Dear CCI Friends,
Please excuse my “hype” but I’m alarmed by the volume of articles coming across my computer about our great military power, lauding past wars, billions of dollars for new space weapons, on and on and on …
What have we Americans come to? WHY are we so ready to consider war with another nation? I don’t get it! Do we not realize the agony and suffering of innocent men, women, and children in other countries? Why in the world do we instigate war games when no other country would think about invading us? These dreaded games will begin this month and go through May 2020! WHY??? Do we realize how much money these games will cost? Or what that money could do for our people if not spent on this war mania?
And lastly, do we not realize that if one accident occurs, the result could be nuclear weapons detonated on our own cities? Note what Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on February 4th:
“Russia will react to the US military exercise in “Europe Defender 2020” due in March, but it will do so in a way that will rule out unnecessary risks. Naturally, we will react. We cannot ignore processes that arouse very great concerns. But we will react in a way that will not create unnecessary risks.”
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
NATO “Preparations” for Attack on Russia. Operation Barbarossa II: Setting the Stage for War
February 10, 2020
By Christopher Black
I have written several times about the continuing NATO preparations for an attack on Russia, a second Operation Barbarossa, the code name for the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941. Circumstances prompt me to write about it again, for as of the last week in January the Americans and their gang of lieutenant nations in NATO have commenced the biggest military exercises in 25 years to take place in Europe. The code name for this operation is Defender-Europe 20 but we can interpret that as Attack-Russia 20; in effect a preparation for an attack on Russia comparable to the Nazi invasion in 1941 that killed 27 million Soviet citizens, wounded countless more and destroyed everything west of the Urals and led ultimately to the crushing of the Nazis that launched the attack.
For the past several years the US has been building up bases in Eastern Europe, building up their logistics systems, prepositioning vast amounts of munitions and weapons of every type and calibre, securing convoy routes from the USA across the Atlantic and across Europe right up to Russia’s borders for the rapid movement of military equipment and formations, installing nuclear capable missile systems in key locations from Poland to Romania, increasing intelligence flights in the Baltic, particularly with regard to the Russian base at Kaliningrad and the approaches to St. Petersburg, and the Black Sea, Crimea and Ukraine as well around the Russian bases at Vladivostok, all the while, in their propaganda talking about false flag operations they could use to blame Russia and provide the pretext for their attack. Kaliningrad has been mentioned several times by US generals and officials as one possible scene for staging a false flag operation for this purpose. But the number of scenarios they could use is limited only by their imagination and capabilities.
These conventional military exercises are complemented by the withdrawal of the United States from several nuclear arms treaties to give the US a free hand to develop and deploy nuclear weapons which, according to their National Defence Strategy, they will use whenever and wherever they see fit, without limitation or restrictions, including the intention to launch a nuclear first strike. The clear targets are Russia and China. The “pivot to the Pacific” that the Americans began some years ago is a part of these preparations, and while this applies pressure against China it also threatens Russia.