Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Monday, September 21, 2009 7:51:28 AM
During her interview with Frank Gaffney on Obama's blunderous killing of Eastern Europe's missile defense shield Monica Crowley asked her guest if he agreed that "all roads to evil in today's world lead back to Russia." Agreeing with Crowley Gaffney then added "as the US is the Arsenal of Democracy for the world" Putin's Russia was the opposite, "the Arsenal of Tyranny." I couldn't agree more. Since Putin became master of Moscow Russia has risen from the ashes of the Evil Empire, the empire Putin's trying to restore, as America's chief adversary and FREEDOM'S GLOBAL ENEMY NUMBER ONE. While supporting Iran's radical plans for nuclear hegemony in the Middle East and Venezula's push to dominate Latin America Putin, with Obama's help, is undermining NATO and America's Global War on Terror (GWOT).
Though President Bush had hoped that Putin would be America's partner in the GWOT this cunning devil is working against us supporting our most powerful jihdist foe: the terror masters of Tehran-the central funding source and arms suppliers of Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Sadr, the Taliban and, when it suits them, bin Ladin's al Qaida*. In fact Hamid Mir, the last journalist to interview bin Ladin, was told by a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry** that "Russia was covertly supporting the Taliban with intelligence and weaponry in revenge for US support of the Mujahideen in the Russian-Afghan War (
see)." This is not far fetched despite the Taliban's one time support of Moslem rebels in Chechnya***. Moreover, Putin's neo-Soviet KBG regime has suspected ties to Zawahiri and al-Qaida (see
The Putin-Osama Connection). Could it be as some believe that the Kremlin is the center of world terrorism**** continuing the Soviet Union's Cold War against America and the West? I believe that it is.
* According to Michael Ledeen Abu al-Zarqawi operated a European terrorist network out of Tehran for many years.
**September 2005
***As the Russians have appearently ceased counter-insurgency operations in Chechnya could it be that they bought off the Taliban?
****This view was held by the courageous Alexander Litvinenko the dissent Russian state security officer who was killed by polonium poisoning in London by Vladimir Putin's agents. His death should have served as a warning about Putin's ties to Islamic terrorists and just how treacherous and evil he is.
"All paths to evil lead to Russia" our most ruthless and deadliest foe whose world prestige received a dangerous boost when our blind and incompetant leader betrayed NATO and Eastern Europe and killed the missile shield-done in the name of national defense and strengthening the security of the Free World. Amazingly, Obama's announcement to scrap the system coincided with the 70th anniversary of Stalin's invasion of Poland and the release of the IAEA's new estimate that Iran's nuclear ambitions are close to fruition. Another bit of awful timing by our hapless and fatally flawed leader who is doing everything wrong.
That Putin is not and never was a real ally of the US in the War on Terror, but sides with our Moslem foes to undercut our power for geo-political gain, was prophetically anticipated on the day George Bush launched the war against al-Qaida and the Taliban. For on that momentus day Vladimir Putin was sitting comfortably in Moscow downing vodka with friends in celebration of his 49th birthday*.
*Putin born October 7, 1952 turned 49 the day Bush launched Operation Enduring Freedom. What Bush started on October 7, 2001 was a birthday gift to Putin, a gift that keeps on giving, as he has skillfully turned our War on Terror to Russia's strategic advantage.
Postscript I: The Rise of Neo-Soviet Russia
We need to understand Russia's leadership and that most positions of authority in that country, from Putin on down, are filled by people who were raised and educated in the Soviet Era*. Consequently and in reality the old Soviet Union with its global ambitions is far from dead. Those who believe, and this includes Obama, Gates and Hillary, that Russia is a traditional power with limited regional aims are greatly mistaken and doomed to suffer Jimmy Carter's miserable fate. Be not deceived: Putin dreams of Russia replacing the US as the UNIPOLAR HYPERPOWER as much as do their imperial allies in Tehran**. In a word, most everyone is misreading Russia, "the mystery wrapped in an enigma." Those who call Putin "Vlad the Impaler" and see the initials "KBG" in his eyes*** got it right. The spirit of Lenin, Stalin and the old Soviet Union lives in this man and in millions of Russians who want to see their country supreme over world affairs. In short, since the Russo-Georgian War our two nuclear armed countries have been on a deadly collision course made more certain by the bungling amateur in the White House whose policies are midwifing a confrontational crisis (see note 1). Nevertheless, it seems that Providence is at work in ordering the coming crisis as America needs to know its enemies and the regime in Moscow must be destroyed.
