Posted on 08/17/2006 6:07:20 PM PDT by brain bleeds red
I am an accomplished world traveller and an international businessman. I was an "early adopter" of the POV that saw the world in what can now be described as an exceedingly overly optmistic light. I was right in there with G.H.W.Bush when he made some of his rather premature pronouncements about the post Cold War world. During the 90s, while doing personal on-the-ground work in the PRC, I also managed operations in Russia and a number of other "former" East Bloc countries remotely, eventually getting around to visiting a number of them, including, as of December of last year, Russia. I plan to return, the Lord willing. Oh and one more thing - I believe you Anatoliy! Check out my FReeper home page for more details regarding my world view.
Agree completely.
Neither the Russians or the Chinese are 'out of it' by any stretch.
The Russians have an 'enemy of my enemy' sort of relationship with the US right now, but if they did succeed in taking us out, war between the two would be at hand soon after, most probably.
Hmmm, no response yet from the troll, Romanov ... figures.
"It says that the "Russians realized they couldn't defeat us militarily and so decided to defeat us by trickery and deceit."
"Sorry but this is a complete pantload. The Russian people are not in the business of conquering the leading world power. They are busy trying to make money and most of them under 25 do not give a damn about world politics.
A few items that might have appeared if they were in the conquering business
Transport? Where's the huge amount of military transport ships for troops, tanks, beans and bullets?
Navy? The Russian Navy is a shadow of itself.
Army? The russian army is much smaller than it used to be during the Soviet era. They are NOT going to occupy a country with 70 million snipers
Even accounting for the possibility that the Chinese might load up THEIR army on supertankers, car carriers and other assorted nonsense. Even accounting for a decapitating strike on the USA. The US Navy would shred anything hostile in the waters that headed towards our shores.
If they think they can land in Mexico and move north. No one does mobile desert warfare better than the US.'
Perhaps this is a snippet of an article I posted but this was not my comment. I totally agree, the Russians could not invade and conquer. I'll tell you this though: Russia and our enemies do not have to invade. What scares me is they have energy, we do not. If all hell breaks loose they only need to interrupt our supply of oil. You need jet fuel for jet fighters and tactical bombers. It is more then theoretically possible they could rule us from the air, at least temporarily.
Anatoliy Golitsyn was a conman.
End of Story...Put a conman in front of a delusional paranoid and he'll leave with the bank accounts and the wife's honor.
Angleton took Anatoliy Golitsyn seriously and wrecked the CIA for nearly 20 years.
Bravo...
Anatoliy Golitsyn is the great sage of the terminally paranoid. In their mind they got double, triples, quadruple agents and ...What comes after quadruples?
Oh....I see ...The Soviets didn't REALLY collapse they just morphed into cryptocapitalist oligarchs while all the while theuy sing the " International" in secret clubs through out Russia. The Sino-Soviet Split never happened and the Chinese are actually secret Maoists intent in just drawing out the hidden capitalists in their midst. Then, they will spring the trap...launch a complete reversion to Stalinist principles and join hands conguer the world...
Hmmm...
Angleton took Anatoliy Golitsyn seriously and wrecked the CIA for nearly 20 years.
Golitsyn was way off. Russia is a solid ally and her hardline tactics are but a distant memory.
But but....you see...They have all that stuff hidden. Then like a bolt of lightning they will strike while we are all sitting on the toilet doing our business...Just like them commie bastards to wait till we are on the crapper with our pants around out ankles....
I love this story....Brings out the Great And Mighty Loon Contingent in all their finery. Tin Foil Helmets, Super Heterodyne Double Decoder Rings, and The Special Knowledge Theorists.
Uhm ... Canadian Oil shale? ANWR, North Slope, Offshore oil wells in the Gulf?
IF it ever came down to global war we have plenty of energy.
You need jet fuel for jet fighters and tactical bombers. It is more then theoretically possible they could rule us from the air, at least temporarily
Please reference "Strategic Oil Reserve". At 500 million barrels Russia or China could NEVER own the skies over the USA.
Oh Lordy...You're even stranger than Angleton and Golitsyn.
So, how does Russia get back Ukraine, East Germany, Poland, and the other countries in its ‘grand plan’?
An informative post, but that web address appears to be “www.thefinalphase.com”.
“www.thefinalphase.com”
bump for later
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