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Condensed World Armies
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World Paramilitary Forces 2006
Analysis
WE BRING YOU THE WORLD ©
Published on an ad hoc basis
Declassified Gulf II Planning Documents
Report on US Army
readiness March 2007
[Thanks Joseph Stefula]
Welcome to America Goes To War. We focus on news
about the war on terror and other important strategic matters.
0230 GMT August 20,
2008
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Russia
Preparing To Recognize Abkhaz, S. Ossetia Independence
says Times London. The Duma has been recalled for next
Monday to consider a request by Abhkazia for recognition;
the South Ossetia rebel leader says he will follow.
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Russia has
signed 14 UN resolutions/agreements recognizing these
territories as and integral part of Georgia, so accepting
their independence will be a major change. It will permit
the Russians to kick out the UN, NATO/EU observers, Georgian
forces permitted by treaty and so on, and to increase their
own troops deployments if the latter is what they want.
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Russia
suspends All Cooperation With NATO A Soviet official is
supposed to have phoned the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow and
told them about this development, which is not confirmed.
Trying to guess what the Bear is up to is seldom a
productive activity, but this could be a trial balloon to
gauge the west's reaction. For example, if the west starts
groveling then Russia knows it has leverage. If the west
says "OK, TaTa", the Russians know they do not have
leverage.
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Russia says it
has cancelled an exercise with a US warship; the US said
earlier it was canceling the participation of the Russian
Navy.
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Russia Drops
S. Ossetia Civilian Toll to 133, from the 2000 it has
been yelling and screaming about as it claimed genocide. So
what's behind this change? Our guess - and this is pure
speculation -is that unless Russia bars all foreigners from
South Ossetia, its fairly easy to get accurate casualty
counts. The entire province has/had 70,000 persons. A second
reason might be that by giving a count that may actually be
somewhat under the real figure, Russia hopes that foreigners
will have no incentive to disprove the Russian figure and
will not bother mucking around in Georgia where the
foreigners will find some serious ethnic cleansing going on.
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Syrian Pigeon
Coos Softly In The Bear's Ear President Assad Junior is
in Moscow to buy weapons and to offer Russia basing rights
for SS-26 short-range ballistic missiles. No word on if
Russia is interested in the basing rights, but surely Russia
will be interested in Syria's offer to permit basing rights
at Tartus. This would give the Russians their first base in
the Mediterranean since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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The Russian
President did call the Israeli Prime Minister to say he
valued Russian-Israeli ties.
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Peculiar
Story On US 767 Sale To Israel Jerusalem Post says US
sources say US has refused to sell Boeing 767s to Israel
because it doesn't want to be accused of providing air
refuellers that could be used to strike Iran.
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JPost finds the
report odd because it cant get the military to confirm, and
notes that Israel Aircraft Industries has just been awarded
a $22-million contract to convert more B-707s to tankers to
add to the IAF's small number of existing B-707 tankers. We
will not speculate on numbers till we have a better idea of
how the deal is structured. For example, are new engines
involved and are the engines to be supplied by the IAF? The
tankers will be in service by 2009.
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Also, we're
unclear why Israel would want 767 tankers from the US.
Buying cargo 767s for El Al and then providing kits for
emergency conversion to tankers would make more sense than
to tie up - say - 4 expensive new 767s.
0230 GMT August 19, 2008
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Afghanistan
Fighters loyal to the outlaw warlord Gulbaddin Hekmatyar,
possibly the most wanted man in Afghanistan, ambushed a
newly arrived French paratroop patrol 30 km from
Afghanistan, killing 10 paras and wounding about two dozen.
Thirteen enemy bodies were recovered, more are certain to
have died. President Sarkozy, to give him credit, reiterated
that France will not be driven from Afghanistan by
casualties.
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Taliban fighters
made a "complex attack" on the big US base at Khost. Perhaps
20 were killed, it would appear mainly by Afghan special
forces who caught the Taliban some kilometers from the base.
Ten suicide bombers were among the Taliban killed. No allied
dead reported.
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We are going
Austin Power on the "complex attack" because - goodness
gracious - the Taliban attacked at night under the cover of
a rocket barrage, and the suiciders were supposed to breach
the base's walls and Taliban fighters were supposed to have
entered. Okay, we concede this exceptionally simple-minded
attack is "complex" as far as the Taliban go because their
officers and leaders seem to suffer from RIQS - Reduced IQ
Syndrome and for years have been doing the stupidest things.
