On the day when the fictitious universe known as fallout suffered its nuclear Armageddon in 2077 AD, it cannot be more relevant in discussing the looming nuclear war that may be about to erupt in the real world. Will it happen?
The short answer is on a basis of happenstance, no; but from a perspective of Globalist engineered incitement; almost certainly in one form or another, I believe. What is unfolding in present times is insinuative of what might stumble from classic cold war era rhetoric into a hot conflict of global proportions.
Prior major conflicts were just setting the scene: economically whittling down global powers (Britain, France, Russia etc) while ensuring the USA came out as king; steps to a new world order.
By reference to history, any decent predictor should consult the chronologies of our times; we are overdue for a war as subsequent to a major financial collapse, the most recent being the notable crisis in 2009.
Panic of 1901, a U.S. economic recession that started a fight for financial control of the Northern Pacific Railway
Panic of 1907, a U.S. economic recession with bank failures – both arguably led to WW1.
The world is being cultivated by the Globalist bankers for a major conflict. Massive currency and resource wars i.e. Saudi Oil embargo against Russia; provocations left, right and centre; and a huge proxy-war in the middle east against key Russian allies, Syria and Iran.
Encroaching threat: the US has bribed and cajoled European satellite states into its dominion by conquest or by its huge financial leverage (i.e. Ukraine). The missile shield ‘defence’ system is poised towards Russia, the field is set for a strike.
One theory states that the Globalist West will use WW3 to cover up the financial collapse implicated by the fiat currency system currently used by the Federal Reserve.
This absolutely makes sense, as the USD leads (or has led) as the world reserve currency. However, the USD’s upcoming demise and the rise of the East as an economic powerhouse is quite inevitable – The Globalist elites enthroned in the USA will not go down quietly, and will not cede the shining opportunity to establish a uni-polar world order of their rule, the world population is only getting bigger, and their Globalist politics is waning at the seams, as the UK leaves the EU and Russia and China push further for a Eurasian Union replete with its own currency set to pressure US dominance, and to rival the protectionism of the EU.
“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
This financial instability comes after the financial elites/shadow government printed the USA’s way to massive, (but illusory) fortune for an extended time via the federal reserve (federal reserve explained) ever since the turn of the 20th century, this has been falsely propping up a husk of a rotting economy that should have crashed big time by now. All of this is to come down with one big crash that will allow the Globalists to maintain control – it is the only logical way forward, this means war – world war, as this upcoming financial crash is billed to be the biggest ever by many big names in economics – unless something happens to coincide with it.
A major US economic crash can hopefully be drowned out by the sound of a world war’s bang. This keeps the controllers in power, who save face by blaming the crash on war costs for a ‘good cause’ in fighting war.
9/11 followed a similar narrative, when the pentagon admitted some $6.5 trillion dollars was missing the day before the infamous attacks took place, which conveniently destroyed key evidence that would have surely led to prosecutions & convictions regarding this massive financial fraud. If a massive event such as 9/11 can be used to cover up financial fraud at one level, then why can’t a huge war be used to cover up fraud at an even greater level? When the very throne of the shadow government is at stake, a third world war to maintain that throne is very plausible.
‘Too Big to Fail’
The US Dollar relies on its global influence, or more accurately, bullying, to stay intact as exempt of the predominantly acknowledged financial rules i.e. gold backing (that Nixon cast out during his term); this is the ‘golden’ rule that other world currencies must adhere to, or face financial ruin.
The ‘Federal’ Reserve: Neither federal nor a legitimate reserve for a legitimate currency.
This is why the elites are panicking, as the world begins to turn away from US Dollar as the reserve currency, the US as a result will crumble in the consequences of decades of faking it, a long-term indebtedness to China and other nations will come to the fore very quickly as the facade of the huge federal reserve inflation bubble wears off.
The facade can only be maintained for so long, all must come to the light.
The Federal Reserve bankers can only keep the lie going for so long, the geopolitical pressures combined with the weakening of the USD as reserve currency means falsehood based, fiat economics’ days are numbered, and with it the seat of Globalism as a unilateral powerhouse.
