Abandoned in Moscow.
Colleague George Friedman looks ahead to the scheduled pow-wow between POTUS and Russian President-stooge (and surprisingly doll-like) Medvedev in Moscow next week. George Friedman is keen on Poland as a future power center in Europe as the Russian federation sags under the weight of bad decisions and Russian pigheadedness. Turkey is another of George Friedman's choices for future power center. The US alliance with Poland is shrewd, long-term, sophisticated and a low-profile way of keeping a knife at Moscow's throat. POTUS Obama will likely offer to remove a Star Wars component (Reagan's and Bush's SDI: the defense system that cracked the Soviets and ended the First Cold War) from going into Poland, but POTUS will do nothing about the arms sales to Poland. POTUS will enjoy abandoning some small piece of Reagan's SDI; it's the prankster in him. Russia is in a strong position just now and regards POTUS as fresh, clumsy, naive and impressionable. May be true that POTUS is simple-minded about strategic defense; it is not a profound concern for this pow-wow, as not even Moscow cares that much about SDI. Putin is the potentate for now, and he keeps his eye on Georgia and Ukraine. Putin will fight to keep Georgia and Ukraine out of NATO. Easy to assume that Georgia has been abandoned by the Obama administration. Joe Biden is the VPOTUS because of his show-boating to Tblisi last August, but that was then and this is now. Ukraine is hopeless, another failed Soros operation. This makes Poland the front line of battle with Moscow. POTUS Obama may try to give up Poland but that is beyond his skills. Besides, the EU and NATO and Germany are keen on keeping Poland a non-Russian front porch.
George Friedman Future War.
See GF wondrous book "The Next Hundred Years," in which Japan and Turkey launch a sneak attack from their secret moon base to knock out the US Battle Stars in geosynchronous orbit in the year 2050. We then fight a ground battle for Poland. Once we get new battle stars up, we prevail. Intense. Where is Moscow in 2050? Cut up between Turkey and Poland. The Germans fight with us. China is a Japanese vassal. And the US is in the hands of a gritty cyberwar-fighting cadre that is born in the year 2012 and educated by men and women who are just graduating from college now. How far back are we in politics from 2050? POTUS Obama and cranky John McCain will be as dusty then as Nixon's "Bring Us Together" is to us now. And 1970 was when RMN backed this oilman in Texas who hailed from old Prescott Bush in Connecticut. Young guy named George H.W. Bush, bunch of kids, and a wife who wore the pants. The Beatles just broke up. Cool.
AFP Source-
Moscow: Russia yesterday started its biggest military exercises in the Caucasus since its war with neighbouring Georgia last year, mobilising thousands of troops in a clear warning to its foes.
Georgia swiftly condemned as “dangerous” the week-long exercises, which are taking place just north of where Russia and Georgia fought over the pro-Moscow breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia. About 8,500 troops are participating in the “Caucasus 2009” exercises and up to 200 tanks, 450 armoured cars and 250 artillery pieces of various types, according to the Russian defence ministry.
It added that the war game focusing on counter-terrorism and the defence of strategic targets will run until July 6 — the day US President Barack Obama arrives for a much anticipated summit in Moscow. “The aim of the exercises is to establish the actual state of battle readiness and troop mobilisation deployed in Russia’s southwest region,” local military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Bobrun told Russian news agencies.
A high-ranking military source was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying that Georgia was still seeking “military adventures” and had rebuilt its military capacity to the same level as last August. “The current Georgian leadership has not given up on new military adventures... or attempts to resolve its territorial problems through the use of force,” the source said.
Taking aim at Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, the source added: “The exercises will certainly contribute to stability in the south of Russia and the Caucasus as a whole and cool down the fantasies of some warmongers.”
Russian troops now based in the Georgian rebel regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia will also participate in the exercises, the defence ministry said. Georgia’s deputy foreign minister Alexander Nalbandov said that holding such large-scale exercises “is dangerous and is playing with fire”. “This is aimed at further increasing tensions in the region,” he said.
Moscow has thousands of soldiers deployed in the rebel regions, which it recognised as independent states last year after the brief war. It also formally took over control this year of the breakaway regions’ de-facto borders with Georgia.
Oh some people never learn from kindergarden.
When will the US foreign policy as well as Globalist learn to share the wealth versus competiting for it. The US wants to box Russia and China in, thus you a string of conflicts from Poland to Pakistan.
It's new Cold War, folks. The Military-Industrial-Media Complex needs another enemy to feed the machine.
Yes, Russia is trying to protect it's borders who wouldnt when Israeli/US Special Forces tried to get Georgia to seperate from Russia. Russia springs a counter-offensive which the above forces were not prepared for. The US then complains they want their tanks and humves back which were captured by the Russians. Nothing like caught with your hand in cookie jar.
Sam, you misguided wretch--
think one or two steps past your nose and perhaps read a history book. countries like Russia (and to lesser degree China so far) do not stop at whatever spots you last concede. They will then move to the next adjacent spot. I know that sounds like domino theory and I suppose it is. But also keep in mind the cost of seeing if they want just a final piece a land. If your wrong, (do you feel lucky punk?) you're screwed. the cost of then stopping, let alone turning them back will be much higher.
Maybe you feel lucky and will take the gamble they're just nice guys like us but I'm no so optimistic. "Live and let live"seems to work within a system, not between them.
