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NewsMax.com - April 8, 1999
http://38.201.154.103/articles/?a=1999/4/8/73748
Analysis: Russia Mobilizes, America Sleeps
J.R. Nyquist and Christopher Ruddy
LONDON AND WASHINGTON -- Bill Clinton's use of NATO
forces to bomb Yugoslavia could trigger global war.
Over the weekend, Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji hinted
that the crisis in Kosovo could lead to a world war. At
the same time, Russia -- a long-time ally of the Serbs
-- has begun a large-scale mobilization of its military
forces.
While NATO countries are engaging in military
operations, not one Western country is mobilizing for a
larger war, as is Russia.
THE NEW STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP OF RUSSIA AND CHINA
NATO's soporific reaction to Russia's mobilization
should also be viewed, not in the context of the
Yugoslavia bombing, but in the broader context of the
new China-Russia relationship -- one that has
dramatically altered the balance of power in the world.
In November 1998, Russia and China officially formed a
"strategic partnership." According to the official
Chinese news agency, this partnership is meant to
challenge the "perceived global dominance of the U.S."
In plain English, the primary enemy Russia and China
plan to fight is the United States and its allies.
Together, Russia and China have the world's most
powerful military, including over 30,000 nuclear
weapons, armies of 6 million men with hundreds of
battle-ready combat divisions, and thousands of tanks.
Their new alliance should have rung warning bells
throughout the world. Instead the Western media,
Clinton and other Western leaders have ignored it,
continuing to insist that Russia and China are our
"friends."
WHILE CLINTON DIDDLES, RUSSIA AND CHINA PREPARE FOR WAR
In recent months, Russia and China have jointly
demilitarized their 2,500-mile border. Three hundred
Russian combat units were withdrawn from the Chinese
frontier. A similar number of Chinese units were
withdrawn.
China has also been rapidly building up its ballistic
missile forces opposite Taiwan -- forces that could be
used against the U.S. military in the Far East. An
attack against Taiwan could come at any time. Carl Ford
of the Heritage Foundation, testifying before the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 25, said
that the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has
changed its military strategy from one of a
slowly-developed assault and blockade against Taiwan,
to "more intense, quick-hitting attacks using ballistic
missiles."
For many years, Russian military theory has held that
ballistic missile weapons can be used to accelerate
attacks, allowing for rapid victories over powerful
opponents. The Chinese missile buildup together with
its shift in military strategy suggests that China's
generals have fallen under the spell of Russian
military theory.
At the same time, the Russian units moved off the
Chinese border are now free to threaten Europe.
As the NATO bombing began, Russia talked of moving
heavy bombers and tactical nuclear weapons into
Belarus, the traditional invasion route from Russia to
Europe.
Still, NATO is oblivious to the tremendous shift in the
global balance of power caused by the new Russia-China
military alliance.
NORTH KOREA JOINS THE RUSSIA-CHINA AXIS
There are strong indications that the Russia-China
alliance also includes other sworn enemies of the West,
including the North Korean military dictatorship.
During the Korean War, tens of thousands of Chinese
troops fought against the US in support of the North
Korean dictatorship, and China continues to be North
Korea's principal ally. It is virtually unthinkable
that the North Koreans would launch a new war against
South Korea or the West without Chinese approval and
support.
In the past year, North Korea has become increasingly
bellicose, repeatedly threatening to launch nuclear
weapons against US cities if we interfere with their
activities on the Korean peninsula. In just the last
month, Korea has also deployed a new three-stage
missile capable of hitting most US cities.
A major obstacle in any war launched by North Korea is
America's ally, Japan. According to the nationally
circulated Japanese newspaper Sankei, on March 23,
North Korea used a naval diversion to cover the
insertion "dozens" of special operations commandos into
Japan. According to unidentified sources, these North
Korean infiltrators are trained in the sabotage of
trains, bridges, and communications.
Such a move by the North Koreans could mean that an
attack by North Korea against the South is imminent.
AMERICAN FORCES SPREAD THIN AND VULNERABLE TO RUSSIAN
OR CHINESE AGGRESSION
The bulk of front-line American combat troops are now
dispersed abroad. As the Balkans conflict escalates
even further with the likely introduction of NATO
ground forces, the West is ill prepared to defend South
Korea, Taiwan, or even America.
