Wars and Rumors of Wars Abound
by Knave Dave
Oct 16, 2016 6:25 PM
This article by David Haggith was first published on The Great Recession Blog:
Wars and rumors of wars are now filling
the headlines as listed below with the most immediate top-level rumors
of war being created by Russia among its own citizens.
Rumors of wars directly from the Kremlin
As tensions between the US and Russia
have reached their highest since the Cold War, Russia denounced American
duplicity last week and asked its own citizens whether they are ready
for a nuclear attack. The Russian government cautioned people to know
where their nearest bomb/fallout shelters are and know where their gas
masks are in a drill that involved 40 million Russians. The Russia defense ministry explained to the public how the government would run under military control in the event of war. Russia
deployed additional nuclear missiles in response to the US missile
shield in Eastern Europe and tested new intercontinental ballistic
missiles. Not bad for a week’s news. (ABC News)
Yet, that was just one small part of
the many rumors of war in the past week because the US government also
issued top-level rumors of war.
Rumors of war directly from the White House
The Obama administration made formal
accusations that Russia is engaged in cyber war with the US by
interfering directly in US elections as more of Hillary Clinton’s hacked
emails went public. Russia slammed unprecedented US threats of
retaliation against such cyber attacks, pointing out that the US has
never demonstrated any evidence that the hacking came from Russia.
Russia vowed to respond to what it said are false accusations but did
not say what kind of response it meant.
After US Vice President Joe Biden’s
formal complaint against Russia, NBC reported that the CIA is planning a
retaliatory cyber attack. Sources said the CIA has already begun
selecting targets that will harass and embarrass the Russian government.
The US has made such plans and then backed away in the past because
such a move could launch an all-out cyber war in which Russia could be
expected to retaliate with even worse measures, such as a shut down of
the US electrical grid, rather than just exposure of embarrassing
emails.
The Kremlin’s spokesman replied, “The threats directed against Moscow and our state’s leadership are unprecedented because they are voiced at the level of the US vice president. To the backdrop of this aggressive, unpredictable line, we must take measures to protect (our) interests.” Russia’s foreign minister said the claims were “flattering” but baseless. (Yahoo News)
Russian rumors of permanent military presence in Middle East
On Friday, the Kremlin announced that
Putin just ratified an agreement with Syria that allows Russia to use
one of its air bases indefinitely, creating a more permanent Russian
presence in the Middle East. Russia also announced last week plans to
build a permanent naval base in the Syrian port town of Tartus. (The Jerusalem Post)
As mentioned in my previous article,
Russia also announced during the prior week that it would start
shooting down any unidentified jets flying over Syria. These would most
likely be US stealth bombers. In response, the UK ordered Royal Air
Force pilots to shoot down any Russian jets flying over Syria and Iraq
if they feel endangered by them — pilot’s discretion. “We now have a
situation where a single pilot, irrespective of nationality, can have a
strategic impact on future events.” (Zero Hedge)
Other rumors of wars from the US
My article last week also reported that
Russia had terminated cooperation with the US on one of its key nuclear
disarmament agreements with the US on the basis that the US was not
following through with anything it had promised. This after the Obama
Admin. said it would (on Friday) be considering direct air attacks
against Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria — the first direct moves being
considered by the US to overthrow Assad’s regime. Previous moves were
against ISIS in Syria. (Reuters)
Turkey’s deputy prime minister said,
“If this proxy war continues, after this, let me be clear, America and
Russia will come to a point of war,” adding that the world was “on the
brink of the beginning of a large regional or global war.” (RT)
US proxy war with Iran in Yemen
Nuclear-powered
aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (left) and the guided-missile cruiser
USS Vicksburg (right) being replenished and resupplied by the fast
combat logistics ship USNS Supply in the Arabian Sea.
These wars are now more than just
rumors from the top, though it is quite something to be living through a
time when there are so many rumors of war that do come directly from
the top. We are seeing an expansion of real, hot wars.
Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen fired
repeatedly on American ships last week, and Americans returned fire with
cruise missiles against the radar towers that targeted them. No US
ships were hit, but the attacks and reprisal launched a real two-sided
hot war in Yemen that quickly became more than just a US strike against
Yemeni terrorists.
Iran deployed war ships in Yemen in
response, flexing its own muscles against the US. Iran’s moves were seen
as being essentially Iranian harassment of the US over control of the
Red Sea. Fox News went a step further in calling the war in Yemen a
proxy war between the US and Iran since the stations the US struck are
backed by Iranian support.
Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook
said President Barack Obama authorized the strikes at the recommendation
of Defense Secretary Ash Carter and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford.
As an indication that the fight is
about more than terror operations in Yemen, but also over control of
access to the Red Sea, a Chinese war ship and Russian intelligence ship
were also seen in the same region last week. (Fox News)
Rumors of war in the south pacific tear apart old alliances and forge new ones
Relations in the South Pacific are also
going sour for the Obama Administration as the new president of
long-time US ally, the Philippines, began boisterously deriding Obama as
loudly as if he were Donald Trump. Rodrigo Duterte told Barrack Obama,
“You can go to hell” while he also lashed out agains the EU, saying that
purgatory would be a better place to be.
Duterte said he was realigning his foreign policy because the United States had failed the Philippines and added that at some point, “I will break up with America.” Duterte further suggested he would realign with Russia. (Zero Hedge)
Duterte has also begun realigning with long-time rival China:
China confirmed on Wednesday that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will visit China next week, as the Southeast Asian leader’s relationship with its traditional ally the United States frays.
