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Two more murders of prominent Ukrainian opposition figures just in the last few days, this is at least twelve dead by assassination, if not more, according to my count. But who can count when they are dying as fast as they voice an opinion against Ukraine’s new government?

The main issue is that the West/U.S, is virtually and or definitely silent about what is happening in Ukraine and that means that the U.S. condones and desires the killing of opposition in Ukraine to continue.Therefore it is ambiguous as to why when an opposition figure was gunned down in Russia in February and most likely it was done by someone with Ukraine connections. The screams of, “PUTIN DID IT!” resounded all over the world for all to hear and the wails of “Evil Russia” became two pitches higher, as the demons unleashed in America, continue their pack of canine induced howls. But the crickets are chirping as Ukraine murders a dozen opposition… Hmm…

The simple fact is that as I stated many years ago when Windows to Russia was blocked with a new experimental software by Ukraine. (Try this link!) The Ukraine that was, was becoming the Ukraine that is now, even back then…

It looks to me like Ukraine has been a testing grounds for the west to try various things that irritate people and could cause issues amongst the natives in the home countries of the west. Games seem to be the way of the west and that my friend is too serious of an infraction for the world to look the other way. The world has to focus and get things back in order again…

Just some thoughts, this snowy cold day in Moscow…

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

by John Stanton

“I should tell you that homosexuality in our country has been overcome once and for all but not entirely. Or entirely but not completely. Or else entirely and completely but not once and for all. What do people think about now? Nothing but homosexuality. That and the Middle East, Israel, the Golan Heights. Moshe Dayan. So, if they chase Moshe Dayan off the Golan Heights and the Arabs make peace with the Jews? Nothing but homosexuality pure and simple.” (Moscow to the End of the Line, Venedikt Erofeev, 1969)

“and freedom thus remains a phantom on that continent of sorrow [the United States of America] and the people, thus, have become so used to it that they almost don’t notice…On every rotten face there is as much dignity expressed in a minute as would last us for our whole great Seven Year Plan. How come? I thought, and turned off Manhattan onto Fifth Avenue and answered my own question. Because of their vile self-satisfaction—nothing else. But where do they get their self-satisfaction? I froze in the middle of the Avenue in order to resolve the thought: In the world of propagandistic fictions and advertising vagaries, where do they get their self-satisfaction? I was heading into Harlem and shrugged my shoulders. Where? The playthings of monopoly’s ideologues, the marionettes of the arms kings, where do they get such appetite? They gorge five times a day and always with the same endless dignity—but can a man have a real appetite in the States? (Moscow to the End of the Line, Venedikt Erofeev, 1969)

Media Stooges Analyze Three Stooges Methodology

The ghastly spectacle of presidential debates on issues overly cooked in the media for decades (israel and sexual preference, for example) will befall Americans within the blink of an eye. Of course they are not debates but well-rehearsed professional theater with the candidates, media questioners and audiences all acting out their assigned roles, on queue. Who has the appetite for it all? It is a hollow, unreal process and a rather sickening charade unless one is on some measure of hallucinogenic drug or drunk. At the proper stage of hallucination or inebriation the show turns into a sort of Looney Tunes cartoon making the time spent on the theater that is the American presidential election process somewhat tolerable.

A few more hits or swigs are necessary to endure the post-debate commentary on Fox, CNN, CBS, PBS or ABC. Depending on the mind altering substance used, the airhead punditry takes on the persona of the Three Stooges/Tractor Pull announcers. Caked in makeup and attached by wireless earphone to assistants who tell them what to say—the talking heads try to convince the audience that what they saw/heard was not what they saw/heard: In short, they try to spin sense on the nonsense uttered by this and that candidate. The media stooges extol the glorious exceptionalism of democratic style and process of the American presidential election process-and US elections in general—as though no other nation on earth actually holds elections.

Scary Monster

Americans know (or should know) that the presidential candidates–like all US politicians—have brains made of Silly Putty. They are bent and molded by the interests that fund them and, of course, tell them how to think/vote. Yet the American voting public typically runs a fool’s errand every four years with the false notion that “voting matters”. Voters proudly place stickers on ties and lapels stating an in-your-face “I Voted!” as if that is some sort of intellectual badge of courage that matters. But it doesn’t when the Democrats and Republicans are a sort of two-headed Grendel hungry for money and power.

It’s a well fed monster that works on behalf of those political and military leaders who designed the carnage underway in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya and Afghanistan and seek more. Displaced human beings in those countries seeking a non-violent life and some measure of security to practice their faith (Christian, Sunni, and Shia) have been forced to flee their long-time homes due to war and the reprisals it brings. There are millions of displaced now. They drown at sea, are slaughtered by splinter groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda or by errant air strikes courtesy of US targeting intelligence or US military hardware sold to the likes of Saudi Arabia.

