A kind reminder that Russia isn't some 3rd world, defenseless, backwater country - the kind that Uncle Shmu'el has gotten used dropping bombs of democracy on over the years.

[size=18pt]A Russian warning[/size]




We, the undersigned, are Russians living and working in the USA. We have been watching with increasing anxiety as the current US and NATO
policies have set us on an extremely dangerous collision course with the Russian Federation, as well as with China. Many respected,
patriotic Americans, such as Paul Craig Roberts, Stephen Cohen, Philip Giraldi, Ray McGovern and many others have been issuing warnings of
a looming a Third World War. But their voices have been all but lost among the din of a mass media that is full of deceptive and inaccurate
stories that characterize the Russian economy as being in shambles and the Russian military as weak—all based on no evidence. But we—
knowing both Russian history and the current state of Russian society and the Russian military, cannot swallow these lies. We now feel that
it is our duty, as Russians living in the US, to warn the American people that they are being lied to, and to tell them the truth. And the
truth is simply this:

If there is going to be a war with Russia, then the United States
will most certainly be destroyed, and most of us will end up dead.

Let us take a step back and put what is happening in a historical context. Russia has suffered a great deal at the hands of foreign
invaders, losing 22 million people in World War II. Most of the dead were civilians, because the country was invaded, and the Russians have
vowed to never let such a disaster happen again. Each time Russia had been invaded, she emerged victorious. In 1812 Napoleon invaded
Russia; in 1814 Russian cavalry rode into Paris. On July 22, 1941, Hitler’s Luftwaffe bombed Kiev; On May 8, 1945, Soviet troops rolled
into Berlin.

But times have changed since then. If Hitler were to attack Russia today, he would be dead 20 to 30 minutes later, his bunker reduced to
glowing rubble by a strike from a Kalibr supersonic cruise missile launched from a small Russian navy ship somewhere in the Baltic Sea. The
operational abilities of the new Russian military have been most persuasively demonstrated during the recent action against ISIS, Al Nusra
and other foreign-funded terrorist groups operating in Syria. A long time ago Russia had to respond to provocations by fighting land
battles on her own territory, then launching a counter-invasion; but this is no longer necessary. Russia’s new weapons make retaliation
instant, undetectable, unstoppable and perfectly lethal.

Thus, if tomorrow a war were to break out between the US and Russia, it is guaranteed that the US would be obliterated. At a minimum, there
would no longer be an electric grid, no Internet, no oil and gas pipelines, no interstate highway system, no air transportation or GPS-
based navigation. Financial centers would lie in ruins. Government at every level would cease to function. US armed forces, stationed all
around the globe, would no longer be resupplied. At a maximum, the entire landmass of the US would be covered by a layer of radioactive
ash. We tell you this not to be alarmist, but because, based on everything we know, we are ourselves alarmed. If attacked, Russia will not
back down; she will retaliate, and she will utterly annihilate the United States.

The US leadership has done everything it could to push the situation to the brink of disaster. First, its anti-Russian policies have
convinced the Russian leadership that making concessions or negotiating with the West is futile. It has become apparent that the West will
always support any individual, movement or government that is anti-Russian, be it tax-cheating Russian oligarchs, convicted Ukrainian war
criminals, Saudi-supported Wahhabi terrorists in Chechnya or cathedral-desecrating punks in Moscow. Now that NATO, in violation of its
previous promises, has expanded right up to the Russian border, with US forces deployed in the Baltic states, within artillery range of St.

Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, the Russians have nowhere left to retreat. They will not attack; nor will they back down or
surrender. The Russian leadership enjoys over 80% of popular support; the remaining 20% seems to feel that it is being too soft in opposing
Western encroachment. But Russia will retaliate, and a provocation or a simple mistake could trigger a sequence of events that will end
with millions of Americans dead and the US in ruins.

