{"id":133810,"date":"2016-05-29T09:51:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T09:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=133810"},"modified":"2016-06-03T06:22:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T06:22:53","slug":"how-russia-is-preparing-for-wwiii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=133810","title":{"rendered":"How Russia is preparing for WWIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Saker &#8212; via The Duran May 28, 2016<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_132559\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Russian-missile-Kremlin-red-Square.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132559\" class=\"wp-image-132559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Russian-missile-Kremlin-red-Square.jpg\" alt=\"Russian missile \" width=\"560\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Russian-missile-Kremlin-red-Square.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Russian-missile-Kremlin-red-Square-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-132559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian missile<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I have recently posted a piece in which <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/debunking-popular-cliches-about-modern-warfare\/\">I tried to debunk a few popular myths about modern warfare<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Judging by many comments which I received in response to this post, I have to say that the myths in question are still alive and well and that I clearly failed to convince many readers. What I propose to do today, is to look at what Russia is really doing in response to the growing threat from the West. But first, I have to set the context or, more accurately, re-set the context in which Russia is operating. Let\u2019s begin by looking at the AngloZionist policies towards Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The West\u2019s actions<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">First on this list is, obviously, the conquest by NATO of all of Eastern Europe. I speak of conquest because that is exactly what it is, but a conquest achieved according to the rules of 21<sup>st<\/sup> century warfare which I define as \u201c80% informational, 15% economic and 5% military\u201d. Yes, I know, the good folks of Eastern Europe were just dreaming of being subjugated by the US\/NATO\/EU\/etc \u2013 but so what? Anyone who has read Sun Tzu will immediately recognize that this deep desire to be \u2018incorporated\u2019 into the AngloZionist \u201cBorg\u201d is nothing else but the result of a crushed self-identity, a deep-seated inferiority complex and, thus, a surrender which did not even have to be induced by military means. At the end of the day, it makes no difference what the locals thought they were achieving \u2013 they are now subjects of the Empire and their countries more or less irrelevant colonies in the fringe of the AngloZionist Empire. As always, the local <em>comprador<\/em> elite is now bubbling with pride at being, or so they think, accepted as equals by their new masters (think Poroshenko, Tusk or Grybauskaite) which gives them the courage to bark at Moscow from behind the NATO fence. Good for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Second is the now total colonization of Western Europe into the Empire. While NATO moved to the East, the US also took much deeper control of Western Europe which is now administered for the Empire by what the former Mayor of London once called the \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LI5oRTL-6rA\">great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u201d \u2013 faceless bureaucrats <em>\u00e0 la<\/em> Fran\u00e7ois Hollande or Angela Merkel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Third, the Empire has given its total support to semi-demonic creatures ranging from al-Khattab to Nadezhda Savchenko. The West\u2019s policy is crystal clear and simple to the extreme: if it is anti-Russian we back it. This policy is best exemplified with a Putin and Russia demonization campaign which is, in my opinion, far worse and much more hysterical than anything during the Cold War.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Fourth, the West has made a number of highly disturbing military moves including the deployment of the first elements of an anti-missile system in Eastern Europe, the dispatching of various forms of rapid reaction forces, the deployment of a few armored units, etc. NATO now has forward deployed command posts which can be used to support the engagement of a rapid reaction force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What does all this add up to?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Right now, nothing much, really. Yes, the NATO move right up to the Russian borders is highly provocative, but primarily in political terms. In purely military terms, not only is this a very bad idea (see clich\u00e9 #6 <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/debunking-popular-cliches-about-modern-warfare\/\">here<\/a>), but the size of the actual forces deployed is, in reality, tiny: the ABM system currently deployed can, at best, hope to intercept a few missiles (10-20 depending on your assumptions) as for the conventional forces they are of the battalion size (more or less 600 soldiers plus support). So right now there is categorically no real military threat to Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So why are the Russians so clearly upset?