But lets face it, folks. This was not a complex attack.
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The reason we
say that is the suicide bombers. You do not use idiots
wanting to die as their foremost objective as sappers. You
use your best men, very carefully trained, and their object
is to breach walls, not to die. If some die in the process,
well, that's war, but if you are going to attack with the
object of attaining martyrdom, you are likely to get your
wish without creating much of a military impact. Ask the
ghosts of the 600,000 Iranians that died in 1980-88: several
hundred thousands were the then equivalent of suicide
troops. Iran did push Iraq out of its territory, but the
Iranians lost 3 men/boys to each Iraqi.
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It speaks very
badly for the manner in which this attack was conducted that
the main column was itself ambushed and wiped out.
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Anyhows, in
large part our comments are irrelevant because the Taliban
don't mind taking casualties and they are killing larger and
larger numbers of foreign troops. So far, of course, this
hasn't bothered the foreigners, because the overall numbers
are tiny.
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NATO/US are busy
blaming Pakistan for this resurgence of Taliban activity,
supposed to be at the highest level since 2001. We'd prefer
if NATO/US would stop whining and shift the blame where it
belongs, namely on themselves. It is actually not Pakistan's
job to commit hara kiri by stopping the Taliban, who are for
all practical purposes, Pakistan forces fighting to enhance
Pakistan's security. It is for NATO/US to seal the border
themselves, and the alliance has let so much time pass that
the job is going to be 10 times harder than it might have
been even just two years ago. So, NATO/US, good luck with
all that. But can you please stop whining. Its getting
tiresome.
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Comedy
Central: Georgia NATO has apparently discovered - and is
shocked, shocked - that the Russian definition of
"withdrawal" from Georgia is different from the French
definition. Paris took the lead in encouraging a ceasefire
and a withdrawal of Russian forces to pre-war positions. As
far as the Russians are concerned, they are
withdrawing. But then what about all this blowing up of
equipment at Georgian military bases, the patrols that seem
to just sort of creep forward deeper into Georgia, and most
charming, the Russian SS-21 SSM batteries that are digging
in well inside Georgia?
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See, folks, the
Russians said very clearly from the start they were going to
do what they thought neccessary to protect Abkhazia
and South Ossetia, and they made is quite clear they were
going to create an exclusion zone that basically covered the
northern half of Georgia. They also said they were not going
to allow Georgian troops inside the two breakaway areas in
any form or shape.
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So how can
anyone accuse the Russians of perfidy, as people are now
doing, and how can anyone say Russian intentions are
unclear? What does NATO want by way of clarification? Do
they want the Russians to produce a kindergarten primer with
simple explanations such as G(eorgia) is for
Province-Of-Russia, and P(eace) is for No-Army-For-Georgia,
and S(ecurity) is for
The-Only-Good-Georgian-Is-A-Dead-Georgian?
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The Russians
have said what they are going to do a hundred times in a
dozen different ways. If NATO is not getting it, maybe NATO
needs to go back to elementary school and learn to read and
listen.
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Back At The
Ranch Readers may recall our saying - and the media
saying many times - that the situation in the north of Iraq
is very tense because there are multiple claimants for
Kirkuk, which sits in the middle of the northern oil fields.
The Kurds say it is theirs and that Saddam's ethnic
cleansing of the Kurds and resettlement by Arabs has to be
undone. The Arabs say where are we now supposed to go, we've
been living here for a generation. The Turkeman, backed by
Turkey which threatens to invade to support its ethnic
brothers, say they have been in Kirkuk a few centuries and
it's theirs. Etc etc.
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The issue was
supposed to have been settled by a referendum, and -
understandably - the referendum keeps getting delayed
because there seems no peaceful resolution.
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We'd mentioned
that the Kurds have been ethnically cleansing the region of
Arabs - albeit in a more humane way that most such cleansing
takes place. They have been giving Arabs settlers money and
safe passage out of the region, in other words a deal the
Arabs cannot refuse.
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Now we learn
from the International Herald Tribune that Kurdish security
forces, police, and intelligence control Kirkuk. The Kurdish
forces have cooperated fully with the Americans and have
fought AQI as well as Sunni terrorists/militias in the north
on behalf of the Americans. But there are at least two,
maybe three, Iraq Army divisions composed mainly of Kurdish
troops who have been formed, trained, equipped etc by the
Americans. In a showdown, no need to guess which side the
Kurdish divisions are going to back. Hint: we wouldn't put
our money on Baghdad.
