, or its successors.
Similar plans exist to destroy China, of course. The Thanatopian ruling elites, easily the most Evil, aggressive and genocidal psychopaths that have ever existed in human history will destroy the world before giving up their God-given right to rule over humanity forever. Our days are numbered.
Mulga Mumblebrain
Unfortunately, you are right. It’s common knowledge that some characters on Wall Street are under the impression that Russia can be defeated by a sneak attack with minimal losses to the US. Their military training, apparently, is based on watching Hollywood movies. Now I am wondering how all of this will end.
It’s time for a rerelease of dr. Strangelove a good film in the 50s, a better film no now
‘I’m not sayin’ we won’t get our hair mussed-but thirty, forty million dead, tops’.
I hate to correct you Mulga, but it is only 10-20 million -and that contingent on the prevailing wind on the day.
So, if it’s only going to be 10-20 million then it’s quite reasonable, no?
(Dr. Strangelove should be compulsory viewing for all politicians, especially so since those B-52s are still flying nukes -and also incorporated into the education systems along with Critical Thinking courses. The world might, just might, stand a chance then.)
“Turgidson: Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth, both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing. But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless distinguishable, post-war environments: one where you got 20 million people killed, and the other where you got 150 million people killed!
Muffley: You’re talking about mass murder, General, not war.
Turgidson: Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops! Uh, depending on the breeze.
Muffley: I will not go down in history as the greatest mass murderer since Adolf Hitler.
Turgidson: Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American people, than with your image in the history books.”
Doctor Strangelove is often thought of as a wicked satire or a black comedy.
In reality, it was a disguised documentary about the mindset of the American political and military high command.
No joke. Some of the words in the film are from Herman Kahn, an influential US nuclear war strategist.
In fact, Kahn even wanted some royalties from the film for the use of his words and ideas!
‘Dr. Strangelove’ Is Basically a Documentary
https://www.wired.com/2018/03/geeks-guide-doctor-strangelove/
My good man, the decision makers in Europe /are/ Wall Street. The people of Europe have zero say in the matter.
Edbrad
That is correct. The EU is a copy of the US Federation. Both have central banks controlled by private bankers. NATO is nothing more than the Praetorian Guard of private bankers. We shall see how long this situation lasts. I don’t think it can last for ever.
If Europe didn’t want to be the battle ground between the US and Russia then they wouldn’t let the US put new missiles in Europe. Once those missiles are in place then the US will have Europe just where it wants it and will not need Europe’s consent.
Surely the Quislings of the European NATO slave states must be the greatest traitors to their peoples’ true welfare, even survival, in all history.
B.F.
Good question ? What is the meaning of this “spectacular” decision ?
All agreements between SAD and Russia are already null and void , thanks to SAD.
In this stage there is no communications between two super power .
What remains is ominous silence .
@BF
I don’t think the total physical annihilation of human beings is their scope, not yet if ever. Their scope is subjugation, primordially that of human spirit, the incapacity to fight back, to find and tell the truth and liberate this world from those gangsters. If the gangsters want war, they want it as am extreme means to further diminish the economic power of those countries and regions which are in their way, they don’t want to win a physical war, only to achieve enough chaos by inflicting serious wounds on their adversaries in order to keep them weak as long is possible. By the way, this is not a new strategy, the Romans did that with the encircling of Jerusalem, letting the city to dry up and hunger. What is new, are the nuclear weapons. They know very well what that means, nobody shall survive. The Evil wants to perpetuate our sufferings and prolong his own life as long is possible.
Relax!
We control the press, the MIC, the internet, and governments across almost the entire world. You have less worth than a dog. You don’t have a soul, and therefore are utterly dispensable.
A gambler sits in the white house and he feels like God’s anointed. A half shekel silver coin has been struck by the Sanhedrin bearing the head reliefs of Cyrus and Trump. He is our boy. Our King of the South of Daniel 8.
Relax goyim, Macron is ours too. The boy King is ours. Merkel is on statins. May too. Sarah Huckaby believes Trump has been chosen by the Divine. Pence is a Dominionist with a world to subdue.
Read Daniel 8. Understand that they are going to nuke Damascus. Understand that Russia is the descendant of the Greek shaggy goat, the first horn Rome, and the second Constantinople. But Trump is the watchman, chosen by the renegade nation who thinks he is smarter and better than everyone else.
This is about eschatology’s of the ever tightening confirmation loop. We have crossed the event horizon. For Russia, it is now or never. If not now, if Russia can’t shut the West down now, there may never be a free man again walk the earth again.
