The New World Order is now moving to increase and consolidate its holdings in Eastern Europe. Thus far Russia is showing restraint but that may soon soon.
When the US puppet state of Georgia attacked Russia many of us stated that Ukraine would soon follow suit. Its happening.
Here's a news story:
Ukraine snubs Moscow on port
By Roman Olearchykin Tbilisi
Published: August 14 2008 02:53 | Last updated: August 14 2008 02:53 (Source)
Victor Yushchenko, on Wednesday announced restrictions on use of the Crimean port of Sevastopol by Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, a move that follows a challenge by Kiev this week to Moscow’s naval operations off Georgia’s coast.
The surprise decree by Ukraine’s pro-western president requires Russian naval vessels to request permission 10 days in advance before returning to the strategically important port, which Russia leases from Ukraine. Russia’s defence ministry quickly denounced it as “not serious”.
Officials in Kiev suggested the new rules were not linked to Moscow’s decision to send naval vessels to Georgia’s coast for operations that Russian officials said were meant to maintain stability and support humanitarian efforts.
But Ukraine’s foreign ministry this week warned Moscow that it would not allow Russian vessels to return to Sevastopol if they were used in military operations against Georgia. The media service for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol said on Wednesday that four vessels had left the base this week to support operations off Georgia.
Kiev also suspects that Moscow wants to keep its fleet in Sevastopol beyond the expiry of the lease agreement in 2017.
Ukraine’s move came hours before US President George W. Bush said he would send aircraft and naval vessels to Georgia to provide humanitarian aid. It fuelled fears that worsening relations between Kiev and Moscow – amid the Russian-Georgian military conflict – could escalate into a dangerous east-west struggle in the strategic Black Sea region.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
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According to Bloomberg's reporting, "Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic states, all once held within the Soviet Union's embrace, are rallying behind Georgia against Russia's military incursion and any threat to their own independence.
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Why is this happening?
Isn't it obvious?
Now John McCain is encouraging NATO to add Georgia and Ukraine!
According to the NATO charter, if ANY NATO member state is attacked NATO must act to defend it. This means that not only would the US control Russia's airspace with the new satellite systems, ANY attempt by Russia to defend itself would be, by law, viewed as an attack on NATO!!!!
Think about this! The US just used Georgia to attack Russia and Russia responded.
Had Georgia been a member of NATO Russia's response would have resulted in a full scale war between Russia and NATO!
This means the following countries would automatically be at war with Russia!:
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Add to this list Poland, Georgia, Ukraine, Estonia etc.
Does this seem wise?
Surely not!
Does this sound like a recipie for World War Three?
Absolutely!
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Now here is something important to keep straight.
The Voice of Russia posted the following. From this it APPEARS the LA times is actually taking a stand! Not so. This is a reference to an OPINION piece in the LA times. Still, its worth a read. the post itself follows:
The Los Angeles Times blames Bush for South Ossetia bloodshed
(Source)One of America’s leading broadsheets says that President George W. Bush shares responsibility for the disastrous consequences of Georgia’s invasion of South Ossetia. The Los Angeles Times says the Georgian leaders were stupid enough to believe that the US would give them help in their adventure in South Ossetia. First of all, America is busy handling crises in Afghanistan and Iraq and secondly, the US cannot engage in conflict with the world’s second biggest nuclear power The newspaper puts part of the blame also on the Republican Democratic candidate John McCain who’s been actively lobbying Georgian interests in Washington. The main blame however is on President Bush whose anti-Russian record includes support for the so-called “color revolutions” in the Russian backyard, condemnation of the so-called anti-democratic crackdowns in Russia while ignoring crimes committed by America’s friends, and also Washington’s support for Georgia’s bid to join NATO and its planned deployment of missile defense elements in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Here's the piece:
Who got Georgia into this?
Puh-lease. Haven't the Georgians noticed that we're sort of busy in Afghanistan and Iraq? That even if we had any available troops, we're not going to get involved in a shooting war with Russia, which has the world's second-largest nuclear arsenal? That we have no other forms of leverage over Russia these days?
So where did the Georgians get the silly idea that the U.S. would bail them out?
Maybe from John McCain, Republican heir apparent, whose top foreign policy advisor, Randy Scheunemann, also just happens to be a highly paid lobbyist for the Georgian government. Whoops -- correction! Scheunemann usedto be a highly paid lobbyist for Georgia. The McCain campaign says Scheunemann hasn't taken a dime from the Georgians since May 15. (Which is lucky for the Georgians, who are going to need all the spare cash they can get to rebuild all the stuff the Russians just bombed.)
According to the Washington Post, the relationship between Scheunemann and Georgia used to be very cozy (not to mention lucrative for Scheunemann). Between Jan. 1, 2007, and May 15, 2008, while Scheunemann was also a paid McCain advisor, "Georgia paid his firm $290,000 in lobbying fees."
And what did Georgia get in return? Well, no troops, that's for sure. But they got Scheunemann's (expensive) pledge to garner U.S. support for Georgia's admission to NATO and for its claims to South Ossetia, and his commitment to use his ties to politicians such as McCain to advance Georgia's causes. McCain has sponsored legislation supporting Georgia's claims over South Ossetia, an issue on which he was lobbied by Scheunemann's firm. And as recently as mid-April, Scheunemann was simultaneously taking money from Georgia and actively preparing McCain for supportive calls with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
Is it any wonder that Saakashvili concluded that he had the backing of the U.S. Republican power structure when it came to South Ossetia?
But Scheunemann and McCain aren't the only ones who irresponsibly encouraged the Georgians to think that baiting the Russians was going to work out for them.
President Bush shares the blame. Once he stopped swooning over the soulfulness of "Vladimir's" baby blues, Bush seemed intent on showing Putin and other Russian leaders that he no longer gave a damn. The Bush administration supported the "color revolutions" in Russia's backyard and denounced antidemocratic crackdowns in Russia -- while making excuses for "friendly" authoritarian regimes elsewhere. The administration also virtually shut down extensive multi-issue dialogues with Russia that had been maintained by previous administrations, hammering in the message that we didn't care much about good relations with Moscow.
The administration also aggressively pushed policies that couldn't have been better designed to enrage the Russians. At the April NATO summit in Romania, Bush urged a fast track to NATO membership for Georgia. Th U.S. also insisted this summer on the deployment of an almost certainly useless missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, virtually on Moscow's doorstep.
Meanwhile, the administration singled out Georgia for the "Our Best Buddy in the Caucasus" award. The U.S. has supported the development of gas and oil pipelines running through Georgia that will challenge Russia's regional economic hegemony, and provided the fledgling Georgian republic generous economic and military aid, including an overhaul of its forces. In return, Georgia sent 2,000 troops to Iraq, and the administration pretended to be deaf when Georgian politicians crowed that their newly improved military would be perfect for teaching those pesky South Ossetian separatists a lesson.
But it's all gone disastrously wrong for our best buddies, and we're sitting on the sidelines, offering empty reassurances to the Georgians and empty threats to the Russians.
Moscow will stop pummeling Georgia when it decides the Georgians have truly been punished enough. And this being the real world, punishment will rain down on the pawns -- but those who egged them on (to score political points, seek power or gain profit) will, of course, face no punishment at all.
rbrooks@latimescolumnists.com
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