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Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta Online titled, =E2=80=9CWhat Frightene=
d the
American Destroyer,=E2=80=9D stated that while the USS Donald Cook was near=
Crimean
(Russian by that time) waters, a Russian Su-24 Frontal Aviation bomber
conducted a flyby of the destroyer
<http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/OEWatch/201412/Russia_08.html>.
The Rossiyskaya Gazeta went on to write that the Russian SU-24 =E2=80=9Cdid=
not
have bombs or missiles onboard. One canister with the Khibin electronic
warfare complex was suspended under the fuselage.=E2=80=9D As it got close =
to the
US destroyer, the Khibins turned off the USS Donald Cook=E2=80=99s =E2=80=
=9Cradar, combat
control circuits, and data transmission system =E2=80=93 in short, they tur=
ned off
the entire Aegis just like we turn off a television by pressing the button
on the control panel. After this, the Su-24 simulated a missile launch at
the blind and deaf ship. Later, it happened once again, and again =E2=80=93=
a total
of 12 times <http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/OEWatch/201412/Russia_08.html=
>
.=E2=80=9D
While the US Army denied the incident as Russian propaganda, the fact is
that USS Donald Cook never approached Russian Black Sea waters again. Nor
did NATO ships that replaced it in the Black Sea. A report in 2015 by the
US Army=E2=80=99s Foreign Military Studies Office assessed that Russia, =E2=
=80=9Cdoes
indeed possess a growing EW capability, and the political and military
leadership understand the importance=E2=80=A6Their growing ability to blind=
or
disrupt digital communications might help level the playing field when
fighting against a superior conventional foe.=E2=80=9D Now new Russian Khib=
ini
Electronic Counter Measure systems are being installed on the wingtips of
Russia=E2=80=99s SUKHOI SU-34 fighter-bombers going after ISIS in Syria.
*Killer Bumblebees*
A second highly-advanced new Russian military technology that=E2=80=99s rai=
sing
more than eyebrows in US Defense Secretary =E2=80=98Ash=E2=80=99 Carter=E2=
=80=99s Pentagon is
Russia=E2=80=99s new Bumblebee which Russia=E2=80=99s military classifies a=
s a
flamethrower. In reality it is a highly advanced thermobaric weapon which
launches a warhead that uses a combination of an explosive charge and
highly combustible fuel. When the rocket reaches the target, the fuel is
dispersed in a cloud that is then detonated by the explosive charge. US
Military experts recently asked by the US scientific and engineering
magazine Popular Mechanics to evaluate the Bumblebee stated that, =E2=80=9C=
the
resulting explosion is devastating, radiating a shockwave and fireball up
to six or seven meters in diameter.=E2=80=9D The US experts noted that the
Bumblebee is =E2=80=9Cespecially useful against troops in bunkers, trenches=
, and
even armored vehicles, as the dispersing gas can enter small spaces and
allow the fireball to expand inside. Thermobarics are particularly
devastating to buildings =E2=80=94 a thermobaric round entering a structure=
can
literally blow up the building from within withoverpressure
<http://sputniknews.com/military/20151108/1029765936/russia-bumblebee-flame=
thrower-weapon.html#ixzz3rAb2M8m7>
.=E2=80=9D
*=E2=80=98Status-6=E2=80=B2*
We don=E2=80=99t go into yet another new highly secret Russian military tec=
hnology
recently subject of a Russian TV report beyond a brief mention, as little
is known. It is indicative of what is being developed as Russia prepares
for the unthinkable from Washington. The =E2=80=9COcean Multipurpose System=
:
Status-6=E2=80=9D is a new Russian nuclear submarine weapons system designe=
d to
bypass NATO radars and any existing missile defense systems, while causing
heavy damage to =E2=80=9Cimportant economic facilities=E2=80=9D along the e=
nemy=E2=80=99s coastal
regions.
Reportedly the Status-6 will cause what the Russian military terms,
=E2=80=9Cassured unacceptable damage=E2=80=9D to an adversary force. They s=
tate that its
detonation =E2=80=9Cin the area of the enemy coast=E2=80=9D (say, New York =
or Boston or
Washington?) would result in =E2=80=9Cextensive zones of radioactive contam=
ination=E2=80=9D
that would ensure that the region would not be used for =E2=80=9Cmilitary,
economic, business or other activity for a long time.=E2=80=9D Status-6 rep=
ortedly
is a massive torpedo, designated as a =E2=80=9Cself-propelled underwater ve=
hicle.=E2=80=9D
It has a range of up to 10 thousand kilometers and can operate at a depth
of up to 1,000 meters. At a November 10 meeting with the Russian military
chiefs, Vladimir Putin stated that Russia would counter NATO=E2=80=99s US-l=
ed
missile shield program through =E2=80=9Cnew strike systems capable of penet=
rating
any missile defenses
<https://www.rt.com/news/321640-leaked-russian-nuclear-torpedo/>.=E2=80=9D
Presumably he was referring to Status-6.
