We are being led, rather rapidly, into a nuclear confrontation
with Russia, for no reason, no purpose, than an insane policy of the neocons
for American Hegenomy...
[...]
...the United States that doesn't have the military or the financial
power to impose itself on the world. We have to understand Russia
is a big place, and it's heavily armed, and that China is another big place,
and they're our bankers. We're totally dependent on Chinese financing
for our consumption, and the daily operations of the Federal Government
in Washington.
[...]
I would give it [nuclear war] almost a total certainty, and if John
McCain gets in office... The neoconservatives, everyone should know by
now, are insane...
[...]
Cheney and the neocons and Israel are still trying to promote a war
with Iran, but now I think they are much more interested in a war with
Russia, because the Russians have rejected the attempt of the Americans
and the Israelis to exercise Hegenomy over them in Georgia... They have
made it quite clear that they rejected this.. They will now take the efforts
that were defeated in Georgia to the Ukraine and try to turn them into
an American puppet state... put missile bases on Russia's border.
And the Russians are probably not going to put up with that either.
What we have is... American policy towards Russia which has thousands of
nuclear weapons... going to provoke a nuclear confrontation with Russia,
and there is no reason for it, it's pointless...
[...]
Russia and China will be allies... What will Japan do?...
[...]
...the end of life on earth. This is a more serious situation
than we ever faced... because there was mutually assured destruction, and
neither side had a world dominant claim. They were sitting there
with checks on one another. What we have now is the U.S. with a world
dominant claim, and a war doctrine that supports that claim... They
have broken the agreement Reagan had with Gorbachov, building anti-missle...
systems. Installing these on Russia's borders, in an effort to negate
the Soviet nuclear deterrant so that we can bully them. And Russia
will not stand still for this.
[...]
They actually thought Russia would simply let this happen [in Georgia]
and they didn't. And what was the American response? They very
quickly gave more money to the Polish morons, and got the agreement that
the Poles wouldn't give them, and put missile bases in Poland...
[...]
...so, it means war. Very quickly into a nuclear war... What is
the United States Government doing in Georgia?
August 15, 2008 Global
Research Alex
Jones Show Interview
Attack on South Ossetia was intended to kill civilians. It was
clearly laid out that way. It was a provocation. If they had
wanted to go in and take hold of the province they would have special forces
taking over buildings, government departments, and communication networks.
They were not interested in that. They were there to kill people.
They triggered a Russian response which caused 150 dead in Georgia from
Russian bombardment of military sites. BBC reported an excess of
1400 deaths in South Ossetia. CNN used footage of Georgian attacks,
saying these were Russians.
[...]
There was a statement from the Georgian Peace Committee. They
condemned the [Georgian] President. This does not have the support
of the Georgian population. He [the Georgian President] did it in
the name of the people, and they are saying, "No."
[...]
NATO-U.S. doctrine:
"Nuclear warfare might soon become possible in an increasingly
brutal world... The first use of nuclear weapons as a means to prevent
other countries from using their nuclear weapons."
"...resort to preemptive nuclear attack to try to halt the imminent
threat of nuclear weapons."
"...nuclear first strike indispensible since there is no prospect
of a nuclear free world."
Editorial note: I realize the above is insane, so you might think it's
not typed properly.
Quoting Matthew Bresew Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State
"...to fire on civilians as the Georgians did on the evening
of August 7 is simply deplorable. It's illegal and horrible"
Brzezinski's Georgia Puppets
Attack Russia - WWIII In Sight
By Webster G. Tarpley
August 11, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC -- Clearly playing the role of the aggressor, the
NATO puppet regime of Mikhail Saakashvili has carried out a midnight
sneak attack against Russian peacekeepers in the province of South Ossetia.
Those peacekeepers have been there for 15 years under an agreement with
Georgia. Saakashvili is a protégé and creature of Zbigniew
Brzezinski, the foreign policy boss of the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
As is explained in my book Obama- The Postmodern Coup: The Making of a
Manchurian Candidate, Saakashvili was brought to power in 2003-2004 by
a people power coup or CIA color revolution, directed by the Brzezinski
clan and financed by George Soros, one of Obama's key financial backers.
In a very real sense, it is the Obama campaign which has attacked Russia
in South Ossetia.
