Analysis: Russia Mobilizes, America Sleeps   J.R. Nyquist and Christopher Ruddy April 8, 1999

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Analysis: Russia Mobilizes, America Sleeps
J.R. Nyquist and Christopher Ruddy
April 8, 1999

LONDON AND WASHINGTON -- Bill Clinton's use of NATO forces to bomb
Yugoslavia could trigger global war.
Over the weekend, Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji hinted that the crisis in
Kosovo could lead to a world war. At the same time, Russia -- a long-time
ally of the Serbs -- has begun a large-scale mobilization of its military
forces.

While NATO countries are engaging in military operations, not one Western
country is mobilizing for a larger war, as is Russia.

THE NEW STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP OF RUSSIA AND CHINA

NATO's soporific reaction to Russia's mobilization should also be viewed,
not in the context of the Yugoslavia bombing, but in the broader context of
the new China-Russia relationship -- one that has dramatically altered the
balance of power in the world.

In November 1998, Russia and China officially formed a "strategic
partnership." According to the official Chinese news agency, this
partnership is meant to challenge the "perceived global dominance of the
U.S." In plain English, the primary enemy Russia and China plan to fight is
the United States and its allies.

Together, Russia and China have the world's most powerful military,
including over 30,000 nuclear weapons, armies of 6 million men with hundreds
of battle-ready combat divisions, and thousands of tanks. Their new alliance
should have rung warning bells throughout the world. Instead the Western
media, Clinton and other Western leaders have ignored it, continuing to
insist that Russia and China are our "friends."

WHILE CLINTON DIDDLES, RUSSIA AND CHINA PREPARE FOR WAR

In recent months, Russia and China have jointly demilitarized their
2,500-mile border. Three hundred Russian combat units were withdrawn from
the Chinese frontier. A similar number of Chinese units were withdrawn.

China has also been rapidly building up its ballistic missile forces
opposite Taiwan -- forces that could be used against the U.S. military in
the Far East. An attack against Taiwan could come at any time. Carl Ford of
the Heritage Foundation, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee on March 25, said that the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA)
has changed its military strategy from one of a slowly-developed assault and
blockade against Taiwan, to "more intense, quick-hitting attacks using
ballistic missiles."

For many years, Russian military theory has held that ballistic missile
weapons can be used to accelerate attacks, allowing for rapid victories over
powerful opponents. The Chinese missile buildup together with its shift in
military strategy suggests that China's generals have fallen under the spell
of Russian military theory.

At the same time, the Russian units moved off the Chinese border are now
free to threaten Europe.

As the NATO bombing began, Russia talked of moving heavy bombers and
tactical nuclear weapons into Belarus, the traditional invasion route from
Russia to Europe.

Still, NATO is oblivious to the tremendous shift in the global balance of
power caused by the new Russia-China military alliance.

NORTH KOREA JOINS THE RUSSIA-CHINA AXIS

There are strong indications that the Russia-China alliance also includes
other sworn enemies of the West, including the North Korean military
dictatorship. During the Korean War, tens of thousands of Chinese troops
fought against the US in support of the North Korean dictatorship, and China
continues to be North Korea's principal ally. It is virtually unthinkable
that the North Koreans would launch a new war against South Korea or the
West without Chinese approval and support.

In the past year, North Korea has become increasingly bellicose, repeatedly
threatening to launch nuclear weapons against US cities if we interfere with
their activities on the Korean peninsula. In just the last month, Korea has
also deployed a new three-stage missile capable of hitting most US cities.

A major obstacle in any war launched by North Korea is America's ally,
Japan. According to the nationally circulated Japanese newspaper Sankei, on
March 23, North Korea used a naval diversion to cover the insertion "dozens"
of special operations commandos into Japan. According to unidentified
sources, these North Korean infiltrators are trained in the sabotage of
trains, bridges, and communications.

Such a move by the North Koreans could mean that an attack by North Korea
against the South is imminent.

AMERICAN FORCES SPREAD THIN AND VULNERABLE TO RUSSIAN OR CHINESE AGGRESSION

The bulk of front-line American combat troops are now dispersed abroad. As
the Balkans conflict escalates even further with the likely introduction of
NATO ground forces, the West is ill prepared to defend South Korea, Taiwan,
or even America.