The NATO blitz against Yugoslavia is already sapping
U.S. military strength needed in the Middle East to
check Saddam Hussein. If war were to intensify in the
Balkans, or if war broke out in Korea, with our current
commitment in Iraq, America doesn't have the resources
to cope.
The logic of this is apparent to our enemies, and could
well be exploited to inflict a major defeat on American
forces in one or two hot spots simultaneously.
Still, the main threat to America is Russia, which now
has more nuclear weapons than every other nation on
earth combined.
For the past three months NewsMax.com has been sounding
the alarm about growing war preparations against the
West by a new Russia/China axis. The very timing of the
Russian-Chinese alliance -- when U.S. forces are at a
low -- is extremely ominous.
But the establishment media has ignored this story. Now
NATO's attack against Yugoslavia has provoked bitter
condemnation from Russia and China and the military
threat is apparent for all to see.
PREPARING THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE FOR WAR
As we reported in Newsmax.com four months ago, before
it would be politically possible for the Russians to
launch a war against the West, the Russian people would
first have to be psychologically prepared for war.
Clinton's war on Yugoslavia has provided precisely the
stimulus needed to create massive war hysteria among
the Russian people.
Just last Thursday, hundreds of furious Russian
demonstrators marched through Moscow calling for Russia
to go to war against NATO. One banner said: "It's time
to bomb the military bases of the United States." That
banner becomes much more ominous when you realize that
the demonstration was either sponsored by the Russian
government or at least had its tacit approval.
Equally ominous was the singling out of US military
bases, the first strike target in any war against the
West, essential for destroying America's retaliatory
nuclear capability.
'CLINTON HAS SINGLE-HANDEDLY REVIVED THE COLD WAR'
The sentiment expressed by Russian war protesters isn't
just the opinion of a few extremists. A recent opinion
survey found that in the wake NATO bombing of their
traditional allies, the Serbs, an incredible 64% of all
Russians now believe that NATO intends to attack
Russia.
Russian officials have also issued increasingly ominous
pronouncements against America and the West. Foreign
Minister Igor Ivanov spoke of "new tasks" for Russia's
military. Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev likened the
crisis to "a whirlpool which is drawing more countries
into it." Former Russian Premier Gorbachev said,
"Clinton has managed to single-handedly revive the Cold
War."
RUSSIA PREPARES FOR WAR
Obsessed with the carnage in Kosovo, NATO appears to be
oblivious to the fact Russia has been engaging in a
massive military mobilization.
In the two weeks since NATO launched their offensive
against Yugoslavia:
+ The Russian Defense Ministry began an enlarged draft,
calling up 168,776 men from the ages of 18 to 27.
+ Recruited over 60,000 Russian "volunteers" to fight
NATO troops in Serbia. On 6 April the first Russian
volunteers arrived in the Serbian town of Novi Sad.
+ Threatened to move tactical nuclear weapons and heavy
bombers forward into Belarus -- Russia's highway to
NATO.
+ Dispatched key elements of their Northern fleet,
including the aircraft cruiser, Admiral Kuznetsov, and
the newly commissioned Peter the Great, the largest
ballistic missile cruiser ever built.
Vice Admiral Popov, commander of the Northern Fleet
told Itar-Tass, the Northern Fleet is "ready to fulfill
any order of the supreme command to defend the
interests of Russia."
The Northern Fleet has more ballistic missile
submarines than the entire U.S. Navy.
+ On 30 March, Russia sent a battle group of over twenty
warships to sea from its Pacific Fleet. Included in the
fleet were ground forces from Russia's Far Eastern
Military District.
+ Russia dispatched ships from the Black Sea Fleet --
including a missile cruiser, two anti-submarine warfare
frigates, and support ships. A Russian reconnaissance
ship has already entered the Mediterranean.
+ Russian TV displayed pictures of ballistic missiles
being loaded on cruisers in the Black Sea.
+ Russia announced the successful launch of a ballistic
missile during exercises of its Northern fleet.
Despite these clear war preparations, Russian news
agencies continue to repeat the Big Lie that Russia has
no plans to get involved in military action in
Yugoslavian war.
If that's true, why all of the war preparations? How
have the supposedly "economically desperate" Russians
been able to mobilize so many naval ships and combat
troops men so quickly?
