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Found on an investment forum. Obviously, this cannot be verified and
the poster did not use a real name. Nevertheless, it is interesting and
seems plausible.
Straight Talk from Russian Bear
Posted By: DBear2
Date: Friday, 4/2/99, at 10:39 a.m.
Mindful that one has to interpret not only our own
State Dept. rhetoric, but that of our news media
as well, I decided to call a friend of many years in
Moscow to ask him what the mood was regarding
the war in Kosovo, relations with America, etc. He is a
former senior govt. official from the Soviet
era, and has retained high level political and military
contacts from that period. He said that there
were a number of young people demonstrating against
NATO and that the ultra-nationalists like
Zhirinovsky were exploiting the tension for their own
means. However, there was a sincere desire by
most Russians to maintain good future relationships
with America, if at all possible.
However, he did say that we have not just a poor
understanding of Serbian history or the bonds
between Slavic peoples, but an even poorer appreciation
of just how fanatic and vicious the Serbian
fighters can be. He recounted their battles against the
Germans in WW2 and reminded me that �you
Americans just don�t know how crazy they are � more
than us, actually�.
Well, when it comes to fighting skills, I�ll put our
guys up against anyone in the world. However, if
we put forces on the ground, we won�t be fighting for
our homeland, and our troops will be bound
by the Geneva Convention. The Serbians will likely do
anything at their disposal to kill as many of us
as possible, even if they are certain to die in the
process. And while its clear that the thugs and
criminals that make up the Serb paramilitary units
would be no match for professional soldiers, we
have managed to get everyone cloaked in the cause of
nationalism and will have the entire population
against us, civilian and soldier alike.
In military terms, our options are tactical. The Serbs
will go strategic. By any means necessary. This
has me particularly worried, because through other
contacts in Russia, I have had occasion to learn
of some advanced weapons technology they have
developed, but not deployed. I should explain that
I am not in the weapons business, but quite the
opposite � the search for technologies that might
have peaceful or environmental applications. However,
many a plowshare once was a sword, and it
is astounding what you can find in Russia once you
start looking.
Anyway, if some of the Russian nut-case nationalists
take matters into their own hands in providing
aid to Serbia, they may have access to weapons that are
generally unknown outside of military
circles � terrible miniature weapons that can kill
everything in a 500 meter radius � no exceptions, no
toxic after effects. I cannot say more, but such things
do exist. So its not just our non-nuclear EMF
weapons that might be seen in Serbia, but possibly some
unanticipated surprises from the other side
as well. The problem is, even if the �official� Russian
government counsels restraint and diplomacy,
there is very poor control or accounting for where all
the weapons are. And there are enough
starving and disaffected Russian army officers that
somewhere among them, there are means of
access to some non-conventional weapons that are very
dangerous indeed.
My friend in Moscow didn�t even try to influence my
opinion or argue against our opinion of
Milosovitch. As surrogate �Papa� to his daughter (she
stayed with us as an exchange student), we�re
beyond ideology and more like family. He just wanted me
to be sure I knew what my country was
walking in to.
And THAT, you can�t get from CNN.
<After a question concerning the nature of the weapon>
I'm reluctant to jeapordize scientist-inventors with
sensitive government jobs. The reason I have
access at all is that they trust me and are genuinely
interested in non-leathal applications of the
technology. Lets just say that its a small non-nuclear
implosion weapon against which there is no
defense. Not armor, not buildings, not the human body.
I've seen the photos, hard data, technical
details -- all I can say is, who needs tactical nukes?
As early as 1993, the Russians tried to market it
as a "new method to blow up big structures" that were
not easily tackled with conventional
explosives -- without, of course, alluding to why the
technology was developed in the first place.
And they didn't particularly want anyone to know how
powerful a boom-ka (my implosion analog
for ka-boom) they could build. So its no longer
completely classified -- if you want to search, you
can find a small amount of published data on this, but
its so obscure that it wouldn't normally find its
way into the mainstream media, let alone a chat board.
And you can bet the farm that our brave &
fearless leader, Fightin' Bill, wouldn't tell the
American people what the Russian Nationalists might be
capable of. For that matter, in his blackest dreams, he
may not understand what the Serbs are
capable of. If we do hit the ground in Serbia, I'd
advise our NATO guys to land with every
non-nuclear, non-germ warfare system we have --
fuel/air et al. -- and let Milosovitch know it ahead
of time. But if we kill every last Serb soldier, we'll
have to find some politically acceptable way to
deal with the hatred of the remaining civilian
population. Vietnam this ain't. Iraq this ain't. While
our century was still young, Serbian nationalism proved
to be the catalyst for the first world war. Now
that its ending, we're still dealing with the same
historical forces -- different circumstances, different
borders, different governments -- but the same forces.
Our State Department missed the boat on the
significance of Islamic fundamentalism in Iran,
Liberation Theology in Central America, the
anti-colonial fervor of the N.Vietnamese, etc., etc.
My solution: ask the Russians to do us a BIG favor, and
offer to enter Yougoslavia as the sole
peace-keeping force. Tell Milosovitch we trust the
Russians to devise a fair solution. Tell the
Russians we trust them too.
That way, maybe the Ruskies can forget the past 10
years of patronizing behavior from the West,
find an honest leader, hang 10,000 or so Mafiosi in
front of Lenin's Tomb, and rejoin the world
community as a respected leader.
Oh, by the way -- the smart money on Yeltsin's
replacement is Luskov, the present mayor of
Moscow. That presumes, of course, that the rest of
Russia doesn't lay seige to stop Moscow from
sucking up better than 50% of the country's GNP.
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