0230 GMT August 18, 2008
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Russia Withdrawing From
Georgia/Russia Not Withdrawing From Georgia This headline summarizes
the complete situation, so we do not need to amplify.
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Meanwhile, Russia's
president has blasted Georgian "morons" and says they will not go
"unpunished".
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Also meanwhile, ethnic
cleansing by South Ossetia militia and Russian forces continues;
naturally, this is of no consequence. If the world has no stomach to
stand up to Russia invading a sovereign member of the UN, the world
certainly has no stomach to stand up to Russia on its own ethnic
cleansing. There are ideals, and there are realities. When it
comes to their ideals about what their own governments do, westerners
are never short of outrage. When it comes to their ideals being violated
by a snarling, fanged bear in a fighting mood, the good people of the
west turn a Nelsonian eye. No point even saying the good people of the
west are wimps and cowards. Just as there is no point saying the sun
rises and sets each day.
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Hilarious article by the
French president - who we genuinely like and admire for his personal
life - in the Washington Post. All about how he is courageously standing
up to Russia. Sarko, old buddy old pal, give it up. We know its that
delicious Bordeaux Red talking. Instead of talking, why don't you
dispatch a French battalion to Tbilisi? It's right next door,
practically.
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No? Not a good idea? Let's
have another glass of the divine Red and listen to another sad love
song, and stick an unlit Gauloise between our lips (can't light it, not
politically correct), adjust our berets, and leer at the beautiful legs
of that stunning raven-haired Parisian walking past our cafe.
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More Bad News For Green
Haters The State of Colorado mandated some years ago that in 10
years or whatever, 10% of its energy had to come from renewables. The
conventional energy lobby - which is very strong in Colorado because of
the state's natural gas resources - fought the mandate tooth-and-nail.
Then of a sudden it changed its mind and jumped into renewables with all
four paws. Result? State has achieved its target 8 years early, and the
conventional energy generators (who are now also renewable energy
generators) have agreed to up the ante and go for a 20% target.
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In fact, the leading energy
producer has filed its intent to shut down two coal-fired plants without
replacement.
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All we can say is, Orbat.com
is second-to-none in hating Greens, but you have to admire what the
conventional lot have achieved, green-wise. Yes, yes, we know Colorado
is different because its people dont mind paying for green power, lots
of tax breaks (BTW the conventional energy people also get a lot of
breaks), and Colorado has no heavy industry to speak of, there's still
the base-load problem etc etc. But the Coloradans have acted instead of
moaning and whining, and they are showing the way.
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Pakistan President
Resigns and local media says he will leave for another country. It's
beside the point now to mention that the fall of this dictator came
about because he wasn't even a pretend dictator. He was far too soft to
even be a regular politician, leave alone a dictator.
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US Arctic Superiority In
Danger/US Asleep at The Switch As Usual Nowdays We need to get back to work, but
you can read all about it here.
0230 GMT August
17, 2008
So, What's
Happening In The Rest Of The World?
Very Little
Apparently
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Isn't It So
Considerate Of The News That It Understands journalists
need a weekend break like anyone else and thoughtfully
decides not to happen on a Sunday, and if at all possible,
not on a Saturday too?
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Olympics
with the Chinese lead increasing to 37 golds to US's 19, the
US media has begun facing up to the likelihood America is
not going to come first. And of course that 19 includes 8
golds by one person, Mark Phelps the swimming
legend-in-his-lifetime.
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We learn from
the UK Telegraph that in 1996 UK sank to a single gold
medal, but just 12 years later is at 11 with the possibility
of five more. The secret? Not much of a secret, apparently.
UK decided to divert money from National Lottery winnings to
sports training.
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Gori, Georgia
The Russians say they will start leaving Georgia today,
but seem to be creating a situation in which we can
endlessly debate what "leave" means. They appear to be
strengthening their positions in Gori, have completely
banned the Georgian government, police, city administration
to enter, and have replaced the TV and radio station with
their own, apparently tuned only to Russia. Meanwhile, they
keep their checkposts on the main west-east highway,
including one just 30-km from Tbilisi.
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By the way, we
are quite annoyed with the media for continuing to identify
anything with tracks as a Russian tank, and particularly
IFVs and SP artillery. Is there no qualification at all
required to be a reporter?
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Asia Times discusses Israel-Georgia military
cooperation.