RUSSIA'S PATTERN OF DCEPTION
Russia's growing preparation for war during the Kosovo
crisis suggests a massive pattern of deception, which
is being ignored by the clueless Western media and
Clinton. This pattern of deception is just the most
recent and blatant example of how Russia has been
talking peace while preparing for war against the West.
How else do you explain this behavior from a friend and
ally of America:
+ Russia continues to maintain the world's largest
arsenal of nuclear weapons -- over 30,000 -- the
overwhelming majority targeted against the West.
+ During the past two years, Russia has engaged in
several mock nuclear war exercises against the United
States. These exercises have included the use of
rockets as well as naval and airborne forces to wipe
America from the map.
+ For the past 18 months, Russia has been moving its
nuclear weapons onto naval ships. Naval ships are
considered to be less vulnerable to retaliation in a
nuclear war.
+ This past December, Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces
deployed a regiment of state-of-the-art Topol-M
missiles targeted against the West. These missiles are
now rolling off Russian production lines and are more
sophisticated than anything in America's arsenal.
+ In January, Russia put is nuclear forces--strategic
rockets, naval and air--under a unified command --
essential for a coordinated first strike against the
West.
+ Russia appears to be hoarding food, fuel, gold, and
other commodities -- an essential preparation for a
major war. Despite claims of poverty and famine, Russia
is stockpiling millions of tons of food and urging its
people to buy gold. It is interesting to note that the
Kosovo crisis began just as the last shipments of
billions of dollars of Western food aid reached Russia.
+ Russia has built the world's largest network of fallout
shelters -- complete underground cities, some as large
as Washington, DC.
WAR PREPARATIONS IN RUSSIA HAVE BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS
In order to mobilize their people against the West, and
prepare them for the destruction it will bring, Russian
leaders know that they must create massive hatred of
the West.
The first step occurred during the summer of 1998 when
Russia defaulted on their foreign loans resulting in
massive bank and business failures, bread lines
throughout the country, and incredible suffering.
On the face of it, it made no sense for the Russian
government to default, since just weeks before the
default, the IMF had given Moscow some $5 billion in
new foreign aid. (According to the Wall Street Journal,
these funds mysteriously "disappeared into the offshore
accounts of Russia's oligarchy.")
Why would any regime in its right mind subject their
own people to such massive suffering when they had the
resources to prevent it?
The likely answer: Russia's leaders knew that "evil
Western capitalists" -- not themselves -- would be
blamed. Indeed, as a result of the 1998 Russian
economic meltdown, millions of Russians demanded that
communism be restored and corrupt Jewish tycoons be
sent packing. The Russian economic meltdown, quite
possibly engineered by Moscow, was in effect a
bloodless coup that did more than any other single
event to revive hatred of capitalism, anti-Semitism,
and again set Russia on the path of tyranny and
confrontation with the West.
CREATING A NEW SOVIET EMPIRE
With Russia's economy in shambles, Russian leaders
should have been preoccupied with domestic problems.
Instead, the primary focus of Russia's energies and
resources has been creating a new Soviet Empire.
Last November, China and Russia announced a new global
alliance. Their intelligence services now share
information. Their high commands have organized
cooperative working groups.
The new Russian-Chinese Alliance represents the
greatest shift in the balance of power since World War
II, yet the Western press has virtually ignored it.
Chinese leaders speak more and more openly about war
with the West. In January Chinese President Jiang Zemin
told the People's Liberation Army to get ready for two
things: First, nuclear world war; and second, to
suppress uprisings inside China.
ANTI-AMERICAN HATRED IS REACHING NEW HEIGHTS
In Russia, the government doesn't have to worry about
uprisings. Thanks to Bill Clinton's bombing campaign in
Yugoslavia, the Russians have rallied to the Kremlin.
Consider what Clinton has done: For the first time in
its history, NATO has attacked a sovereign state, in
direct violation of the NATO Charter which forbids an
offensive war against other countries.
The result of that attack, encouraged by the American
leadership, may well be the collapse of the NATO
alliance and the end of American leadership in Western
Europe, particularly in Italy and Greece. At the very
least, Clinton's use of NATO as an offensive tool of
war, has shifted public opinion against the U.S. in
Russia, Eastern Europe, and much of the Third World.
