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A Russian
Warning
By
Dmitry Orlov, The Saker, Victor Katsap and Evgenia
Gurevich
June 02, 2016
"Information
Clearing House"
- "ClubOrlov"
- We,
the undersigned, are Russians living and working in
the USA. We have been watching with increasing
anxiety as the current US and NATO policies have set
us on an extremely dangerous collision course with
the Russian Federation, as well as with China. Many
respected, patriotic Americans, such as Paul Craig
Roberts, Stephen Cohen, Philip Giraldi, Ray McGovern
and many others have been issuing warnings of a
looming a Third World War. But their voices have
been all but lost among the din of a mass media that
is full of deceptive and inaccurate stories that
characterize the Russian economy as being in
shambles and the Russian military as weak—all based
on no evidence. But we—knowing both Russian history
and the current state of Russian society and the
Russian military, cannot swallow these lies. We now
feel that it is our duty, as Russians living in the
US, to warn the American people that they are being
lied to, and to tell them the truth. And the truth
is simply this:
If
there is going to be a war with Russia, then the
United States
will
most certainly be destroyed, and most of us will
end up dead.
Let us take a step back and put what is happening in
a historical context. Russia has suffered a great
deal at the hands of foreign invaders, losing 22
million people in World War II. Most of the dead
were civilians, because the country was invaded, and
the Russians have vowed to never let such a disaster
happen again. Each time Russia had been invaded, she
emerged victorious. In 1812 Nepoleon invaded Russia;
in 1814 Russian cavalry rode into Paris. On June 22,
1941, Hitler’s Luftwaffe bombed Kiev; On May 8,
1945, Soviet troops rolled into Berlin.
But times have changed since then. If Hitler were to
attack Russia today, he would be dead 20 to 30
minutes later, his bunker reduced to glowing rubble
by a strike from a Kalibr supersonic cruise missile
launched from a small Russian navy ship somewhere in
the Baltic Sea. The operational abilities of the new
Russian military have been most persuasively
demonstrated during the recent action against ISIS,
Al Nusra and other foreign-funded terrorist groups
operating in Syria. A long time ago Russia had to
respond to provocations by fighting land battles on
her own territory, then launching a
counter-invasion; but this is no longer necessary.
Russia’s new weapons make retaliation instant,
undetectable, unstoppable and perfectly lethal.
Thus, if tomorrow a war were to break out between
the US and Russia, it is guaranteed that the US
would be obliterated. At a minimum, there would no
longer be an electric grid, no internet, no oil and
gas pipelines, no interstate highway system, no air
transportation or GPS-based navigation. Financial
centers would lie in ruins. Government at every
level would cease to function. US armed forces,
stationed all around the globe, would no longer be
resupplied. At a maximum, the entire landmass of the
US would be covered by a layer of radioactive ash.
We tell you this not to be alarmist, but because,
based on everything we know, we are ourselves
alarmed. If attacked, Russia will not back down; she
will retaliate, and she will utterly annihilate the
United States.
The US leadership has done everything it could to
push the situation to the brink of disaster. First,
its anti-Russian policies have convinced the Russian
leadership that making concessions or negotiating
with the West is futile. It has become apparent that
the West will always support any individual,
movement or government that is anti-Russian, be it
tax-cheating Russian oligarchs, convicted Ukrainian
war criminals, Saudi-supported Wahhabi terrorists in
Chechnya or cathedral-desecrating punks in Moscow.
Now that NATO, in violation of its previous
promises, has expanded right up to the Russian
border, with US forces deployed in the Baltic
states, within artillery range of St. Petersburg,
Russia’s second-largest city, the Russians have
nowhere left to retreat. They will not attack; nor
will they back down or surrender. The Russian
leadership enjoys over 80% of popular support; the
remaining 20% seems to feel that it is being too
soft in opposing Western encroachment. But Russia
will retaliate, and a provocation or a simple
mistake could trigger a sequence of events that will
end with millions of Americans dead and the US in
ruins.
Unlike many Americans, who see war as an exciting,
victorious foreign adventure, the Russians hate and
fear war. But they are also ready for it, and they
have been preparing for war for several years now.
Their preparations have been most effective. Unlike
the US, which squanders untold billions on dubious
overpriced arms programs such as the F-35 joint task
fighter, the Russians are extremely stingy with
their defense rubles, getting as much as 10 times
the bang for the buck compared to the bloated US
defense industry. While it is true that the Russian
economy has suffered from low energy prices, it is
far from being in shambles, and a return to growth
is expected as early as next year. Senator John
McCain once called Russia “A gas station
masquerading as a country.” Well, he lied. Yes,
Russia is the world’s largest oil producer and
second-largest oil exporter, but it is also world’s
largest exporter of grain and nuclear power
technology. It is as advanced and sophisticated a
society as the United States. Russia’s armed forces,
both conventional and nuclear, are now ready to
fight, and they are more than a match for the US and
NATO, especially if a war erupts anywhere near the
Russian border.
