Russia Checkmates the Neocons
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
August 21, 2008
It appears Russia is wasting little time responding to the neocon
provocation of declaring its intention of installing missiles at Redzikowo,
on PolandÂ’s Baltic coast. Russia has dispatched the aircraft carrier at
Admiral Kuznetsov to the Syrian port of Tartus. Admiral Kuznetsov, along
with RussiaÂ’s biggest missile cruiser Moskva and at least four nuclear
submarines, left Murmansk on the Barents Sea on August 18, according to
DEBKAfile.
Russia plans to install Iskandar missiles in Syria and its Baltic enclave
of Kaliningrad.
On August 21, at the Black Sea port of Sochi, Syrian president Bashar Assad
told the media he is considering a Russian request to deploy missiles in his
country. The Arabic language newspaper, Asharq Al-Awsat, reported Bashar as
saying he hopes to see Moscow cease its cooperation with NATO-allied states.
“He is quoted as saying that Israeli arms sales to the Georgian army should
prompt the Kremlin to strengthen the military alliance between Russia and
Syria,” reports the Israeli news site, YNet News. Bashar is scheduled to
meet with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. According to the BBC, fast
track military and technical co-operation are at the top of the agenda.
It should be noted that prior to RussiaÂ’s defense of South Ossetia and
Abkhazia and the signing of the Polish missile deal, Moscow promised the
U.S. it would not provide Iran and Syria with advanced military technology.
“I want to voice support for Russia over the situation around Abkhazia and
South Ossetia,” Assad told Itar-Tass. “We understand the essence of the
Russian position and consider its military reaction a response to
provocation by the Georgian side.” Assad also said “Syria was and is
striving to develop strategic relations with Russia, in the interests of
security in the whole world,” an obvious reference to the neocon plan to
confront Syria, Iran, and Russia.
Russia plans to install Iskandar surface missiles in Syria and its Baltic
enclave of Kaliningrad, sources at DEBKAfile report. As widely reported over
last weekend, Russian Baltic and Middle East warships, submarines and
long-range bombers may be armed with nuclear warheads. “One plan on the
table in Moscow, DEBKAfileÂ’s sources report, is the establishment of big
Russian military, naval and air bases in Syria and the release of advanced
weapons systems withheld until now to Iran (the S-300 air-missile defense
system) and Syria (the nuclear-capable 200 km-range Iskandar surface
missile).”
“We have brought Syria to this situation,” Israel Likud MK Yuval Steinitz
told Israel Radio on Thursday. “We must freeze talks with Syria until it
stops calling on Moscow to arm IsraelÂ’s enemies, and until [Damascus itself]
stops transferring arms to Hizbullah.” Several months ago, Israel and Syria
announced they would resume peace talks.
RussiaÂ’s move is at least in part a response to IsraelÂ’s arming and training
of the Georgian military. “Israel armed the Georgian army,” Russian Deputy
Chief of General Staff Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn told a Moscow press
conference last week. Jerusalem provided Tblisi with “eight types of
military vehicles, explosives, landmines and special explosives for the
clearing minefields.” Georgia’s Deputy Defense Minister Batu Kutelia
previously said that “Georgian corporals and sergeants train with Germans,
alpine units and the navy work with French instructors, and special
operations and urban warfare troops are taught by Israelis,” Noah Shachtman
reported for Wired on August 18. Earlier this year, Russia shot down a
number of Georgian spy drones, specifically Hermes 450 reconnaissance planes
manufactured by IsraelÂ’s Elbit Systems.
As reported by Infowars and Prison Planet, GeorgiaÂ’s defense minister, Davit
Kezerashvili, is a former Israeli who is fluent in Hebrew. Kezerashvili
contributed to military cooperation between Israel and Georgia. “Israel’s
defense industries managed to sell to Georgia [drones], automatic turrets
for armored vehicles, antiaircraft systems, communication systems, shells
and rockets,” former Israel internal security minister Roni Milo told
Ynetnews. Moreover, “Israel has reportedly helped upgrade Soviet-designed
Su-25 ground attack jets assembled in Georgia. And former Israeli generals
serve as advisers to the Georgian military,” according to the Jewish Week.
On Wednesday, Bush praised Georgia’s NED engineered “Rose Revolution” while
addressing a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Orlando, Florida, the
Washington Post reported. NED’s installation of Mikheil Saakashvili was “one
of the most inspiring chapters in history,” according to Bush. “Georgia
stood for freedom around the world,” he said. “Now the world must stand for
freedom in Georgia.”
Bush’s “freedom in Georgia,” that is to say the imposition of a client state
micromanaged by the IMF and World Bank, will become less tenable now that
Russia “plans to establish a long-term presence inside Georgia and one of
its breakaway republics,” as the Chicago Tribune reports. “If implemented,
the plan would effectively put under Russian control the border between
Georgia and South Ossetia, which is seeking independence, as well as a small
chunk of Georgia proper.”
Obviously, with the Russian presence in Georgia and its renewed military
relationship with Syria, the neocon plan to confront Iran and encircle
Russia has encountered a speed bump. It remains to be seen how the Bush
neocons, quickly approaching the apogee of their power, will react to
RussiaÂ’s latest move.
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