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Because the current US\/NATO moves might well be just the first steps of a much larger effort which, given enough time, might begin presenting a very real danger for Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Furthermore, the kind of rhetoric coming out of the West now is not only militaristic and russophobic, it is often outright messianic. The last time around the West had a flare up of its 1000 year old chronic \u201cmessianic syndrome\u201d condition Russia lost 20 (to 30) million people. So the Russians can be forgiven if they are paying a great deal of attention to what the AngloZionist propaganda actually says about them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Russians are most dismayed at the re-colonization of western Europe. Long gone are the days when people like Charles de Gaulle, Helmut Schmidt or Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand, were in charge of Europe\u2019s future. For all their very real faults, these men were at least real patriots and not just US colonial administrators. The \u2018loss\u2019 of Western Europe is far more concerning for the Russians than the fact that ex-Soviet colonies in Eastern Europe are now under US colonial administration. Why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Look at this from the Russian point of view.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Russians all see that the US power is on the decline and that the dollar will, sooner or later, gradually or suddenly, lose its role as the main reserve and exchange currency on the planet (this process has already begun). Simply put \u2013 unless the US finds a way to dramatically change the current international dynamic the AngloZionist Empire will collapse. The Russians believe that what the Americans are doing is, at best, to use tensions with Russia to revive a dormant Cold War v2 and, at worst, to actually start a real shooting war in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So a declining Empire with a vital need for a major crisis, a spineless Western Europe unable to stand up for its own interest, a subservient Eastern Europe just begging to turn into a massive battlefield between East and West, and a messianic, rabidly russophobic rhetoric as the background for an increase in military deployments on the Russian border. Is anybody really surprised that the Russians are taking all this very, very serious even if right now the military threat is basically non-existent?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Russian reaction<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So let us now examine the Russian reaction to Empire\u2019s stance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">First, the Russians want to make darn sure that the Americans do not give in into the illusion that a full-scale war in Europe would be like WWII which saw the US homeland only suffer a few, tiny, almost symbolic, attacks by the enemy. Since a full scale war in Europe would threaten the very existence of the Russian state and nation, the Russians are now taking measures to make darn sure that, should that happen, the US would pay an immense price for such an attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Second, the Russians are now evidently assuming that a conventional threat from the West might materialize in the foreseeable future. They are therefore taking the measures needed to counter that conventional threat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Third, since the USA appears to be dead set into deploying an anti-ballistic missile system not only in Europe, but also in the Far East, the Russians are taking the measures to both defeat and bypass this system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Russian effort is a vast and a complex one, and it covers almost every aspect of Russian force planing, but there are four examples which, I think, best illustrate the Russian determination not to allow a 22 June 1941 to happen again:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The re-creation of the First Guards Tank Army (in progress)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The deployment of the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system (done)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The deployment of the Sarmat ICBM (in progress)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The deployment of the Status-6 strategic torpedo (in progress)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The re-creation of the First Guards Tank Army<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is hard to believe, but the fact is that between 1991 and 2016 Russia did not have a single large formation (division size and bigger) in its Western Military District. A few brigades, regiments and battalions which nominally were called an \u201cArmy\u201d. To put it simply \u2013 Russia clearly did not believe that there was a conventional military threat from the West and therefore she did not even bother deploying any kind of meaningful military force to defend from such a non-existing threat. By the way, that fact should also tell you everything you need to know about Russian plans to invade the Ukraine, Poland or the Baltics: this is utter nonsense. This has now dramatically changed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Russia has officially announced that the First Guards Tank Army (a formation with