Currently, the US is the worlds’ police state, keeping its subsidiaries, much like a global corporate entity; subservient to the largest stakeholder that makes the rules, and enforces these rules by mode of force. Without the brooding military assertiveness of the states, it would cease to hold all the cards in the global economy, the thorn in its side resides in the few states that dissent from the dominance of the unbacked USD, Syria, Iran, China and Russia.
It seems as though ever since the Turkey-Russia bond had been replenished with diplomatic rapprochement following the foiled coup d’etat, which unearthed the US as the eminent saboteurs, the betrayed, but intact, Erdogan-headed Turkish state has honoured Russian requests on a spree of undoing some of the entanglement of NATO & EU agendas; closing the Turkey-Syria border is just another significant example of this reversion in action.
During the negotiations between Moscow and Ankara, Russian diplomats and military demanded to close the Turkish-Syrian border, the Izvestiya newspaper reported, citing Russian members of parliament and its own sources.
Stemming the migrants, decimating ISIS
“Let’s fight against the terrorist group together, so that we can clear it out as soon as possible.” This begins with crushing the US-Saudi supply lines that ISIS thrives upon.
The proposition comes after Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Vladimir Putin this week to “restart dialogue and restart relations”
These are the things that will favour Russia and the East, and hamper the cultural-Marxist, Western Zionist powers that be;
Stemming the migrants keeps the West from cultural dilution, and maintains the biblical, traditionalist roots of Europe; an identity of the people aligns with the identity of long held values that conserve that given culture (in the case of the West, the culture of liberty) – yet too much liberty destroys this, and threatens to debase the balance, it cuckolds western culture to be replaced by Islamic culture; a culture far more controllable by the tyrants in the high places due to its sheer disregard of individual liberty. Elites deep behind the world leaders feed off this negligence, from a vestige known as the ‘invisible government’ or ‘shadow government.’
Peoples all over the world, claims Putin, are supporting Russia`s “defense of traditional values” against a “so-called tolerance” that is “genderless and infertile.” as propagated by a liberal mindset that is so tolerant, it tolerates the intolerant, and seldom tolerates the reasonable who tolerate the tolerant.
While western culture is not perfect, its subversion through liberal propaganda to replace it with a worse culture (Islamic), is not a positive replacement.
“Naturally, we raised the issue of closing the Syrian-Turkish border to stop the flow of terrorists and weapons. In this way, militants would lose any kind of replenishment supply from the outside,” Deputy Head of the Defense Committee of the State Duma, Victor Vodolatsky, noted.
Putin attacked “attempts to enforce more progressive development models” on other nations, which have led to “decline, barbarity and big blood.” Easily observable in the concession of European borders to un-screened foreign unknowns; allowing a rape epidemic, crime spikes, a rise in terrorism, and cultural discord.
Fully decimating ISIS and its direct supply lines makes sure the Western puppet masters have little excuse to perpetuate the ‘migrant’ crisis any further; so that the EU might collapse before the pro-EU migrants can vote it into eternity, and that ‘liberal’ trans-nationalism will fall with it; third world cultures being the very bane of western liberty.
Russia is especially keen to extend the hand of friendship to Turkey regarding the ongoing conflict in Syria, in which the Kremlin has intervened militarily to safeguard Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Putin needs a win in Syria – and an escape route. To that end, he needs to move Erdogan, who had been, by order of the West, supplying arms and support to the Sunni rebels whom the Russian air force has been hunting. So, with Turkey pivoted to the Kremlin things are now looking a bit different.
Russia Builds 5000 Churches, adds 10,000 Clergy in Six Years
“There could not be such growth in the Church if there were no demand. That is why we feel so special when we place the foundations of new churches…”
The Orthodox faith, in concomitant partnership with the Russian State has constructed a hefty multitude of religious communities across the last six years, propelled by what is described as high demand. But could this be a sign of a flourishing Church, or maybe a protective measure against rising Islamic cultural-Marxism, as the floodgates of Europe are lifted?