US Defense Secretary Carter declared on November 8 in a speech that Russia
and China are challenging =E2=80=9CAmerican pre-eminence=E2=80=9D and Washi=
ngton=E2=80=99s
so-called =E2=80=9Cstewardship of the world order.=E2=80=9D Carter added th=
at, =E2=80=9CMost
disturbing is Moscow=E2=80=99s nuclear saber-rattling,=E2=80=9D which in hi=
s view, =E2=80=9Craises
questions about Russian leaders=E2=80=99 commitment to strategic stability,=
their
respect for norms against the use of nuclear weapons
<https://www.rt.com/usa/321194-carter-russia-threat-world-order/>=E2=80=A6=
=E2=80=9D
Not surprisingly, Carter did not mention Washington=E2=80=99s own very loud=
nuclear
saber-rattling. In addition to advancing the US Ballistic Missile Defense
array targeting Russia, Carter recently announced highly-advanced US
nuclear weapons would be stationed at the B=C3=BCchel Air Base in Germany a=
s
part of a joint NATO nuclear program, which involves non-nuclear NATO
states in Europe hosting more than 200 US nuclear warheads. Those NATO
states across Europe, including Germany, have just become a potential
Ground Zero in any possible nuclear war between the United States and
Russia. Perhaps it=E2=80=99s time for some more sober minds to take respons=
ibility
in Washington for restoring a world at peace, minds not obsessed with such
ridiculous ideas of =E2=80=9Cpre-eminence.=E2=80=9D
*F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a
degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author
on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine =E2=80=9CNew Ea=
stern
Outlook=E2=80=9D <http://journal-neo.org/>.First
appeared:http://journal-neo.org/2015/11/16/do-we-really-want-a-new-world-wa=
r-with-russia/
<http://journal-neo.org/2015/11/16/do-we-really-want-a-new-world-war-with-r=
ussia/>*
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0,57,127);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-si=
ze:27px;font-weight:normal;padding-bottom:4px;border-bottom-width:2px;borde=
r-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(233,231,229);margin-bottom:10p=
x">Do We Really Want a New World War With Russia?</h1><div style=3D"color:r=
gb(60,61,61);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-seri=
f;font-size:13px;line-height:18.2px"><div style=3D"margin-right:42px;float:=
left;font-size:12px;color:rgb(62,64,65)">Column:=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://jou=
rnal-neo.org/category/columns/society/" style=3D"color:rgb(20,57,127);text-=
decoration:none" target=3D"_blank">Society</a></div><div style=3D"margin-ri=
ght:42px;float:left;font-size:12px;color:rgb(62,64,65)">Region:=C2=A0<a hre=
f=3D"http://journal-neo.org/category/locations/russia-in-the-world/" style=
=3D"color:rgb(20,57,127);text-decoration:none" target=3D"_blank">Russia in =
the World</a></div><div style=3D"margin-right:42px;float:left;font-size:12p=
x;color:rgb(62,64,65)"></div></div><div style=3D"clear:both;overflow:hidden=
;width:0px;min-height:0px;color:rgb(60,61,61);font-family:Arial,'Helvet=
ica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18.2px"></div=
><div style=3D"color:rgb(60,61,61);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue=
9;,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18.2px"><p style=3D"text=
-align:justify"><strong><a href=3D"http://journal-neo.org/wp-content/upload=
s/2015/11/ee1a3dc9a196329037c336b4b964de64.jpg" style=3D"text-decoration:no=
ne;color:rgb(213,24,24)!important" target=3D"_blank"><img src=3D"http://jou=
rnal-neo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ee1a3dc9a196329037c336b4b964de64-30=
0x200.jpg" alt=3D"453453444" width=3D"300" height=3D"200" style=3D"border:0=
px;float:left;margin-right:4px"></a>Washington continues making an internat=
ional fool of herself by her inability to effectively counter the impressio=
n around the world that Russia, spending less than 10% of the Pentagon annu=
ally on defense, has managed to do more against ISIS in Syria in six weeks =
than the mighty US Air Force bombing campaign has done in almost a year and=
half. One aspect that bears attention is the demonstration by the Russian =
military of new technologies that belie the widely-held Western notion that=
Russia is little more than a backward oil and raw material commodity expor=