a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1st_Guards_Tank_Army_%28Soviet_Union%29\">prestigious and very symbolic history<\/a><\/strong><\/span>). This Guards Tank Army will now include the 4th \u201c<em>Kantemirov<\/em>\u201d Guards Tank Division, the 2nd \u201c<em>Taman<\/em>\u201d Guards Motorized Rifle Division, the 6th Tank Brigade, the 27th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade Sevastopol and many support units. This Army\u2019s HQ will be located in the Odinstovo suburb of Moscow. Currently the Army is equipped with T-72B3 and T-80 main battle tanks, but they will be replaced by the brand new and revolutionary <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/why-russias-new-tanks-are-a-wake-up-call-for-the-us\/\">T-14 Armata tank<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>while the current infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers will be replaced by the new <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bumerang\">APC<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kurganets-25\">IFV<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. In the air, these armored units will be protected and supported by Mi-28 and Ka-52 attack helicopters. Make no mistake, this will be a very large force, exactly the kind of force needed so smash through an attacking enemy forces (by the way, the 1TGA was present at the Kursk battle). I am pretty sure that by the time the 1TGA is fully organized it will become the most powerful armored formation anywhere between the Atlantic and the Urals (especially in qualitative terms). If the current tensions continue or even worsen, the Russians could even augment the 1TGA to a type of 21<sup>st<\/sup> century \u201cShock Army\u201d with increased mobility and specializing in breaking deep into the enemy\u2019s defenses.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The deployment of the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The new Iskander-M operational tactical missile system is a formidable weapon by any standard. While technically it is a short-range tactical missile (under 1000km range, the Iskander-M has an official range of 500km), it can also fire the R-500 missile has the capability of striking at an intermediate\/operational range (over 1000km, the R-500 has a range of 2000km). It is extremely accurate, it has advanced anti-ABM capabilities, it flies at hypersonic speeds and is practically undetectable on the ground (see <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/9K720_Iskander\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for more details). This will be the missile tasked with destroying all the units and equipment the US and NATO have forward-deployed in Eastern Europe and, if needed, clear the way for the 1TGA.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The deployment of the Sarmat ICBM<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Neither the 1TGA nor the Iskander-M missile will threaten the US homeland in any way. Russia thus needed some kind of weapon which would truly strike fear into the Pentagon and White House in the way the famous RS-36 Voevoda (aka SS-18 \u201cSatan\u201d in US classification) did during the Cold War. The SS-18, the most powerful ICBM ever developed, was scary enough. The RS-28 \u201cSarmat\u201d (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RS-28_Sarmat\">SS-X-30<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>by NATO classification) brings the terror to a totally new level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Sarmat is nothing short of amazing. It will be capable of carrying 10-15 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multiple_independently_targetable_reentry_vehicle\">MIRVed<\/a><\/strong><\/span> warheads which will be delivered in a so-called \u201cdepressed\u201d (suborbital) trajectory and which will remain maneuverable at hypersonic speeds. The missile will not have to use the typical trajectory over the North Pole but will be capable of reaching any target anywhere on the planet from any trajectory. All these elements combined will make the Sarmat itself and its warheads completely impossible to intercept.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Sarmat will also be capable of delivering conventional Iu-71 hypersonic warheads capable of a \u201ckinetic strike\u201d which could be used to strike a fortified enemy target in a non-nuclear conflict. This will be made possible by the amazing accuracy of the Sarmat\u2019s warheads which, courtesy of a recent Russian leak, we now know have a CEP of 10 meters (see screen capture)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Sarmat\u2019s silos will be protected by a unique \u201cactive protection measures\u201d which will include 100 guns capable of firing a \u201cmetallic cloud\u201d of forty thousand 30mm \u201cbullets\u201d to an altitude of up to 6km. The Russians are also planning to protect the Sarmat with their new S-500 air defense systems. Finally, the Sarmat\u2019s preparation to start time will be under 60 seconds thanks a a highly automated launch system. What this all means is that the Sarmat missile will be invulnerable in its silo, during it\u2019s flight and on re-entry in the lower parts of the atmosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is interesting to note that while the USA has made a great deal of noise around its planned <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prompt_Global_Strike\">Prompt Global Strike<\/a><\/strong><\/span> system, the Russians have already begun deploying their own version of this concept.