With a rising percentage of Islamic adherents (6.5%) among the Russian populace, the need for the state to suppress the volatility of cultural Islam, as paralleled in the suffocating West, has never been of greater importance. The 41% of Russian Orthodoxy is under an emerging threat of decline as atheistic, liberal western culture leaks into the country, coupled with a gradually rising growth of conservative cultural Islam, poised to take the hot seat within decades.
The Polarization of the Cultures
The rampant proselytizing, high birth-rate, third world Islamic families spread Islam; a sociopolitical, religious ideology with extremist overtones at an incredible rate once comfortably established in the womb of a western state.
The very presence of the highly disciplinary cultural Islam will overwhelm the other faiths and cultures in the new country within mere decades, as the forced inter-generational principles of Islam are generally more stringently passed on in near-east, conservative Muslim families that are actually often very skeptical of marriage into western circles, not comparable to the (engineered to be) highly, highly liberal west. This cultural polarization has been engineered well and truly.
This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed. – Angela Merkel – while Merkel is not wrong in this instance, it is more a case of failure to integrate migrants than an implicit failure to live together, we haven’t taken steps to expect Muslims to integrate and start to assimilate, so we’ve got what we asked for.
These are families with high birth rates and a high tendency to form ethnic enclaves once deployed in a Western environment with other migrants, unable to speak the native language, by and large preventing any morsels of ‘outside’ influence for cultural acclimatization; it is a phenomenal recipe for regressive non-western Islam to become the dominant faith, culture and political system in western countries that knowingly allow all of this to occur, with mass migration exempt of sensibility for vetting the newcomers, and being more discerning of letting the floodgates open so easily.
Islamic migrants will vote for more welfare and ‘free stuff’ – so will blindly vote for the socialist West. They do not tend to care about liberties, western culture or constitutionalism due to their deprived backgrounds that had none of these things. Which makes sense, but understand that their inclination to their formative ways are being taken advantage of for political reasons.
1st generation Islamic migrants are being brought in (on a permanent basis more than not, in the UK housing is going up for them) without knowledge of their new surroundings, often without speaking the native language either. This forms ethnic enclaves and preserves non-integrated bubble communities that will grow rapidly (high birth rate)and take over urban centers, (white flight, natives have little in common culturally) and so on – because of these mono-ethnic communities that aren’t able to integrate adequately, a strong desire is formed in these growing, unchanged communities for Islamic traditions and customs, even schools and laws are sprouting up to emulate the third world countries they came from.
Islamic cultural Marxism in Europe and the West will estrange Russia and China as cultural outcasts, allowing for harsher foreign policies against them – as a predominantly third-world Islamic culture will allow this by popular, majority support using the ‘brilliant’ system of democracy we know as mob rule, and western liberals will concede more and more for the sake of not ‘offending’ and Muslims. I mean, just look at how extensive margins of current ‘western’ Muslims claim that their western countries should have the oppressive, highly Islamic Shariah law, many are not kind towards denominational, multifaceted societies, at all. Yet the liberals think it is racist to even bring this up as an issue, third-world migrants more than not, couldn’t care less about acceptance and lovey-dovey cooperation, they’re here to better their lives and keep their oppressive, pushy customs as well.
The high birth rate of the third and second worlds will spread their associated Islamic culture faster than western values will be able to be spread (and sustained) in the painfully low birth rate, 1st world west. It’s simple arithmetic that third world, cultural Islam will always override western culture based on these pretenses.
Observe the below statistics showing how third world migrants are far more entrenched in the anti-western lifestyle and mindset of cultural Islam, whereas those already in the West are much more moderate, but still not ideal. Does it make sense, therefore, to not import migrants to the west in such great quantities? Especially in the knowledge that they are from a background where a strong Islamic culture (that is not western in the slightest) is actively promoted, pluralism only works if everyone can respect common liberties and the notion of the individual, something utterly bereft in many oppressed third-world Muslim families.
It is easy to see that third world culture is far more extreme, and far more illiberal then western culture. Don’t get this twisted with ‘all cultures are equal’ – because they’re all different, some for the worse, some for the better.