ter.</strong></p><p style=3D"text-align:justify">Recent reorganization of t=
he Russian state military industrial complex as well as reorganization of t=
he Soviet-era armed forces under Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu=E2=80=99s t=
erm are visible in the success so far of Russia=E2=80=99s ISIS and other te=
rror strikes across Syria. Clearly Russian military capabilities have under=
gone a sea-change since the Soviet Cold War era.</p><p style=3D"text-align:=
justify">In war there are never winners. Yet Russia has been in an unwanted=
war with Washington de facto since the George W. Bush Administration annou=
nced its lunatic plan to place what they euphemistically term =E2=80=9CBall=
istic Missile Defense=E2=80=9D missiles and advanced radar in Poland, Czech=
Republic, Romania and Turkey after 2007. Without going into detail, BMD te=
chnologies are the opposite of defensive. They instead make a pre-emptive w=
ar highly likely. Of course the radioactive ash heap in such an exchange wo=
uld be first and foremost the EU countries foolish enough to invite US BMD =
to their soil.</p><p style=3D"text-align:justify">Then came the highly prov=
ocative US-instigated coup d=E2=80=99etat in Ukraine in February 2014, inst=
alling a cabal of gangsters, neo-nazis and criminals who launched a civil w=
ar against its own citizens in east Ukraine, an ill-conceived attempt to br=
ing Russia into a ground war across her border. It followed two UN Security=
Council vetoes by Russia and China of US proposals for No Fly zones over S=
yria as was done to destroy Qaddafi=E2=80=99s Libya. Now Russia has surpris=
ed the West by accepting the request of Syrian President Bashar al Assad to=
help eliminate the terrorism that has ravaged the once-peaceful country fo=
r over four years.</p><p style=3D"text-align:justify">What the Russian Gene=
ral Staff has managed, since the precision air campaign began September 30,=
has stunned western defense planners with Russian technological feats not =
expected. Two specific technologies are worth looking at more closely: The =
Russian Sukoi SU-34 fighter-bomber and what is called the Bumblebee hyperba=
ric mortar weapon.</p><p style=3D"text-align:center"><strong>Sukhoi SU-34 =
=E2=80=98Fullback=E2=80=99 fighter-bomber</strong></p><p style=3D"text-alig=
n:justify">The plane responsible for some of the most damaging strikes on I=
SIS and other terror enclaves in Syria is manufactured by the Russian state=
aircraft industry under the name Sukhoi SU-34. As the Russian news agency =
RIA Novosti described the aircraft, =E2=80=9CThe Su-34 is meant to deliver =
a sufficiently large ordnance load to a predetermined area, hit the target =
accurately and take evasive action against pursuing enemy planes.=E2=80=9D =
The plane is also designed to deal with enemy fighters in aerial combat suc=
h as the US F-16. The SU-34 made a first test flight in 1990 as the collaps=
e of the Soviet Union and the chaos of the Yeltsin years caused many delays=
. Finally in 2010 the plane was in full=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://www.defensei=
ndustrydaily.com/russia-to-begin-receiving-su34-longrange-strike-fighters-0=
2595/" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(213,24,24)!important" target=
=3D"_blank">production</a>.</p><p style=3D"text-align:justify">According to=
a report in US Defense Industry Daily, among the SU-34 features are:</p><p=
style=3D"text-align:justify">=E2=80=A2 8 ton ordnance load which can accom=
modate precision-guided weapons, as well as R-73/AA-11 Archer and R-77/AA-1=
2 =E2=80=98AMRAAMSKI=E2=80=99 missiles and an internal 30mm GSh-301 gun.</p=
><p style=3D"text-align:justify">=E2=80=A2 Maximum speed of Mach 1.8 at alt=
itude.</p><p style=3D"text-align:justify">=E2=80=A2 3,000 km range, extensi=
ble to =E2=80=9Cover 4,000 km=E2=80=9D with the help of additional drop tan=
ks. The SU-34 can also refuel in mid-air.</p><p style=3D"text-align:justify=
">=E2=80=A2 It can fly in TERCOM (Terrain Contour Matching) mode for low-le=
vel flight, and has software to execute a number of difficult maneuvers.</p=
><p style=3D"text-align:justify">=E2=80=A2 Leninets B004 phased array multi=
mode X-band radar, which interleaves terrain-following radar and other mode=
