Insouciant (a lack of concern) Americans do not even know what they should be
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A Russian Warning
June 02, 2016
“Information Clearing House” – “ClubOrlov” – We,
the undersigned, are Russians living and working in the USA. We
have been watching with increasing anxiety as the current US and NATO policies
have set us on an extremely dangerous collision course with the Russian
Federation, as well as with China. Many respected, patriotic Americans, such as
Paul Craig Roberts, Stephen Cohen, Philip Giraldi, Ray McGovern, (Your Watchman), and many others
have been issuing warnings of a
looming Third World War. But their voices have been all but lost among
the din of a mass media that is full of deceptive and inaccurate stories that
characterize the Russian economy as being in shambles and the Russian military
as weak—all based on no evidence. But
we-—knowing both Russian history and the current state of Russian society and
the Russian military–cannot swallow these lies. We now feel that it
is our duty, as Russians living in the US, to warn the American people that
they are being lied to, and to tell them the truth. And the truth is simply
this:
If there is going to be a war with Russia, then the
United States will most certainly be destroyed, and most of us will end up
dead.
Let us take a step back and put what is happening in a
historical context. Russia has suffered a great deal at
the hands of foreign invaders, losing 22 million people in World War II. Most
of the dead were civilians, because the country was invaded, and the Russians
have vowed to never let such a disaster happen again. Each time Russia had been
invaded, she emerged victorious. In 1812 Nepoleon invaded Russia; in 1814 Russian
cavalry rode into Paris. On June 22, 1941, Hitler’s Luftwaffe bombed Kiev; On
May 8, 1945, Soviet troops rolled into Berlin.
But times have changed since then. If Hitler were to
attack Russia today, he would be dead 20 to 30 minutes later, his bunker
reduced to glowing rubble by a strike from a Kalibr supersonic cruise missile
launched from a small Russian navy ship somewhere in the Baltic Sea. The operational abilities of the new Russian military have been most
persuasively demonstrated during the recent action against ISIS, Al Nusra and
other foreign-funded terrorist groups operating in Syria. A long time ago
Russia had to respond to provocations by fighting land battles on her own
territory, then launching a counter-invasion; but this is no longer necessary.
Russia’s new weapons make retaliation instant, undetectable, unstoppable and
perfectly lethal.
Thus, if tomorrow a war were to break out between the US
and Russia, it is guaranteed that the US would be obliterated. At a minimum, there would no longer be an electric grid, no
internet, no oil and gas pipelines, no interstate highway system, no air
transportation or GPS-based navigation. Financial centers would lie in ruins.
Government at every level would cease to function. US armed forces, stationed
all around the globe, would no longer be resupplied. At a maximum, the entire
landmass of the US would be covered by a layer of radioactive ash. We tell you
this not to be alarmist, but because, based on everything we know, we are
ourselves alarmed. If attacked,
Russia will not back down; she will retaliate, and she will utterly annihilate
the United States.
The US leadership has done everything it could to push
the situation to the brink of disaster. First, its
anti-Russian policies have convinced the Russian leadership that making
concessions or negotiating with the West is futile. It has become apparent that
the West will always support any individual, movement or government that is
anti-Russian, be it tax-cheating Russian oligarchs, convicted Ukrainian war
criminals, Saudi-supported Wahhabi terrorists in Chechnya or
cathedral-desecrating punks in Moscow. Now that NATO (and the U.S.), in violation of its
previous promises, has expanded right up to the Russian border, with US forces
deployed in the Baltic states, within artillery range of St. Petersburg,
Russia’s second-largest city, the Russians have nowhere left to retreat. They
will not attack; nor will they back down or surrender. The Russian leadership enjoys over 80%
of popular support; the remaining 20% seems to feel that it is being too soft
in opposing Western encroachment. But Russia will retaliate, and a
provocation or a simple mistake could trigger a sequence of events that will
end with millions of Americans dead and the US in ruins.
Unlike many Americans, who see war as an exciting,
victorious foreign adventure, the Russians hate and fear war. But they are also ready for it, and they have been preparing for war
for several years now. Their preparations have been most effective. Unlike the
US, which squanders untold billions on dubious overpriced arms programs such as
the F-35 joint task fighter, the Russians are extremely stingy with their
defense rubles, getting as much as 10 times the bang for the buck compared to
the bloated US defense industry. While it is true that the Russian economy has
suffered from low energy prices, it is far from being in shambles, and a return
to growth is expected as early as next year. Senator John McCain once called
Russia “A gas station masquerading as a country.” Well, he lied. Yes, Russia is
the world’s largest oil producer and second-largest oil exporter, but it is
also world’s largest exporter of grain and nuclear power technology. It is as
advanced and sophisticated a society as the United States. Russia’s armed
forces, both conventional and nuclear, are now ready to fight, and they are
more than a match for the US and NATO, especially if a war erupts anywhere near
the Russian border.