Everyone is equal in soul, but in way of choice in spiritual and self-governmental matters; that is liable to differentiation, something that the ‘liberal’ west ignores.
These geopolitical effects are exactly what Putin has rooted out as detrimental, and contrary to his country’s values, Putin knows the elites in the West want these climatic outcomes, and are using a mass ‘migrant’ crisis to engineer their grand plan, a plan that will get rid of the liberty propagating Bible, and bring in the repressive control system promoted by the commandments in the Qu’ran.
This explains the recent moves to rapidly expand (and cement) the Orthodox faith in Russia, no doubt to sustain its dominance as the state religion, and the stern statements from Putin claiming cultural-Marxism, and intolerant cultures that seek to bend the established state culture to their template have no place in his country.
Putin knows that a majority Islam Europe and a majority Islam Russia will try to merge by popular demand – it will lead him into the clutches of the West and diminish his leadership, this is a prospect of severe civil unrest that Putin is not prepared to cede. He absolutely must hold onto Russian customs and ways, as China has similarly done by banning Islamic migrants.
In an epoch of NATO imperialism, Putin’s allying with China, and recent warm gestures towards Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggests an ever closer need for diplomatic friends is firmly on the Russian agenda, something unimaginable given the blaring western coverage of a Turkish shoot-down of a Russian jet, Western MSM packaged it all as an alleged sealer of Russian-Turkish enmity
Washington attempted to depose Erdoğan.
Washington’s sordid reluctance to hand over Erdogan’s political foe, Fethullah Gülen is a red flag in itself that US special intelligence needed Gülen to sow dissent, and perhaps even plant in place of Erdogan given a US-backed Gülenist coup were successful; which it simply was not.
Source – Erdogan accuses Washington of conspiring against him.
The Jet aggravation incident has turned out to be an insider orchestration by a rogue member of the military seeking to sow long-lasting dissent between the Russians and Turks, this was rumored to be a member of the same subordinate Turkish military fragment that was allegedly paid and provided for by US-Western coordinated special intelligence to oust Erdogan in last months’ attempted coup.
…a coup that the presiding Turkish state was prepared for; mainly due to Russian intelligence likely tipping off Erdogan at the last minute, allowing for him to escape prosecution and probable execution, and ultimately remain in power.
This is something the Turkish President has not forgotten, and is now actively rewarding in recent, significant diplomatic gestures of gratitude to Mr. Putin and his affiliates in the best interests of amending the divisions once carved by NATO.
A pro-coup officer captured by the Turkish government, Lieutenant Colonel Murat Bolat, told the conservative Yeni Savak newspaper that his unit was designated to detain and possibly murder Erdogan after receiving precise information on Erdogan’s location from US sources.
“The alliance will alter the global chessboard in a way that eviscerates the imperial plan to control the flow of energy from Qatar to Europe, redraw the map of the Middle East and pivot to Asia. … The July 15 coup is likely the final nail in the NWO coffin …”
This rocky road of diplomatic limbo has seen the US wrestle for control over the Anatolian peninsula across the preceding months, but only now have the Western Zionist neocons let slip an ally that will make or break some of their utmost nefarious dealings; namely in suppressing Greater Eurasia’s breathing space, the inane mass-migration policies, and the funding & facilitation of ISIS. All through this vital proxy state, Turkey.
Oil and Gas
Russia and Turkey are fast-tracked to normalize relations. In President Erdogan’s first trip outside of Turkey since the coup attempt, the Turkish President chose to visit Russia in what is sure to deeply anger his NATO partners; the very ‘partners’ that most likely attempted to depose him in the recently failed coup.
What is even worse for the US-NATO camp is that Erdogan now surely knows of this probable (and shoddy) conspiratorial plot to replace him, his recent moves to consolidate power by purging the Turkish military, and omitting political and legal ‘undesirables’ prove that a helping hand (likely Russian) has provided guidance against funded opposition, ensuring his statesmanship continues in due course – and in the best interests of the Eastern world.
Some pipelines illustrating the geopolitical importance of Syria and Turkey, both now increasingly under the Russian sphere of influence.