The story in the USA is dismal in its own way: Austerity, local law enforcement gunning down unarmed suspects; the Supreme Court through Citizens United opening the floodgates for corporate cash donations to political candidates; a bankruptcy judge in Detroit, Michigan claiming that clean water is not a “right”; drought in the state of California; one in three US children living in poverty; and the slashing of funding for Social Security and Medicare. These woes do not include the unemployed culled from government statistics, homelessness, or the care and cost of taking care of Americans returning from battlefields the world over. And yet some lunatics in the USA still want to go to war with Iran, Russia and China.

And go figure! The USA is a country with 243 million adults 18 and over, and is indoctrinated from an early age by its educational system to believe, nearly religiously, in an open competitive market, based on an equally competitive democratic/economic system of government. Yet in the current presidential cycle the USA can only produce two viable presidential candidates who just so happen to represent America’s wealthiest and political powerful families: Hillary Clinton (Democrat) and Jeb Bush (Republican). The two families are so close that George W. Bush called Bill Clinton “the brother from another mother.” Both campaigns combined will likely spend $5 billion dollars on a science fiction movie titled The 2016 Presidential Swindle.

Dumb it down for the People

So how do the policy makers, military leaders, corporate heads, pollsters, pundits and campaign managers see the American public?

Consider Michael Glennon, Tufts University Fletcher School, and author of Double Government, on the intellectual ability of the American public. Turns out the American public mind is one giant mass of Silly Putty! “…the economic and educational realities remain stark [in the USA]. Nearly fifty million Americans—more than 16% of the population and almost 20% of American children—live in poverty. A 2009 federal study estimated that thirty-two million American adults, about one in seven, are unable to read anything more challenging than a children’s picture book and are unable to understand the side effects of medication listed on a pill bottle. The Council on Foreign Relations reported that the United States has ‘slipped ten spots in both high school and college graduation rates over the past three decades.’ One poll found that nearly 25% of Americans do not know that the United States declared its independence from Great Britain. A 2011 Newsweek survey disclosed that 80% did not know who was president during World War I; 40% did not know who the United States fought in World War II; 29% could not identify the current Vice President of the United States; 70% did not know that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land; 65% did not know what happened at the constitutional convention; 88% could not identify any of the writers of the Federalist Papers; 27% did not know that the President is in charge of the Executive Branch; 61% did not know the length of a Senate term; 81% could not name one power conferred on the federal government by the Constitution; 59% could not name the Speaker of the House; and 63% did not know how many justices are on the Supreme Court.

Far more Americans can name the Three Stooges than any member of the Supreme Court. Other polls have found that 71% of Americans believe that Iran already has nuclear weapons and that 33% believed in 2007 that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks. In 2006, at the height of U.S. military involvement in the region, 88% of American 18- to 24- year-olds could not find Afghanistan on a map of Asia, and 63% could not find Iraq or Saudi Arabia on a map of the Middle East. Three quarters could not find Iran or Israel, and 70% could not find North Korea. The ‘over-vote’ ballots of several thousand voters—greater in number than the margin of difference between George W. Bush and Al Gore—were rejected in Florida in the 2000 presidential election because voters did not understand that they could vote for only one candidate. There is, accordingly, little need for purposeful deception to induce generalized deference…in contemporary America…President Harry Truman’s Secretary of State Dean Acheson, not renowned for bluntness, let slip his own similar assessment of America’s electorate. ‘If you truly had a democracy and did what the people wanted,’ he said, ‘you’d go wrong every time.’ Acheson’s views were shared by other influential foreign policy experts, as well as government officials; thus emerged America’s ‘efficient’ national security institution.”

Oh well. Who cares? That’s the way it is. It is what it is. It has always been this way. Nothing you can do about it.

“People don’t see clearly unless they want to. Nowadays everyone quietly accepts the inevitable. Newspapers are no help, they censored themselves little by little until they perfected the art of saying absolutely nothing. Television is monitored by official censors. Even if it weren’t monitored there is nothing on of interest. The news bulletins are completely innocuous…How can anyone believe a word these officials say?” (And Still the Earth, Ignacio De Loyola Brandao, 1985)

The United States is surely becoming a “continent of sorrow.”

John Stanton is a writer living in Virginia. His latest book is Media Trolls, Technology Shamans and Diabolical Political, Economic and Military Leaders available at Amazon. Reach him at captainkong22@gmail.com.

Normally in the afternoon I do not have a cup of coffee, but today, coffee is just too tempting. So since I am sipping that great cup of Russian coffee now, I decided to write a post. I feel that I have neglected Windows to Russia somewhat and will post these thoughts on a snowy day in Moscow…

Here it is April 20th, 2015 and it has snowed for two days straight. The wind is blowing and it is just plain damn cold outside. They say that in a few days we will have weather in the teens again, so lets hope so. Spring is here and the trees are leafing out and, well it is cold and snowing… 🙂

As Sveta says, “That’s Russia for you!”