Understandably, since both Russia and Serbia are Slavic
nations with strong historical, religious and cultural
ties, there is real anger among the Russian populace
against the NATO bombing. After all, how would
Americans feel if Russia bombed London because of the
strife in Northern Ireland? Or if Russia bombed Canada
or Mexico? NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia proves to the
average Russian that NATO is an offensive military
organization whose ultimate aim is the destruction of
Russia -- which is what they have been told by their
leaders for generations.
CLINTON'S WAR AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA: A 'ROYAL GIFT' TO
COMMUNISTS AND KREMLIN INSIDERS
The present Russian anger over the NATO bombing is, as
Izvestia called it, a "royal gift" to the communists
and Kremlin insiders -- some of whom have publicly
advocated war with the West. There is growing pressure
on even moderate Russian leaders to take "some action"
against NATO to restore Russia's glory and pride.
Russia's Duma passed a resolution 366-4 that declares
that NATO "aggression" is "a threat to Russia's
national security" and called on the Russian government
to begin war mobilization. Russia's foreign secretary
Igor Ivanov said while Russia had no immediate military
plans, it was "holding extreme measures in reserve."
As the Christian Science Monitor reports, Russian
nationalists now repeat a mantra, "What is happening in
Serbia today, will happen in Russia tomorrow."
Itar-Tass reports that leading Russia intellectuals
have formed a new movement called "Against World War
III" to combat growing war hysteria in Russia.
RUSSIAN LEADERS CONSIDER NUCLEAR WAR INEVITABLE
Colonel Stanislav Lunev, the highest-ranking GRU
officer ever to defect from Russia, has stated that the
Russian General Staff considers nuclear war with
America to be inevitable.
Lunev writes, "I spent thirty years preparing for war
against America. Not a war against China. Not a war
against Europe. A war against America."
In an interesting footnote, almost immediately after
the NATO bombing campaign began, Russia canceled its
cooperation with America on the Y2K computer virus.
This cooperation is vital as the year 2000 rapidly
approaches, and by rejecting U.S. help suggests the
Russians have other plans and have no intention of ever
opening up its defense systems to outside technicians
-- unlike the US under Clinton, which has allowed
Russian and Chinese military agents to roam our
top-secret defense labs virtually at will.
'WAG THE DOG' GLOBAL WAR?
As conservative commentator, Lwellen Rockwell, points
out, Clinton's foreign policy can be summarized by a
single word: Bombs!
Clinton's popularity dips and he bombs Iraq. Ken Starr
issues a report recommending that Clinton be impeached,
and he bombs Sudan and Afghanistan. The Senate prepares
to vote on impeachment charges, and Clinton again bombs
Iraq. Chinagate -- Clinton's cynical selling of US
military secrets in exchange for campaign contributions
-- threatens to break in the popular press, and Clinton
bombs Yugoslavia.
As in the movie, "Wag the Dog," whenever Clinton gets
in trouble, he bombs someone to distract attention from
his own scandals and crimes. Clinton's foreign policy
reads like a script for a Hollywood B film.
Personal and political scandals have enveloped Bill
Clinton's presidency since his first days in office.
Just months after becoming president, he launched a
bloody attack on the Branch Davidians in Waco, which
ended with the immolation of some 80 innocent men,
women and children. He blatantly used the military to
"wag the dog" on the eve of the Senate impeachment vote
with a cynical bombing of Iraq.
Those who claim that with impeachment behind him,
Clinton has no real reason to wag the dog by bombing
Yugoslavia, are dead wrong. Supreme egotist that he is,
Clinton is consumed with remaining popular and securing
his place in history -- both of which are threatened by
continuing public attention to previous and newly
revealed scandals, like Chinagate. Some of those
scandals could even have legally devastating
consequences for Clinton and Hillary personally, after
his presidency ends.
The Lewinsky scandal continues to percolate, and Monica
has been on a high profile book tour. Now a new and
very a serious rape allegation hangs over Clinton's
head -- and there could be more such allegations
forthcoming. New revelations come out almost daily
about Clinton's treasonous aid to the Chinese war
machine, in exchange for campaign contributions.