Responding to this provocation, Russia has struck back
powerfully, hurling the Georgian military into full retreat. The 3000%
increase in Georgian military spending on US military hardware since 2004
has not had the desired effect. But the Georgians have killed a score of
Russian troops and shot down several aircraft. Russia is blockading the
Georgian Black Sea coast and has already sunk a Georgian warship. The US
regime, the butchers of Iraq, are now whining that the Russian response
is "disproportionate," and that regime change is inadmissible! McCain responded
by aggressive posturing against Russia scripted by Ian Brzezinski, as expected.
At the Olympics, Bush had a heated exchange with Russian Prime Minister
Putin over the Georgian aggression. Bush has dropped his plans to attack
Iran and North Korea, and is now slavishly following Brzezinski's orders
by concentrating on provoking Russian and China.
Most interesting is the response of Brzezinski's other puppet, Obama.
The Messiah first intoned that it was necessary to show restraint, and
stop the armed conflict. He talked then to NSC Director Hadley, Saakashvili,
Rice, and unspecified foreign policy advisers undoubtedly the Brzezinskis,
Zbig and Mark. Notice Obama's failure to talk with a single Russian leader
he failed to bring anybody together this time. Then Obama switched
to a full warmonger line, identical to that of Bush: Obama now lied that
Russia had invaded Georgian sovereignty and encroached on Russian sovereignty.
Obama's spokesman, Ben Rhodes, added that Russia was responsible for the
conflict. This goes to show that Obama is a ticket to World War III on
the Brzezinski Plan, the crackpot design to break up Russia and China,
securing another century for the Anglo-American world empire. Because Brzezinski's
strategic insanity unfolds on a scale more vast than that of the neocons,
Obama is indeed a far bigger warmonger than Bush.
"In his later statement, Mr. Obama said, "What is clear is that Russia
has invaded Georgia's sovereign - has encroached on Georgia's sovereignty,
and it is very important for us to resolve this issue as quickly as possible,"'
The New York Times reported. Obama is morally insane, since Georgia
is the aggressor and Russia is acting in self-defense. Russian
peacekeepers have been stationed in South Ossetia for about 15 years under
a Russian- Georgian bilateral agreement which the provocateur Saakashvili
has now chosen to violate. The pseudo-democratic Saakashvili has declared
martial law and is proceeding to liquidate his internal opposition
a favorite Saakashvili trick. In November 2007, when opposition to the
NATO "free market" kleptocrats was getting out of hand after a large demonstration,
Saakashvili also declared martial law, suppressing the media and rounding
up his opponents. This is the man Obama is supporting.
WARMONGER OBAMA BLAMES RUSSIA, MIMICS BUSH, CHENEY
"Clearly over the course of the last 24 hours this crisis has escalated,"
said Ben Rhodes, an Obama foreign policy aide. "Clearly Russia bears the
responsibility for that escalation." If this is the 3 AM phone call, Obama
has failed miserably. Obama is running for the third term of the dotard
warmonger Dick Cheney, who according to AP 'told Georgia's pro-American
president that "Russian aggression must not go unanswered, and that its
continuation would have serious consequences for its relations with the
United States."'
Predictably, the US controlled corporate media, NPR, PBS, the BBC, and
the rest of the Anglo-American media cartel are attempting to cover up
the salient fact that this war was started by Georgia. Georgia is unquestionably
the aggressor, and a cowardly one at that. It is time to demand that not
one soldier, not one penny, not one ship, not one plane be used by the
US to support Saakashvili and his gang of kleptocrats and thugs. There
must be no NATO membership for Georgia, nor for the similar gang of kleptocrats
and thugs ensconced in Kiev, Ukraine, who have declared their full support
for Georgia. Russian President Medvedev has pointed out that the Georgians
have already killed about 2,000 Ossetians out of a total population of
70,000, and that Georgia is pursuing genocide and ethnic cleansing. These
charges are well founded. In the face of imminent military defeat, Saakashvili
will have a hard time holding onto power. Russia is unlikely to consider
Georgia proper a privileged sanctuary for launching further attacks, and
the Tiflis airport and other assets have already been bombed by Russia.
Georgia's entire military infrastructure will now be subject to destruction.
This lesson will hopefully not be lost on Brzezinski's Ukrainian puppets.