But such a fight would be suicidal for all sides. We strongly believe that a conventional war in Europe runs a strong chance
of turning nuclear very rapidly, and that any US/NATO nuclear strike on Russian
forces or territory will automatically trigger a retaliatory Russian nuclear
strike on the continental US. Contrary to irresponsible statements made by some
American propagandists, American antiballistic missile systems are incapable of
shielding the American people from a Russian nuclear strike. Russia has the
means to strike at targets in the USA with long-range nuclear as well as
conventional weapons.
The sole reason why the USA and Russia have found
themselves on a collision course, instead of defusing tensions and
cooperating on a wide range of international problems, is the stubborn refusal by the US leadership to
accept Russia as an equal partner: Washington is dead set on being the
“world leader” and the “indispensable nation,” even as its influence steadily
dwindles in the wake of a string of foreign policy and military disasters such
as Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen and the Ukraine. Continued American global leadership is
something that neither Russia, nor China, nor most of the other countries are
willing to accept. This gradual but apparent loss of power and
influence has caused the US leadership to become hysterical; and it is but a
small step from hysterical to suicidal. America’s political leaders need to be
placed under suicide watch.
First and foremost,
we are appealing to the commanders of the US Armed Forces to follow the example
of Admiral William Fallon, who, when asked about a war with Iran, reportedly
replied “not on my watch.” We know that you are not suicidal, and that you do
not wish to die for the sake of out-of-touch imperial hubris. If possible,
please tell your staff, colleagues and, especially, your civilian superiors
that a war with Russia will not happen on your watch. At the very least, take
that pledge yourselves, and, should the day ever come when the suicidal order
is issued, refuse to execute it on the grounds that it is criminal. Remember
that according to the Nuremberg Tribunal “To initiate a war of aggression… is
not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime
differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated
evil of the whole.” Since Nuremberg, “I
was just following orders” is no longer a valid defense; please don’t be war
criminals.
We also appeal to
the American people to take peaceful but forceful action to oppose any
politician or party that engages in irresponsible, provocative Russia-baiting,
and that condones and supports a policy of needless confrontation with a
nuclear superpower that is capable of destroying America in about an hour. Speak up, break through the
barrier of mass media propaganda, and make your fellow Americans aware of the
immense danger of a confrontation between Russia and the US.
There is no objective reason why US and Russia should
consider each other adversaries. The current confrontation is
entirely the result of the
extremist views of the neoconservative (neocons) cult, whose members were
allowed to infiltrate the US Federal government under President Bill Clinton, and
who consider any country that refuses to obey their dictates as an enemy to be
crushed. Thanks to their tireless efforts, over a million innocent people have
already died in the former Yugoslavia, in Afghanistan, in Iraq, Libya, Syria,
Pakistan, the Ukraine, Yemen, Somalia and in many other countries—all because
of their maniacal insistence that the USA must be a world empire, not a just a
regular, normal country, and that every national leader must either bow down
before them, or be overthrown. In
Russia, this irresistible force has finally encountered an immovable object.
They must be forced to back down before they destroy us all.
We are absolutely and
categorically certain that Russia will never attack the US, nor any EU member
state, that Russia is not at all interested in recreating the USSR, and that
there is no “Russian threat” or “Russian aggression.” Much of Russia’s recent economic success has a lot to do with the
shedding of former Soviet dependencies, allowing her to pursue a “Russia first”
policy. But we are just as certain that if Russia is attacked, or even
threatened with attack, she will not back down, and that the Russian leadership
will not “blink.” With great sadness and a heavy heart they will do their sworn
duty and unleash a nuclear barrage from which the United States will never
recover. Even if the entire Russian leadership is
killed in a first strike, the so-called “Dead Hand” (the “Perimetr” system)
will automatically launch enough nukes to wipe the USA off the political map.
We feel that it is our duty to do all we can to prevent such a catastrophe.
READER COMMENT:
Russians consider the USA, Ukraine and Turkey their prime
enemies, a recent study conducted by Levada-Center said.
According to Vedomosti, 72% of respondents believe that
the United States of America is most hostile to the Russian Federation. Ukraine
was ranked second (48%, in 2015 - 37%). The third most hostile country is
Turkey: the figure has grown from one percent in 2015 to 29 percent in
2016.
Russia's most friendly states are Belarus (50%),
Kazakhstan (39%) and China (34%), the poll said. Ten percent of the polled
believe that Syria is a friendly country for Russia as well.
Noteworthy, speaking at a lecture at the Warsaw
University Library, NATO's chief Jens Stoltenberg said: "NATO does not
seek confrontation with Russia. We don't want a new Cold War. We don't want a
new arms race."
According to him, Russia is the largest neighbor of NATO
and plays a positive role in solving global issues, as was the case with the
Iranian nuclear program, or chemical weapons in Syria. NATO would like to hold
a new meeting of the Russia-NATO Council before the July summit in Warsaw, he
added.
At the same time, Stoltenberg said that Russia was one of
NATO's threats in the east.
Pravda.Ru
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