Saudi Arabian war abilities. And that is why my son and several thousand others were in SA 6 or 7 days after Sadam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August 1990. Without even time to phone home and say goodbye. I had hoped that the nearly universal threat from terrorist Islam would help bring Russia, US, EU, and China together to cooperate. Could the Russian “snap exercise” be staged to look like a southern move, but in fact be preparation for a lightening move west on Ukraine, like the Crimean move?
Possibly, and the Saudis are pumping hot air in the Northern Thunder drill:
There will be 21 Arab and Muslim countries taking part in huge drills,” Assiri told London-based newspaper Al Sharq Al Awsat. “It will serve to boost fighting capabilities, exchange information, benefit from experiences and expertise and enhance coordination between the participating countries. There will be joint military command centres,†he said.
Assiri added that “when participating countries feel that there are coordinated and interdependent efforts, the results of the exercise will be positive. We have models based on real experience of being in the Arab coalition in Yemen where operations are running excellently and positively,” he was quoted by the daily as saying.
Hitler invaded Poland in SEP 1939 when he realized Germany’s financial mess was only getting worse, with or w/o war.
The Russian economy is in Deep S-t:
A former deputy chairman of the Russian Central Bank has said Russia’s economic crisis is worse than Moscow admits and that the Kremlin’s optimism about future prospects “has not been based on reality.
Aleksashenko said the real problems facing Russia’s economy are a lack of investment, high inflation, and the declining ruble, which has lost half of its value against the U.S. dollar since early 2014.
Further, he said, the bulk of Russian exports - as much as 80 percent - consists of raw materials and commodities.
But the economic slowdown in China has eased the global demand for such products.
http://www.rferl.org/content/damn-lies-deep-crisis-russia-central-banker-economy/27550209.html
http://www.xe.com/en/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=RUB&view=12h
Turkish foreign minister claims ground force could be sent into Syria - with Saudi Arabia’s assistance - to fight Islamic State. His comments come after Bashar al-Assad defiantly said he would recapture the whole of Syria and keep “fighting terrorism”.
German gov’t source: Bundestag cyberattack “clearly the work of a Russian military intelligence agency”
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/deutscher-bundestag-russischer-geheimdienst-unter-hacker-verdacht-a-1074641.html
“The German quote approved by the Kremlin contained the term ‘einen neuen Weltkrieg,’ or a new world war,”
http://www.rferl.org/content/world-war-medvedev-translation-tempest-handelsblatt/27549372.html
This is not new, the writing has been on the wall for a long time. This article is from 2014:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/03/new-cold-war-russia-104954
Putin knows he has a window till 20 JAN 2017 to break NATO, so he’s playing high-stakes poker. He could cause #WW3.
http://observer.com/2016/02/mounting-evidence-putin-will-ignite-wwiii/