Shimon Peres was in Baku weekend before last... Talking weapons deals, oil & gas, trade, and cooperation. Teheran had condemned the long planned visit and shook a finger at Baku, which in turn, politely told Ahmeni-jihad to more or less row his boat as far out in the Caspian as he could and then jump in and stop trying to intimidate and influence Azerbi affairs.
Teheran recalls it's diplomat after Peres' successful trip.
Now, Israeli envoys are in the country working to put together agricultural projects using the Israelis immense technical expertise and resource.
Business is business.
Meanwhile, Ahmeni-jihad threatens revenge for nations that they accused of promoting the opposition's protests and Odierno says Iran is still providing support for factions trying to destabilize Iraq.
Isolation is isolation.
Correction please
"Shimon Peres was in Baku weekend before last" should read "this past weekend"
More precisely on a trip to Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan June 28th thru July 1
JB - Interesting to speculate about 2050. But, as you yourself say, the first three reports are always wrong. In the realm of speculation, it may well be the first 10 reports or more. Who would have thought a year ago we’d be where we are?
As time goes by and the layers of the Obama onion peel away, we learn more and more about our president. His past, still shrouded in secrecy, is hardly the source of our gradual enlightenment. It is what he has done so far and continues to do that has many of us concerned. I found it telling, for instance, that he condemned what happened in Honduras last weekend as an affront to 'justice' – not 'liberty'.
Whereas it is possible to have justice without liberty, it is impossible to have liberty without justice. By concentrating on justice (or the lack of it) alone, Obama reveals himself as one who believes that he and those he professes to represent have been wronged. As such he also denies that liberty exists. This is the starting point from which he justifies his personal ambition aimed at turning America on its head, redistributing wealth and opportunity according to numerical quotas and basically throwing wide open the jails and mental institution, only to imprison those whom fate has seemingly dealt the better hand.
This is the man we elected last November. He will see to it that all knowledge, skill and hard work is marginalized while all property, assiduously earned, is redistributed to those who have not worked to earn it. Already most people’s investment savings have been virtually wiped out. Next on the chopping block is what has been dubbed most families’ biggest investment: their homes. If you can’t sell your home because it does not meet California’s energy standards, and you don’t have the money for the Federal government mandated upgrade, then your investment is down the tubes. If, after all that you’re still managing to hang in there on account of having been smart and hidden your cash in the mattress, inflation will come along and set your bed on fire.
It is beyond Obama’s pay grade to understand that any property must be properly managed for it to retain its value. Neither can he (or any Marxist) acknowledge that what is taken from the rich and given to the poor will soon be worthless.
A perfect example is Zimbabwe where land was taken from farmers who had made the country into the breadbasket of Africa and turned it over to the poor. Zimbabwe has been cascading from abyss to abyss ever since. Whereas, on the surface, it may not seem fair that those actively involved in (and contributing to) the productive sectors of a nation are economically better off than those who don't, any attempt to interfere with the organic inequities that result from the exercise of robust capitalism can only result in disaster for everybody across the board.
Zimbabwe is the canary in the gold mine that died to show us the way. It is the ‘ghost of Christmas future’ if we allow the Marxists free reign. I disagree with those who see a “soft tyranny” ahead for us if we should fail to act. There’s nothing “soft” about tyranny. It is a crucible that often spells death for those who would dare escape it. Even if we should rise to the challenge, there’s no guarantee that we will not emerge diminished. But every excuse to delay will make it that much harder to reverse what has already been done.
Russia and China among others may well make inroads while we’re involved in our own existential struggle. In fact, any ally that has any hope of engaging us to do their bidding, better think twice. We have enough on our plate right here at home to worry about geopolitics. For the time being we are out of the running no matter how many pizza runs Michelle makes to Paris, France.
>Sam, you misguided wretch--
think one or two steps past your nose and perhaps read a history book. countries like Russia (and to lesser degree China so far) do not stop at whatever spots you last concede.
China is making business contracts asymetrically in Africa. They are fulfilling their contracts while the Western Powers are happy to let central Africa destroy itself through famine, aids and civil war. In spite of US aid efforts some have worked; however a greater extend have been purposely held back to keep Africa in it's Third and Fourth World State.
Russia set up the Warsaw Pact to counteract NATO forces. Truman stated he set the other atomic bomb to stop the war and to show American power.
After the Cold War, Russia was bankrupt. The US could have helped it's former Cold War Ally, but decided to let Russia be. If the US helped Russia when they needed their would not be resentment to the Americans.
Russia can now stand on it's feet a bit and showing that it can decide it's own destiny. (Hopefully without the Globalist interferring, but no doubt they will try to drag Russia down again.
The US could have helped the Egyptians building the Aswan damn; the Americans didn't and then Soviet Union helped building of this monumental project.
The US has 789 military bases in 130 countries and 8 permanent bases in Iraq. US troops only withdrew to their garrisons in Iraq. The troops havent left yet.
The paranoid Davoodis in Teheran (DITs, for short) are ramping it up.
In "disqualifying" the whole EU from participating in talks about Nukler, they bring ever closer the inevitable siege and eventual dismantling of their system.
What talks were going to occur, anyway? They have made it clear that they are pious and unflinching in their righteous design and Nukler is non negotiable.
Oh well. Remember when that propane tank at Mt Carmel exploded during the fire? That was a stunner!