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Germany To
Georgia: You Can Join NATO Much to our surprise, Chief
of the Super Wimps, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany,
which has been the leader in thwarting the US effort to get
Georgia into NATO, has visited the Georgia capital and says
Georgia can join NATO if it wishes to do so.
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Now, assuming
that this is not more political hot air, and that assuming
that when Georgia says "we've been trying to join, of course
we want" the Wimp Brigade doesn't come up with 999 more
things Georgia has to do before it is permitted to join,
this is a huge change in Germany's position.
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We'd figured
Georgia's bid to join NATO was pretty much toast after the
recent war, but apparently the West has been shocked out of
its senility, at least for now. This could be a major
setback for Russia's policy of intimidation as a way of
keeping people out of NATO.
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But before
people start partying, its best to remember that the
Russians are a very tough bunch of patriots. Its likely that
Georgia joining will only harden their positions and
increase their belligerence. The Russians have a lot to lose
if they quietly accept Georgia-in-NATO.
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And its always
best to remember that if the West got serious on energy
independence from Russia today, it will still take ten years
to the point they can tell Russia where it can get off. And
since the Russians will also have ready markets for the
hydrocarbon resources, they will still keep getting vast
sums of money each year. They may just decide they dont have
to compromise with anyone.
0230 GMT August 17, 2008
So, What's Happening
In The Rest Of The World?
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In Beijing,
America's Sorry Backside Is Being Whipped by the Chinese
sports machine. Subtracting Mark Phelps' 7 golds, US is
running 3-to-1 behind China. Of course, the Chinese have the
home field advantage, but more to the point, they care about
winning enough to do everything to win. In America we have
such a high opinion of ourselves as the best in everything
that we have spent the last four years lollygagging, even
though the rise of China and the threat to American
supremacy has been known for at least the last 12 years.
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True, the track
and filed events where America picks up a huge haul have
just begun. At the same time, lagging China by 11 golds (16
to 27 counting Mr. Phelps) is not a good thing. The next
step is to claim that really, these medal measures are
so pointless, and that we come second shows only the
superiority of our way of life and that the Chinese come
first shows only how anti-freedom and anti-individualistic
they are.
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The editor needs
to explain something to the proponents of the "it doesn't
matter" school. National power includes many components, and
Olympic golds are a key measure. If America does not come
out on top, the rest of the world is going to take it as one
more sign of America's decline.
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From Ukraine,
An Offer To Use Its Early Warning Radars Right off, this
development has not come about because of the Georgia war,
but it has become significant because of the Georgia war.
Ukraine has two large early warning radars for missile and
air defense. The Russians abrogated their treaty requiring
Ukraine to work with the Russians, so Ukraine says it is
free to offer them to anyone.
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It says its
security can be guaranteed only through collective means -
meaning, but NATO, and its offer is a sign of good faith.
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Two problems.
First, given how the West went totally wobbly over Georgia,
what's the guarantee it is now willing to extend its
protection to Ukraine? Second, it is always a very, very bad
idea to rely on someone else for your defense.
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Ukraine is not a
small country. It has 46-million people, and using the
modest figure of 5% of the population, it could put
2.5-million regulars and reservists into the field to defend
itself. That many troops is more than just a speed bump in
case of attack from the East. Naturally this means money,
especially since Ukraine will have to in the next 10 years
bring 15 divisions to snuff, and then another 15 divisions
depending on what the Russians will do. Equally, Ukraine
will need dense air defenses. This means gigabucks.
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But then no one
said that the defense of liberty comes cheap.
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In Zimbabwe,
No Progress On Political Deadlock we deliberately have
not covered the ongoing talks between the opposition and Mr.
Mugabe, because the situation changes every day. It now
looks that Mr. Tsvangirai, the opposition leader, is willing
to settle for prime ministership while real power remains
with Mr. Mugabe, and for years rather than the months that
was his earlier demand.
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Let us see how
things work out.
0230 GMT August 16, 2008
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Sri Lanka
Army Advances on rebel de facto capital in the north,
Killinochchi. The Army has entered the Vanni area, where the
rebel capital is located.
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The Army claims
5600 rebels killed this year in a series of non-stop
offensives. The figure can be disputed, but not that the
rebels are steadily losing ground. This does not mean they
have lost the war, only that they will soon be defeated and
will have to go back to Phase III of guerilla war, where the
insurgents don't hold ground, but build up strength so they
can start taking over urban areas. Conversely, its probably
reasonable to expect that the rebels will be in great
difficulty, having lost near 20 years of gains.