In a few days I am leaving for three or four days and my thoughts are to post from where I end up, but I am not sure yet. I think I will take the laptop and use it while I am there. I will be on a train for almost a day and then spend a few days doing business. Sveta is staying home and take care of Boza and when I get back, Boza and I are packing to go to the Russian village. I am ready and I know Boza is ready. I will give him a bath, then put on the flea and tick drops and then a flea collar. That way he is protected from bad bugs. Then once down in the village, I have a garden to get ready and planting red beets is my main priority, then carrots…

This year, I am going to spend all apple season dehydrating apples. They are so good and we have so many apples that go to waste and this year, I am going to try to save more than waste, then eat them all winter long…

Shifting my thoughts back to using a train to travel with. I just love traveling by train, though it is hard on me and slower than a plane. It actually is only a little cheaper to take a train than fly, but I simply like to travel by train and it feels safer to me. It also is easier to cross borders on a train and usually it is done in the middle of the night. I have my favorite seat and this time I got the seat at the front of the train car. I am happy and hope to see interesting people on the train. This time I am going to try to find the diner car and get a meal if possible. Lets hope for a diner car…

Contrary to what the western press is saying, Russians are doing great and there is no issue with the country and sanctions. In fact it is the opposite and I see growth in all aspects around me as I watch. The prices are dropping and new businesses are opening up everywhere. The Russians are a hardy people and I respect them for that…

Oh on the same note as above; Greece, Cyprus, and Hungary are about ready to be able to sell food again to Russia. This will probably save these countries from collapse, or at least help them immensely. I am glad and the food items will help bring prices down even more. Though the Russians have done miracles in replacing almost all products banned. It is obvious that Europe is collapsing from the sanctions that they have tried to impose on Russia and it is looking rough for the EU, as America laughs in their face for even following along with the sanctions…

Here is an interesting situation that arose from Putin’s last 4 hour interview to all of Russia the other day…

The story first hit the headlines on April 16 during Putin’s annual Q&A session in which the president answered all kinds of questions and requests from people – from very serious to very humorous. One woman used the opportunity to ask Putin to help her friend Yelena Fadeyeva to persuade her husband to buy a puppy. She was motivated to make the request by the fact that the husband was a military officer, albeit in retirement and the president is by law the Commander-in-Chief of the military forces. “Just tell him – Boris, you are wrong. Allow your wife to have a dog,” she wrote.

Putin answered the question, but slightly altered the suggested address. “I cannot give orders here. Boris can tell me to sort out my own issues first and he would be right,” he noted. “Boris, Please, be so kind, allow your wife to buy a dog for her,” the president went on.

The woman later told the press the personal request from the president sent her husband into a stupor for several days. “He is in shock, he is not very happy as, like any man, he dislikes any pressure from other people, even from those who are respectful and powerful,” she told reporters.

The woman told Putin, Putin asked nicely and Boris bought a dog for his wife and that my friend is how women get things done with us grouchy guys…

Have a nice day and we will end with that dog story…

Post by Kyle Keeton
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My coffee thought this morning is very simple and very basic…

I am against changing of any borders, but that said, I am against regime changes even more. I opposed the recognition by the west of Kosovo. Thus, since it (Kosovo) was done at gun point and total western backing, I have no reason to oppose the fact, that without a shot fired and the people of Crimea literally unanimously voting to join Russia, (under no pressure but anyone except the west bearing down upon them), that they can be part of Russia. They are the lucky ones, for Russia has finally stepped in and saved another group of people from be exterminated, all in the name of resources and political junkies…

Therefore, the west recognizes Kosovo, then the west must recognize Crimea, for it was actually the true will of the people and not a imposed situation, such as Kosovo. You can not be the leader of the free world (~Sarc~), and play games of who has the rights and not…

I must ask, as many Russians have asked, “Did we have to sit by and watch Crimeans being murdered and raped?” The fact that East Ukraine wants to stand on their own makes a difference, but hardly helps in the terror that has been laid upon their lives by the Western Empire. Russians are saddened buy the death and destruction being wrought upon their people in Ukraine…

For the goal of the west, mainly the U.S., was to do as they are doing in Ukraine and they had the goal of swooping down and taking the Crimea, plus the important navel base of Russia, in Sevastopol. Russia stepped in and blocked that vile move…

I claim that there really was and is a danger of it happening still and Ukraine allowed the conditions through opening the doors to the U.S. and that idiocy was used by Russia to gather her child, “Crimea” back to her arms…

The west is falling and the east is rising and I for one am happy to see the balance of power shifting. For all the lies and games have been nothing but a propaganda bull %$^& session of the worst kind and the sooner that the west is subjugated, the better for the world to move toward peace and harmony…

It is a classic case of good versus evil..

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

https://truthinmediablog.wordpress.com/2014/03/23/je-me-souviens-i-remember-nato-war-against-serbia-15-years-later-why/ for a reminder of what was happening back in the good ole days…

No longer a beacon of freedom and democracy, the United States has fallen from its pedestal. As America has devolved into a violent and oppressive police state, new powers are rising to challenge this toxic world order: Iran and Russia.

In 2001, as the United States woke up to the reality of Islamic radicalism, then-President George W. Bush argued that Al-Qaeda and all those in collusion with extremists sought to destroy America for the ideas it represents: freedom, liberty and democracy.