The NATO blitz against Yugoslavia is already sapping U.S. military strength
needed in the Middle East to check Saddam Hussein. If war were to intensify
in the Balkans, or if war broke out in Korea, with our current commitment in
Iraq, America doesn't have the resources to cope.

The logic of this is apparent to our enemies, and could well be exploited to
inflict a major defeat on American forces in one or two hot spots
simultaneously.

Still, the main threat to America is Russia, which now has more nuclear
weapons than every other nation on earth combined.

For the past three months NewsMax.com has been sounding the alarm about
growing war preparations against the West by a new Russia/China axis. The
very timing of the Russian-Chinese alliance -- when U.S. forces are at a low
-- is extremely ominous.

But the establishment media has ignored this story. Now NATO's attack
against Yugoslavia has provoked bitter condemnation from Russia and China
and the military threat is apparent for all to see.

PREPARING THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE FOR WAR

As we reported in Newsmax.com four months ago, before it would be
politically possible for the Russians to launch a war against the West, the
Russian people would first have to be psychologically prepared for war.
Clinton's war on Yugoslavia has provided precisely the stimulus needed to
create massive war hysteria among the Russian people.

Just last Thursday, hundreds of furious Russian demonstrators marched
through Moscow calling for Russia to go to war against NATO. One banner
said: "It's time to bomb the military bases of the United States." That
banner becomes much more ominous when you realize that the demonstration was
either sponsored by the Russian government or at least had its tacit
approval.

Equally ominous was the singling out of US military bases, the first strike
target in any war against the West, essential for destroying America's
retaliatory nuclear capability.

'CLINTON HAS SINGLE-HANDEDLY REVIVED THE COLD WAR'

The sentiment expressed by Russian war protesters isn't just the opinion of
a few extremists. A recent opinion survey found that in the wake NATO
bombing of their traditional allies, the Serbs, an incredible 64% of all
Russians now believe that NATO intends to attack Russia.

Russian officials have also issued increasingly ominous pronouncements
against America and the West. Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov spoke of "new
tasks" for Russia's military. Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev likened the
crisis to "a whirlpool which is drawing more countries into it." Former
Russian Premier Gorbachev said, "Clinton has managed to single-handedly
revive the Cold War."

RUSSIA PREPARES FOR WAR

Obsessed with the carnage in Kosovo, NATO appears to be oblivious to the
fact Russia has been engaging in a massive military mobilization.

In the two weeks since NATO launched their offensive against Yugoslavia:


The Russian Defense Ministry began an enlarged draft, calling up 168,776 men
from the ages of 18 to 27.

Recruited over 60,000 Russian "volunteers" to fight NATO troops in Serbia.
On 6 April the first Russian volunteers arrived in the Serbian town of Novi
Sad.

Threatened to move tactical nuclear weapons and heavy bombers forward into
Belarus -- Russia's highway to NATO.

Dispatched key elements of their Northern fleet, including the aircraft
cruiser, Admiral Kuznetsov, and the newly commissioned Peter the Great, the
largest ballistic missile cruiser ever built.
Vice Admiral Popov, commander of the Northern Fleet told Itar-Tass, the
Northern Fleet is "ready to fulfill any order of the supreme command to
defend the interests of Russia."

The Northern Fleet has more ballistic missile submarines than the entire
U.S. Navy.


On 30 March, Russia sent a battle group of over twenty warships to sea from
its Pacific Fleet. Included in the fleet were ground forces from Russia's
Far Eastern Military District.

Russia dispatched ships from the Black Sea Fleet -- including a missile
cruiser, two anti-submarine warfare frigates, and support ships. A Russian
reconnaissance ship has already entered the Mediterranean.

Russian TV displayed pictures of ballistic missiles being loaded on cruisers
in the Black Sea.

Russia announced the successful launch of a ballistic missile during
exercises of its Northern fleet.
Despite these clear war preparations, Russian news agencies continue to
repeat the Big Lie that Russia has no plans to get involved in military
action in Yugoslavian war.

If that's true, why all of the war preparations? How have the supposedly
"economically desperate" Russians been able to mobilize so many naval ships
and combat troops men so quickly?