*My thanks to Jacek Popiel for this insight.
**The alliance of Russia and Iran is held together by their hatred, fear and envy of America. If America were to suddenly disappear Putin and Ahmadinejad would turn on each other as both men aspire to world domination.
***John McCain. When Bush looked into Putin's eyes he should have seen hatred for America.
Postscript II: The Russo-Georgian War
The Russian invasion of Georgia occurred on the date 08-08-08 88 days from the election of Barack Obama as 44th president and, most significantly, on the second anniversary of Ned Lamont's shocking victory over Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Connecticut primary. Lamont's victory, he was an anti-Iraq War leftist, was emblematic of Obama's coming defeat of Lieberman's friend John McCain and the triumph of ideology and naivety in world affairs over wisdom, guts and experience*
*Obama is the national Ned Lamont .
The day of the Russian invasion was also the 34th anniversary of Richard Nixon announcing his resignation as President. This marked the beginning of a period of US retreat, loss of prestige and defeat in Vietnam culminating in the Iranian Hostage Crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The dismal period we are now entering is analogous to that time-weak leadership, economic crisis, Russia, Iran and all-though it appears that our setbacks and defeats will be more severe, dangerous and humiliating*. We survived those times and we'll survive these and be the stronger and greater for it as we are passing through a purgatorial fire, a much needed correction and learning experience. I will have more to say on this subject in my upcoming blogbook: The Rise and Fall of Barack Obama: the End of the Progressive Left and the Resurgence of Reagan Republicanism.
*Both Iraq and Afghanistan are likely to become new Vietnam debacles-if not the latter then definitely the former as I will show in my book.
Postscript III: Hitler, Chamberlain, Putin and Obama
I'm sick to death of hearing from apologists of Russian aggression on the Right, the Pat Buchanan types, that Putin has legitimate gripes with the US and NATO; and that in his invasion of Georgia and other acts of aggression against US allies, like Ukraine*, Putin is reacting to US policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Tyranny hates freedom and Putin's well concealed hatred of the US is implacable and unappeasable like bin Ladin's and Ahmadenijad's. What Hitler was to Chamberlain Putin is to Obama. Just as Hitler, playing the great statesman, used Germany's grievances over the Versaille Treaty to extract concessions from Chamberlain (which led to war) so is Putin using grievances over the seemingly anti-Russian policies of the Clinton and Bush years to dupe a weak and willing Obama who is only too eager to appease. No sooner did Obama announce the scrapping of the missile system than Putin said additional concessions would be needed before Russia would enter into a strategic relationship with the US-such as backing Russia's bid to join the WTO**. If such a relationship was vital to Russia's strategic interests it would already exist. Russia is America's archenemy and Putin is intent on destroying us. That Obama's capitualation to Putin's demands will have disastrous Carter-like cosnsequences was foreshadowed by the collision in space of a US and Russian satellite which I wrote about here.
*Russia cutting off Ukraine's gas supply.
**Contrast Obama's caving into Putin's demands on missile defense with Biden's remark in July that Russia will bend to America's will because of its economic and demographic problems. This is the same Joe Biden who said last October that Obama had a "spine of steel" and would withstand any test or foreign policy challenge. If it weren't so serious it would be laughable (see).
Postscript IV: Broken Arms, Broken Power
Click here and read my piece written last July on Bob Gates and Hillary Clinton and the significance of their broken right arms.
Notes:
1. The 1998 Robert Harris novel "Archangel*" (made into a TV film starring Daniel Craig) about the rise of Stalin's secret son in Russia is a prophetic metaphor for Putin's Russia.
In a recent poll taken across Russia 53% opposed a resolution equating Stalinism with Nazism while only 11% were in favor. 59% said that the resolution was aimed at undermining Russia's authority in the world. See this must read, eye opening report: Russia Defends Stalin's Deal with Hitler about Russia's dangerous sympathy for Stalin.
*Published one year before Putin's rise to power.