Under Duterte, Manila’s relations with Washington have come under strain and the recently elected president has opted to put aside years of hostility with China, especially over the disputed South China Sea, to form a new partnership. (Reuters)
This, at a time when President Obama
has been ordering US military ships to maintain a strong presence in the
South China Sea, ostensibly in support of Philippine rights to operate
in that same area and in support of open international waters. China has
been engaging those ships with warnings by fly overs and by bringing
other ships close alongside US ships, and now the Philippines turn to
China, instead of to the US because of US criticism of Duterte’s war on
drugs.
Pentagon video gives apocalyptic view of new world order
In the face of such increase of so many
real wars and rumors of wars that may begin, is it any wonder the
pentagon created the following apocalyptic video about our economic and
militant future:
The Pentagon makes the following
statements in the video about a rapidly changing world order that is
decaying into social chaos and is increasingly vulnerable to anarchist
and terrorist attacks in highly populated areas.
The urban environment will be the locus where drivers of instability will converge…. By the year 2030 … resources become constrained and illicit networks fill the gaps left by overextended and undercapitalized government…. Growth will magnify the increasing separation between rich and poor. Religious and ethnic tensions will be a defining element of the social landscape. Stagnation will coexist with unprecedented development as impoverishment, slums and shanty towns rapidly expand alongside modern high-rises, technological advances and ever-increasing levels of prosperity.
This is the world of our future. It is one we [the military] are not prepared to operate effectively within, and it is unavoidable…. It is an ecosystem that demands a highly agile and adaptive force to successfully operate within….
Living habitats will extend from the high-rise … to subterranean labyrinths, each defined by its own social code and rule of law. Social structures will be equally challenged if not dysfunctional as historic ways of life clash with modern living, ethnic and racial differences are forced to live together, and criminal networks offer opportunity for the growing mass of unemployed. This becomes the nervous system of non-nation-state unaligned individuals and organizations that live and work in the shadows of national rule….
Digital security and trade will be increasingly threatened by sophisticated illicit economies and centralized syndicates of crime to give adversaries global reach at an unprecedented level. This will add to the complexities of human targeting…. Alternate forms of governance have taken control….
Urban conflict is written deep into the army’s histories, but in tomorrow’s conflicts these megacities are orders of magnitude greater in complexity…. Our soldiers will have to operate within these ecosystems with minimal disruption in flow. Our current and past strategies can no longer hold…. The future army will encounter a highly sophisticated urban-centric threat…. The threat is clear. Our direction remains to be defined.
This is the future that the
US government and European governments envision and are, for some
reason, knowingly creating with their push for more rapid immigration
from regions unfriendly to the US. On the one hand the Pentagon knowing
warns that immigration is rapidly creating serious social pressures and
even disorder. On the other hand, the White House continually announces
thatPresident Obama is making executive orders that will expand
immigration. So, immigration is both known by the government
to be creating social pressures that are a huge military risk and is
intentional policy at the same time!
Pentagon’s apocalyptic vision of urban dystopias is already happening
Do you think the dystopian future
presented in the video seems imaginary? Well, it appears Paris is the
first first-world city to openly exhibit this Pentagon-prophesied future
precisely because ethnic and racial differences have been “forced to
live together” by the EU’s immigration laws — just as the Pentagon video
describes. When you watch the following linked video, bear in mind
that fifteen years ago Paris boasted that it washed the streets twice a
day to keep itself looking as pretty and inviting to its French
citizens and its touring guests as possible:
The streets of Paris today (2016)
The city you visited or once hoped to
visit no longer resembles the city you imagine in your mind. It is the
city of the past that is imaginary, not the dystopian vision of cities
that was described above by the US army. The City of Paris you envision
in your mind ended when Paris became the capital of immigration
from Syria and Africa, made dysfunctional by multiple acts of terror
leading to governance by marshal law in a city filled with social
tensions from forced immigration. The French are becoming a minority in
their own capital:
If it weren’t for the somewhat working infrastructure, the scene might as well have been the setting of movie shooting – or a slum in Mogadishu. The streets are littered in garbage, the sidewalks are blocked with trash, junk and mattresses, thousands of African men claim the streets as their own – they sleep and live in tents like homeless people. If no portable toilets are in reach, open urination and defecation are commonplace. Tens of thousands of homeless Illegal immigrants, undocumented or waiting for a decision of their asylum application, waste away trying to pass the time in the city…. They’re hoping for a decision that would grant them an apartment, welfare and make France their new home. The conditions are absolutely devastating. The police have given up trying to control these areas, the remaining French people avoid the areas at all cost, crime and rape is rampant, just recently mass brawls and riots made the news as fights broke out near the Stalingrad metro station. (Facebook/Generation Europa)
The future described by the Pentagon is
now, and it is not relegated to some decrepit third-world city like
Mogadishu. It’s in modern France’s showcase capital — La Ville-Lumière, the
City of Light — where it appears they are no longer leaving the light
on for us. Too bad if you didn’t visit Paris last year or sometime
before that when the now imaginary city you remembered existed. This is
the real Paris, the new Paris under marshal law.
And this is an image of the years of Epocalypse that
I have been saying lie ahead — a time of socio-economic breakdown that
is spreading unstoppably around the world — apparently, by design
because the Pentagon knows it is coming, knows it is bad, and, yet, the
White House keeps pushing to create it. Europe has seen that is is not
just coming, but is here, and it still keeps pushing it. So, this is an intended future that is now.
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