Thankyou and an incredible degree of honesty and integrity shown once again by the Russia leadership.
https://www.unsealed.org/2017/07/eyes-on-macron.html?m=1
Macron is something to watch carefully.
Stopping the militarisation of space: now that is so important that what is really going on will become very hush-hush.
If you are a kabbalist numbers are incredibly important.
Consider the following numbers and understand how fine the comb they used to find Trump how great the work to control calendars.
Today is July 7, 2017 (7/7/17) in the Hebrew year 5777. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are meeting in Hamburg, Germany today. Today is also 77 days from the Feast of Trumpets and the Revelation 12 Sign (see here).
While Trump and Putin meet today, Putin is exactly 777 months old to the day (see here). Also, today is exactly 5777 days from September 11, 2001 (see here). Again, remember that we are in Hebrew year 5777. And remember that Trump was inaugurated when he was exactly 70 years, 7 months, and 7 days old and was born 700 days before Israel’s rebirth and was 777 days old 77 days after Israel became a nation. I have to give Daily Crow credit for finding some of these incredible numbers.
And the telephone prefix for Russia is 007
Here the subbed meeting for western consumption. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLxex6bPiHQ&t=25s&frags=pl%2Cwn The real news in not the Obvious nor a bunch of Kalibr on wheels. The Russian will stop diplomatic talks till the USA is “ready to engage in an equal and meaningfull dialogue”. So to speak bluntly, never in the near future.
So far for the hopes that the new US administration trumpeted better foreign policy than the last 75 years: https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/02/02/587452/Russia-US-INF-missile-arms-race
One has to stop making a distinction between the superficial appearance of divergence of opinion within the Oligarchopoly of Trump presidency and the rest of the US deepnstate apparatchiks. At the end of the day, the rest of the world suffers only the end result of the implementation of their The Empire’s decision and needs to focus on giving it enough counter-incentive to mend their ways.
Thanatopia cannot ‘mend its ways’. Its ruling elite is driven by debased ‘religious’ beliefs in ‘American Exceptionalism’ (in genocide and destruction certainly), ‘Indispensability’, ‘Manifest Destiny’ etc, and by the controlling Judaic elite faction (which no longer represent the opinions of a majority of US Jews)who dominate politics (through straight bribery), the heights of the Justice and Treasury Departments, the fakestream media and other brainwashing apparatuses ie entertainment, particularly Hollywood, PR, advertising and the Internet and the Ivy League colleges (tens times over-represented according to population)etc, who truly believe themselves ‘Chosen’ and superior to all other human groups.
The US ruling elite are innately hyper-aggressive, vicious, lying, hypocritical and genocidal. The possibility of their changing into something less malignant is less than zero.
The Empire never negotiates. They make demands but they have no idea who they are dealing with. Napoleon and Hitler found out the hard way.
INF was a tool used to prevent Europe form being used as a nuclear battleground. Why are European citizens not in the streets demanding that their land should not be used as an Americans nuclear launching pad. A nuclear strike by America on major Russian cities will definitely affect Europe, whether Russia retaliate or not. All nuclear arms should be banned. It is up to us as citizens of the world to stand up for the right to life or prepare for doom. One has to commend Vlad and his team for the outstanding job of defending humanity against an insane American leadership. I wish the Chinese leadership could realize that the Titanic is sinking and become less docile.
The truly frightening fact is Foggy Bottom and Londonistan believe their own propaganda concerning Russia.
There is no way out of this manufactured crisis beyond being ready with the best weapons possible for the initiation of armed hostilities and to have, and be willing to deliver, the needed initial defense weapons and systems and the guaranteed and virtually unstoppable response systems.
The hostilities started well over a decade ago with concerted economic attacks on Russia and now China. Of course there are many other countries Foggy Bottom has initiated economic hostilities against, but the only two of world wide import are Russia and China. The sycophantic choir of the chained vassals in what is known as ‘eu’ always sing the refrain and do exactly what they are told to do, but the driving force and initiator of the war is the United States of America.
It is a puzzlement as to why Foggy Bottom is fomenting this war. One would think that somewhere in the bowels of that befuddled maze of parasites there would be a sensible head or three who can think clearly and understand that confrontation breeds confrontation at unbelievable economic coast whereas cooperation breeds ten times the profit and economic advantages at one tenth the cost. Sadly, if there are these sensible heads their words are drowned out by the cheers of the huddled masses rushing headlong in to a war they will not win and we will not loose.
