August 18, 2008
Doug McIntosh
One of the advantages of being a lifelong anti communist is this: when the communists act like communists, you avoid the usual hysterical ranting and raving that always is a part of any "crisis." Back in 1964, when I was only 10 and a fervent Barry Goldwater supporter, I became aware of this fact. After watching LBJ use the nuke ad against Goldwater to win the election; then promptly do everything in Vietnam he said he wouldn't do, since he wasn't a bomb thrower like Goldwater, I became convinced of it. And so now we find ourselves in yet another "crisis" between the USA and Russia over Georgia. I would place this one on the same scale as the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, although the mainstream, worthless, corrupt and utterly incompetent American corporate press utterly ignored the story for the first 72 hours. Now that the downstream press has started to cover it, I am amazed at how much they openly lie about it.
The first casualty of war is the truth said a wise man. If you want lies, go elsewhere, for here I will tell you the truth. The idea this Georgian invasion was spontaneous is ridiculous. I wrote about Putin being a KGB thug years ago. When I talked with John Galt back on January 18th at the Q files, we talked about Kosovo being granted independence and how it would lead to war with Russia. World War One began in Sarjevo when ArchDuke Ferdinand took a wrong turn and got himself killed. World War Three began when NATO, the US et al took a wrong turn and granted Kosovo independence. At the time, Spring of 2008, it was clear to me the Russians would have a savage response to this. We have seen the first shoe drop with Georgia. It is the first of many: Ukraine. Poland. The Baltic Republics. The list goes on.
While I understand the current interest in the causes of what Georgia did; who did what and to whom and for what reasons they did it, I have moved beyond all that. And the reason I have moved beyond that is I understand what is coming next. Once you see what I mean, you will realize post mortems are useless in this case.
I do not mean to minimize the human chaos involved here. Nor do I sugarcoat the Georgian invasion and its open war crimes against innocent civilians; anymore than I sugarcoat the Russian response. What I am saying is this: The game is afoot and it no longer matters who started it or even why they started it. Was it a legitimate response by Georgia to being shelled every August since 2004 by the South Ossetians? Was it a New World Order plot to start World War Three? Was it stupidity? Neo con and NATO Arrogance? Greed over oil? Who cares? The bodies of the dead Georgian soldiers are being stripped for their boots. We have Turkey, a NATO member, sucking up to the Russians. This Georgian war has legs. These legs are going to walk all over us in the coming months. Like Nancy Sinatra sang, "These boots are made for walking." The Russians have deployed SS-21 missiles in South Ossetia which they can use to shell the Georgian capital at will. We have gone big time. NATO is meeting to "punish" Russia. Good luck.
If you for some reason think I am being melodramatic, I suggest you follow my analysis. I will begin with the results of all this: Poland has now agreed to accept US manned Patriot missile batteries on their soil. Poland, The Baltic States and Ukraine are now officially under the NATO umbrella, whether they are NATO members or not. We are openly flying in military transports to Georgia. The UN has been shown to be the farce it was intended to be.
The Polish Prime Minister said, "We have crossed the Rubicon." Amen to that. He went on to add there is a "mutual commitment" to assist each other in "times of trouble." Like a Russian military attack on Poland for instance would mean a NATO or US response. It was Poland, not Czechoslovakia, that started World War Two. You say, you are mad Doug, the Russians would never attack Poland. Really.
On August 15th General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the Russian Armed Forces Deputy Chief of Staff said: "Poland, by deploying is exposing itself to a strike-100 per cent." ... Russian military doctrine sanctioned the use of nuclear weapons... "against the allies of countries having nuclear weapons if they<Poland> in some way help them." Now, what part of that open threat to nuke Poland don't you get? Just like the open threat by Russia to respond militarily when the USA, NATO et al recognized the Islamic terror drug state called Kosovo. Just like Russia said they will deal with both NATO and the USA when they absorbed the buffer states of Poland and the Baltic Republics into the NATO sphere. What did we expect Russia to do when we absorbed Ukraine, Georgia and the Central Asian states into our sphere of influence? States which had been not only a part of Russia's "sphere of influence" for centuries, but had been a part of the Soviet Union until 1991? Did we really expect Putin to tolerate that?
I have to say this. I do not know which is worse, the open brutality of both the Russians and the Georgians, or the preening, arrogant and naive response of the West. Georgia is where Stalin was born. Stalin was born in the city of Gori, where the West is upset the Russians bombed it. Funny, when the Georgians were shelling the capital of South Ossetia, killing hundreds, not a peep out of the West. It is this kind of arrogant hypocrisy that is going to get the West gutted like a fish. There are no good guys here. War crimes are the way things are done, and have been done for centuries over there.
Watching Secretary of Defense Gates whining about how the Russians have exploited the situation was actually funny. Of course the Russians exploited the situation, that is what they do. The West is like a matador protesting that just because he waved a red cape in front of a bull, he doesn't understand why the bull is trying to gore him. The definition of an opportunist is one who takes advantage of opportunity. If the West is going to give a golden opportunity to Russia to occupy Georgia, completely control Europe's energy supply and humiliate the West, then the West has no right to whine when Russia does just that.
The Bear is back. Georgia is the first of several moves Russia will now make. We will see how robust the Western response is when Russia cuts off the natural gas and oil flow to Europe in January. We will see how robust the Western response is when Russia tightens the noose around our necks. Georgia is not the end of the game. Georgia is the beginning of the military response by Russia against the West. I will repeat that: the military response by Russia against the West. We are not talking about dumping the worthless fiat funny money, or treasury bonds or any other type of Russian response. We are talking about Russia launching nuclear weapons on Poland. Did you get that? Russia is now negotiating with Ukraine over both the Crimean and the Black Sea Fleet base of Sevastapol. Any guess on the Russian response if Ukraine tries to actually kick the Black Sea Fleet out? Russia is openly flying combat patrols in the Atlantic. Russian subs are off both our coasts. Russia is opening war crimes tribunals to investigate the Georgian invasion. What do you think will happen when they charge Georgian government officials with war crimes?
Consider all that I have written and then enjoy the rest of August. Time is short.