“Why do they hate us?” he called. “They hate what they see right here in this chamber: a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other,” he continued on in his address to the nation.

And while the world continues to live under the premise that the US and its Western allies are indeed democratic beacons, the shining examples of a democratic free world, it would appear that freedom nowadays is being exported at the barrel of a gun.

America’s raging imperialism has but destroyed the very principles which made this once proud nation stand out from the rest of the world, and compelled all to admire the grand idea which was America. At a time when imperialism and absolute monarchies ruled unchallenged over the people, America withstood the onslaught of imperial Britain, its people determined to forge a destiny which would be theirs and manifest a nation which would be of the people and for the people.

And though America’s flame burnt bright and strong for a while, its embers are barely giving enough light nowadays, smothered under rabid capitalism and neo-imperialism.

We live in a brave new world indeed!

As events are currently unfolding it could well be the Middle East will turn out to be America’s grand undoing – the straw which broke the camel’s back one might even venture to say.

But if US imperialism continues to erode the fabric of the Constitution, emptying its founding principles from their meaning for every gunshot the American military fire in foreign lands, for every abuse US officials commit against the rule of law in the name of national security, lady freedom has not sung her last song yet – it is now living on new shores, east this time, where it found a more gentle echo to its calls.

And as experts are busy anticipating the Western powers’ next move, looking to decipher the complicated maze they have drawn around us – the overlapping-double-crossing-allianceswhich have become the new norm, it appears a tectonic political shift is taking shape before our very eyes. No longer democracy’s champion, America is losing ground to Russia and Iran.

This axis we were sold: East versus West, autocracy versus democracy, communism versus capitalism, just got twisted on its head to the point where it is now America which has become the epicenter of oppression. The land of the free rings liberty bell no longer.

The baton has now been passed east, where new powers have risen in defiance to America’s morbid capitalism and militaristic ambitions. The historical symmetry is undeniably elegant.

If up until WWII the US was very much this force for good, this anti-colonialist, anti-feudal, modern power which only ambition was to empower nations and bring the world the gospel of freedom; US officials and the capitalist oligarchy did a great job at crumbling such ideals to the ground.

In a few decades the US went from participating in the liberation of Europe from Nazism to exporting war and backing brutal autocracies. Void of all principles, Washington’s tank runs on petrodollars and weapons sales these days.

Howard Baskerville’s American dream is but a distant memory.

An American hero, Baskerville died in Tabriz, Iran, in 1909 standing alongside Iran’s constitutionalists against the royalists. He gave his life to a fight which wasn’t his, safe from the fact that he stood for the same principles his Iranian friends wanted to see triumph.

Hailed by Iran for his sacrifice, Baskerville’s Iranian eulogy read, “Young America, in the person of young Baskerville, gave this sacrifice to the young Constitution of Iran. He has written his name in our hearts and in our history” – Sayyed Hassan Taqizabeh.

More than just an American figure, Baskerville came to embody the shared values that once bind Iranians to Americans, long before Washington set on a crash course to demonize the Islamic Republic and its people as they dared rose against the Shah and it Western patrons in 1979.

If it took an American to light Iran’s democratic path, a century after Baskerville it is Iran this time which is rising the anti-alignment, anti-colonial superpower against its now designated nemesis – the United States of America.

Hot on its heels another superpower is reclaiming its place in history: Russia.

Like Iran, Russia’s power lies in the strength of its ideas. Like Iran, Russia wants to establish its nation a regional powerhouse, both a political giant and an economic generator. And like America centuries ago, those two nations draw strength from the construct of their respective ideologies. Unlike the US there is real substance to their message; there is a rationale behind their policies and logic to their alliances.

And though money attracts, and that America has ample reserves of, ideas inspire; where Washington can buy or bully alliances, Russia and Iran can manifest loyalties – there lies true power.

Like them or hate them, those two nations have become the new axis of resistance against neo-imperialism at such a time when America and the EU have become reactionary police states – there lie the attraction.

Before the suffocating hands of Washington countries in the MENA region – Middle East and North Africa – for example would much rather partner up with Russia and Iran then entertain an alliance with the US; especially now that Washington rhymes political partnership with feudalism.

Only this April Pakistan denied Saudi Arabia’s request for military support in Yemen, preferring to follow Tehran’s calls for diplomacy to Riyadh-Washington’s Mad Max race. Tunisia also broke away from under Washington’s thumb this April when its Foreign Minister Taieb Baccouche announced Tunis would resume all diplomatic ties with Damascus.

Tunisia, like Iran, Russia and China before it, chose diplomacy over war, stressing that political isolation and intransigence only serve to promote unrest. “We do not believe that our interests are served by cutting off relations with Syria,” said Baccouche, pointing out that Tunisians living in Syria, including those currently in prison, had been “greatly harmed” by the previous government’s decision to end relations.

Even Greece is looking east toward Moscow, tired of the EU’s economic diktat.

