Russia to NATO: Military Help for Georgia Is a ‘Declaration of War’
August 28th, 2008Via: This Is London:
Moscow has issued an extraordinary warning to the West that military assistance to Georgia for use against South Ossetia or Abkhazia would be viewed as a “declaration of war” by Russia.
The extreme rhetoric from the Kremlin’s envoy to NATO came as President Dmitry Medvedev stressed he will make a military response to US missile defence installations in eastern Europe, sending new shudders across countries whose people were once blighted by the Iron Curtain.
And Moscow also emphasised it was closely monitoring what it claims is a build-up of NATO firepower in the Black Sea.
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Top military figure Colonel General Leonid Ivashov, president of the Academy of Geopolitical Studies in Moscow, alleged that the US and NATO had been arming Georgia as a dress rehearsal for a future military operation in Iran.
“We are close to a serious conflict – U.S. and NATO preparations on a strategic scale are ongoing. In the operation the West conducted on Georgian soil against Russia – South Ossetians were the victims or hostages of it – we can see a rehearsal for an attack on Iran.”
He claimed Washington was fine tuning a new type of warfare and that the threat of an attack on Iran was growing by the day bringing “chaos and instability” in its wake.
More: West Tells Russia to Keep Out of Ukraine
I cannot watch anymore of this, it’s like watching some horrible deranged dystopic blending of Eyes Wide Shut and Dr. Strangelove .
It has this monstrous inevitability to it:
“No, it was a feeling. But I can guess. With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty. And then Sutler will be forced to do the only thing he knows how to do. At which point, all V needs to do is keep his word. And then… ”
[Dominoes collapse with TV footages showing conflicts between rioting citizens and the anti-riot police]
– from V For Vendetta.
What is it with this endless theme of dominoes falling, anyway ? 😉
With all this serious hardware being put in close proximity, coupled with the certifiably trigger happy folks on both sides, I think it is really past time for folks to make ready their endgames. NOW !
cybele
I’m remembering the old lingo from the classes I took on international security and arms control… that used to give me nightmares.
ICBM. MIRV. Circular error probable. Inertial navigation system. Krytron. Kiloton. Megaton.
Somehow, I didn’t lose faith in humanity when it came to nuclear weapons. However, the stuff they taught us re: VX suggested, in my mind, that humans only had a finite amount of time left on this particular rock. And we’d determine when our time was up.
How screwed up, defective, psychotic do people have to be to think up something like VX.
It doesn’t matter how many sane people there are. It’s the handful who think along the lines of nonsense like nukes and VX who hold our fates in their hands/claws/tentacles/etc.
The whole situation is very alarming and the rhetoric used by this Russian diplomat is way overheated, but what he’s saying is that if the US troops in Georgia involve themselves in shooting-battles against Russian troops beyond the humanitarian mission they are supposedly there to carry out, that will be an act of war. That is something we kind of already knew, I would dare say.
That said, an I-Ching (a Chinese divination system that makes the Runes and the Tarot look like mere parlor-games by comparison) divination I did for myself did rather tend to suggest that a rather grim and bleak event that will affect everybody is on the horizon. I’m hoping it’s mere economic collapse, and not…this. I suppose humanity deserves whatever it gets, but a nuclear war would effectively finish the job of ecocide that we’ve been doing so well for the past 300 years. If that’s what our crazy leaders are bound and determined to do, I hope God or space-aliens or maybe even Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy stop us and say, “No, children, you are not going to murder the entire planet. Not going to happen.”
The Russian diplomat’s words about Iran really do make me wonder if this situation really is more about the war-noises the US has been making at Iran than it is about Georgia. Putin did indirectly imply last year that if the US were to attack Iran, Russia would consider itself attacked by the US by that action. Anybody else have any speculation on this they would care to volunteer?
If the red button is pressed and those grim metallic-sounding sirens go off, I’m just going to go outside and start walking towards General Mitchell Airport here in the Milwaukee area, which I’m sure would be a target because the military uses it as a base of operations. And I’ll do that even if I’m at work at the grocery store. I’ve been reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, and even if McCarthy is exagerrating the effects of what appears to be a nuclear holocaust (the nature of the catastrophe that destroyed the world is merely implied) for the sake of dramatic impact, it’s close enough to the truth that I would consider getting instantly vaporized in a nuclear strike to be a gift from God.
Black Sea naval battle?
Does the US government think it can fight a limited war with Russia and keep it limited?
Not just a rhetorical question. Perhaps they can do it. Perhaps they think they can.
i have a fourth movie reference i’ d like to throw out there: Caligula. Perhaps it’s just a bit too appropriate now, complete with the senate of whores.
@kevin:
” How screwed up, defective, psychotic do people have to be to think up something like VX. .. ”
I hear you, word for word. To raise the stakes in this lovely little game of doom poker, how about the following lovely terms from the cold war: Project Blue , Revenge Boat , or my own, personal favorite: Cobalt Jacket .
You are right: we WILL determine our own deaths … as a mother of 4 children under 12, the thought brings me no comfort, at all.
cybele
My view is that Russia is not yet militarily / technologically ready for a full on war with the west, but would like to be ready post haste. I definitely can envisage an exchange on down the line a few years though, maybe even the much dreaded first strike. It’s not as if America isn’t trying is best to make itself stink in the sight of every other nation on earth outside the clique. If you think about it, a massive strike from Russia would be the greatest catalysing event in modern history; the globalists could tell the survivors it all came about as the result of sovereign, independent nations, and therefore we must have a one world superstate and get in line for our microchips / tattoos to keep the new order firmly in place. Okay, this seems a bit paranoid maybe, but the elites operate in the realm of the weird and unlikely (viz 9-11).
@LoveAndLight: about being right at ground zero, I completely agree. We’re not near a big city, but I’m hoping maybe the incoming MIRV will running Microsoft Windows for ICBMs and miss the nearest intended target by a hundred miles or so. 😀
@cryingfreeman:
Here’s something straight outta tinfoil-hat-land. If we were about to atomically immolate ourselves and space-aliens stepped in and “saved the day”, I would strongly suspect the whole thing was just a set-up by global elites in collaboration with the Little Grey Men to get us to welcome our new “friends” with open arms. I’d be relieved we weren’t going to bake ourselves to the proverbial delicate crunch in nuclear fire, but you can bet I’d be looking at our saviors with quite the Church Lady squoonchy-face!
@ Loveandlight: That sounds a bit like the old Project Blue Beam scam. I personally don’t believe any aliens exist, but I do believe angelic beings exist capable of assuming physical bodies.