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jetdawgg
06-14-07, 09:58 AM
<TABLE id=ViewArticleTable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left>First Strike against Russia: The Real Danger behind US ABM Deployment in Eastern Europe


by Chimes of Freedom

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</TD></TR><TR><TD noWrap align=left colSpan=2>Chimes of Freedom (http://chimesofreedom.blogspot.com/)
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"These European ABMs are an adjunct to the longstanding US policy of nuclear first strike against Russia, ..." (Professor Francis Boyle, Global Research, June 2007 (http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5893))
Recent disinformation by the western media about Russia starting a new Cold War not only masks the threat of a US Anti-Ballistic Missile shield deployment but, as always, projects the blame on the victim, Russia.
The US missile shield must be understood in the context of its geo-strategic nuclear deployment. Far from being defensive, its ultimate purpose is to obtain such an unassailable advantage over any other nuclear power as to be able to threaten any would-be opponent with nuclear extinction if it were not to comply with the wishes of the US.

This new form of nuclear strategy has been called 'compellence'. Remember the word because you won't hear it mentioned by the western MSM which has already tried to distract us from the real dangers behind the deployment of the US missile shield with matters which bear no relevance such as the Litvinenko affair and the inevitable Russian response to retaliate with its own missiles.

By means of a US first strike about 99%+ of Russian nuclear forces would be taken out. So Bush Jr. needs ABMs to take care of what remains. And in any event what really matters here is the perception. Namely, the United States Government believes that with the deployment of a facially successful first strike capability, they can move beyond deterrence and into "compellence."
In other words, with an apparent first strike capability, the USG can compel Russia to do its bidding during a crisis. The classic case in point here was the Cuban Missile Crisis where the Soviet Union knew the USG could strike first and get away with it. Hence they capitulated.

This has been analyzed ad nauseam in the professional literature. But especially by one of Harvard's premier warmongers in chief, Thomas Schelling, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics granted by the Bank of Sweden-- who developed the term "compellence" and distinguished it from "deterrence."

The USG is breaking out of a "deterrence" posture and moving into a "compellence" posture. Easier to rule the world that way. Henceforth the USG will be able to compel even nuclear-armed adversaries to do its bidding in a crisis or otherwise.

Deterrence strategy was abandoned over twenty years ago when the US upped the ante in its Arms Race by introducing new, microchip-controlled nuclear weapons, including the medium-range Cruise missile, and replacing the idea of deterrence with 'pre-emption' or first strike. It was no longer necessary to wait for the other side to attack first. Instead, you attack first if you think the other side is planning to attack you.

Any sane person can see the danger in a strategy that inevitably leads to paranoia. But when you add to it the fact that everything is handled, not by humans, but by computers a War Games doomsday scenario is what we are faced with.

What the US is now dumping is no longer deterrence. That was dumped over 20 years ago. What it's doing is to develop the second stage of First Strike by introducing an element, compellence, which will effectively coerce all its competitors, through terror, to do its bidding.

It was concerning this that Vladimir Putin warned the world at the Munich Conference last February.

" I am convinced that we have reached that decisive moment when we must seriously think about the architecture of global security," he said.
"In Russia’s opinion, the militarisation of outer space could have unpredictable consequences for the international community, and provoke nothing less than the beginning of a nuclear era. And we have come forward more than once with initiatives designed to prevent the use of weapons in outer space."

And, in the context of the expansion of NATO into the old Warsaw Pact countries: "I think it is obvious that NATO expansion does not have any relation with the modernisation of the Alliance itself or with ensuring security in Europe. On the contrary, it represents a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust."

"And we have the right to ask: against whom is this expansion intended?"
Remember, it is in (former) Czechoslovakia and Poland where the US now intends to install its ABM radar systems. The pattern of aggressive closing in on the USSR is clear for all to see. Finally, in that speech, Putin warned the US that if it were to go ahead with a new arms race, including ABM deployment, Russia would respond asymetrically.

As the US and NATO have chosen to ignore Putin's warnings and go ahead they have now drawn the inevitable response of retaliation.

