Rabo: There Is Strangely Little Coverage Of The Major Russian Military Mobilization Underway
Michael Every
For a Western media that for years has had Russia front and center as *the* threat to democracy, there is strangely little coverage of the major Russian military mobilization currently underway. 20,000 men, tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery have been moved to the border with Ukraine, and Russia is beginning combat readiness tests in all its military districts.
Ukrainian President Zelenskiy has begged for rapid entry into NATO, while US arms deliveries have been stepped up to his army, 25% the size of Russia’s. Russia has warned that allowing Ukraine into NATO would be a provocation that would make matters farworse – and Russian history and psychology underline that may be no idle threat. State-baked Russian TV and social media are openly talking about further fratricidal war ahead.
Moreover, this is not happening in a vacuum. US tensions with China over the South China Sea are so clear even the mainstream press talks of the risk of war there; Russia and China are coordinating ever-more closely, driven by US policy towards both rather than any natural sympathies; the US is closer to a renewal of the nuclear deal with Iran, despite Tehran playing hard ball (and why would D.C. squander strategic advantage when, if Pushkin came to shove, Iran would always side against the US?); an Iranian ship linked to the Revolutionary Guard has been attacked in the Red Sea by Israel; the Pentagon is withdrawing troops and equipment from Saudi Arabia; and the recent blockage of the Suez canal, and a small repeat yesterday, underline that if this were to happen again, the US Navy would face a vital ten-days of travel-time added to its journey from the Med to East Asia.
At the same time, China has just perfected the digital CNY, which while being the polar opposite of Bitcoin, in that the PBOC knows everything you are doing, also offers a way to circumvent global payment systems - and US sanctions. That’s something even the Wall Street Journal recognizes the US recognizes as a national security threat.
H Turner
The situation in Ukraine is growing so bad, so fast, that Russia has now released video showing even MORE truck-launched NUCLEAR MISSILES being put into the field.
The video, released by the Russian Ministry of Defense, makes very clear the intercontinental ballistic missiles inside their country, are now on the move:
Russia would be forced to defend itself if Western nations go through with plans to station short- and long-range missiles in Europe, a Moscow diplomat has warned, insisting they could be used to target the country’s air defenses.
In a statement released on Monday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Washington was increasingly discussing proposals to deploy rocket launchers to the continent. Previously banned by the INF Treaty, research and development has reportedly resumed since the pact was torn up in 2019 by then-US President Donald Trump.
So the movement of these truck-launched nuclear missiles SEEMS to some people, to be Russia signaling in the most blunt manner possible, exactly what they mean by defending themselves from US/NATO missile deployments.
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