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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Sometimes AngloZionist propaganda is so stupid as to be funny

Check out this great article by AP: AP Interview: US troops may be sent to E Europe.  Looks nice and official - here is a US 4 star general who has been tasked by EU ministers to come up with a plan to "protect" NATO member countries from the "Russian threat" which he estimates at 40'000 men.  To look more credible, the good general makes some "military sounding" statements:

"What we see there is a force of about 40,000, I would characterize it as a combined arms army. In other words, this is an army that has all of the provisioning and enablers that it needs to accomplish military objectives if given them (...) The Russians' assets include fixed and rotary wing aircraft, artillery, field hospitals, communications and jamming gear."

So far so good.  And then comes the masterpiece:
 
The general adds that however the Russian contingent might ultimately be used, it's "ready to go essentially at command. We talk about inside of 12 hours".  WOW!  Scary stuff.
 
One problem with that:
 
The good general does not seem to realize that there is no such thing in the Russian military as a "12 hours readiness".

Let me explain.

For an imperialistic naval power, a 12 hours readiness or even a 24, 36 or 48 hour readiness is extremely high.  That the time needed to get in 82nd Airborne ready to go, and that is quite good enough for the USA whose own territory is only threatened by illegal immigrants from Mexico and bad drivers from Canada.  12 hours is really fast only when what you want to do is to invade some small country - preferably an island with no military - or if you just want to go and kill some Brown people somewhere, just to show how scary and powerful you are.

But for a land power like Russia, 12 hours readiness is absolutely unacceptable, much less so for units supposedly on high alert and ready to invade the Ukraine.  How long would it take for a US/NATO missile or bomber to get to the nearest Russian base or deployed unit?  You take that time and it will give you an idea of what "high readiness" means to the Russian military.  It is counted in minutes, not hours, and most definitely not 12 hours.

It appears that the US general spinning this fairy tale tried to make is sound real scary and thus he came up with what he believes in a fantastically high degree of readiness for the Russian forces: 12 hours.  What he clearly did not realize, is that by Russian standards a military force with a 12 hour readiness is essentially on holidays and at the lowest possible level of readiness.

Furthermore, it might be a good time to remind everybody that the US intelligence did not see the Russian military move in 2008 (during the 08.08.08 war) and neither did it see the "Polite Armed Men in Green" move into Crimea.  So much for the most bloated intelligence community on the planet...

Lastly, a "combined arms army" is definitely not the adequate tool to use if the Russians wanted to invade the Ukraine simply because the Ukrainian military simply does not have the kind of force one would attack with a combined arms army.  To deal with the Ukie military a much lighter and mobile force of mechanized infantry and a few battalion tactical groups would be plenty.  Frankly, some Interior Troops (police forces) such as the SOBR and the ODON would be much better suited as they are used to deal with criminal and paramilitary thugs like the Right Sector.

A US 4-star general really should know better.  I am embarrassed for him.

The Saker

FYI - news sources about Russia and the Ukraine

Friends, thanks a lot for the very long list of information sources about Russia, the Ukraine and the current crisis.  I have not checked each link, nor do I personally vouch for the quality or contents of each link, and I share them with you as they are and in no particular order.  Those interested will have to refine and tune this list by themselves.  I hope that this is useful!
The Saker
PS: I might have missed an email or comment, so if you sent me a link which I forgot, please re-post them in the comments section or email me.  Thanks!
------- Internet based information sources about the Ukrainian crisis:
http://anna-news.info
http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/
http://el-murid.livejournal.com
http://e-news.in.ua
http://goodgame.ru/channel/demon_dobra/
http://goodgame.ru/player3?6147
http://krizis-ua.livejournal.com - Ukrainian police-related
http://lifenews.ru/watch-live
http://live.russia.tv/index/index/channel_id/3
http://novorossia.tv/
http://oko-planet.su/
http://politikus.ru
http://public.od.ua/
http://putnik1.livejournal.com
http://radiovesti.ru/
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/live
http://rt.com/on-air/
http://russia.tv/
http://russia.tv/video/?cid=video&d=0
http://shrek1.livejournal.com/
http://stbcaptain.livejournal.com - military-related
https://vk.com/antymaidan
http://tv-novosti.ru/
http://twower.livejournal.com
http://u-96.livejournal.com
http://watch.squidtv.net/europe/russia.html
http://wesservic.livejournal.com/1483393.html
http://www.1tv.ru/
http://www.etvnet.com (Paid service)
http://www.newsru.com/
http://www.ntv.ru/
http://www.odnako.org/blogs/
http://www.pravdatoday.info/content/maydan-po-puti-raspada
http://www.radiorus.ru/
http://www.rbc.ru/
http://www.vesti.ru/videos?vid=onair
http://www.youtube.com/user/novostnojdonbass
Streams:

http://goodgame.ru/player3?6147
http://goodgame.ru/channel/demon_dobra/
http://wesservic.livejournal.com/1483393.html

East Ukraine news:

http://emelamud.livejournal.com/
http://beekjuffer.livejournal.com
http://wesservic.livejournal.com

Kharkov:

http://mikle1.livejournal.com/
http://hippy-end.livejournal.com/

Odessa:

http://ivakin-alexey.livejournal.com/
http://grey-croco.livejournal.com/

Donetsk:

http://donbassrus.livejournal.com

Lugansk:

http://luganskiy-lgua.livejournal.com
http://yadocent.livejournal.com

Dnepropetrovsk:

http://crustgroup.livejournal.com

Crimea:

http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com
http://1greywind.livejournal.com
http://poltora-bobra.livejournal.com

Kiev:

http://varjag-2007.livejournal.com

The only reaction I got from Bosnian-Muslims so far

This is the full text of the only email I got from a Bosnian-Muslim in reaction to my recent interview with Nebojsa Malic: (full text, not excerpt)

I just wish upon you and female members of your family same "gentle" treatment we Bosnians got from your genocidal Serbian thugs, no more and no less.
And yes, we are Bosnians regardless of what you or your genocidal buddies say!
And you claim that you can think and understand number of languages, what a joke!

My reply was: (full text again)

Dear xxxxx,

Thank you for your email.  Would you be interested in post a rebuttal to Nebojsa Malic's article?  If yes, I will gladly publish it.  Please let me know.

Many thanks and kind regards,
The Saker

I never heard from this person again.

Which just proves to me that the topic of the war in Bosnia is still seen by many Bosnian-Muslims as a dogma which cannot be discussed and that any deviation from the official narrative is a sacrilegious heresy for which the author should be hated and ostracized.

Too bad.  Hysterics and hatred are not convincing arguments, nor are they helpful for the understanding of a complex issue.

I would say that the Bosnian-Muslims are by far the biggest losers of the war in Bosnia.  Sure, for the time being, they have the protection (of sorts) of the EU and Uncle Sam.  But for how long?  The Bosnian-Croats have their back covered by Croatia.  The Bosnian-Serbs have their back (more or less) covered by Serbia (and with time this coverage will get better).  Who has the back of the Bosnian-Muslims?  Albania?  Kosovo?  Camp Bondsteel?  The Saudis?

A civil war cannot be won, but it can be lost and the least one should do is to learn from mistakes and understand the mechanisms which brought it about.  I am shocked by how little serious "lessons learned" exercises the Muslim world has made after the Bosnian debacle.

Hopefully, this will change with time.

In the meantime, my offer stands: if a Bosnian-Croat or Bosnian-Muslim wants to offer his reply to the question I submitted to Malic, and if this reply is at least minimally coherent and not just a long stream of insults, I will *gladly* publish it here.

The Saker 
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/