The advantages of Turkey and Russia realigning themselves will give a huge boost to the Russian oil and gas pipelines, as well as give Erdogan access to the best of both worlds. As seen below, Turkey is a crucial, central landmass in the effective, cost-efficient transportation of Russian oil and gas, being the ‘crossroads of the world’ Turkey is truly a hotspot for the geopolitical clashes of the superpowers vying for global influence.
Just look at how important Ukraine is for the Russians (Ukraine targeted by West), by restoring relations with Turkey (Also targeted by the West), Putin is able to get his resources into Europe as cheaply as possible, and without the sanctions of yore.
The proposed pipelines below, such as TANAP (Trans Anatolian Pipeline Project) and TAP (Trans Adriatic Pipeline) will be instantaneous solutions to the obtrusive US-fomented Ukraine crisis blocking Russian oil and gas to Europe on already established infrastructure; Europe being one of Russia’s biggest economic markets for resource trading. And finally, Putin will cut loose the noose that has held the Russian Federation in a state of economic uncertainty for so long, enabling bridge-building back into the European continent to become viable once again.
The ‘Turkish Stream’ pipeline will also be a revived project now the diplomatic pivot is in motion for Turkey to begin turning a cold shoulder to NATO and the EU, and approach the Greater Eurasian Union for deals.
The $10 billion TANAP pipeline is expected to transport gas of Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz field from the Georgian-Turkish border to the western border of Turkey. The gas will be delivered to Turkey in 2018, and after completion of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline’s (TAP) construction, the gas will be delivered to Europe in early 2020
It is clear to see why Putin seized Crimea in 2014 on the basis of sustaining the Black Sea pipeline to Romania (AGRI); if Ukraine had been taken by a Western leaning government, the Black Sea pipeline would have likely been disallowed. So by seizing Crimea you keep control over the pipeline’s waters by force and, by allying with Turkey you guarantee an alternative pipeline safeguard in case you lose in Ukraine; it gives Putin solid options against potential western-incurred economic collapse.
As stated, with a consolidated alliance between Russia and Turkey in the bag, Putin can keep Europe opened up to him, and prevent any further insular, exclusive anglicization that would shut him out in the cold economically and socially. Keeping Turkey sovereign over its own politics and away from the prospective bureaucracy of Brussels will prove essential in preventing a transnational, Western leaning EU from absorbing the Turkish state, and forming an inwards looking bloc-fortress that claims to promulgate ‘unity’ – but really only intends to be a bulwark of protectionist, western proxy-imperialism against the Eastern superstates.
With Turkey and the Black Sea reined-in, Putin can refocus his infrastructure for resource transportation in another region, and break away from the sinkhole instabilities in Ukraine, lightening the load against him considerably.
I assume that Russia will first try to regain favour with Ukraine and reinstate a Russian leaning government, if this fails, Putin will have held off long enough to have constructed another few oil lines through Anatolia, giving him the ability to cede the Ukraine issue without bogging himself down in desperation to maintain a once solely crucial link, and then enable ‘repaired’ relations with the West by getting sanctions lifted and playing nice.
Turkey has left the fray, but NATO pushes on.
Influence in Turkey allows Putin to have a loyal middleman, and a membrane state to keep his resources flowing into Europe; not a vehemently anti-Russian wall (which NATO wants) on the extremity of the trading gold mine that is Europe. This Turkish-Russian friendship is a huge blow for NATO and the oligarchical, elitist West, because it means Russia has once again wheedled its way back into the European market that the EU has long sought to exclude and isolate Russia, it gives Putin a foot in the door in regards to keeping his trading relevance vitalized, especially after the difficulties in Ukraine which may preclude Russian oil and gas from getting into Europe and have served to isolate Russia, establishing new links will give Putin the ability to loosen the vice on Ukraine, and restore scarred reputation.
Russia under siege: depends on oil and gas
In 2015, the figure for oil making up Russia’s federal budget revenues reached 44 percent. This makes oil a top weak spot for the Globalists to strike, huge western think tanks produce the strategy, the elites give the go ahead.