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Saudi Intel
Chief In Pakistan says Jang of Pakistan. He brought a
message offering President Musharraf safe passage should the
latter decided to resign. The President seems to be on his
way out, with the civilian government working to impeach
him. Sources say he would rather resign than be impeached.
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US pushed to
have President Musharraf give up power in favor of a
democratic government. The US got what it wished for.
Orbat.com and about a hundred people warned the US
Government that while Musharraf was not the ideal person to
fight America's war on terror in the region - no Pakistan
leader can do that - his civilian successors would be far
less able to combat the insurgents. All this has to come to
pass even faster than Orbat.com expected. Now US moans and
sighs about the Good Old Days when Mush was in power.
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That's the
Americans for you - nothing keeps them happy.
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While India
and America Were Dreamily Waltzing Away a Maoist
government has taken power in Nepal. Its ministers will head
9 portfolios, including security and foreign affairs. A
major left ally gets 7 portfolios. And yet another left
party gets 4.
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So, people, we
need to be told once again how communism has failed even as
welcome the world's newest communist regime. These are not
your average Red, by the way. They are Maoists if the
peasant agrarian revolution sort. Cant get much redder than
this lot.
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Russia
Threatens Poland with N-Attack In Case Of War With West
Now, people, a quick lesson in what's important
post-Georgia. Russia yesterday made a very blatant, very
open threat against Poland for having accepted siteing of a
US Army ABM battery on its territory, just 24 hours after
the US-Poland agreement was signed.
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Don't take our
word for it: here's the direct quote from the International
Herald Tribune of what the Russian deputy defense chief, a
3-star general said:
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General Anatoly
Nogovitsyn said that any new US assets in Europe could come
under Russian nuclear attack with his forces targeting "the
allies of countries having nuclear weapons". And: He told
Russia's Interfax news agency: "By hosting these, Poland is
making itself a target. This is 100 per cent certain. It
becomes a target for attack. Such targets are destroyed as a
first priority."
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So why do we put
this last in our update? Because - to use an American
phrase, we have a completely new situation in Europe and the
world had better "get used to it." Fairly soon we will all
be yawning each time the Russians threaten another country
and work to undermine its government, including open
invasion
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The US has
agreed to give Poland advanced Patriot to boost that's
country's air defense against Soviet air and missile
threats. This is not a consequence of Georgia: the agreement
was worked out a while ago. We assume US technicians,
advisors, and perhaps even artillerymen, will come with the
Patriots.
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Meanwhile
Back At The Ranch US delivered its sternest message to
Russia by sending Ms. Condolezza Rice to Tbilisi. While MS.
Rice was in the Georgia capital, the Russians send a
reconnaissance company to within 50-km of Tbilisi - the
closest they have come to the capital.
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Oh yes, the
Russians are frightened of the US. Very frightened. Not.
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Frankly, we are
delighted. US has been so bloated with righteousness and
arrogance for the last ten years that speaking purely within
the editor's American persona, he is thrilled Washington has
been given several tight slaps by the Russians. Since when
did Washington think all it had to do is pass gas and the
world would fall in line? America is going to have to get
back to the only way national security is assured: by
talking little, and working very hard to build your
defenses. This is the way America was for the 50 years
between 1940 and 1990. It will be good to get back to
traditional American values. PS Washington: get the hint?
Stop talking and talking and talking.
Start doing.
0230 GMT August 15, 2008
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Russian Deputy Chief of
Staff on Russian Troops In Poti
"We are no longer fighting,
believe me ... We have a different problem now. Poti is one of those,
and the geography is probably going to change. We switched into the
capacity of peacekeepers."
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"As far as Poti and other places are concerned, let's agree with you
that if it (the place) is inside the peacekeeping zone of
responsibility, then it is legitimate for intelligence, information and
special groups to be there."
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"We can't sit and do nothing, we need to proceed with intelligence
operations and react adequately. This is our task, including during a
time of peace."
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In other words
Russia is not going to withdraw from Poti. The port city will not be
under Georgian control. if you look at the
Georgia map you will see Poti is
halfway down the Georgia coast. If this can be returned to Georgian
control, neither can the northern half of the country because the north
includes just about most Georgia military bases.