As the Middle East convulses in war, plagued by rising extremism and political instability, Washington and its regional allies, organized now under a NATO-like military coalition, are playing the Great Game with fierce determination, blind to the gathering storm which is coming their way. If conclusions are to be drawn from history, where there is oppression resistance will grow and where a people stand in shackles, chains will be broken.

A century after Baskerville laid down his life to see a free Iran; the United States is sitting on the wrong side of history, its legacy in tatters.

Catherine Shakdam for RT.

Catherine Shakdam is a political analyst and commentator for the Middle East with a special emphasis on Yemen and radical movements. A consultant with Anderson Consulting and leading analyst for the Beirut Center for Middle East Studies, her writings have appeared in MintPress, Foreign Policy Journal, Open-Democracy, the Guardian, the Middle East Monitor, Middle East Eye and many others. In 2015 her research and analysis on Yemen was used by the UN Security Council in a situation report.

The only interference in Ukraine that the Russian government does is to send food to East Ukraine. This is in all the while that the West sends military hardware and boots on the ground. Yet we insist on pointing fingers at Russia and calling her evil, as we (U.S.) ourselves stoke the flames of hell and war…

1.4 thousand tons of aid as in food and clothing just crossed the Ukraine border again, from Russia. This is the only food and supplies these people get, for they are cut off from the rest of Ukraine by Ukraine itself. Russia has simply been sending food, water, and basic supplies for a year now. Trying to keep East Ukraine from dying…

1.4 thousand tons = 2,800,000 pounds of supplies and many times they have sent more than that. But at this low amount, 24 X 2,800,000 = 67,200,000 pounds of food and water have found its way into peoples homes and belly’s all over the East Ukraine. This is what Russia has been doing to help Ukraine, what has the west done…

The West is sending to Kiev; men, arms and money to fight a war with, against her own Ukraine people. The West is training Ukraine military to be able to kill more East Ukrainians in the future…

On this Friday (04/17/2015,) paratroopers of the US 173rd Airborne Brigade, based in Vincenza, Italy, have arrived in western Ukraine to provide training for Ukrainian troops. Some 290 US troops are to take part in long-term joint drills with combat units of the National Guard, Arsen Avakov, Ukrainian Interior Minister, wrote on Facebook.

Canada has sent boots on the ground in Ukraine, America has and I suspect that Britain will admit it has also very soon, but they are in election bull crap right now. Silence, till that is over…

Update: Canada will be sending 200 soldiers to western Ukraine to join 800 Americans and 75 Brits on a yearlong assignment to train the Ukrainian army. – LewRockwell

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Therefore, it looks like Russia is reaching the point of no return and the West crossed the red lines. I suspect that Russia will never let East Ukraine fall and be subjected to the harsh realities of a death by illegal western democracy. A democracy that resembles a glorified world dictatorship run by the U.S…

Putin said, “Big superpowers which pretend to be exceptional and consider themselves the only center of power in the world do not need allies, they need vassals,” he said. “I’m talking about the United States. Russia cannot exist in such a system of relations.”

Now take it to the bank, Russia does not bluff and they are ready to take the west on. China is right there with her (Russia) and a good portion of the world is ready to help China and Russia. Do not kid yourself; the west is becoming isolated and it is getting worse by the day…

Ukraine is a perfect example of what the west is like; death and destruction rule in the west and you support it…

Have a nice day…

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Trying imagining the president of your country doing a four plus hours of question and answers…

You can not imagine it and they could not either…

Have a nice day and you really should watch this video and sip a cup of coffee and pop some popcorn…

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

France was paid up front for the two Mistrals and they failed to deliver on time or at all. They failed and everyone watched them steal Russian money and act like it was okay…

India, having watched such French financial theft tactics of failure, have dumped a huge order of French fighter jets. India has essentially annulled it gigantic arms contract with france for the purchase and combined construction of 126 Rafale fighter planes; the Indian Prime Minister agreed to buy only 36 of them during his visit to Paris last week and this seems to be up in the air as to if they will buy even those. The trust is gone…

It seems that instead India will buy Russian jets…

I am watching other countries study the French screw up over taking money and not delivering, I suspect that many orders will be cancelled or never bear fruit…

France simple became unreliable and untrustworthy…

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

I watch the world and the going-on right now and we seem to be in a moral tug of war all over the planet. Either you are a offensive country, like The U.S. or a defensive country, like Russia. This seems to be the norm now and it equates into a western world against the eastern world, though I think it is a immoral western group of about 20 countries against the rest of the world of about 175 + or -, or better yet, the western money countries against the world…

My suggestion to Russia and I think they are leaning toward such a stance, is to develop the defensive to a level unheard of in the known world. I mean that countries like Russia and China should take their manufacturing abilities and turn out so many anti-missile missiles and so many ant-aircraft missiles, that no one is able to rule the skies. Produce so many of these defensive weapons, then spread them all around the world, to countries that need help against aggression…

I was taught at an early age that a “good defense is the best offense” and after surviving several wars, I know it is true…