I am a bit of a historian, comes with the territory of writing ‘historic’ fiction, ergo I do a lot of research. What I’m looking at on this day, 03 February 2019, is chapter and verse July 1914, the same smiling crowds of youngsters running to the colours, willingly going in to a war of such horror they could not comprehend in their darkest nightmares. The only difference this time is the crowds rushing to war are not soldiers, they are civilians, and Russia will not start it but on the other hand Russia is not little Serbia who could not fight back in a meaningful way, brave as her soldiers were, and are.
Auslander
Author
Sevastopol, The Third Defense, Book 1 https://saker.community/product/sevastopol-the-third-defense-2013-2014-a-premonition-the-move-south/
An Incident On Simonka https://saker.community/product/an-incident-on-simonka-a-novel-by-r-h-auslander-pdf-ed/ March 2014. NATO Is Invited To Leave Sevastopol, One Way Or The Other.
Trump believes that he can construct a crisis where at the last minute his opponent will give in, as with North Korea.
Russia is not North Korea and Trump et al. are thoroughly mistaken/missguided when dealing with slavic culture/mentality.
The U.S is bankrupt economically and culturally and it is only a matter of time until its collapse is due, like it was with the Soviet Union.
Putin has to play a balancing act between being tough and gaining time.
I think Putin is a better chess player.
God bless Putin.
I do not see how “being ready with…” can be a “way out”. It is necessary, but leads to conflict or stalemate, not a way out. It is temporizing.
Dmitry Babich proposes (online) that the method of Ru at this time is essentially defined by the disproportionate relationship between massive US and small Ru, in terms of political mass. This strategy, he says, is being non-predictable. This is temporizing. And it makes sense, as ethics is largely a matter of circumstance, and circumstances are that the US and the Imperial Plans are in moral and economic decline. Time, seen thus, favors RU.
At some point, however, is obvious that an increasingly irrational Empire will attack – there will be a fight…so, ultimately (probably) Auslander and Dima will be in agreement. Times do change.
@ > “It is a puzzlement as to why Foggy Bottom is fomenting this war.”
The Policy Set designs to create conflict. This is understood as Hegelian Dialectic > create opposing agencies that fight, and then profit from the ensuing chaos.
Of course to civilized and moral people such designs, such strategies, are anathema.
see> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRZy6wcWkxo
Sutton on Skull and Bones > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_YWFC1HY74
I disagree with Sutton over his implications and some of his deductions, but since his observations ended almost 20 years ago it is possible that his might have matured, had he lived longer. I found him somewhat offensive and disagreeable, but also correct about the Hegelian dialectic method and power/wealth.
It’s far deeper than merely Skull and Bones though, that’s agency, the club itself is closer to London.
I am inclined to believe that the best methods in Strategy are generally those of an indirect character.
Here’s Dima’s interview wherein he espouses his view about disproportionate forces in re Ru and US, and a great deal more. Dated? Yes, but not terribly so…
https://ccisf.org/video-russian-journalist-dimitri-babich-speaks-to-cci-group/
I agree that the foggybottom types seem to believe their own fairytales, and that’s frightening. On Crosstalk recently Dima compared the “ultranationalists” (his term) to the Soviet ideologues…insofar as when they follow the ideology and get non-desired results, they blame anybody and everything, except the ideology, which cannot be in error, according to…the ideology!
This amounts to saying that they are crazy. However the simpler explanation is they’re guided and controlled.
I think they’re stooges, willing idiots, serving the Hegelian Dialectic creation of (profitable) chaos, and that stooges believe whatever their bosses desire…
I misquoted. For “ultranationalists” read “ultraliberal”
OPEC+ must be told that it’s very survival is on the line in Venuzuela. That if the US gets away with crushing Venuzuela it will then be able to pick each one of them off one by bloody one.
The OPEC+ should/must put a levy on each and every barrel of oil sold and the levy funds used to support Venuzuela or any other member which comes under this kind of attack by the West.
If Saudi Arabia thinks it isn’t next on the hit list Saudi leaders are totally demented.
It is a case of all for one and one for all.
OPEC+ either grows some brains and balls or it as a whole gets fed into the Western regime change meat grinder.
OPEC+ must become militant in support of its members. It must fight for Venuzuela now or be damned to the same fate as itself.
Wake the fuck up bin Salmon…wake the fuck up.!