Russia produced an average of 10.83 million barrels (1,722,000 m3) of oil per day in December 2015. It produces 12% of the world’s oil and has a same share in global oil exports.
The Gulf states, working with the Globalist Zionists in the USA drove oil value into the ground to sever the oil-reliant Russian economy.
As cheap oil weakens the Russian economy, it also causes its national currency, the ruble, to depreciate. That means Russian consumers have to shell out more rubles if they want to maintain their consumption levels, raising civil unrest.
Russia’s economy declined 3.7 percent in 2015, the deepest contraction since 2009, and may shrink a further 0.5 percent this year (2016).
Geopolitical tensions have added to the Russian ruble’s weakness. The currency has nearly halved in value since Putin’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014 and the U.S. and the European Union imposed sanctions against Russia
The ruble, now the world’s worst performing currency: Russia is under a financial siege that Putin and compatriots must outmaneuver.
These methods, among others, come together with why the West is targeting Putin’s ability to export oil (and gas) in all sorts of methods, as well as engineering chaos by crushing oil’s global value in last year’s huge devaluation, making the oil-dependent Russia suffer by expanding the deficit and spurring inflation, prompting spending cuts and other austerity measures as detailed above. The West want to destroy Russia from inside to out, and then perhaps initiate something unthinkable when the time is right; but pelleting the Russians to soften them up from afar is the tactic currently being employed.
Turkey has now left behind its days of funding ISIS and collaborating with the twisted West, and has offered Putin its assistance against the Islamic State.
In keeping Erdogan afloat, Putin is humbling the sprawling, complacent empire of NATO, cleverly buying himself time to solve the Ukraine issues, and adequately square up against western-led hostility without crippling his economy. No wonder western media continually paints him as an eminent threat to justify to the public its provocative, backdoor-led encroaching behavior on all aspects of the Russian state, Putin is a certainly a threat – to Globalism.
The recent targeting of Russian Olympic athletes in a ‘doping scandal’ is one example of the how the West wants to demonize Russia in the eyes of the common man, smoothing the way for heightened NATO involvement.
The Russian/English fans fighting during the Euro 2016 football tournament is another orchestrated propaganda surge against Putin, and arguably against the recently Brexited UK.
As a small point, a bit out of the scope of this article: Putin’s moves to solidify a ‘Greater Eurasian’ union with China to rival the European Union that seeks to incur his demise is also an example of the strategies Putin is employing to make sure Russia is not starved by a US dominated world economy; a world economy that is now rapidly shifting into an Asian dominated era as the US fiat currency funded empire begins to crumble. The death throes of this empire being a woeful last ditch attempt to take out the superstates that threaten to replace it, as seen in recent NATO aggression; when something is cornered or threatened, that is when it will fight hardest.
Other economic points:
There is talk of a free trade agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union for Turkey, favours Russia.
The Turk Stream gas pipeline project will surely be revived. Favours Russia.
Turkey could move closer towards some of the Eurasian institutions that are being created such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (in which it already has observer status) and the Eurasian Economic Union, and it might even take some initial steps towards joining them. Favours Russia.
Western Bias: Just looking at how the hellbent West selectively projects its terrible flaws (rigged democracy) onto Russia and China, proves in itself the egregious biases littering our media sources and the permeating brainwashing schemes that are currently afoot, beware.
I believe that Putin knows that by re-establishing his infrastructure across Anatolia he can defuse the Ukraine crisis allowing for a lift in the sanctions against him, this alleviation of sanctions must happen as the Globalists do not want to be openly appearing as anti-Russian warmongers to the world. Ukraine is nothing more than a Western funded ‘moderate’ rebel proxy provocation to pressure Putin into making himself look bad by annexing Crimea, as to provoke the following desired outcomes…
waste Russia’s precious money (and weaken its economy) on an increasingly cautionary, unnecessary defense budget to keep an appearance of toughness,
to instigate a tearaway of previously close Ukraine-Russian relations (something Russia is desperately trying to keep intact),
to eventually induct Ukraine into the EU empire by demonizing Russia,
to tarnish international opinion of Russia as corrupt, even when all the superpowers are to some extent,
to give an excuse for NATO to push up close against Russian borders,
to block Russian oil and gas exports to Europe through Ukraine.
to provide an excuse to heavily economically sanction Russia.