RUSSIA'S PATTERN OF DECEPTION

Russia's growing preparation for war during the Kosovo crisis suggests a
massive pattern of deception, which is being ignored by the clueless Western
media and Clinton. This pattern of deception is just the most recent and
blatant example of how Russia has been talking peace while preparing for war
against the West. How else do you explain this behavior from a friend and
ally of America:


Russia continues to maintain the world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons
-- over 30,000 -- the overwhelming majority targeted against the West.

During the past two years, Russia has engaged in several mock nuclear war
exercises against the United States. These exercises have included the use
of rockets as well as naval and airborne forces to wipe America from the
map.

For the past 18 months, Russia has been moving its nuclear weapons onto
naval ships. Naval ships are considered to be less vulnerable to retaliation
in a nuclear war.

This past December, Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces deployed a regiment of
state-of-the-art Topol-M missiles targeted against the West. These missiles
are now rolling off Russian production lines and are more sophisticated than
anything in America's arsenal.

In January, Russia put is nuclear forces--strategic rockets, naval and
air--under a unified command -- essential for a coordinated first strike
against the West.

Russia appears to be hoarding food, fuel, gold, and other commodities -- an
essential preparation for a major war. Despite claims of poverty and famine,
Russia is stockpiling millions of tons of food and urging its people to buy
gold. It is interesting to note that the Kosovo crisis began just as the
last shipments of billions of dollars of Western food aid reached Russia.

Russia has built the world's largest network of fallout shelters -- complete
underground cities, some as large as Washington, DC.
WAR PREPARATIONS IN RUSSIA HAVE BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS

In order to mobilize their people against the West, and prepare them for the
destruction it will bring, Russian leaders know that they must create
massive hatred of the West.

The first step occurred during the summer of 1998 when Russia defaulted on
their foreign loans resulting in massive bank and business failures, bread
lines throughout the country, and incredible suffering.

On the face of it, it made no sense for the Russian government to default,
since just weeks before the default, the IMF had given Moscow some $5
billion in new foreign aid. (According to the Wall Street Journal, these
funds mysteriously "disappeared into the offshore accounts of Russia's
oligarchy.")

Why would any regime in its right mind subject their own people to such
massive suffering when they had the resources to prevent it?

The likely answer: Russia's leaders knew that "evil Western capitalists" --
not themselves -- would be blamed. Indeed, as a result of the 1998 Russian
economic meltdown, millions of Russians demanded that communism be restored
and corrupt Jewish tycoons be sent packing. The Russian economic meltdown,
quite possibly engineered by Moscow, was in effect a bloodless coup that did
more than any other single event to revive hatred of capitalism,
anti-Semitism, and again set Russia on the path of tyranny and confrontation
with the West.

CREATING A NEW SOVIET EMPIRE

With Russia's economy in shambles, Russian leaders should have been
preoccupied with domestic problems. Instead, the primary focus of Russia's
energies and resources has been creating a new Soviet Empire.

Last November, China and Russia announced a new global alliance. Their
intelligence services now share information. Their high commands have
organized cooperative working groups.

The new Russian-Chinese Alliance represents the greatest shift in the
balance of power since World War II, yet the Western press has virtually
ignored it.

Chinese leaders speak more and more openly about war with the West. In
January Chinese President Jiang Zemin told the People's Liberation Army to
get ready for two things: First, nuclear world war; and second, to suppress
uprisings inside China.

ANTI-AMERICAN HATRED IS REACHING NEW HEIGHTS

In Russia, the government doesn't have to worry about uprisings. Thanks to
Bill Clinton's bombing campaign in Yugoslavia, the Russians have rallied to
the Kremlin.

Consider what Clinton has done: For the first time in its history, NATO has
attacked a sovereign state, in direct violation of the NATO Charter which
forbids an offensive war against other countries.

The result of that attack, encouraged by the American leadership, may well
be the collapse of the NATO alliance and the end of American leadership in
Western Europe, particularly in Italy and Greece. At the very least,
Clinton's use of NATO as an offensive tool of war, has shifted public
opinion against the U.S. in Russia, Eastern Europe, and much of the Third
World.