The eschatalogical imperative is ‘ Gomer’ (Saudi Arabia) an ally of the King of the North. Attacking Venuzuela shortly after the West has given bin Salman a roughing up over the reported killing of Kashogi in Istanbul is meant to further cement the ties between Russia and Saudi Arabia.
The Zionists and are acting out Danial 8.
They intend war.
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In Poland, urged the United States to deploy nuclear weapons in Europe
2019-02-02
Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Chaputovich said that the deployment of American missiles in nuclear
equipment on the European continent is the interest of Europe. He said this in an interview with the
German newspaper “Der Spiegel”.
“It is in our European interest that American troops and nuclear missiles be stationed on the continent”,
said Chaputovich.
According to him, NATO nuclear missiles can be deployed in Poland.
“It all depends on how Russia will behave in the future, whether it will continue its aggressive policy on armaments, and NATO must resolve this as a community”, he said.
Earlier, the United States announced its withdrawal from the Treaty on Medium and Short Range
Missiles. Washington blamed “for the collapse of the agreement” on Moscow and called on Russia to
recognize the violations already committed, in particular during the tests of the 9M729 missile, the
range of which allegedly violated the provisions of the agreement.
In Moscow, they reject any accusations of violating the treaty and declare that the United States,
destroying this agreement, wants to untie its hands in the military sphere. The Russian Foreign Ministry
also stated that the United States had created a whole class of new weapons – unmanned aerial assault vehicles that fall under the treaty.
Author: Alice Volshebnaya
(Google translation)
https://www.newsread.top/category/russia/news/182654-v-pol-she-prizvali-ssha-razmestit-yadernoe-oruzhie-v-evrope/full
Poland not mention the support it gives to the Ukraine…training…armaments etc….and is a transit for such supplies from the USA..?…oh dear.
The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung cited Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
member Roderich Kiesewetter and Rolf Mützenich from the Social Democratic Party of Germany
(SPD) as saying that the 9M729 missiles should be deployed to “the other side of the Ural Mountains
so that they cannot reach Europe”.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201902031072083854-germany-russia-us-inf-treaty/
Time for Germany to really decide where its best future lies….either as an expendable asset of the USA ….or eject nato and stop wavering trying to ignore things….build peace for europe.
Merkel says Russia has broken the treaty….ye gods….why Putin could feel he could talk her ….she went along with the sanctions…insists on return of Crimea… Minsk has failed…..
Merkel is playing with future of Germany, she was “advised” not to run in the next elections, which she did. The remaining time she has, will be spent on doing harm to her country and Europe as a whole.
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From a military point of view it seems strange that the US would get out of the INF treaty.
While it was great for Russia not to be involved in an arms race in the years it needed to recover its industrial capabilities I wonder if it really puts Russia in a disadvantage.
Russia is land-based power with rather limited naval capabilities. The INF treaty allows for _naval_ 500km+ missiles only – which, from where I stand puts the US in a rather favorable position.
The Arms-race while of course potentially fatal for the survival of the planet would not necessary be a certain win for the US being already at the brink of loosing the worldwide dollar dominance. I can hardly imagine who would borrow money to the US to finance this competition. Russia on the other hand has created a superior and efficient arms industry. This, together with chinas manufacturing capabilities would certainly win any arms-race against a nation that is incapable to get their most prestigious projects of the ground without massive delays and cost-overruns. One that can only produce flying bricks that can not win a dog-fight against a 30years older fighter-jet.
It just seems to be another step in the sophisticated plan of “Our Man in Washington” to assure the end of the US led empire and I wouldn’t be too surprised – If there is anyone with brains left in the Pentagon (apart from mice) – if the US Administration revise their decision.
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Never interrupt your enemy while it is making mistake
Sun Tzu
Bonaparte, actually.
The INF Treaty only covered land-based missiles and their launchers in the 500-5,000 km range. It did not cover sea or air launched missiles. At the time of its signing the USSR had a huge advantage in land-based missiles and had to destroy thousands to comply with the treaty.
The Russian Federation’s huge lead in sea and air launched missiles has really shocked the US.
Earlier, following the news that the US would be pulling out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
Treaty, the Russian Defence Ministry released satellite images of a Raytheon Corporation plant it says
had been prepared for the production of missiles prohibited under the arms control agreement.
https://sputniknews.com/military/201902031072086862-arizona-illegal-missile-factory/
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-03/death-knell-syria-pullout-we-have-protect-israel-says-trump
US is staying in Syria