Military Advantages, The Black Sea
In May 2016, Erdogan described the Black Sea as ‘almost a Russian lake’ and called for NATO naval reinforcements to be sent to the area. That prompted a response by Russia’s Permanent Representative to NATO Alexander Grushko who said that the Black Sea will never be a ‘NATO lake‘.
Now with the Russians more and more amenably bound to Turkey, Putin can begin to push back the tirade of NATO aggression pressed uncomfortably near to his borders. This begins with gaining more influence over the largely Turkish owned Black Sea waters. Along with seizing Crimea, Putin will now be able to earn the diplomatic grist to keep NATO’s naval provocations out of the Black Sea; especially as Turkey’s view of the belligerent West begins to sour.
With huge NATO ally, Turkey now more or less in Russian hands, the future of NATO’s undue provocations in the Black Sea region is set to come under scrutiny, especially as Turkey may now be prepared to close off or discourage passage through the Istanbul access route to the Black Sea.
As seen in the side images, the annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014 opened up a sizable portion of the Black Sea to come under Russian control; so just imagine what having favour with Turkey will do for Putin’s Black Sea aspirations in peacefully repelling NATO aggression?
The fact that Russia now (as of 2014) controls half of the Black Sea has enraged NATO. Russia wants answers on NATO troop movement in Eastern Europe as the US tries to sneak in troops there while whining about Russian troops inside Russia’s borders. Note that the US is several thousand miles away, while Russia is very much inside its own territory. The real bogeyman is glaringly obvious.
Conclusively, the Turkish pivot towards Russia will probably complicate NATO operations in the Black Sea, and lead to resistance from Turkey to any more anti-Russian posturing by NATO.
Ramping up the arsenal
Over the past 24 months the Black Sea has been the focus of Russia’s military modernization programme. As a consequence of the 2-year re-calibration of forces, the Federation has added four submarines, two missile corvettes and several patrol boats to their Black Sea fleet with another two submarines and six frigates expected to join them later this year. Combined with the anti-ship/anti-air installations deployed in occupied Crimea and along Russia’s Black Sea shore, such an A2/AD constellation could pose a substantial challenge should NATO need to provide reinforcements to the Black Sea Allies.
In response, the number of NATO military exercises and drills as well as naval patrols in the Black Sea has been revised up to reflect the more ‘aggressive’ Russian posture. However, additional assurance measures, to be implemented by the Alliance or individual member states, are also under consideration.
The gateway states to Europe are Russia’s loyal band, the old guard of ex-cold war buffer states that still (somewhat) answer to Moscow, but NATO is tempting them away, bit by bit; Latvia and Estonia are slowly waning, while Belarus seemingly remains loyal, perhaps with inklings of a desire to maintain neutrality.
Keir Giles, Russian military expert for U.K. think-tank Chatham House, says Minsk is currently engaged in a “process of outreach to find friends other than Russia.”
“But Belarus must be watching warily the development of confrontation between NATO and Russia.”
“One should not forget that the ‘wise calf milks two cows’ tactic is Lukashenko’s trademark so this is all quite familiar for him,” Igor Sutyagin, Russian military expert at the London-based Royal United Services Institute claimed.
Belarus is Russia’s ally in its own security alliance, known as the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), and has agreed to set up joint air defense with Russia. The country is also in talks with Moscow about hosting a Russian airbase, in an apparent response to NATO eastern initiatives.
“After Russia’s Putin, Erdogan Will Meet With Belarus’s Lukashenko”
While Belarus remains somewhat steadfast, recently, two AN/MPQ-64F1 Sentinel radar systems were delivered to Russian buffer state, Latvia as part of the United States’ ‘European Reassurance Initiative,’ according to a Tuesday press release by the US Embassy.
This ‘European Reassurance Initiative’ is without a doubt the next ‘Marshall Plan’ in cultivating support for the NATO cohort by means of bribery.
