[Sean Osborne Lomax]

Someone has asked for facts. I have posted facts.

Here are some more facts which are verifiable.

http://www.jrnyquist.com/war_preps.htm

Russian war preparations

Moscow has outfitted hundreds of fighter-bombers with additional fuel tanks and in-flight refueling capability, augmenting Russia's intercontinental strike capability.

Russia has been constructing large numbers of military transport aircraft for foreign customers who do not exist.

Russia has been building and accumulating dry docks even though, at the moment, no foreign customers for them exist.

Russia has recently fielded a new battle tank; a new state-of-the-art fighter; super-quiet submarines which can engage sea, land and air targets simultaneously; a new attack helicopter and sniper rifle.

Russia has developed a revolutionary new rifle-fired infantry weapon, the so-called vacuum grenade, which can give a single Russian soldier the firepower of a 155mm howitzer. Russia has begun joint production of this weapon with the Chinese.

Russia now emphasizes the production of mobile ICBMs like the Topol-M, which are designed to evade satellite detection, permitting the Russians to cheat on arms control agreements.

Russia continues to develop biological and chemical weapons, sometimes with the use of U.S. funds. According to recent defectors, Russia is now working on a super-plague weapon.

Russian diplomacy is clearly attempting to build an anti-American alliance which includes countries like China, North Korea, Cuba, Iraq, Libya, South Africa, Syria, Venezuela, Vietnam, Iran and India.

Russian Spetsnaz commandos continue to train with suitcase nukes against U.S. targets.

Russia is hoarding strategic metals which are vital for keeping up war production through the first months of a nuclear world war.

Russia is importing more food than needed for domestic consumption. At the same time, Russia has constructed huge underground nuclear-proof food storage facilities.

Russia has developed an impressive engineering rescue capability, organized into special military formations positioned outside large cities, for rescuing citizens trapped beneath rubble in the event of a nuclear attack.

Recent Russian movies and pop songs depict Americans as stupid animals who deserve to die. In keeping with this theme, NATO is depicted as an aggressive alliance, sometimes likened to Hitler's Third Reich.

Russia is building huge underground cities, like the one at Yamantau Mountain in the Urals. These cities are built more than a thousand feet into the earth and are able to withstand direct nuclear attack.

Russia has been modernizing nuclear bunkers located beneath Moscow.

Russia has erected a system of national missile defense far beyond that allowed by the 1972 ABM Treaty. Deploying approximately 10,000 dual-purpose mobile SAM/ABMs, Russia has used a loophole in the treaty to provide a powerful missile shield. Using a common-sense approach to ABM defense, Russia's interceptor missiles employ special nuclear warheads that can destroy incoming warheads without having to score a direct head-on hit.

Russia is also ahead of the United States in directed energy weapons that could be used to blind or destroy U.S. early warning satellites.

Many of Russia's mafia organizations operate in collaboration with, or under the supervision of, military intelligence and the state security services. Organized crime is used to penetrate Western banks, technology companies, law enforcement and government. Routes used for smuggling drugs and other contraband are reserved in wartime for bringing biological, chemical and nuclear weapons into the U.S.

Additionally, I will add that Russia has amassed a cash and gold bullion reserve of over $84 Billion as of last week.

Nice war chest.

[SCR1]

The obvious question is then, does Russia and it's allies have the Will and Desire to engage America in a war? How does one predict this? I guess preprations would be a way.

This is the unthinkable War.

Sean, do you believe they would launch an all out Nuclear War or perhaps just a limited with Major Military installations being hit?

Or is it closer to a 'Red Dawn' Scenario where the Nukes are used to keep USA and Russia from using them, and it'll be slugged out using conventional weapons? I'd guess as soon as any 'confirmed' Russian Nuclear weapon is detontated on our soil that a large release of missles would soon follow on Russia.

Could an Al Qaida nuke be used to force us into they next war?

[FairOpinion]

I have no doubt all you listed is true. Russia is continuing to arm itself. They most definitely don't want to sit there being vulnerable to an attack from anyone. But they are also not in a position to expand their influence -- they are losing their influence even over countries, which used to be part of the old SU.

But they are also not stupid, that's why they are extremely unlikely to attack us.

I think we have multiple enemies, terrorists, fanatical Islamist regimes, left over communist regimes, like N. Korea and China. and so on.

And when faced with those enemies, I think countries, like Russia see that their own interests are better served aligning themselves with us against those other countries, than the other way around.

As I said earlier, I think until fairly recently that was not the case.

[Revel]

I appreciate your information. And I am interested in it. And I do fear Russia among other countries. I just don't want to see the fighting going on. And I know it is not all your fault. In fact you were probably attacked first. But I hope that we can just keep things as non combative as possible on a personal level. For the good of everyone on this thread and for the good of the purpose of this thread.

[FairOpinion]

"Russian diplomacy is clearly attempting to build an anti-American alliance which includes countries like China, North Korea, Cuba, Iraq, Libya, South Africa, Syria, Venezuela, Vietnam, Iran and India."

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I disagree with this statement. Russia withdrew their listening post from Cuba some time ago, as a gesture of goodwill to the US, Cuba is suffering, because the Russian funds dried up. This is just one example.

[Nemo1USA]

I asked some questions in 2 previous posts you seemed no need to comment on their relevance. So I will ask you specifically this.

Why are you shooting your mouth off about our knowledge of Russia?

What they might, or might not be doing. If you know...then I am MOST SURE that the FBI CIA NSA, and all other intelligence we have know it too.

I frankly rely on them, and how they are handling whatever it is they do know.

Russia could be just getting ready to fend off a meteorite.

[labolarueda]

"Additionally, I will add that Russia has amassed a cash and gold bullion reserve of over $84 Billion as of last week."

Chicken feed.

We, the United States, have gold reserves in the trillions of dollars.