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The deployment of the Status-6 strategic torpedo<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Do you remember the carefully staged \u201cleak\u201d in November of last year when <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/did-russia-just-gently-threaten-the-usa\/\">the Russians \u2018inadvertently\u2019 showed a super dooper secret strategic torpedo on prime time news<\/a>?<\/strong><\/span> Here is this (in)famous slide:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Status6-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-133811\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Status6-2015.jpg\" alt=\"Status6-2015\" width=\"528\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Status6-2015.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Status6-2015-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What is shown here is an \u201cautonomous underwater vehicle\u201d which has advanced navigational capabilities but which can also be remote controlled and steered from a specialized command module. This vehicle can dive as deep as 1000m, at a speed up to 185km\/h and it has a range of up to 10\u2019000km. It is delivered by specially configured submarines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Status-6 system can be used to target aircraft carrier battle groups, US navy bases (especially SSBN bases) and, in its most frighting configuration, it can be used to deliver <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cobalt_bomb\">high-radioactivity cobalt bombs <\/a><\/strong><\/span>capable of laying waste to huge expanses of land. The Status-6 delivery system would be a new version of the T-15 torpedo which would be 24m long, 1,5m wide weigh 40 tons and capable of delivering a <strong>100 megaton warhead<\/strong> which would make it twice as powerful as the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated, the Soviet <strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tsar_Bomba\">Czar-bomb<\/a><\/strong> (57 megatons). Hiroshima was only 15 kilotons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Keep in mind that most of the USA\u2019s cities and industrial centers are all along the coastline which makes them extremely vulnerable to torpedo based attacks (be it Sakharov\u2019s proposed \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/john.bengtson.9\/posts\/10202519228606552\">Tsunami bomb<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u201d or the Status-6 system). And, just as in the case of the Iskander-M or the Sarmat ICBM, the depth and speed of the Status-6 torpedo would make it basically invulnerable to incerception.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Evaluation:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There is really nothing new in all of the above, and US military commanders have always known that. All the US anti-ballistic missile systems have always been primarily a financial scam, from Reagan\u2019s \u201cStar Wars\u201d to Obama\u2019s \u201canti-Iranian ABM\u201d. For one thing, any ABM system is susceptible to \u2018local saturation\u2019: if you have X number ABM missile protecting a Y long space against an X number of missiles, all that you need to do is to saturate only one sector of the Y space with *a lot* of real and fake missiles by firing them all together through one small sector of the Y space the ABM missile system is protecting. And there are plenty of other measures the Russians could take. They could put just one single SLBM capable submarine in Lake Baikal making it basically invulnerable. There is already some discussion of that idea in Russia. Another very good option would be to re-activate the Soviet <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RT-23_Molodets\">BzhRK rail-mobile ICBM<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Good luck finding them in the immense Russian train network. In fact, the Russians have plenty of cheap and effective measure. Want me to list one more?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Sure!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Take the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/3M-54_Klub\">Kalibr cruise-missile<\/a><\/strong><\/span> recently seen in the war in Syria. Did you know that it can be shot from a typical commerical container, like the ones you will find on trucks, trains or ships? Check out this excellent video which explains this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mbUU_9bOcnM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Just remember that the Kalibr has a range of anywhere between 50km to 4000km and that it can carry a nuclear warhead. How hard would it be for Russia to deploy these cruise missiles right off the US coast in regular container ships? Or just keep a few containers in Cuba or Venezuela? This is a system which is so undetectable that the Russians could deploy it off the coast of Australia to hit the NSA station in Alice Springs if they wanted, an nobody would even see it coming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The reality is that the notion that the US could trigger a war against Russia (or China for that matter) and not suffer the consequences on the US mainland is absolutely ridiculous. And yet, when I hear all the crazy talk by western politicians and generals I get the impression that they are forgetting about this undeniable fact. Frankly, even the current