South Ossetia can be compared to West Virginia. When Virginia seceded
from the Union in 1861, West Virginia soon retaliated by seceding from
Virginia. Similarly, when Georgia left the USSR in 1991, South Ossetia
chose to remain with North Ossetia, which has been a part of Russia since
about 1761. A second West Virginia exists in the form of Abkhazia, another
province assigned by Stalin to the Georgian SSR which chose to stay de
facto with the Russian Federation. Abkhazia fears a Georgian attack, and
has declared a state of emergency, mobilizing its armed forces. Do not
be surprised if Abkhazia pre-emptively seizes back some of its territory
now held by Georgia.
The attack is coherent with Brzezinski's desperate plan to save the
collapsing US-UK regime of world domination by finding ways to smash Russia
and China, the two serious power centers capable of checkmating Washington
and London. As predicted, the epicenter of world confrontation is shifting
rapidly away from the Persian Gulf. The method is classic Brzezinski: Zbig,
working through the Principals' Committee (Gates, Rice, Paulson, Mullen,
Hadley) which rules Washington behind the scenes while the lame ducks Bush
and Cheney babble off into the sunset, is playing his Georgia puppet state
against Russia, leading in all probability to regime change and possible
guerrilla warfare in Georgia. This is exactly what Brzezinski did with
Afghanistan in 1979, leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is
also what Brzezinski intends to do with Iran. The Georgia-Ossetia war is
already the biggest international crisis since 2003, with implications
that go far beyond anything involving Iraq or Iran, since we are here dealing
with the specter of superpower thermonuclear confrontation a danger
which is not immediately present in the Gulf.
The Georgia-Ossetia war risks going out of control,
and moving the planet towards World War III, in several
ways:
There are 2,000 Georgian soldiers serving for the US in Iraq. These
forces have now been called home. The US is flying them back to Georgia
in US military aircraft, a very unfriendly act towards Russia, since these
troops will soon be fighting the Russians under present circumstances.
What is Russia decided to shoot down these US planes? That would bring
World War III much too close for comfort. NBS News reports that the State
Department is talking to the Russian Foreign Ministry to avoid just such
a highly dangerous mid-air confrontation. American national interest demands
that these Georgians be told to get home on their own power, without the
US Air Force.
The Russian navy is now blockading the Black Sea coast of Georgia. What
if the US or other NATO states now decide to send ships carrying humanitarian
or military aid to Georgia? A large NATO fleet buildup in the eastern Mediterranean
is reported. What if the US, the British, or the French try to break through
the Russian naval blockade? If shooting starts, World War III could loom
very quickly.
The NATO puppet regime in Ukraine controls the bases for the Russian
Black Sea fleet. These NATO provocateurs in Kiev are now saying that, since
the Russian Black Sea fleet has left those ports to blockade Georgia, they
will not be allowed to re-enter their Ukrainian home ports. If shooting
starts, this could be a wider war. If the NATO Tusk regime in Poland, yet
another gaggle of Brzezinski puppets, decides to come in on the side of
the Ukrainians, then Warsaw could invoke the NATO alliance, and the US
could soon be at war with Russia.
Ukraine could also decide to support Georgia with ground troops. If
the Ukrainians get into trouble, they will call on the Poles, and the Poles
will call on NATO, also threatening to drag the US into a real war of catastrophic
proportions.
Letting Poland join NATO was supreme folly. We are fortunate that Georgia
and Ukraine are not NATO members already. American national interest demands
good relations with Russia. The United States must not be carried towards
World War III as the tail of the Brzezinski- Obama kite. There must be
no support for Saakashvili and his gang.
The puppet masters behind Georgia President
Saakashvili
William Engdahl
Online
Journal
Friday, Aug 29, 2008
The controversy over the Georgian surprise military attacks on South
Ossetia and Abkhazia on 8.8.08 makes a closer look at the controversial
Georgian President and his puppet masters important. An examination shows
41-year-old Mikheil Saakashvili to be a ruthless and corrupt totalitarian
who is tied to not only the US NATO establishment, but also to the Israeli
military and intelligence establishment.
The famous ‘Rose Revolution of November 2003 that forced the ageing
Edouard Shevardnadze from power and swept the then 36-year-old US university
graduate into power was run and financed by the US State Department, the
Soros Foundations, and agencies tied to the Pentagon and US intelligence
community.
Mikheil Saakashvili was deliberately placed in power in one of the most
sophisticated US regime change operations, using ostensibly private NGOs
(non-governmental organizations) to create an atmosphere of popular protest
against the existing regime of former Soviet Foreign Minister Edouard Shevardnadze,
who was no longer useful to Washington when he began to make a deal with
Moscow over energy pipelines and privatizations.