I think Russia has seen what I am saying and has woken up to that fact, therefore the change in several issues, such as selling weapons to China and Iran again. China needs the weapons from Russia, for they will clone, shake and bake and turn them out by the millions, then the world can be secured against the skies being stolen from them. That is the main issue and the west has tried to use that against the east, war is easy when you rule the skies above the battle field…

This can be no truer declared than what happened last week; U.S. RC-135U spy plane from the U.S., a spy plane with transponder turned off before they approached Russia to help hide themselves, that had no business being near Russia (less than 60 miles and closing) was forced to turn back and America screamed like a beaten puppy over being caught with her pants down. This is what America does to countries and most of the time Russia ignores them sneaking around, but now that the U.S. has pissed everyone off, Russia is going to point out the games…

But the worse thing about the issue was that the U.S. showed everyone that they were wrong, they cried so loud that only a true pathetic child would act that way…

So actually two very simple suggestions to making the west stop and think. Saturate the planet with ant-missile missiles and give everyone the air above their heads freedom again and next time let the U.S. RC-135U or any other craft cross into official Russian airspace (it would have crossed into Russian airspace, definitely without a doubt) and bring it down either by asking it nicely to land or force, whatever it takes….

Time to wake up people, the American warmongers are running aimlessly out of control…

Russia needs to make defense the new offense and refine it, to perfection…

Post by Kyle Keeton
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By Nadir Mir

A new war is brewing in the Middle East. Some analysts have compared it to 1914 commencing into the Great War. This Great War of the Middle East may engulf adjoining regions and will certainly influence most of the world. Pakistan of course would be affected in multiple ways and simply cannot afford to be a silent spectator. The Middle East Geopolitical environment is quite complicated. Unlike other wars, the belligerents, alliances are not cast iron. The battle lines are frequently blurred, friends and foes are at times overlapping with fluid alliances. A host of state actors both regional and global are involved besides ever increasing legions of militant non state actors.

On the Eastern flank of the Middle East and outside the mouth of the Gulf, most strategically located is Pakistan. It is not merely a South Asian Nation but Pakistan is the central state of many regions (Middle East / West Asia, Central Asia, China and South Asia). Geo-strategically Pakistan is the ‘Bridge State’ but also ‘Interposing State’ of multi regions. This concept has been explained at length in both my books, ‘Gwadar on the Global Chess board’ and ‘Geopolitik Pakistan’.

The soldiers and people of Pakistan are united to defend Pakistan, its interests and allies. COAS Pakistan General Raheel Sharif had aptly said that the entire nation stands with the Armed Forces. The internal enemies, terrorists are being systematically defeated in Pakistan. The soldiers of Pakistan are the defenders – saviours led by the brave chief. Pakistan has the potential of not only guarding itself but as the defender of Saudi Arabia and protector of peace along with Turkey in the region. Pakistan is a strategic ally of Saudi Arabia/GCC; therefore it cannot be pragmatically neutral in any conflict. It is Pakistan’s national interest to support Saudi Arabia/GCC. The millions of Pakistanis workers in the region remit billions of dollars which are part of Pakistan’s economy and livelihood of tens of millions within Pakistan. The evacuation of Pakistani and other nationalities from Yemen is an indicator of Pakistan’s proactive role in West Asia. Pakistan is determined to contribute for peace in the region.

Middle East Multiple Wars

The first problem in the Middle East is that multiple wars have been fought simultaneously with many of them overlapping. Unfortunately, ‘Everybody is virtually fighting with Everybody!’

First, it is a clash involving major state actors – Saudi Arabia / GCC, Iran, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, left over Syria – Iraq, Yemen and others. Second, a bewildering array of militant non state actors has sprouted over previous decades. Hizbullah, Hanmas, Al Nusrah, Al- Qaeda, ISIS (non state actor – state actor combined), Houthis to name a few. These ‘Instant Armies’ though asymmetrical are supported by various groups of local populace, regional state actors and extra regional powers. Third, though the Cold War is over for over two decades, US and Russia – China are frequently on opposite sides in the Middle East.

America’s Middle East Policy

USA is playing multiple games in the Middle East. American policy in the Middle East was based on three pillars, oil – Israel and conservative Arab States. All three have taken a jolt. The old American Middle East narrative has not been replaced by a new narrative. Besides the Middle East environment has become more complex than ever. America’s two Gulf War in Iraq, destroyed the old order without creating a new one. The Arab Spring has partly fizzled out or deflected into civil strife. US – Israel relations have nosed dived. President Obama’s Nuclear Deal with Iran is vehemently opposed by PM Netanyahu of Israel.

Oil, while still critical for USA and the world is at a remarkably low price. Conjectured that the aim of low oil prices is to deprive Russia, Iran not to fill their coffers till the brim. Shale gas advent in Continental USA may have also marginally reduced the appetite for Middle East oil. The conservative Arab Regimes were also shocked by the Arab Spring. The main Middle East dictatorships in Iraq, Egypt, Libya have vanished. The monarchies are now under threat. The Pentagon led by prudent General Dempsey is implementing President Obama’s policy of avoiding misadventures. In any event, the American public opinion is more riveted on the need to contain Islamic State than elsewhere.