threats against Russia have a \u2018half-backed\u2019 feel to them: a battalion here, another one there, a few missiles here, a few more there. It is like the rulers of the Empire don\u2019t realize that it is a very, very bad idea to constantly poke a bear when all you are carrying with you is a pocket-knife. Sometimes the reaction of western politicians remind me of the thugs who try to rob a gas station with a plastic or empty gun and who are absolutely stunned with they get gunned down by the owner or the cops. This kind of thuggery is nothing more than a form of \u201csuicide by cop\u201d which never ends well for the one trying to get away with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So sometimes things have to be said directly and unambiguously: western politicians better not believe in their own imperial hubris. So far, all their threats have achieved is that the Russians have responded with a many but futile verbal protests and a <strong>full-scale program to prepare Russia for WWIII<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As I have written many times, Russians are very afraid of war and they will go out of their way to avoid it. But they are also ready for war. This is a uniquely Russian cultural feature which the West has misread an innumerable number of time over the past 1000 years or so. Over and over again have the Europeans attacked Russia only to find themselves into a fight they would never have imagined, even in their worst nightmares. This is why the Russians like to say that \u201cRussia never starts wars, she only ends them\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There is a profound cultural chasm between how the West views warfare and how the Russians do. In the West, warfare is, really, \u201cthe continuation of politics by other means\u201d. For Russians, it is a ruthless struggle for survival. Just look at generals in the West: they are polished and well mannered managers much more similar to corporate executives than with, say, Mafia bosses. Take a look at Russian generals (for example, watch the Victory Day parade in Moscow). In comparison to their western colleagues they look almost brutish, because first and foremost they are ruthless and calculating killers. I don\u2019t mean that in a negative way \u2013 they often are individually very honorable and even kind men, and like every good commander, they care for their men and love their country. But the business they are in in not the continuation of politics by other means, the business they are in is survival. At all cost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">You cannot judge a military or, for that matter, a nation, by how it behaves when it triumphs, when it is on the offensive pursing a defeated enemy. All armies look good when they are winning. You can really judge of the nature of a military, or a nation, at its darkest hour, when things are horrible and the situation worse than catastrophic. That was the case in 1995 when the Eltsin regime ordered a totally unprepared, demoralized, poorly trained, poorly fed, poorly equipped and completely disorganized Russian military (well, a few hastily assembled units) to take Grozny from the Chechens. It was hell on earth. Here is some footage of General Lev Rokhlin in a hastily organized command post in a basement inside Grozy. He is as exhausted, dirty and exposed as any of his soldiers. Just look at his face and look at the faces of the men around him. This is what the Russian army looks like when it is in the depth of hell, betrayed by the traitors sitting in the Kremlin and abandoned by most if the Russian people (who, I am sorry to remind here, mostly were only were dreaming of McDonalds and Michael Jackson in 1995).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4KpUlDu5tYk\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Can you imagine, say, General Wesley Clark or David Petraeus fighting like these men did?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Check out this video of General Shamanov reading the riot act to a local Chechen politician (no translation need):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rZ8Xd9ZPoGI\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Shamanov nowadays is the Commander in Chief of the Airborne Forces whose size Putin quietly <strong>doubled <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/russia-to-double-size-of-airborne-forces-over-the-next-7-years\">to 72\u2019000<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, something I mentioned in the past as highly relevant, especially in comparison with the rather tepid force level increases announced by NATO (see \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/the-eus-suicide-by-reality-denial\/\">EU suidice by reality denial<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u201d). To get a feel for what modern Russian airborne forces are like, check out <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/a-look-into-the-modern-russian-airborne-forces\/\">this<\/a><\/strong><\/span> article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is not my intention here to glorify nuclear war or the Russian Armed Forces. The reason for this, and many other, articles is to try to raise the alarm about what I see is happening nowadays. Western leaders are drunk on their own imperial hubris, nations which in the past were considered as minor stains on a map now feel emboldened to constantly provoke a nuclear superpower, Americans are being lied to and promised that some magical