s.</p><p style=3D"text-align:center"><strong>Now new EW technologies</stron=
g></p><p style=3D"text-align:justify">Clearly the aircraft is impressive as=
it has demonstrated against terrorist centers in Syria. Now, however, begi=
nning this month it will add a =E2=80=9Cgame-changer=E2=80=9D in the form o=
f a new component. Speaking at the Dubai Air Show on November 12, Igor Nase=
nkov, the First Deputy General Director of the Radio-Electronic Technologie=
s Concern (KRET) announced that this month, that is in the next few days, S=
UKHOI SU-34 fighter-bombers will become electronic warfare aircraft as well=
.</p><p style=3D"text-align:justify">Nasenkov explained that the new Khibin=
y aircraft electronic countermeasures (ECM) systems, installed on the wingt=
ips, will give the SU-34 jets electronic warfare capabilities to launch eff=
ective electronic countermeasures against radar systems, anti-aircraft miss=
ile systems and airborne early warning and=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://journal-n=
eo.org/2015/11/16/do-we-really-want-a-new-world-war-with-russia/%20http://s=
putniknews.com/military/20151112/1029959990/su-34-electronic-warfare.html#i=
xzz3rGMrk1Cs" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(213,24,24)!important"=
target=3D"_blank">control aircraft</a>.</p><p style=3D"text-align:justify"=
>KRET is a holding or group of some 95 Russian state electronic companies f=
ormed in 2009 under the giant Russian state military industry holding, Rost=
ec.</p><p style=3D"text-align:justify">Russia=E2=80=99s advances in what is=
euphemistically termed in military jargon, Electronic Counter Measures or =
ECM, is causing some sleepless nights for the US Pentagon top brass to be s=
ure. In the battles in eastern pro-Russian Ukraine earlier this year, as we=
ll as in the Black Sea, and now in Syria, according to ranking US military =
sources, Russia deployed highly-effective ECM technologies like the Krasukh=
a-4, to successfully jam hostile radar and aircraft.</p><p style=3D"text-al=
ign:justify">Lt. General Ben Hodges, Commander of US Army Europe (USAREUR) =
describes Russian ECM capabilities used in Ukraine as =E2=80=9Ceye-watering=
,=E2=80=9D suggesting some US and NATO officers are more than slightly dist=
urbed by what they see. Ronald Pontius, deputy to Army Cyber Command=E2=80=
=99s chief, Lt. Gen. Edward Cardon, told a conference in October that, =E2=
=80=9CYou can=E2=80=99t but come to the conclusion that we=E2=80=99re not m=
aking progress at the pace the=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://foreignpolicy.com/201=
5/10/21/russia-winning-the-electronic-war/" style=3D"text-decoration:none;c=
olor:rgb(213,24,24)!important" target=3D"_blank">threat demands</a>.=E2=80=
=9D In short, Pentagon planners have been caught flat-footed for all the tr=
illions of wasted US taxpayer dollars in recent years thrown at the militar=
y industry.</p><p style=3D"text-align:justify">During the critical days of =
the March 2014 Crimean citizens=E2=80=99 referendum vote to appeal for stat=
us within Russia, New York Times reporters then in Crimea reported the pres=
ence of Russian electronic jamming systems, known as R-330Zh Zhitel, manufa=
ctured by Protek in Voronezh, Russia. That state-of-the-art technology was =
believed to have been used to prevent the Ukrainian Army from invading Crim=
ea before the referendum. Russian forces in Crimea, where Russia had a lega=
l basing agreement with Kiev, reportedly were able to block all communicati=
on of Kiev military forces, preventing a Crimean bloodbath. Washington was =
stunned.</p><p style=3D"text-align:center"><strong>USS Donald Cook=E2=80=A6=
</strong></p><p style=3D"text-align:justify">Thereafter, in April, 2014, on=
e month after the accession of Crimea into the Russian Federation, Presiden=
t Obama ordered the USS Donald Cook into the Black Sea waters just off Crim=
ea, the home port of Russia=E2=80=99s Black Sea Fleet, to =E2=80=9Creassure=
=E2=80=9D EU states of US resolve. Donald Cook was no ordinary guided missi=
le destroyer. It had been refitted to be one of four ships as part of Washi=
ngton=E2=80=99s Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System aimed at Russia=E2=