Unintended consequences (read Bush Administration) blunders at Geopolitical Chess are quite evident. In fact, President Obama has correctly tried to bring USA out of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Perhaps former Defence Secretary Robert Gates’ warning of ‘not getting involved in Land War in Asia’ is being heeded. The reluctance to commit US boots on ground to fight ISIS in Iraq or Houthis in Yemen may be due to war weariness and financial constraints. Else the US ‘Of Shore Balancing’ strategy using Naval Forces, Air Power, Special Forces while employing local land forces or allies for Geopolitical ends is in practice!

US – Iran Nuclear Deal

It may satisfy US – EU and Iran but may not convince Iran’s other foes.

– Israel is preparing to strike Iran supported by pro Israel US lobby. Republicans are hoping to take the White House in 2016. Even if they don’t the Congress remains Pro Israel.

– Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt and smaller Arab States would seek their own nuclear arsenals or at least a nuclear umbrella. The only nuclear protector can be Pakistan. A nuclear armed Iran suits no one, not even Iranians. A Nuclear Iran will lead to a denuclearizing war against Iran by Israel and others.

The Arab States fear US – Iran nuclear deal. They dread that it will free Iran to make the bomb due to no sanctions but more funds. Iran’s foreign policy is also perceived in Arab Streets and capitals as aggressive.

Arab View – Neo Persian Empire?

This majority Arab View is that Tehran’s Realist Foreign Policy (rivaling Washington in its Real Politik) is using Shia militants/proxies as spearheads. An Arab World View sees the ultimate and ulterior inspiration of a new Persian Empire with Shia colouring. This ancient Arab – Ajami (Persian) clash seems to be rekindled by both regional and extra regional forces. The double pronged Iran backed militants fighting in Iraq and Yemen raises the specter of strategic encirclement in Riyadh. Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander General Solemani was reportedly leading the charge in the crucial battle of Tikrit. The fall of Tikrit to Iranian backed Iraqi forces and the aftermath of looting – anarchy has redoubled the fears of the Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula.

The threat from the Gulf is unabated in Saudi minds. A fresh Iranian sponsored militant offensive is feared with Bahrain as the spring board. Boastful Iranian claims of controlling four Arab capitals, Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut, and Sanna confirmed the Saudi Arab view of a Neo Persian Empire rising. A Shia minority dominating the larger Sunni Muslim world is their spectre. Even though later responsible Iranian leaders rejected such claims the damage has been done to widen Arab – Persian Schism. At its peak, the Old Persian Empire stretched from Egypt and Greece to China. Any such inspiration today will lead to a larger Middle East War. Iran has multiple and powerful enemies. An attempt by Tehran to dominate the region will draw a backlash. Saudi Arabia and Israel will strike back (Saudi Arabia and Israel conflicting with Iran will be an utter failure for Tehran’s Geo-strategy). Ultimately USA will join Israel even if it does not join Saudi Arabia’s war with Iran. China – Russia will support Iran but not go to war for it. In the final analysis, Iran may find itself alone, with non state actors, militants confronting the Arab World, Israel, USA and EU. This is a worst case scenario from Tehran’s point of view. Iran must temper its ambitions and cannot engage in a great Middle East War which will lead to its utter grief.

Saudi Arabia

The proverbial sleeping giant is awakening, still it needs support. Saudi – Pakistan fusion can be pure synergism. As per an Indian author, ‘A match made in Heavens! (The Indians are always petrified by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia aligning in any capacity). The ‘Salman Doctrine’ is proactive. The young Defence Minister determined to defend Saudi Arabia.

‘Still the proud and noble Arabs, with their great sense of honour, are a force for global temperate. The time honoured rustic wisdom of the Bedouin is the recipe and not conflicting, alien, adventurist Geo-strategy!’

(Extract from the book, Geopolitik Pakistan by Nadir Mir)

Saudi Arabia is rightfully determined to maintain balance of power. (Guaranteed with Pak – Turk affinity). Even if Riyadh considers Uncle Sam the ultimate supporter, it is not the initial protector any longer!

Iran

Tehran has been wise to conclude the nuclear deal. ‘Next War Iran’ (my article previously published from Pravda Moscow) has been postponed for now. Removal of sanctions will improve economic condition in Iran. Still Pakistan – Turkish diplomacy should be accepted by Iran in the interest of peace and stability. Pakistan even while defending Saudi Arabia is not Iran’s foe. In fact the Shia – Sunni is a non issue, because all citizens of Pakistan are equal. Those who target Shias in Pakistan are terrorists and the Pakistan State will defeat them. However, Iran’s ambitions have to be checked is not only an Arab, Israel, Western view but larger global opinion. Tehran must leash all militants destabilizing the Middle East and help usher in peace. Pakistan’s diplomatic cooperation should make Tehran realize that distance from India is in its interests. India remains Pakistan’s existential enemy; therefore Iran should not strategize with Delhi. Pakistan can mediate between Iran and Saudi Arabia and even US – Iran to an extent.

