Cold War with Russia never ended

[omygod]

America's Cold War with Russia never ended

For the Pentagon and the US policy establishment, regardless of political party, the Cold War with Russia never ended. It merely continued in disguised form. This has been the case with presidents George H W Bush, Bill Clinton, and now George W Bush.

What is increasingly clear in Moscow is that Washington has a far larger grand strategy behind its seemingly irrational and arbitrary unilateral military moves. This is the real agenda in Washington's Eurasian Great Game. Naturally, to state so openly would risk tipping Washington's hand before the noose had been irreversibly tightened around Moscow's metaphorical neck. So the State Department and Defense Secretary Robert Gates try to make jokes about the recent Russian remarks, as though they were Putin's paranoid delusions.

Washington's obsession with nuclear primacy

What Washington did not say, but Putin has now alluded to in Munich, is that the US missile defense is not at all defensive. It is offensive. The possibility of providing a powerful state, one with the world's most awesome military machinery, a shield to protect it from limited attack is aimed directly at Russia, the only other nuclear power with anywhere near the capacity to launch a credible nuclear counterpunch.

Were the United States able to shield itself effectively from a potential Russian response to a US nuclear first strike, the US would be able simply to dictate to the entire world on its terms, not only to Russia. That would be what military people term "nuclear primacy". That is the real meaning of Putin's unusual speech. He isn't paranoid. He was being starkly realistic.

It's now clear that since the end of the Cold War in 1991, the US government has never for a moment stopped its pursuit of nuclear primacy. For Washington and the US elites, the Cold War with Russia never ended.

The quest for global control of oil and energy pipelines, the quest to establish its military bases across Eurasia, its attempt to modernize and upgrade its nuclear-submarine and B-52 fleets, all make sense only when seen through the perspective of the relentless pursuit of US nuclear primacy.

United States is in a race to complete a global network of missile defense as the key to US nuclear primacy. With even a primitive missile-defense shield, the US could attack Russian missile silos and submarine fleets with no fear of effective retaliation, as the few remaining Russian nuclear missiles would be unable to launch a response convincing enough to deter a US first strike.

The first nation with a nuclear missile shield would de facto have first-strike ability. Quite correctly, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Bowman, director of the US Air Force (USAF) missile-defense program, recently called missile defense "the missing link to a first strike".

Rumsfeld, Vice President Cheney, Bush and company were after full-spectrum dominance, the new world order, and the elimination, once and for all, of Russia as a potential rival.
The rush to deploy a missile-defense shield is clearly not aimed at North Korea or Iran. It is aimed at Russia. The current and future US nuclear force seems designed to carry out a preemptive disarming strike against Russia.

The sort of missile defenses that the United States might plausibly deploy would be valuable primarily in an offensive context, not a defensive one - as an adjunct to a US first-strike capability, not as a stand-alone shield. If the United States launched a nuclear attack against Russia, the targeted country would be left with a tiny surviving arsenal - if any at all. At that point, even a relatively modest or inefficient missile-defense system might well be enough to protect against any retaliatory strikes.

Nuclear primacy is an aggressive offensive policy. It means that one superpower, the US, would have the possibility to launch a full nuclear first strike at Russia's nuclear sites and destroy enough targets in the first blow that Russia would be crippled from making any effective retaliation.

With no credible threat of retaliation, Russia would have no credible nuclear deterrent. It would be at the mercy of the supreme power. Never before in history had the prospect of such ultimate power in the hands of one single nation seemed so near at hand.

All US foreign policy, military and economic, since the end of the Cold War had covertly had as endgame the complete deconstruction of Russia as a functioning state.

[slntchtrbx]

thats the truest thing i have ever heard! citizens fight and colaborate agnst our government, trying to make the brainwashed understand the truth!!! but noooo they had to go to school to learn how to think!
i wish i could change our government. they have citizens of america believing that globalization is world peace!!!
and thats the falsest thing i have ever heard... our government is sooooo wrong in moral standards...
i suppose i should qiut ranting about my government and make myself viod before i get my ip adress gets traced..
stay safe russia...

[Kolya]

Originally Posted by omygod

America's Cold War with Russia never ended

For the Pentagon and the US policy establishment, regardless of political party, the Cold War with Russia never ended. It merely continued in disguised form. This has been the case with presidents George H W Bush, Bill Clinton, and now George W Bush.

What is increasingly clear in Moscow is that Washington has a far larger grand strategy behind its seemingly irrational and arbitrary unilateral military moves. This is the real agenda in Washington's Eurasian Great Game. Naturally, to state so openly would risk tipping Washington's hand before the noose had been irreversibly tightened around Moscow's metaphorical neck. So the State Department and Defense Secretary Robert Gates try to make jokes about the recent Russian remarks, as though they were Putin's paranoid delusions.

If USA keeps making other countries feel insecure militarily. Then it won't be long before USA will have to deal with many unfriendly nuclear-armed countries all aiming their nuclear weapons at USA, just in case.

And perhaps Russia will provide some help to make it happen, as Russia has indirectly helped Iran.

Russia does not have the budget to compete with USA. But Russia can and probably will help other countries in the nuclear field in order give USA and its allies something to worry about and thus relieve pressure on Russia.

A couple of days ago I've read an article which said that Russia has agreed to build a nuclear research reactor in Myanmar (Burma). And there are other countries which would appreciate this kind of help, such as Syria and perhaps Venezuela.

And if push came to shove, then perhaps Russia will sell some of its nuclear weapons to other countries.


P.S.
Omygod, I've noticed a message under your name which says that you are a 'Quarantined User'. Are you infectious, or something like that?

[justoleme]

I wonder why anyone would think Russia is any danger to the world just because they build weapons rather than consumer products?

[batgirl99]

Look guys I would think America is a little more civilized than to be thinking about dropping bombs all over the place. I don't know much about war and military ect..but I think that this war in Iraq has worn out it's welcome. Most of us Americans are not in agreement with this war anymore, but we had to get Suddam out of there, he was killing his people left and right. Now it has dragged on like Vietnam. Now it is hard for us to pull out because the Iraqi military is not strong enough to take over their own country. I don't think we are going to start dropping bombs all over Europe and I don't think Putin is going to sell his weapons. I believe that statement is out of someone's ass and that would be crazy to sell to a country like Iraq when those people cannot even scratch their own ass without us. That wouldn't relieve any pressure at all off Russia.