=80=99s nuclear arsenal. USS Donald Cook boldly entered the Black Sea on Ap=
ril 8 heading to Russian territorial waters.</p><p style=3D"text-align:just=
ify">On April 12, just four days later, the US ship inexplicably left the a=
rea of the Crimean waters of the Black Sea for a port in NATO-member Romani=
a. From there it left the Black Sea entirely. A report on April 30, 2014 in=
Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta Online titled, =E2=80=9CWhat Frighten=
ed the American Destroyer,=E2=80=9D stated that while the USS Donald Cook w=
as near Crimean (Russian by that time) waters, a Russian Su-24 Frontal Avia=
tion bomber conducted a flyby of the=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://fmso.leavenwort=
h.army.mil/OEWatch/201412/Russia_08.html" style=3D"text-decoration:none;col=
or:rgb(213,24,24)!important" target=3D"_blank">destroyer</a>.</p><p style=
=3D"text-align:justify">The Rossiyskaya Gazeta went on to write that the Ru=
ssian SU-24 =E2=80=9Cdid not have bombs or missiles onboard. One canister w=
ith the Khibin electronic warfare complex was suspended under the fuselage.=
=E2=80=9D As it got close to the US destroyer, the Khibins turned off the U=
SS Donald Cook=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cradar, combat control circuits, and data =
transmission system =E2=80=93 in short, they turned off the entire Aegis ju=
st like we turn off a television by pressing the button on the control pane=
l. After this, the Su-24 simulated a missile launch at the blind and deaf s=
hip. Later, it happened once again, and again =E2=80=93 a total of=C2=A0<a =
href=3D"http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/OEWatch/201412/Russia_08.html" sty=
le=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(213,24,24)!important" target=3D"_blank=
">12 times</a>.=E2=80=9D</p><p style=3D"text-align:justify">While the US Ar=
my denied the incident as Russian propaganda, the fact is that USS Donald C=
ook never approached Russian Black Sea waters again. Nor did NATO ships tha=
t replaced it in the Black Sea. A report in 2015 by the US Army=E2=80=99s F=
oreign Military Studies Office assessed that Russia, =E2=80=9Cdoes indeed p=
ossess a growing EW capability, and the political and military leadership u=
nderstand the importance=E2=80=A6Their growing ability to blind or disrupt =
digital communications might help level the playing field when fighting aga=
inst a superior conventional foe.=E2=80=9D Now new Russian Khibini Electron=
ic Counter Measure systems are being installed on the wingtips of Russia=E2=
=80=99s SUKHOI SU-34 fighter-bombers going after ISIS in Syria.</p><p style=
=3D"text-align:center"><strong>Killer Bumblebees</strong></p><p style=3D"te=
xt-align:justify">A second highly-advanced new Russian military technology =
that=E2=80=99s raising more than eyebrows in US Defense Secretary =E2=80=98=
Ash=E2=80=99 Carter=E2=80=99s Pentagon is Russia=E2=80=99s new Bumblebee wh=
ich Russia=E2=80=99s military classifies as a flamethrower. In reality it i=
s a highly advanced thermobaric weapon which launches a warhead that uses a=
combination of an explosive charge and highly combustible fuel. When the r=
ocket reaches the target, the fuel is dispersed in a cloud that is then det=
onated by the explosive charge. US Military experts recently asked by the U=
S scientific and engineering magazine Popular Mechanics to evaluate the Bum=
blebee stated that, =E2=80=9Cthe resulting explosion is devastating, radiat=
ing a shockwave and fireball up to six or seven meters in diameter.=E2=80=
=9D The US experts noted that the Bumblebee is =E2=80=9Cespecially useful a=
gainst troops in bunkers, trenches, and even armored vehicles, as the dispe=
rsing gas can enter small spaces and allow the fireball to expand inside. T=
hermobarics are particularly devastating to buildings =E2=80=94 a thermobar=
ic round entering a structure can literally blow up the building from withi=
n with<a href=3D"http://sputniknews.com/military/20151108/1029765936/russia=
-bumblebee-flamethrower-weapon.html#ixzz3rAb2M8m7" style=3D"text-decoration=
:none;color:rgb(213,24,24)!important" target=3D"_blank">overpressure</a>.=
=E2=80=9D</p><p style=3D"text-align:center"><strong>=E2=80=98Status-6=E2=80=