Turkey

The first threat to Turkey is Kurdistan. Those who sponsor Kurdistan also destabilize Pakistan’s Baluchistan. Turkish – Pakistan alliance will further cement for mutual benefit. Both will defend Saudi Arabia; mediate for peace in Iran and stability in the larger Middle East. Turkish – Pakistan Kardeshlik (brotherhood) is now evolving into a greater strategic consensus. The contours of a triple alliance between Saudi Arabia/GCC, Pakistan and Turkey are visible. It may have been unthinkable considering the Ottoman Empire legacy (Lawrence of Arabia peddling) but Geopolitics has its own logic. In any case, Pakistan is the strategic linkage for both Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

Israel’s War with Iran

Israel has been planning, preparing and rehearsing to launch strikes against Iran’s nuclear projects for ages. The nuclear deal has been rejected by Israel. Tel Aviv demands Tehran’s recognition of Israel, which the Iranians finds anathema and are loath to do. The nuclear deal makes it difficult but not impossible for Israel to provoke a war with Iran.

Tel Aviv will provoke Iran, lure it with stratagems into a wider conflict with Arab States and raise a bogey of a Neo Persian Empire as threat to Israel and Arabs alike. If the culturally rich Iranian let the flames of the Middle East spread, then Israel will launch disarming strikes (on Iran’s nuclear projects). Even if Israeli strikes are a failure, Iran’s retaliation will start a larger war. US Congress will ensure that USA joins the war against Iran. So the thinking may go in parts of Tel Aviv.

Yemen

Yemen is both a political and Geopolitical issue. It is a tribal and power struggle rather than a sectarian issue. Yemen is basically not a Shia – Sunni conflict. It is turning into a contest between Saudi Arabia and Iran contesting as they are on the larger Middle East Chessboard. Loyalists of President Hadi, even previous leader Saleh, Houthis, Al-Qaeda, militant forces were all fighting. In early April 2015, Yemen’s capital Sanna and strategic port Aden are in Houthis’ hands. Saudis Air Force along with coalition had enforced no fly zone and now both Saudi and Iranian Naval Forces are posturing around the Red Sea. Any Houthi or other militant attempt to attack Saudi Arabia should not be acceptable to Pakistan and Turkey. While Pakistan will defend Saudi Arabia, diplomacy with Iran is also underway. In fact, Pakistan’s policy is balanced. A twin track strategy to use military instruments to defend Saudi Arabia and diplomacy with Iran for peace and stability in the larger Middle East. Russia and China both stands for peace in the Middle East and should be co opted in Pakistani diplomacy.

The New Thirty Years War or Ralph Peter Map?

A chorus of mostly western voices is terming the Middle East inferno with various analogies. Richard Hass President Counsel of foreign relations had labeled it ‘The New Thirty Years War’. Other thinkers have followed suit. It may suit some extra regional forces to see the Middle East Muslim World at war with itself. The Thirty Years War (1618 – 1648) was a struggle over political – religious order of Central Europe. It resulted in the treaty of Westphalia and led to the emergence of modern nation states.

The infamous Ralph Peter’s Map of a balkanized Middle East may have suited Neocons and globalists but does not suit peace and stability in the larger Middle East.

Skeptics warns of the notion of ‘Controlled Chaos’ converting into ‘Uncontrolled Chaos!’ An arc of destabilization may have been planned from Nile to Indus (Egypt to Pakistan). By the same token, today the pillars of stabilizing the greater Middle East will now be Pakistan and Turkey (the flanking powers of the region). The conflict being waged from Basra to Bruit and in Yemen will have to conclude. The 1916 Sykes Picot agreement was to carve out British, French spheres of influence at the cost of the Ottoman Empire. Even if imperfect the nation states of Middle East today cannot be left to the vicious appetite of militant non state actors.

Imperfect partition was also the fate of the subcontinent. The British Radcliffe Award should have awarded Gurdaspur – Pathankot region to Pakistan. Kashmir and a part of East Punjab which were denied was Pakistan’s due share at partition 1947. This would have brought peace in South Asia.

Pakistan stands for Peace and Stability in the Middle East

Essence of Pakistan’s Geo strategy

(From the Book Geopolitik Pakistan by Nadir Mir)

· Defend and stabilize Saudi Arabia / GCC

· Strategize with Turkey and China

· Diplomatic parlays with Iran

· Develop Gwadar and coast to become a maritime power and protector of Gulf States

· Build full spectrum, maximum assured nuclear deterrence

· Pakistan statecraft should make it a key Gulf and Middle East player.

Pakistan is destined to rise as a Regional Power and Great Nation.

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Brigadier Nadir Mir (R) is author of the books “Gwadar on the Global Chessboard” and ‘Geopolitik Pakistan’

His blogs are, Blog: Pakistan and Geopolitics.

Blog on Face book, ‘Revolutionary Pakistan’

He is working for the national cause.