Beware of Russia: Sneak Attack?

McAlvany Intelligence Advisor ^ | October 10, 2001 | Don McAlvany

[FresnoDA]

Letting the Russians take the point on our behalf in the Bin Laden hunt is totally ridiculous!!

[Nuke'm Glowing]

After reading this, I'm selling all the gold he told me to buy before Y2K and trading it in for tinfoil. Yeppers, can't have that Russian broadcast radiation from them there satellites of theirs causing me to start loving vodka and fat hairy Russian women.

[duck soup]

The conclusion this author draws up is pure B.S. China does not have any true intentions of drawing up an alliance with Russia. It's China, India and Japan. Central Asia is where it is at. Let Russia roll in from the North.

[Arkinsaw]

For the Russian collapse to be a sham they sure have done a great job of it. They are excellent actors. Letting their navy deteriorate into rust is a pretty good ruse, pretending not to be able to pay soldiers for months also. Letting Poland join NATO and pretending they couldn't stop it was a masterstroke.

While not yet trusting them to watch my back, I don't mind them taking point. Sometimes healthy skepticism can deteriorate into paranoia.

[Cool Guy]

BUMP!

[Restorer]

I also enjoy the great Russian acting. A 50% decline in GDP also takes great skill to pull off.

BTW, what's this with not paying the soldiers? Always sounded like a really poor idea to me.

[American Soldier]

But what do you call it when Russia participates in simulations of taking Taiwan, when China is developing a blue water Navy with Russian help, and they both support the Kim Dynasty? Maybe it's not an alliance, but it scares the hell out of me no matter what you call it.

[Darheel]

It is only fitting that Russia be allowed to finally conquer Afghanistan, as a reward for overthrowing the atheistic Soviet Communist system. They are in a much better position to rule in the area, it splits the muslim peninsula in half as it were, and meanwhile we swing the Armies of the West to Teheran and straight across Iraq and Syria, bearing down on Palestine. Alexander in reverse!
Let's give the Russkies what they really want, a warm deep-water port. In Constantinople.

[duck soup]

The real threat is China. If you notice they are not spending one dime. Russia, the U.S. and G.B. are.

[L,TOWM]

Nyquist and McAlvaney have screamed WOLF! more times than a PETA dimwit at Yellowstone.

Kim the younger is not nearly the bastard his old man was. As long as he has an adequate supply of Swedish Blondes and Scotch in Pyongyang, he should be content. It would also be a pretty neat trick to invade the south with troops that are being used as farm labor, and guards on foodstuffs (which has been the case since 1995). Numbers are nice, but you of all people should know that a military is more than a bunch of guys with rifles wearing the same clothes.

My advice to you Soldier (for what it is worth), is to worry about complete nutcases bowing five times daily to the holy meteor, and not a pack of Clymers that know war will disrupt their business (being the Jeffe of a corrupt $h!+hole)... After all, turning the "Foreign Aid" hand and its yummy handouts, the corporations with their lucrative kickbable deals, and the source of luxuries available to the grifters with guns into a glowing pile of rubble just is'nt worth it for these scum.

[Bill Rice]

"Letting the Russians take the point on our behalf in the Bin Laden hunt is totally ridiculous!!"

Not necessarily - Bush has a lot up his sleeve! Here's what I think would play out nicely:

After we get done bombing the pi$$ out of the Afghans, the Russians will swoop in and "beat" us to Kabul (just like Germany and Berlin)

We don't want Afghanistan anyhow, we just want to kill some folks who need killing, and make a point - don't f*ck with us! We'll pulverize them and take down their defenses with our airpower, and the reds will "beat" us going in on the ground, and lose THEIR men mopping up.

We'll turn our heads while THEY settle old scores - lots of dead enemy, and WE didn't do it, Russia did.

We won't get stuck with occupation or trying to prop up a new Afghan government that will eventually fail anyhow, since all the factions hate each other.

We let the Russians do the occupation as well as the dirty work. THEY get the "prize", as well as the blame for the new government falling in a few years. Let Russia occupy the $hithole while we move on to Iraq or whoever else needs stomped next.

Just some thoughts I wanted to post so I can say "I told you so!" Flame away!

[TheLion]

The so called "vacuum bomb" is nothing more that an FAE and if you don't know what that is you are as ignorant as the author of this piece!

[Crispy]

What you say would work for me if it happened. Who cares about Afghanistan? Just get Osama, Sadam, Arafat and all the other terrorist cells. Let there be revolutions in the other countries. Once they kill each other from within, it will be easy for us to mop up if necessary.

[Don Joe]

"they both support the Kim Dynasty"

Wow, that's some special kinda support they're giving 'em, what with the peasants eating grass and bark on a good day, and trying to make a run for the Chinese border on a bad one.

I wonder... do you think we could talk them into "supporting" all of our enemies like that?

[Governor StrangeReno]

'You may fly over our airspace','I have stood my troops down after your high alert' Vladamir Putin 2001.

[spycatcher]

Russia and China sign treaty - July 2001

[truth_seeker]

"Letting the Russians take the point on our behalf in the Bin Laden hunt is totally ridiculous!!"

No it isn't. It is essentially like WWII, whereby Germany was defeated by Russian dead soldiers, and by American industrial might reflected in superior war hardware.

If Russia is willing to way into this effort, great. If they want the place when it is over, they can have the pile of rocks. And short of killing every last Muslim, Russia's heavy handed methods of ruling, look attractive compared to many alternatives.