It is this background to the current new aggression of the USA and NATO that the western media hides by trying to distract attention with events which have no bearing on the real dangers of US geo-strategic nuclear deployment.

In the 'eighties, it was the late radical historian, Edward Thompson, and the European Nuclear Disarmament movement that campaigned against US First Strike strategy and who alerted the world to its danger. Now there is no Edward Thompson or an END. So it is up to the likes of we humble bloggers to demystify the MSM spin and let the truth be known.

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Global Research Articles by Chimes of Freedom (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=listByAuthor&authorFirst=&authorName=Chimes of Freedom)

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5935
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killerinstinct
06-14-07, 10:10 AM
i think thats exactly what we need but i think russia is thinking they are a threat and its not russia the US is doing this its for Iran and the middle east those are primarily the poeple this is set up to deter or to destroy

10thzodiac
06-14-07, 10:12 AM
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE YOUR ADVERSARIES

In the early stages of the cold war. 1950's or 1960's the Soviet Union developed, but never built, a doomsday machine. It was a large ship to be anchored in one of the seas that they controlled. The ship was to contain enough atomic material to destroy all life on earth. It would do this by splattering the radiation into the atmosphere. It was to be set off automatically if enough radiation was detected in a select group of cities in the Soviet Union. It could not be turned off and there was to be no human control once it was built. Their rationale for it was that if they could not live as Communist/socialist then the Capitalist also would not live to enslave them. All life would be destroyed. I am sure that a little searching would turn up several references to the ship design.

The reason that this is possible has to do with the way a fission-fusion-fission bomb works. As you may know, a fusion bomb is triggered by a small fission bomb, known as the primary. This device provides the high temperature necessary to cause fusion in the secondary. Some bomb designs (this is from open literature sources) incorporate a final stage in which uranium is used to cause additional fission energy release. A description of this may be found in Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes. In his book, Rhodes notes that there is no practical limit to the amount of final stage uranium which can be added to this design. If a very large amount of uranium is used, the bomb size can be enormous.

jetdawgg
06-14-07, 10:18 AM
What the US is now dumping is no longer deterrence. That was dumped over 20 years ago. What it's doing is to develop the second stage of First Strike by introducing an element, compellence, which will effectively coerce all its competitors, through terror, to do its bidding.

This looks to be the rub.



Finally, in that speech, Putin warned the US that if it were to go ahead with a new arms race, including ABM deployment, Russia would respond asymetrically.

And that is Putin's response.....

10thzodiac
06-14-07, 10:38 AM
Every-time I see this I laugh so hard my eyes water !


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueuauKKjPZI

jetdawgg
06-14-07, 10:47 AM
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ggyoung
06-14-07, 11:15 AM
Just a few things here 1--by the late 1950's the U.S. had developed the 8in neq. round to give the same yealed as "Little Boy and Fat Man" that was droped on japan. 2--All russsia would have to do was to nuk the west coast of America with dirty bombs during the right weather conditions and they would out every living thing al the way to the east coast.

drumcorpssnare
06-14-07, 12:42 PM
The "First Strike" against the Russians should be for the Commandant of the Marine Corps to kick Vladimir Putin in the nuts, so hard, that he'd have to swallow just to take a pi$$ !!!:yes:
drumcorpssnare:usmc:

FistFu68
06-14-07, 12:59 PM
:evilgrin:ONE OF MY HIGH-SCHOOL SWEETIE'S FROM THE MID-60'S,PAPA WAS A HIGH RANKING;STRATEGIC COMMAND'S TOP GUN!WE HAD AND STILL HAVE A DOCTURE,OF ASSURED MUTUAL DISTRUCTION;IF WE GO DOWN?WE WILL TAKE THE WHOLE PLANET WITH US!BETTER DEAD,THAN RED;WAS PAINTED ON THE NOSE OF HIS B-58 HUSTLER!!! I JUST FEEL BAD FOR THE COCKROACHE'S,THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO TUDOR;AL SHARPTON.YOU KNOW THAT'S WHERE HE GET'S HIS STREET-SMART,KNOWLEDGE???:D

HOLM
06-14-07, 02:18 PM
Once A KGB Thug... Always A KGB Thug... At Least That Is What I Understand..

jetdawgg
06-14-07, 04:09 PM
Putin is issuing "WARNINGS" to us. I really don't like the direction that this has gone....