high tech will protect them from war while the Russians are seriously gearing up for WWIII because they have come to the conclusion that the only way to prevent that war is to make absolutely and unequivocally clear to the AngloZionists that they will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/a-spherical-bunker-in-russia-was-the-most-secure-place-in-the-entire-cold-war-2015-3\">never survive a war with Russia, even if every single Russian is killed<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I remember the Cold War well. I was part of it. And I remember that the vast majority of us, on both sides, realized that a war between Russia and the West must be avoided at all costs. Now I am horrified when I read articles by senior officials seriously discussing such a possibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Just read this article, please: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/What-would-a-war-between-the-EU-and-Russia-look-like\/answer\/Sorin-Adam-Matei-1\">What would a war between the EU and Russia look like<\/a><\/strong><\/span>? Here is what this guy writes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>To the poetically inclined, the Russian military looks more like a gigantic pirate crew, than a regular army. The ones who rule are the ones with the sharpest cutlass and biggest mouth, typically some scurvy infested mateis who rely on the support of their mates to make any unpopular \u201cofficer\u201d walk the plank\u2026 Or, more apt, they resemble the members of the cossack horde, run by the brashier warriors\u2026 While these troops can be very brave, at times, they are not effective in the field against a well regulated and trained modern military machine. Given this, it is improbably, ney, impossible for ordinary Russian troops to conduct operations of major consequence at more than platoon level against any disciplined armies, especially the US, British, German, or French.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/archiac-veiw-of-Russian-Army.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-133816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/archiac-veiw-of-Russian-Army.jpg\" alt=\"archiac veiw of Russian Army\" width=\"547\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/archiac-veiw-of-Russian-Army.jpg 547w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/archiac-veiw-of-Russian-Army-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This kind of writing really scares me. Not because of the imbecilic and racist stupidity of it, but because it largely goes unchallenged in the mainstream media. Not only that, there are plenty such articles written elsewhere (see <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-buzz\/not-so-scary-why-russias-military-paper-tiger-14136\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>her<\/strong><strong>e<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Articles\/2014\/04\/30\/Russia-s-Military-Bear-Paper-Tiger\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span> or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/imrussia.org\/en\/analysis\/world\/2389-russias-military-is-a-paper-tiger-in-the-baltic\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span>). Of course, the authors of that kind of \u201canalyses\u201d make their money precisely the kind of manic cheer-leading for the western forces, but that is exactly the mindset which got Napoleon and Hitler in trouble and which ended with Russian forces stationed in Paris and Berlin. Compare that kind of jingoistic and, frankly, irresponsible nonsense with what a real military commander, Montgomery, had to say on this topic:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>The next war on land will be very different from the last one, in that we shall have to fight it in a different way. In reaching a decision on that matter, we must first be clear about certain rules of war. Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: \u201cDo not march on Moscow\u201d. Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So who do you trust? Professional cheerleaders or professional soldiers? Do you really believe that Obama (or Hillary), Merkel and Hollande will do better than Napoleon or Hitler?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If the AngloZionist \u2018deep state\u2019 is really delusional enough to trigger a war with Russia, in Europe or elsewhere, the narcissistic and hedonistic West, drunk on its own propaganda and hubris, will discover a level of violence and warfare it cannot even imagine and if that only affected those responsible for these reckless and suicidal policies it would be great. But the problem is, of course, that many millions of us, simple, regular people, will suffer and die as a consequence of our collective failure to prevent that outcome. I hope and pray that my repeated warnings will at least contribute to what I hope is a growing realization that this folly has to be immediately stopped and that sanity must return to politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theduran.com\/russia-preparing-ww3\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Russia is really doing in response to the growing threat from the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":132559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133810"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133818,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133810\/revisions\/133818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}