Unlike many Americans, who see war as an exciting, victorious foreign adventure, the Russians hate and fear war. But they are also ready
for it, and they have been preparing for war for several years now. Their preparations have been most effective. Unlike the US, which
squanders untold billions on dubious overpriced arms programs such as the F-35 joint task fighter, the Russians are extremely stingy with
their defense rubles, getting as much as 10 times the bang for the buck compared to the bloated US defense industry. While it is true that
the Russian economy has suffered from low energy prices, it is far from being in shambles, and a return to growth is expected as early as
next year. Senator John McCain once called Russia “A gas station masquerading as a country.” Well, he lied. Yes, Russia is the world’s
largest oil producer and second-largest oil exporter, but it is also world’s largest exporter of grain and nuclear power technology. It is
as advanced and sophisticated a society as the United States. Russia’s armed forces, both conventional and nuclear, are now ready to fight,
and they are more than a match for the US and NATO, especially if a war erupts anywhere near the Russian border.

But such a fight would be suicidal for all sides. We strongly believe that a conventional war in Europe runs a strong chance of turning
nuclear very rapidly, and that any US/NATO nuclear strike on Russian forces or territory will automatically trigger a retaliatory Russian
nuclear strike on the continental US. Contrary to irresponsible statements made by some American propagandists, American antiballistic
missile systems are incapable of shielding the American people from a Russian nuclear strike. Russia has the means to strike at targets in
the USA with long-range nuclear as well as conventional weapons.

The sole reason why the USA and Russia have found themselves on a collision course, instead of defusing tensions and cooperating on a wide
range of international problems, is the stubborn refusal by the US leadership to accept Russia as an equal partner: Washington is dead set
on being the “world leader” and the “indispensable nation,” even as its influence steadily dwindles in the wake of a string of foreign
policy and military disasters such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen and the Ukraine. Continued American global leadership is
something that neither Russia, nor China, nor most of the other countries are willing to accept. This gradual but apparent loss of power
and influence has caused the US leadership to become hysterical; and it is but a small step from hysterical to suicidal. America’s
political leaders need to be placed under suicide watch.

First and foremost, we are appealing to the commanders of the US Armed Forces to follow the example of Admiral William Fallon, who, when
asked about a war with Iran, reportedly replied “not on my watch.” We know that you are not suicidal, and that you do not wish to die for
the sake of out-of-touch imperial hubris. If possible, please tell your staff, colleagues and, especially, your civilian superiors that a
war with Russia will not happen on your watch. At the very least, take that pledge to yourself, and, should the day ever come when the
suicidal order is issued, simply refuse to execute it on the grounds that it is criminal. Remember that according to the Nuremberg Tribunal

“To initiate a war of aggression… is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war
crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” Since Nuremberg, “I was just following orders” is no longer a
valid defense; please don’t be war criminals.

We also appeal to the American people to take peaceful but forceful action to oppose any politician or party that engages in irresponsible,
provocative Russia-baiting, and that condones and supports a policy of needless confrontation with a nuclear superpower that is capable of
destroying the US in about an hour. Speak up, break through the barrier of mass media propaganda, and make your fellow Americans aware of
the immense danger of a confrontation between Russia and the US.

There is no objective reason why US and Russia should consider each other as adversaries. The current confrontation is entirely the result
of the extremist views of the neoconservative movement, whose members have infiltrated the US Federal government, and who consider any
country that refuses to obey their dictates as an enemy to be crushed. Thanks to their tireless efforts, over a million innocent people
have already died in the former Yugoslavia, in Afghanistan, in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, the Ukraine, Yemen, Somalia and in many other
countries—all because of their maniacal insistence that the USA must be a world empire, not a just a regular, normal country, and that
every national leader must either bow down before it, or be overthrown. In Russia, the irresistible force that is the neocon movement has
finally encountered the immovable object. They must be forced to back down before they destroy us all.

We are absolutely and categorically certain that Russia will never attack the US, nor any EU member state, that Russia is not at all
interested in recreating the USSR, and that there is no “Russian threat” or “Russian aggression.” Much of Russia’s recent economic success
has a lot to do with the shedding of former Soviet dependencies, allowing her to pursue a “Russia first” policy. But we are just as certain
that if Russia is attacked, or even threatened with attack, she will not back down, and that the Russian leadership will not “blink.” With
great sadness and a heavy heart they will do their sworn duty and unleash a nuclear barrage from which the United States will never
recover. Even if the entire Russian leadership is killed in a first strike, the so-called “Dead Hand” (the “Perimetr” system) will
automatically launch enough nukes to wipe the USA off the political map. We feel that it is our duty to do all we can to prevent such a
catastrophe.