Better buckle up the chin straps Marines....

10thzodiac
06-14-07, 10:41 PM
The last time this happened I was nineteen years old and a artillery radioman and on island [Cuba] with one battalion of Marines and 47,000 fully battle dressed Russian-Polish troops and 227,000 Cuban troops.

If it was not for a Russian Soviet Submarine Captain named Vasili Arkhipov for sure I wouldn't be here, maybe you too ?

This story ran on page A20 of the Boston Globe on 10/13/2002. &#169; Copyright 2002 http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cold-war/sovietsbomb.htm

jetdawgg
06-15-07, 10:00 AM
The Russian Federal Customs Service (FSB) has banned the export from the country of all human medical biological materials, from hair to blood samples, as of May 28th. According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, the ban was prompted by a report submitted to Vladimir Putin that alleges "genetically engineered biological weapons" are under development in the West.

The report was prepared by the FSB after investigation of the medical facilities in Russia that participate in research trials in association with Western pharmaceutical companies and universities.

According to the source, the report thus characterizes the situation in the market for clinical trials: several large Western medical centers that receive shipments of biological materials from Russia are said to be involved in the development of "genetically engineered biological weapons" for use against the Russian population. The list of organizations purportedly working on the project includes the Harvard School of Public Health, the American International Health Alliance, the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the US Department of Justice, the Swedish Karolinska Institute and Agency for International Development, and the Indian Genome Institute. Kommersant's source reported that the report contains a wealth of fantastical details about the development of "ethnically oriented" biological weapons capable of rendering Russia's population sterile and even killing it off.
Many of the institutions named in the report already deny any participation in weapons research. The ban is also being protested by the many Russian institutions that participate in medical testing and research. At present, about 28,000 Russians take part, mostly by agreeing to be test subjects for pharmaceutical companies. The clinical trial market in Russia is worth as much as $150 million annually.

The idea that it might be possible to create bioweapons that are specifically targeted to particular populations has been explored by science fiction writers. Frank Herbert, in his 1982 novel The White Plague, writes about a molecular biologist who loses his wife and family to an IRA bomb, and engineers a plague virus that targets and kills only women.

More recently, sf writer Greg Bear wrote about the same concerns in his newly released book Quantico (http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/AuthorSpecAlphaList.asp?BkNum=371). In the novel, investigators become concerned that terrorist organizations are developing bioweapons that target only specific populations. His fictional investigators make use of a hand-held biohazard analyzer called a "WAGD" to detect traces:

She had yet to bring out her WAGD - pronounced Wag-Dee, for Wright Assay Germ Detector - a biohazard analyzer the size and shape of a large magic marker.

...She reached into her coat pocket and pulled out a WAGD, hiding most of it in her palm and up her sleeve, then swiftly uncapped it ... and ran the moist gel tip along the inside... She capped and pocketed the device...
(Read more about the WAGD biohazard analyzer (http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1261).)

This fictional device now has a real-life counterpart - NASA's LOCAD-PTS Handheld Microorganism Detector (http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1038). Find out more about the novel that anticipates Russia's concerns in this Interview With Greg Bear on Quantico (http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1007); read more about the ban at Kommersant (http://www.kommersant.com/p769777/r_527/Human_medical_biological_materials_export/). Scroll down for more stories in the same category. (Story submitted 6/1/2007)

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1066

HOLM
06-15-07, 10:05 AM
Kosovo and Bosnia were done on the part of NATO and not the UN...


I think Rwanda had the same problem... Does anyone know why?

It fits right into this disscusion..

Sgt Leprechaun
06-15-07, 11:20 AM
The standard left wing anti-nuke rhetoric. *Yawn*