Saakashvili was brought to power in a US-engineered coup run on the
ground by US-funded NGOs, in an application of a new method of US destabilization
of regimes it considered hostile to its foreign policy agenda. The November
24, 2003, Wall Street Journal explicitly credited the toppling of Shevardnadze’s
regime to the operations of “a raft of non-governmental organizations .
. . supported by American and other Western foundations.” These NGOs, said
the Journal, had “spawned a class of young, English-speaking intellectuals
hungry for pro-Western reforms” who were instrumental laying the groundwork
for a bloodless coup.
Coup by NGO
But there is more. The NGOs were coordinated by the US Ambassador to Georgia,
Richard Miles, who had just arrived in Tbilisi fresh from success in orchestrating
the CIA-backed toppling of Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade, using the same
NGOs. Miles, who is believed to be an undercover intelligence specialist,
supervised the Saakashvili coup.
It involved US billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Georgia Foundation.
It involved the Washington-based Freedom House whose chairman was former
CIA chief James Woolsey. It involved generous financing from the US Congress-financed
National Endowment for Democracy, an agency created by Ronald Reagan in
the 1980s to “do privately what the CIA used to do,” namely coups against
regimes the US government finds unfriendly.
George Soros’ foundations have been forced to leave numerous eastern
European countries, including Russia, as well as China after the 1989 student
Tiananmen Square uprising. Soros is also the financier together with the
US State Department of Human Rights Watch, a US-based and run propaganda
arm of the entire NGO apparatus of regime coups such as Georgia and Ukraine’s
2004 Orange Revolution. Some analysts believe Soros is a high-level operative
of the US State Department or intelligence services using his private foundations
as cover.
The US State Department funded the Georgia Liberty Institute headed
by Saakashvili, the US approved candidate to succeed the no-longer cooperative
Shevardnadze. The Liberty Institute in turn created “Kmara!” which translates
to “Enough!” According to a BBC report at the time, Kmara! was organized
in the spring of 2003, when Saakashvili along with hand-picked Georgia
student activists were paid by the Soros Foundation to go to Belgrade to
learn from the US-financed Otpor activists that toppled Milosevic. They
were trained in Gene Sharp’s “non-violence as a method of warfare” by the
Belgrade Center for Nonviolent Resistance.
Saakashvili as mafioso president
Once he was in place in January 2004 as Georgia’s new president, Saakashvili
proceeded to pack the regime with his cronies and kinsmen. The death of
Zurab Zhvania, his prime minister, in February 2005 remains a mystery.
The official version — poisoning by a faulty gas heater — was adopted by
American FBI investigators within two weeks of the Zhvania’s death. That
has never seemed credible to those familiar with Georgia’s gangland slayings,
crime, and other manifestations of social decay. Zhvania’s death was followed
closely by a functionary of the premier’s apparat, Georgi Khelashvili,
who allegedly shot himself the day after his chief’s demise. The head of
Zhvania’s research staff was later found dead as well.
Figures allied with Saakashvili reportedly had a hand in the premier’s
death. Russian journalist Marina Perevozkina quoted Gia Khurashvili, a
Georgian economist. Prior to the fatal incident, Mr. Khurashvili had published
an article in Resonans newspaper opposing the privatization and sale of
Georgia’s main gas pipeline. Ten days before the prime minister’s body
was found, Khurashvili was attacked and his editor-in-chief — citing pressure
from ‘security service’ figures he refused to name — issued him a warning.
The late premier’s position on the pipeline issue was believed the direct
reason for the murder of Zhvania. Zhvania’s brother, Georgi, also told
Perevozkina that not long before Zhvania’s death he received a warning
that someone was preparing to kill his brother. Saakashvili was reportedly
livid when the US State Department invited Zhvania to Washington to win
a Freedom Medal from the US Government’s National Democratic Institute.
Saakashvili tolerates no rivals for power it seems.
Saakashvili, who cleverly marketed himself as “anti-corruption,” appointed
several of his family members to lucrative posts in government, giving
one of his brothers a position as chief adviser on domestic issues to the
Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline project, backed by British Petroleum and other oil
multinationals.
Since coming to power in 2004 with US aid, Saakashvili has led a policy
of large-scale arrests, imprisonment, torture and deepened corruption.