Eugenia V Gurevich, PhD
http://thesaker.ru/ Dmitri Orlov
http://cluborlov..com/ The Saker (A. Raevsky)
http://thesaker.is/

A word is enough for the wise....but the foolish will heed no warning, becaus to him, nothing is real...

No shaking

All this will end when Trump become president

Unless Amerika stops her madness from pushing Russia into a full-scale nuclear exchange, this is where we are all headed.

@GeneralMinted - Below is an article written by Steven Starr titled - “Nuclear War, Nuclear Winter, and Human Extinction”.

While it is impossible to precisely predict all the human impacts that would result from a nuclear winter, it is relatively simple to predict those which would be most profound. That is, a nuclear winter would cause most humans and large animals to die from nuclear famine in a mass extinction event similar to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Following the detonation (in conflict) of US and/or Russian launch-ready strategic nuclear weapons, nuclear firestorms would burn simultaneously over a total land surface area of many thousands or tens of thousands of square miles. These mass fires, many of which would rage over large cities and industrial areas, would release many tens of millions of tons of black carbon soot and smoke (up to 180 million tons, according to peer-reviewed studies), which would rise rapidly above cloud level and into the stratosphere. [For an explanation of the calculation of smoke emissions, see Atmospheric effects & societal consequences of regional scale nuclear conflicts.]

The scientists who completed the most recent peer-reviewed studies on nuclear winter discovered that the sunlight would heat the smoke, producing a self-lofting effect that would not only aid the rise of the smoke into the stratosphere (above cloud level, where it could not be rained out), but act to keep the smoke in the stratosphere for 10 years or more. The longevity of the smoke layer would act to greatly increase the severity of its effects upon the biosphere.

Once in the stratosphere, the smoke (predicted to be produced by a range of strategic nuclear wars) would rapidly engulf the Earth and form a dense stratospheric smoke layer. The smoke from a war fought with strategic nuclear weapons would quickly prevent up to 70% of sunlight from reaching the surface of the Northern Hemisphere and 35% of sunlight from reaching the surface of the Southern Hemisphere.

Such an enormous loss of warming sunlight would produce Ice Age weather conditions on Earth in a matter of weeks. For a period of 1-3 years following the war, temperatures would fall below freezing every day in the central agricultural zones of North America and Eurasia. [For an explanation of nuclear winter, see Nuclear winter revisited with a modern climate model and current nuclear arsenals: Still catastrophic consequences.]

Nuclear winter would cause average global surface temperatures to become colder than they were at the height of the last Ice Age. Such extreme cold would eliminate growing seasons for many years, probably for a decade or longer. Can you imagine a winter that lasts for ten years?

The results of such a scenario are obvious. Temperatures would be much too cold to grow food, and they would remain this way long enough to cause most humans and animals to starve to death.

Global nuclear famine would ensue in a setting in which the infrastructure of the combatant nations has been totally destroyed, resulting in massive amounts of chemical and radioactive toxins being released into the biosphere. We don’t need a sophisticated study to tell us that no food and Ice Age temperatures for a decade would kill most people and animals on the planet. Would the few remaining survivors be able to survive in a radioactive, toxic environment?

It is, of course, debatable whether or not nuclear winter could cause human extinction. There is essentially no way to truly “know” without fighting a strategic nuclear war. Yet while it is crucial that we all understand the mortal peril that we face, it is not necessary to engage in an unwinnable academic debate as to whether any humans will survive.

What is of the utmost importance is that this entire subject – the catastrophic environmental consequences of nuclear war – has been effectively dropped from the global discussion of nuclear weaponry. The focus is instead upon “nuclear terrorism”, a subject that fits official narratives and centers upon the danger of one nuclear weapon being detonated – yet the scientifically predicted consequences of nuclear war are never publically acknowledged or discussed.