Understandably, since both Russia and Serbia are Slavic nations with strong
historical, religious and cultural ties, there is real anger among the
Russian populace against the NATO bombing. After all, how would Americans
feel if Russia bombed London because of the strife in Northern Ireland? Or
if Russia bombed Canada or Mexico? NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia proves to
the average Russian that NATO is an offensive military organization whose
ultimate aim is the destruction of Russia -- which is what they have been
told by their leaders for generations.

CLINTON'S WAR AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA: A 'ROYAL GIFT' TO COMMUNISTS AND KREMLIN
INSIDERS

The present Russian anger over the NATO bombing is, as Izvestia called it, a
"royal gift" to the communists and Kremlin insiders -- some of whom have
publicly advocated war with the West. There is growing pressure on even
moderate Russian leaders to take "some action" against NATO to restore
Russia's glory and pride.

Russia's Duma passed a resolution 366-4 that declares that NATO "aggression"
is "a threat to Russia's national security" and called on the Russian
government to begin war mobilization. Russia's foreign secretary Igor Ivanov
said while Russia had no immediate military plans, it was "holding extreme
measures in reserve."

As the Christian Science Monitor reports, Russian nationalists now repeat a
mantra, "What is happening in Serbia today, will happen in Russia tomorrow."

Itar-Tass reports that leading Russia intellectuals have formed a new
movement called "Against World War III" to combat growing war hysteria in
Russia.

RUSSIAN LEADERS CONSIDER NUCLEAR WAR INEVITABLE

Colonel Stanislav Lunev, the highest-ranking GRU officer ever to defect from
Russia, has stated that the Russian General Staff considers nuclear war with
America to be inevitable.

Lunev writes, "I spent thirty years preparing for war against America. Not a
war against China. Not a war against Europe. A war against America."

In an interesting footnote, almost immediately after the NATO bombing
campaign began, Russia canceled its cooperation with America on the Y2K
computer virus. This cooperation is vital as the year 2000 rapidly
approaches, and by rejecting U.S. help suggests the Russians have other
plans and have no intention of ever opening up its defense systems to
outside technicians -- unlike the US under Clinton, which has allowed
Russian and Chinese military agents to roam our top-secret defense labs
virtually at will.

'WAG THE DOG' GLOBAL WAR?

As conservative commentator, Lwellen Rockwell, points out, Clinton's foreign
policy can be summarized by a single word: Bombs!

Clinton's popularity dips and he bombs Iraq. Ken Starr issues a report
recommending that Clinton be impeached, and he bombs Sudan and Afghanistan.
The Senate prepares to vote on impeachment charges, and Clinton again bombs
Iraq. Chinagate -- Clinton's cynical selling of US military secrets in
exchange for campaign contributions -- threatens to break in the popular
press, and Clinton bombs Yugoslavia.

As in the movie, "Wag the Dog," whenever Clinton gets in trouble, he bombs
someone to distract attention from his own scandals and crimes. Clinton's
foreign policy reads like a script for a Hollywood B film.

Personal and political scandals have enveloped Bill Clinton's presidency
since his first days in office. Just months after becoming president, he
launched a bloody attack on the Branch Davidians in Waco, which ended with
the immolation of some 80 innocent men, women and children. He blatantly
used the military to "wag the dog" on the eve of the Senate impeachment vote
with a cynical bombing of Iraq.

Those who claim that with impeachment behind him, Clinton has no real reason
to wag the dog by bombing Yugoslavia, are dead wrong. Supreme egotist that
he is, Clinton is consumed with remaining popular and securing his place in
history -- both of which are threatened by continuing public attention to
previous and newly revealed scandals, like Chinagate. Some of those scandals
could even have legally devastating consequences for Clinton and Hillary
personally, after his presidency ends.

The Lewinsky scandal continues to percolate, and Monica has been on a high
profile book tour. Now a new and very a serious rape allegation hangs over
Clinton's head -- and there could be more such allegations forthcoming. New
revelations come out almost daily about Clinton's treasonous aid to the
Chinese war machine, in exchange for campaign contributions.