=B2</strong></p><p style=3D"text-align:justify">We don=E2=80=99t go into ye=
t another new highly secret Russian military technology recently subject of=
a Russian TV report beyond a brief mention, as little is known. It is indi=
cative of what is being developed as Russia prepares for the unthinkable fr=
om Washington. The =E2=80=9COcean Multipurpose System: Status-6=E2=80=9D is=
a new Russian nuclear submarine weapons system designed to bypass NATO rad=
ars and any existing missile defense systems, while causing heavy damage to=
=E2=80=9Cimportant economic facilities=E2=80=9D along the enemy=E2=80=99s =
coastal regions.</p><p style=3D"text-align:justify">Reportedly the Status-6=
will cause what the Russian military terms, =E2=80=9Cassured unacceptable =
damage=E2=80=9D to an adversary force. They state that its detonation =E2=
=80=9Cin the area of the enemy coast=E2=80=9D (say, New York or Boston or W=
ashington?) would result in =E2=80=9Cextensive zones of radioactive contami=
nation=E2=80=9D that would ensure that the region would not be used for =E2=
=80=9Cmilitary, economic, business or other activity for a long time.=E2=80=
=9D Status-6 reportedly is a massive torpedo, designated as a =E2=80=9Cself=
-propelled underwater vehicle.=E2=80=9D It has a range of up to 10 thousand=
kilometers and can operate at a depth of up to 1,000 meters. At a November=
10 meeting with the Russian military chiefs, Vladimir Putin stated that Ru=
ssia would counter NATO=E2=80=99s US-led missile shield program through =E2=
=80=9Cnew strike systems capable of penetrating any missile=C2=A0<a href=3D=
"https://www.rt.com/news/321640-leaked-russian-nuclear-torpedo/" style=3D"t=
ext-decoration:none;color:rgb(213,24,24)!important" target=3D"_blank">defen=
ses</a>.=E2=80=9D Presumably he was referring to Status-6.</p><p style=3D"t=
ext-align:justify">US Defense Secretary Carter declared on November 8 in a =
speech that Russia and China are challenging =E2=80=9CAmerican pre-eminence=
=E2=80=9D and Washington=E2=80=99s so-called =E2=80=9Cstewardship of the wo=
rld order.=E2=80=9D Carter added that, =E2=80=9CMost disturbing is Moscow=
=E2=80=99s nuclear saber-rattling,=E2=80=9D which in his view, =E2=80=9Crai=
ses questions about Russian leaders=E2=80=99 commitment to strategic stabil=
ity, their respect for norms against the use of nuclear=C2=A0<a href=3D"htt=
ps://www.rt.com/usa/321194-carter-russia-threat-world-order/" style=3D"text=
-decoration:none;color:rgb(213,24,24)!important" target=3D"_blank">weapons<=
/a>=E2=80=A6=E2=80=9D</p><p style=3D"text-align:justify">Not surprisingly, =
Carter did not mention Washington=E2=80=99s own very loud nuclear saber-rat=
tling. In addition to advancing the US Ballistic Missile Defense array targ=
eting Russia, Carter recently announced highly-advanced US nuclear weapons =
would be stationed at the B=C3=BCchel Air Base in Germany as part of a join=
t NATO nuclear program, which involves non-nuclear NATO states in Europe ho=
sting more than 200 US nuclear warheads. Those NATO states across Europe, i=
ncluding Germany, have just become a potential Ground Zero in any possible =
nuclear war between the United States and Russia. Perhaps it=E2=80=99s time=
for some more sober minds to take responsibility in Washington for restori=
ng a world at peace, minds not obsessed with such ridiculous ideas of =E2=
=80=9Cpre-eminence.=E2=80=9D</p><p style=3D"text-align:justify"><em><strong=
>F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he=C2=A0hold=
s=C2=A0a degree in politics from Princeton University and=C2=A0is a best-se=
lling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine=C2=
=A0<a href=3D"http://journal-neo.org/" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:=
rgb(213,24,24)!important" target=3D"_blank">=E2=80=9CNew Eastern Outlook=E2=
=80=9D</a>.<span style=3D"color:transparent;min-height:1px;overflow:hidden;=
width:1px"><br>First appeared:<a href=3D"http://journal-neo.org/2015/11/16/=
do-we-really-want-a-new-world-war-with-russia/" style=3D"text-decoration:no=
ne;color:rgb(213,24,24)!important" target=3D"_blank">http://journal-neo.org=
/2015/11/16/do-we-really-want-a-new-world-war-with-russia/</a></span></stro=
ng></em></p></div></div></div>
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