Despite Clinton's claims to the contrary, no vital U.S.
interests are at stake in Kosovo, and no NATO member
have been attacked by Serbia. In fact, by attacking
Yugoslavia, Clinton has created precisely the outrages
he claimed he was acting to prevent:
+ Mass murder of Albanian Serbs,
+ Shoring up the power of the tyrant Milosevic,
+ Destabilizing surrounding countries,
+ Expanding the war -- with the introduction of Russian
"volunteers"-- beyond Yugoslavia,
+ Weakening NATO,
+ Killing of innocent men, women and children in
Yugoslavia.
Not to mention the flirtation with global war. By
wagging the dog with a very hot war in Europe, Clinton
has managed -- for now -- to bury growing accusations
of treason against him. Clinton may go down in history
as the first US President willing to risk -- or cause
-- global war to ensure his own popularity.
HOW CLINTON IS PUSHING RUSSIA TOWARDS WAR
The Russian people view the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
as almost a direct attack on their nation. American
refusals to allow Russia to broker a peaceful
settlement have lead to further Russian war hysteria.
As the American-lead assault began, the Russian Prime
Minister, Yevgeny Primakov, an old line KGB general,
came to Belgrade and hours later had a peace deal.
Waving a scrap of paper in his hand he flew to Munich
to meet with German Chancellor Schroeder. Germany is
NATO's most important continental member. Germany and
NATO rejected the offer. Russia, the peacemaker, was
rebuffed by the Americans, the aggressors. So hostility
grew in Russia.
Clinton's bombing of Yugoslavia encourages the most
violent, extreme and anti-American factions in Russia.
Russia's ailing leader and erstwhile US-friend, Boris
Yeltsin, faces his own impeachment vote on April 15th.
He too desperately needs to wag the dog to distract
attention from his own failures. His status weakened by
NATO bombing, only after agreeing to oppose NATO and
draft troops for Yugoslavia did Yeltsin partially
recover his standing in the polls.
WILL RUSSIA ACTUALLY GO TO WAR WITH THE WEST?
Russian war preparations continue to accelerate.
When the Yugoslav crisis erupted, we were told that
Russia's major fleets were going out to sea. A
coincidence, the West was told. It has long been
theorized that if Russia ever wanted to attack America,
it would steer its ballistic missile submarines
underneath its surface ships on their way to sea,
making it difficult for U.S. sonar to detect the
submarine deployment.
Once deployed, the submarines can sink to the bottom of
the Atlantic and Pacific, where the can stay for
months, quietly waiting for orders from the high
command.
Convenience is joined by luck. Russia supposedly has no
oil for its ships, one spokesman says. But
miraculously, there's suddenly enough oil for its major
fleets to engage in extensive maneuvers.
The Russians must have noted that their deployment
causes no alarm from the West. After all, Russia is so
weak it couldn't harm a fly -- so the thinking goes.
Russian spokesmen continually insist they have no plans
to engage NATO militarily, but every action suggests a
progressive mobilization for war.
So the Russians will continue mobilizing and gaining
the advantage as America and the West sleeps. In
Russia, hundreds of thousands of troops are called up.
It will only take three months for the full
conventional weight of the old Soviet Army to be
resurrected. It will have five times as many soldiers
as the American army.
Russia "has no intention of interfering in the current
conflict around Yugoslavia," a government spokesman
told Interfax. Meanwhile, Russia's leaders continually
talk of war. They hint, they threaten and they mobilize
for it.
And good Republicans like Henry Kissinger, Donald
Rumsfeld, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Senator McCain, are
actually calling for American ground troops to be sent
into Serbia. Those calling for a ground force in
Yugoslavia -- estimated to be at least 200,000 soldiers
-- are not considering the implications of such a move
if a global war does break out. The NATO ground force
would be vulnerable to a tactical nuclear strike and
easily cut-off from supply lines. Moreover, the
continental U.S. would have no significant force to
defend itself from invasion by China or Russia.
Such considerations and precautions are not being
considered because it is party time in the West. The
Dow Jones rises past 10,000 as NATO bombs. The price of
gold drops. People still plan their trips to Disney
World instead of worrying about the nation's
vulnerability to Russia's nuclear weapons.
There is no way to be certain if Russia will actually
attack the United States, and there is one alternative
plausible explanation of their actions: They may be
getting ready for one big blackmail attempt, hopeful
that Clinton will buckle under.
Instead of war, Russia could be preparing for global
domination.
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