Despite Clinton's claims to the contrary, no vital U.S. interests are at
stake in Kosovo, and no NATO member have been attacked by Serbia. In fact,
by attacking Yugoslavia, Clinton has created precisely the outrages he
claimed he was acting to prevent:


Mass murder of Albanian Serbs,

Shoring up the power of the tyrant Milosevic,

Destabilizing surrounding countries,

Expanding the war -- with the introduction of Russian "volunteers"-- beyond
Yugoslavia,

Weakening NATO,

Killing of innocent men, women and children in Yugoslavia.
Not to mention the flirtation with global war. By wagging the dog with a
very hot war in Europe, Clinton has managed -- for now -- to bury growing
accusations of treason against him. Clinton may go down in history as the
first US President willing to risk -- or cause -- global war to ensure his
own popularity.

HOW CLINTON IS PUSHING RUSSIA TOWARDS WAR

The Russian people view the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia as almost a direct
attack on their nation. American refusals to allow Russia to broker a
peaceful settlement have lead to further Russian war hysteria.

As the American-lead assault began, the Russian Prime Minister, Yevgeny
Primakov, an old line KGB general, came to Belgrade and hours later had a
peace deal. Waving a scrap of paper in his hand he flew to Munich to meet
with German Chancellor Schroeder. Germany is NATO's most important
continental member. Germany and NATO rejected the offer. Russia, the
peacemaker, was rebuffed by the Americans, the aggressors. So hostility grew
in Russia.

Clinton's bombing of Yugoslavia encourages the most violent, extreme and
anti-American factions in Russia. Russia's ailing leader and erstwhile
US-friend, Boris Yeltsin, faces his own impeachment vote on April 15th. He
too desperately needs to wag the dog to distract attention from his own
failures. His status weakened by NATO bombing, only after agreeing to oppose
NATO and draft troops for Yugoslavia did Yeltsin partially recover his
standing in the polls.

WILL RUSSIA ACTUALLY GO TO WAR WITH THE WEST?

Russian war preparations continue to accelerate.

When the Yugoslav crisis erupted, we were told that Russia's major fleets
were going out to sea. A coincidence, the West was told. It has long been
theorized that if Russia ever wanted to attack America, it would steer its
ballistic missile submarines underneath its surface ships on their way to
sea, making it difficult for U.S. sonar to detect the submarine deployment.

Once deployed, the submarines can sink to the bottom of the Atlantic and
Pacific, where the can stay for months, quietly waiting for orders from the
high command.

Convenience is joined by luck. Russia supposedly has no oil for its ships,
one spokesman says. But miraculously, there's suddenly enough oil for its
major fleets to engage in extensive maneuvers.

The Russians must have noted that their deployment causes no alarm from the
West. After all, Russia is so weak it couldn't harm a fly -- so the thinking
goes. Russian spokesmen continually insist they have no plans to engage NATO
militarily, but every action suggests a progressive mobilization for war.

So the Russians will continue mobilizing and gaining the advantage as
America and the West sleeps. In Russia, hundreds of thousands of troops are
called up. It will only take three months for the full conventional weight
of the old Soviet Army to be resurrected. It will have five times as many
soldiers as the American army.

Russia "has no intention of interfering in the current conflict around
Yugoslavia," a government spokesman told Interfax. Meanwhile, Russia's
leaders continually talk of war. They hint, they threaten and they mobilize
for it.

And good Republicans like Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeane
Kirkpatrick and Senator McCain, are actually calling for American ground
troops to be sent into Serbia. Those calling for a ground force in
Yugoslavia -- estimated to be at least 200,000 soldiers -- are not
considering the implications of such a move if a global war does break out.
The NATO ground force would be vulnerable to a tactical nuclear strike and
easily cut-off from supply lines. Moreover, the continental U.S. would have
no significant force to defend itself from invasion by China or Russia.

Such considerations and precautions are not being considered because it is
party time in the West. The Dow Jones rises past 10,000 as NATO bombs. The
price of gold drops. People still plan their trips to Disney World instead
of worrying about the nation's vulnerability to Russia's nuclear weapons.

There is no way to be certain if Russia will actually attack the United
States, and there is one alternative plausible explanation of their actions:
They may be getting ready for one big blackmail attempt, hopeful that
Clinton will buckle under.

Instead of war, Russia could be preparing for global domination.

 

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