Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Putin warns of thermonuclear war

October 31, 2014 EIR International 53
Oct. 26—Russian President Vladimir Putin used the
occasion of the annual Valdai Club dialogue in Sochi,
Russia, Oct. 24 to deliver a sweeping assessment of the
present danger of global war, and the efforts that Russia
is taking to avert that outcome.
Coverage of Putin’s speech in
the Western media was either
slanderous mis-characterization
(“Putin is blackmailing the
West”), or simply non-existent.
The essence of the Russian
President’s message was that
the Western powers, particularly
the United States, are
tearing apart the world order,
and attempting to impose a
take-it-or-leave-it unilateral
system, that violates all of the
core principles of the post-
World War II order that was
established to avoid thermonuclear
holocaust. Putin
pointed to Washington’s 2002
cancellation of the ABM
Treaty, and the building of a
unilateral global missile defense
system, along with the
development of new, precision,
high-intensity conventional
weapons that have put
the world on the brink of pre-emptive thermonuclear
war.
He detailed the West’s promotion of Islamist terrorism,
dating back to the Afghanistan War of the 1980s,
warning that the use of al-Qaeda
and the Taliban against the
former Soviet Union is now
backfiring in the face of the U.S.
and its allies, a process which
began with the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks
on New York and Washington.
The West, he warned, is
promoting radical jihadists and
the revival of neo-Nazi movements
(viz., Ukraine), which
will turn on their sponsors at
some point soon.
He identified the new form of
color revolution regime-change
that has torn apart the core principle
of national sovereignty,
citing the case of Syria as the
most clear, ongoing example.
Putin also juxtaposed the
emergence of new cooperative
arrangements among leading
Eurasian nations, through the
Shanghai Cooperation Organization,
the BRICS, and the Eurasian
Economic Union. Nations
Putin Speaks the Truth about
NATO’s War Provocations
by Jeffrey Steinberg
EIR International
Presidential Press & Information Office
In his speech to the Valdai International Discussion
Club Oct. 24, President Putin delivered a stark
assessment of the war danger, and Russia’s efforts
to prevent it.
54 International EIR October 31, 2014
are looking to develop bilateral and multilateral trade
agreements outside the control of the dollar. This is in
part in response to the out-of-control use of punitive
sanctions against any nation that dares to challenge the
new unipolar system.
The Battle for Kobani
Putin’s warnings came at a moment when events on
the ground in the Middle East were dramatizing his case.
The conflicts in Syria, Iraq, and Libya all moved in a
direction where larger regional conflicts could erupt at
any moment. Turkey remained at odds with its NATO
partners, in blocking Kurdish fighters from crossing the
border into northern Syria, where the town of Kobani
remains under siege by the Islamic State (IS). Intense
negotiations between Washington and Ankara were reported
to have reached an agreement by which several
hundred Iraqi Kurdish fighters were to be allowed to
cross Turkish territory to reach Kobani; however, Turkey
stalled on allowing the fighters to cross into Syria.
IS is now preparing to send heavy reinforcements
into the Kobani battle, while also launching new military
operations in the Kurdish region of Iraq. Turkey’s
refusal to allow U.S. fighter planes to use the Incerlik
Air Base, just 100 miles from Kobani, has greatly hampered
the air campaign against IS in Iraq and Syria, because
U.S. planes are flying long distances from bases,
and an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.
According to news accounts in the past 24 hours,
one of the Islamic State’s top commanders, Omar Al-
Shishani (Omar the Chechen), is being sent to take over
the Kobani offensive. He has vowed to bring the Islamic
State’s war back to the Caucasus to bring down
the Putin government.
Bearing out Putin’s warnings, the Obama State and
Treasury departments are using heavy-handed pressure
to force two key Asian allies—Australia and South
Korea—to back out of plans to become founding signers
on the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB),
a Chinese initiative to invest in New Silk Road infrastructure
through new long-term credit. In the case of
Australia, Secretary of State John Kerry personally
arm-twisted Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot into
cancelling plans to sign an MoU in Beijing on Oct. 24.
Twenty-one countries have signed the agreement, including
China, India, Vietnam, and the Philippines. In
the case of South Korea, sources in Seoul indicated that
Washington offered a bunch of carrots to the Park
Geun-hye government, to keep it from signing, including
an agreement to postpone the transfer of command
of the joint U.S.-South Korean force on the peninsula to
South Korea’s armed forces.
The effort to sabotage the start-up of the AIIB comes
at the same time that the U.S. military is increasing
coastal surveillance of China’s major submarine facilities,
and deepening military ties to Japan. The underlying
premise of Washington’s AirSea Battle doctrine is
that the U.S. would launch preemptive attacks on strategic
facilities that are part of Beijing’s anti-access/area
denial (A2/AD) capabilities. Like the color revolution
and global missile defense deployments aimed against
Russia, the AirSea Battle plans greatly increase the
chances of a thermonuclear showdown.
When combined with the out-of-control Ebola epidemic
and the crisis in the trans-Atlantic financial system,
the war danger from the policies of the Obama Administration
poses an existential threat to the survival of mankind.
Lyndon LaRouche has made clear that, while there
are readily available solutions to each of these three existential
threats, no solution is possible so long as British
stooge Barack Obama remains in the Presidency.

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