Why has the existential threat of nuclear war been effectively omitted from public debate? Perhaps the leaders of the nuclear weapon states do not want the public to understand that their nuclear arsenals represent a self-destruct mechanism for the human race? Such an understanding could lead to a demand that nuclear weapons be banned and abolished.
Consequently, the nuclear weapon states continue to maintain and modernize their nuclear arsenals, as their leaders remain silent about the ultimate threat that nuclear war poses to the human species.

Source: https://fas.org/pir-pubs/nuclear-war-nuclear-winter-and-human-extinction/

Steven Starr is the director of the University of Missouri’s Clinical Laboratory Science Program, as well as a senior scientist at the Physicians for Social Responsibility. He has been published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Strategic Arms Reduction (STAR) website of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

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Well said

The US have exhausted every means available to her vampirous ambition to draw Russia into a confrontation.
from equipping mujaheedin rebels in Afghanistan to the Yugoslavia conflict, Chechnya - Russian war, Ossetian crisis, the last which was the felling of a Russian war plane in Syria through Turkey (sultan edoghan) and even backed turkey in what was an unprovoked aggression.
The grey ambition to be the only police in the world cannot be realized and will never happen. It puzzles me to think that so many nations are getting in military alliance for one nation who doesn't give a Bleep about what happens in other nations but only interested in her own affairs. They didn't colonize anybody and took slaves like the Europeans did, (they had the chance to colonize America but didn't) live and let's live that is how life is supposed to be, but when one nation goes about poke nosing in other countries affairs it becomes a problem and that is the problem with America.
Any leader who is seen as not playing according to their script must be removed either by hook or crook and they always term such removal "people's revolution". Look at the mess they created in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, now Syria but thank God for the timely intervention of our father Putin who goes by the business of putting things in the right order.
Give me one reason why I must allow America intervene in my crisis and I will give you a thousand reasons why they shouldn't with the end result being that, they never clean up mess rather, they amplify mess.

NairaMinted00:


If there is going to be a war with Russia, then the United States
will most certainly be destroyed, and most of us will end up dead.

Like the fall of Nazism in Europe which in reality was just an ideology being sold to attain total domination of Europe yet failed. This is a replay of world war 2 and this time, the Zionists or the first among equal ideology that has existed for long.

The notion of primus inter pares which means just that, “first amongst equals”, and which was the primacy of honor the entire Christian world was willing to grant Patriarch of Rome because, at the time, Rome was the capital of the Empire.

But then, just as now, being just the “first amongst equals” was not good enough for the leader of the West (the anglozionist empire, the U.S) which already wanted to subjugate all the other Patriarchates (Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem and Constantinople), soon thereafter, the entire planet (spiritually via the Dictatus papae and secularly via the Treaty of Tordesillas).

Apparently nothing has changed in over 1000 years. The leader of the “Western World” still wants to be the Pontifex Maximus of the entire planet and the leaders of the East are still resisting him.

Now what happens after this coming war ? Will the little left on planet Earth return to stone age and rebuild a more peaceful world ? A world the African civilization enjoyed for thousand years before it was taken from them and their history re-written. Ile Ife existed 10,000BC that is a civilization that transpired to Sudanese Kush empire which Egyptian empire evolved from and other empires.

Appleyard:


The last straw that broke the Camel's back - revealing US imperialism tendency and Cold War rhetorics, was when American Unilaterally withdrew from the START Treaty, to the ire of Rus (for what purpose? Only Missy can tell). And to add salt to injury, the missile shield right next door to them began, and has now taken shape - a cursory picture of the cold war era. ( US missiles in Turkey and Italy, Soviet/Russia missiles to Cuba) and we all knew what happened then. But now, some mendacious folks supposes that Russia musnt worry. Hypocrisy.