Saakashvili has presided over the creation of a de facto one-party state,
with a dummy opposition occupying a tiny portion of seats in the parliament,
and this public servant is building a Ceaucescu-style palace for himself
on the outskirts of Tbilisi. According to the magazine, Civil Georgia (Mar.
22, 2004), until 2005, the salaries of Saakashvili and many of his ministers
were reportedly paid by the NGO network of New York-based currency speculator
Soros — along with the United Nations Development Program.
Israeli and US military train Georgian military
The current military assault on South Ossetia and Abkhazia, in
violation of Saakashvili’s pledge to seek a diplomatic not military solution
to the territorial disputes, is backed by US and Israeli military “advisers.”
Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported that on August 10 Georgian Minister
of Reintegration Temur Yakobshvili “praised the Israel Defense Forces for
its role in training Georgian troops and said Israel should be proud of
its military might, in an interview with Army Radio. ‘Israel should be
proud of its military which trained Georgian soldiers,’ Yakobashvili told
Army Radio in Hebrew, referring to a private Israeli group Georgia had
hired.’”
One of the targets of Russian bombs near Tbilisi was, according to IsraelNN.com,
“a Georgian military plant in which Israeli experts are upgrading jet fighters
for the Georgian military . . . Russian fighter jets bombed runways inside
the plant, located near Tbilisi, where Israeli security firm Elbit is in
charge of upgrading Georgian SU-25 jets.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, also a candidate to succeed ousted
Israeli Prime Minister Olmert, proclaimed on August 10 that “Israel recognizes
Georgia’s territorial integrity,” code for saying it backs Georgia’s attempt
to take South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
The reported 1,000 Israeli military advisers in Georgia were not alone.
On July 15, Reuters news wire carried the following report: “VAZIANI, Georgia
— One thousand U.S. troops began a military training exercise called ‘Immediate
Response 2008,’ in Georgia on Tuesday against a backdrop of growing friction
between Georgia and neighboring Russia. The two-week exercise was taking
place at the Vaziani military base near the capital, Tbilisi, which was
a Russian air force base until Russian forces withdrew at the start of
this decade under a European arms reduction agreement . . . Georgia has
a 2,000-strong contingent supporting the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, and
Washington provides training and equipment to the Georgian military. The
United States is an ally of Georgia and has irritated Russia by backing
Tbilisi’s bid to join the NATO military alliance . . . ‘The main purpose
of these exercises is to increase the cooperation and partnership between
U.S. and Georgian forces,’ Brig. Gen. William B. Garrett, commander of
the U.S. military’s Southern European Task Force, told reporters.”
With Russia openly backing and training the indigenous military in South
Ossetia and Abkhazia to maintain Russian presence in the region, especially
since the US-backed pro-NATO Saakashvili regime took power in 2004, the
Caucasus is rapidly coming to resemble Spain in the Civil War from 1936-1939,
where the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and others poured money and weapons
and volunteers into Spain in a devastating war that was a precursor to
the Second World War.
In a curious footnote to the actual launch of military fighting on the
opening day of the Olympics when Putin, George W. Bush and many world leaders
were far away in Beijing, is a report in IsraelNN.com by Gl Ronen, stating
that “The Georgian move against South Ossetia was motivated by political
considerations having to do with Israel and Iran, according to Nfc. Georgian
President Mikheil Saakashvili decided to assert control over the breakaway
region in order to force Israel to reconsider its decision to cut back
its support for Georgia’s military.”
Ronen added, “Russian and Georgian media reported several days ago that
Israel decided to stop its support for Georgia after Moscow made it clear
to Jerusalem and Washington that Russia would respond to continued aid
for Georgia by selling advanced anti-aircraft systems to Syria and Iran.”
Israel plans to get oil and gas from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline from
the Caspian.
Although as of this writing Russian President Medvedev has announced
Russia is halting its military response against Georgian targets, the situation
is anything but stable. The insistence of Washington in bringing Georgia
into its geopolitical sphere and backing an unstable regime around Mikheil
Saakashvili may well have been the straw which broke the Russian camel’s
patience if not his back.
Whether oil pipeline disputes or Russian challenges to Israel are the
proximate trigger for Saakashvili’s dangerous game, it is clear that the
volatile Georgian and his puppet masters may have entered a game where
no one will be able to control the outcome.
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