But such a fight would be suicidal for all sides. We
strongly believe that a conventional war in Europe
runs a strong chance of turning nuclear very
rapidly, and that any US/NATO nuclear strike on
Russian forces or territory will automatically
trigger a retaliatory Russian nuclear strike on the
continental US. Contrary to irresponsible statements
made by some American propagandists, American
antiballistic missile systems are incapable of
shielding the American people from a Russian nuclear
strike. Russia has the means to strike at targets in
the USA with long-range nuclear as well as
conventional weapons.
The sole reason why the USA and Russia have found
themselves on a collision course, instead of
defusing tensions and cooperating on a wide range of
international problems, is the stubborn refusal by
the US leadership to accept Russia as an equal
partner: Washington is dead set on being the “world
leader” and the “indispensable nation,” even as its
influence steadily dwindles in the wake of a string
of foreign policy and military disasters such as
Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen and the
Ukraine. Continued American global leadership is
something that neither Russia, nor China, nor most
of the other countries are willing to accept. This
gradual but apparent loss of power and influence has
caused the US leadership to become hysterical; and
it is but a small step from hysterical to suicidal.
America’s political leaders need to be placed under
suicide watch.
First and foremost, we are appealing to the
commanders of the US Armed Forces to follow the
example of Admiral William Fallon, who, when asked
about a war with Iran, reportedly replied “not on my
watch.” We know that you are not suicidal, and that
you do not wish to die for the sake of out-of-touch
imperial hubris. If possible, please tell your
staff, colleagues and, especially, your civilian
superiors that a war with Russia will not happen on
your watch. At the very least, take that pledge
yourselves, and, should the day ever come when the
suicidal order is issued, refuse to execute it on
the grounds that it is criminal. Remember that
according to the Nuremberg Tribunal “To initiate a
war of aggression… is not only an international
crime; it is the supreme international crime
differing only from other war crimes in that it
contains within itself the accumulated evil of the
whole.” Since Nuremberg, “I was just following
orders” is no longer a valid defense; please don’t
be war criminals.
We also appeal to the American people to take
peaceful but forceful action to oppose any
politician or party that engages in irresponsible,
provocative Russia-baiting, and that condones and
supports a policy of needless confrontation with a
nuclear superpower that is capable of destroying
America in about an hour. Speak up, break through
the barrier of mass media propaganda, and make your
fellow Americans aware of the immense danger of a
confrontation between Russia and the US.
There is no objective reason why US and Russia
should consider each other adversaries. The current
confrontation is entirely the result of the
extremist views of the neoconservative cult, whose
members were allowed to infiltrate the US Federal
government under President Bill Clinton, and who
consider any country that refuses to obey their
dictates as an enemy to be crushed. Thanks to their
tireless efforts, over a million innocent people
have already died in the former Yugoslavia, in
Afghanistan, in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, the
Ukraine, Yemen, Somalia and in many other
countries—all because of their maniacal insistence
that the USA must be a world empire, not a just a
regular, normal country, and that every national
leader must either bow down before them, or be
overthrown. In Russia, this irresistible force has
finally encountered an immovable object. They must
be forced to back down before they destroy us all.
We are absolutely and categorically certain that
Russia will never attack the US, nor any EU member
state, that Russia is not at all interested in
recreating the USSR, and that there is no “Russian
threat” or “Russian aggression.” Much of Russia’s
recent economic success has a lot to do with the
shedding of former Soviet dependencies, allowing her
to pursue a “Russia first” policy. But we are just
as certain that if Russia is attacked, or even
threatened with attack, she will not back down, and
that the Russian leadership will not “blink.” With
great sadness and a heavy heart they will do their
sworn duty and unleash a nuclear barrage from which
the United States will never recover. Even if the
entire Russian leadership is killed in a first
strike, the so-called “Dead Hand” (the “Perimetr”
system) will automatically launch enough nukes to
wipe the USA off the political map. We feel that it
is our duty to do all we can to prevent such a
catastrophe.
Evgenia Gurevich, Ph.D.
http://thesaker.ru
Victor
Katsap, PhD, Sr. Scientist
NuFlare Technology America, Inc.
Dmitry
Orlov
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com
The Saker (A. Raevsky)
http://thesaker.is
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