This Dutch author Jens Jorgen Nielsen gets it, Felix Baumgartner gets it, the Czech president gets it, Gehard Shroeder gets it. Paul Craig Roberts gets it. So does Stephen Lendman, Stephen Cohen, Noam Chomsky, Oliver Stone and Ron Paul - and so many others. Even - as much as I hate to say it - Donald Trump gets it. Are all these people full of hate for Amerika? Are they nothing but paid Kremlin trolls and Putin bots? I can only pray that the remaining folks that are in a slumber or brainwashed into delusion or are in denial also get it.... We can only pray

[size=18pt]Why the Europeans Have Signed Up for the US's 'Insane March on Russia'[/size]



The Europeans have let themselves to be drawn into an ‘insane march on Russia’ by concentrating the largest amount of military hardware on Russia’s borders since the Second World War, putting Europe at risk of a hot conflict. However, if there is one spark, Europe will be the first victim, according to Danish author Jens Jorgen Nielsen.

Europe is very close to a major war for the first time since the end of the Second World War, Jens Jorgen Nielsen writes in his blog for theDanish newspaper Arbejderen.


A mask during an anti-NATO protest rally
© SPUTNIK/ VLADIMIR PESNYA
'It's Time to Leave NATO Now!' Europeans Launch New Anti-War Campaign

However, only recently it seemed that the Cold War was over and a “large global community” was just around the corner.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the residents of its former republics opened their arms to the West and its ideology. Even when NATO started its expansion eastwards, taking in countries of the former Warsaw Pact, the West continued to talk about “growing stability” in the world.

However, this time has irrevocably passed and many contentious issues are now breeding concern.

The Europeans have let themselves become drawn into an ‘insane march on Russia’ so that the US can satisfy its global interests, but this might lead to very catastrophic consequences, the author warns.

Firstly, NATO has concentrated the largest amount of military hardware and military personnel right on Russia’s borders since the end of the Second World War. This can’t but raise Russia’s concerns.
“There is no wonder that the Germans have refused to send their battalion to the Baltics,” the author says.

“We in the West might have forgotten, but the Russians still remember how Nazi Germany invaded from that very direction and how the war took 27 million [Soviet] lives,” Jens Jorgen Nielsen says.

Secondly, taking into account that George W. Bush withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty back in 2002, now there are no restrictions prohibiting the deployment of cruise and ballistic missiles on Russia’s borders.

They may be based on NATO warships in the Baltic Sea or in other locations, and it would take the Alliance less than five minutes to hit, for example, Russia's St. Petersburg, the author says.
Some of the Western countries which possess nuclear weapons might cherish illusions that the so-called “defense missiles” are able to neutralize Russia’s long-range strategic nuclear missiles and thus eliminate the so-called “mutual deterrence.”

As a result, the western strategists might be tempted to attack first, assuming that NATO “could win” the nuclear war with Russia. However, in reality this is nothing but a dangerous delusion, as Russia’s weaponry is far more advanced than for example that of Iraq, Nielsen warns.


Thirdly, the diplomatic relations between Russia and the West are currently frozen.
Republican Ronald Reagan took certain practical steps to initiate nuclear disarmament negotiations with Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s, but nowadays one can only wonder how Democratic President Obama could have plunged Europe into such a dangerous position.
Therefore, the author says, the Scandinavians should understand that the Democrats are not so good and the Republicans are not so evil, as they always thought.

The author cites another example: it was the Democrat John F. Kennedy, who was very close to triggering a nuclear war because the Soviet Union had installed missiles in Cuba in 1962 within a radius of 90 miles (144 km) of the US.

Nowadays it is a Republican, Donald Trump, who is asking why the US is engaged in so many wars around the world, and why the US has such bad relationship with Russia.

Many of those who do not support Trump, however, are asking the very same questions.

So, the Danish author suggests it is high time for the European countries to ask the following question: “how could the Europeans have allowed themselves to be harnessed to a cart driven solely by the US and its global interests?”

The US perceives Russia and China as the countries which, if not threatening it, prompt seriously questions about its hegemony in the world.

The author then questions who would be the first to pay if there is a nuclear war unleashed on the European continent.

He then forecasts: the first would probably be Scandinavia, Poland or the Baltics.

NairaMinted:




The author then questions who would be the first to pay if there is a nuclear war unleashed on the European continent.

He then forecasts: the first would probably be Scandinavia, Poland or the Baltics.

Word!