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Therefore: quod erat demonstrandum, or QED, a term generations of
long-suffering geometry students are all-too-familiar with, including
the editor, who teaches geometry and is also, from time to time, a
geometry student. The Latin term means "that which was to be
demonstrated, has been demonstrated". The editor's first geometry
teacher, back in school, half a century or more ago, used to say: "QED:
Quite Easily Done". This is a math nerd joke, if you don't find it
funny, not to worry. You are normal.
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All readers need to be aware the Russian commander's statement was not
issued a while ago. It was issued yesterday, AFTER the most dire
warnings from the US about damage to long-term relations with Russia etc
etc etc. In other words, the Russians are telling the Americans and
everyone else: "Please remove yourself and go do something unpleasant to
you in the privacy of your own home."
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So again - as we have been warning our readers - don't bother parsing
Russian statements. There is no profit in it. They plan to occupy the
north half of Georgia, one way or the other, and they plan to ensure
that south Georgia joins north Georgia. This really is goodbye Georgia,
and we suggest we all stop wasting our time on this matter.
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Meanwhile, Georgia and Oil Politics The oil angle is definitely
important to Russia, but please, don't underestimate the Russians. The
invasion of Georgia is NOT about oil. It is about getting the west to
stop encircling and squeezing Russia. The Russians would have invaded
Georgia even if oil was not a concern.
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That said, Georgia is vital in the Battle of the Hydrocarbon Pipelines.
Put simply, central Asia has huge reserves of natural gas and
considerable quantities of oil. The Russians want these to travel
through pipelines Russia controls. The west does not.
So the west built an oil and a natural gas pipeline through Georgia.
The Bear is not happy.
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Look at this nice map from
Wikipedia
and the issues will become crystal clear. Central Asia's hydrocarbon is
only now being seriously exploited: there will be a lot more pipelines
and expansions in the next 20-30 years.
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Russia wants to control the Central Asia hydrocarbon routes not just
because it wants power over the west - western Europe already depends on
Russia for one-quarter of its energy - but also because if an exporting
country has no choice but to ship through Russia, the Russians charge a
whacking great transit fee.
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So you see, it isn't just America that's been living in Peter Pan Land
on energy. The Euros too have. The difference is that the Euros have
made and are making gigantic efforts to get away from oil dependency
while the US has been going "a tra, and a la, and a hey ho".
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The reality is the west needs to launch a crash N-power program,
yesterday. We are not talking of a few gigawatts of N-reactors. We are
talking a terrawatt for west Europe and a half terrawatt for the US (US
not only has a lot of its own oil, but Canada is a reliable supplier, so
US needs to replace only half of its oil.) So we're looking at 1500
one-gigawatt reactors in a space of 20 years, plus crash programs for
solar, wind, conservation and so on.
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There is no further time to indulge ourselves in so-called green debate.
N-reactors are in any case a lot less environmental damaging than coal
and oil.
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The west has three choices. (a) Become energy independent of not just
the Middle East but also of Russia. (b) Reduce energy consumption
by 50% in the next 20 years, which means falling standards of living.
(c) Continue as now, and get to ready to smoochie poo the Bear's very
large backside; also to learn the proper prostration procedure for the
Arabs. So far the west is just learning to kiss Arab backsides. Fairly
soon we'll have to be waiting there, ready to wipe Arab backsides with
toilet paper - and begging for the honor. And also fighting India and
China for the honor.
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The editor cannot speak for the rest of America and the Europeans. But
his grandmothers sure did not raise him to wipe anyone's backsides, and
he sure didn't bring up his children to expect to pay anyone to be
allowed to wipe their backsides.
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Its up to y'all mates. The editor will have no problem living on 50% of
the energy he now uses. That's one of the many advantages of spending 20
years in India. But will you be able to take that cut in your standard
of living?
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Signs of Hope A US utility plans to build Calvert Cliffs 3, in
Maryland, not all that far from where the editor lives. If approved -
and if the company goes through with the project - at some point 10
years from now the first US commercial reactor in 40 years will become
operational.
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So are the good people of Calvert Cliffs freaking out? Are the
demonstrating with slogans of: "Give me Green Energy or Give me Death?"
and "You'll build that reactor when you pry that solar cell from my cold
dead hands?"
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Not a bit. They are cheering. They say they've lived with two reactors
for decades. They say America needs reliable energy. They're saying
"Build the Reactor".
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Even the greens, who will present the usual challenge after challenge to
the reactor, admit there is no local support to stop the reactor.
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