Yesterday and today has seen the apex and dissipation of a military coup in Turkey, one that has been widely broadcast as a failed attempt, but is there any more to it, what are the possible geopolitical motives and implications? Let’s take a look:
Red flag?: the coup was suspiciously poorly organized, most key geographical locations seldom seized, most key figures not apprehended, and the media not sufficiently hijacked. Unlike previous coups that took place rather often in the 20th century (The Turkish military staged coups of varying success in 1960, 1971, 1980, 1993, and 1997), that did bring about reforms, this miserable attempt cost the lives of around 256 people; and may point towards a staged, premeditated psy-op to re-shuffle the military and oust secularists (those who favour no religion in government and law) in favour of further re-islamization of the old seat of the Ottoman Empire, a long dormant sultanate.
Propaganda win for Erdogan: Erdogan, an increasingly undemocratic, exploitative, and shady leader of the Turks has just colored himself in a favorable light, taking due advantage of the ‘undemocratic’ coup d’etat and proclaiming his rule as the ‘good-guy’ democratic one, while the putsch-pushers would claim that their efforts were to ‘restore’ democracy and freedom, a claim that is certainly true, but their ruling alternative would also be up to question – this failure to control the media image of the coup has unfortunately handed Erdogan a propaganda victory, whether by design, or not.
Blame-game: Erdogan delivered an address to the nation via Skype. Blaming the coup on a “minority member of the military” and a “parallel structure.” (Russia?), anything to shift the blame away from the real culprit; whether the coup is real or not, it points towards a potentially growing degree of distaste towards Erdogan’s rule, a rule that has been criticized for authoritarian practices in the past; he is a despot who puts journalists in jail for criticizing him, that says it all really.
Border changes?: the military were manning the border, with an expected reduction in secularism in the army due to purges, border porousness may rise, and the migrant crisis may worsen as the staunchly pro-Muslim Erdogan punishes Europe by lifting the floodgates, his rhetoric has been to blackmail the EU into accelerated accession guarantees, this centralization of the army to boost loyalism may prove the death knell for European border integrity.
Muhammed Fethullah Gülen: Erdogan said in 2013 he would join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as hopes of EU membership dwindled.“I said to Russian President Vladimir Putin,‘You tease us, saying, ‘what [is Turkey] doing in the EU?’ Now I tease you: Include us in the Shanghai Five and we will forget about the EU,’” Erdogan said.As Saddam Hussein and a number of other CIA assets—notably, Panama’s Manuel Noriega—learned the hard way, it is not wise to disregard marching orders. Erdogan displeased his national security state benefactors when he mulled buying missiles from China, a move that snubbed NATO and raised hackles in Washington.
The Gülen card, long held by NATO, is a movement that opposes Erdogan’s rule and has ties to the CIA, coincidentally the coup happened soon after Russian-Turkish relations were just beginning to warm up, was this a stark warning to Erdogan from the Globalist West to get back in line?
No matter how we look at it, Erdogan’s days are numbered. One will not get away with having a major rift with the CIA. That’s one commandment. Violated. Thou shall not buy weapons from China or Russia regardless of quality or price advantage. Thou shall only feed the Empire’s own fat Military Industrial Complex players. That’s another major commandment. Violated. A puppet shall only be a member of clubs solely owned and operated by the Empire. Joining others’ clubs, even thinking of joining others’ clubs, shall come with severe retribution.
Pilot who shot down Russian plane in 2015 is among coup plotters.
Touching on Turkey’s downing of a Russian jet in 2015, the incident which caused relations to deteriorate for a number of months, Putin’s advisor, Dugin alleged that the killing was exacted by treasonous Turkish forces trying to affect relations between the two countries. He also said that the timing of the recent attack at Istanbul’s Atatürk International Airport was meaningful, as it happened right after Turkey and Russia started to mend their relations.
It is too early to say if the attempted coup in Turkey is an effort by US intelligence to get rid of Erdogan, or if it is in fact yet another coup in a country where coups are fairly standard.
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