GOG AND MAGOG ARE TEMPTING WAR ON A GLOBAL SCALE

GREETINGS,            

  IT IS AMAZING HOW THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES OBLIVIOUS TO WHAT IS TAKING PLACE BEHIND THE SCENES AND HOW IT DIRECTLY AFFECTS THEM,THEIR LIVES,THEIR FAMILIES,AND THE FUTURE OF WORD AFFAIRS AND EVENTS.YES MOST PEOPLE LIVE LIFE NEVER LIVING LIFE.

   THINK OVER HOW CLOSE GOG AND MAGOG (U.S. & RUSSIA) CAME CLOSE TO BEING LET LOOSE TO SALLY FORTH .WHAT I MEAN IS THAT WE ARE STANDING ON THE PRECIPICE OF A NEW WORLD AND THE OLD WORLD IS TRYING TO PRESERVE THEIR DYING RULE.THE TWO MOST POWERFUL WAR FACTIONS ON EARTH TODAY,AMERICA & RUSSIA ARE VYING FOR RULERSHIP….ONE (RUSSIA) FEELS SLIGHTED AND DISRESPECTED BY THE OTHER(AMERICA) ONE’S ARROGANCE AND BELIGERANCE IN  THE UNREFRAINED UNINHIBITED USE OF FORCE AND COERSION AGAINST ANY AND ALL WHO BUCK UP AGAINST HER WISHES.

  RECENTLY THEIR WAS A REPORT THAT RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER THOUGHT THAT THERE WAS THE POSSIBILITY THE U.S. AND NATO MAY ENGAGE IN AIRSTRIKES ON RUSSIAN FORCES THAT WERE REPELLING U.S. PUPPET GEORGIAN PRESIDENT SACKAVILII’S FORCES FOR THE ENCLAVES OF SOUTH OSSETIA AND ABKHAZIA.THE REPORT GOES ,RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER VLADAMIR PUTIN ORDERED THE DEPLOYMENT OF TACTICLE NUCLEAR MISSILES TO NORTH OSSETIA AND CHECHNYA .IT FURTHER STATE THAT AS THE CONFLICT WAS BEING ORCHESTRATED BY GEORGE BUSH THERE WAS A HEATED CONFONTATION IN BEIJING(CHINA) DURING THE OPENNING CEREMONIES OF THE OLYMPICS.SOURCES SAY THAT PUTIN WAS SO LIVID THAT HE CONFRONTED BUSH IN A HEATED ARGUMENT WITH THREATS AND COUNTER THREATS BEING MADE AS PUTIN THREATEN TO DO PHYSICAL HARM TO BUSH.

  AND AS WAS REPORTED,PUTIN ORDERED THAT THE DEPLOYMENT OF THOSE TACTICLE NUCLEAR MISSILES BE DONE OPENLY AS TO SHOW AMERICA AND NATO THAT IF THEY EVEN THINK ABOUT ANY MILITARY MOVE RUSSIA WAS PREPARED TO ESCALATE QUICKLY TO FULL BLOWN NUCLEAR WAR.NOTE: RUSSIA BY SOME U.S. THINK TANK ACCOUNTS HAS BETWEEN 5,000 AND 10,000 MORE NUCLEAR WARHEADS THAN THE U.S..

  THESE REPORTS WOULD CONFIRM SOME OF THE HARSH THREATS MR. PUTIN MADE PUBLICLY RIGHT AFTER THE GEORGIAN PROVOCATION ESCALATED.THIS FORCED THE BUSH/CHENEY GANG TO SECRETLY BACK DOWN AND PUT NATO NEGOCIATORS UP TO CALMING DOWN THE SITUATION.NOW ADDING TO THE STORY A RECENT REPORT STATED THAT THE U.S. AND NATO WAS CONSIDERING ORDERING AIRSTRIKES AGAINST RUSSIAN FORCES.

  IN LAMEN TERMS ,THOSE LEADERS OF AMERICA & EUROPE WHO WERE IN COMMAND OF THE “MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION (MAD)” DOCTRINE WERE IN DEED “MAD”.

  THE YEARS OF ANGLO UNITY IS NOW COMPLETELY OVER.AS THE ANGLO DESTROYED THE UNITY AND LOVE OF THE ABORIGINALS AND THEN REPLACED THEM WITH HATRED,CONFUSION,SUSPICION,AND WAR IS NOW MADE TO SUFFER AND EAT THE FRUIT OF  THE SAME THING FROM THE VINE OF MALICE PLANTED LONG AGO….”AS THOU HAST DONE, IT SHALL BE DONE UNTO THEE.”  THIS IS THE DAY YOU REAP FROM THE SEEDS YOU SO DELIGHTFULLY HAVE SOWN..

George W. Bush’s national security team considered launching air strikes to halt the invasion. Vladimir Putin boasted that he alone could be trusted. And Nicolas Sarkozy badgered Georgia’s leader into signing a cease-fire.

These are just three peeks behind the diplomatic curtain presented in “A Little War That Shook the World,” Ronald D. Asmus’s absorbing account of the five-day clash in the Caucasus that August.

Asmus, who served as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration, now runs the Brussels office of the German Marshall Fund. He pieced together this tale of realpolitik and diplomatic dead-ends by unearthing previously unpublished documents and interviewing Western and Georgian officials. Taken together, the evidence illustrates how the West failed to get to grips with an emboldened Russia.

Written with a diplomat’s feel for policy nuance and a journalist’s eye for detail, the book traces how Russia exploited U.S.-European divisions — magnified by the festering sore of the Iraq war — to put a stop to Georgia’s headstrong embrace of the West.

Thus we learn that “several senior White House staffers” urged “at least some consideration of limited military options,” such as bombing the mountain tunnel that served as Russia’s main supply line.

Bush Backs Off

Four days after the war started on Aug. 7, 2008, Bush cut off the discussion. A top-level White House meeting produced “a clear sense around the table that almost any military steps could lead to a confrontation with Moscow,” Asmus writes.

In the end, neither the lame-duck administration nor the fractured trans-Atlantic alliance could do much to save Georgia once it stumbled into war. The clash would renew Russia’s claim to great-power status after two decades of strategic decline.

Russian voices are largely absent in these pages; senior Kremlin officials rebuffed Asmus’s interview requests, he says. The resulting account is more sympathetic to Georgia than, for example, a European Union-sponsored investigation that last year blamed Georgia for firing the first shots.

The fin-de-regne Bush comes across as chastened into pragmatism, unwilling to pick a fight with Russia and unable to charm allies such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel into backing North Atlantic Treaty Organization membership for Georgia.

‘Stark and Threatening’

Late-term tensions between Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney punctuate this story. Cheney’s office grew concerned that Bush inadvertently gave Russia the all-clear to attack by staying mute in response to Putin’s “stark and threatening language” about Georgia during a meeting between the two men in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in April 2008. One Cheney staffer, reading a memo of that encounter, fretted that Bush might have given Russia a “green light.”

“A Little War” eavesdrops on a telling conversation Putin had with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, the architect of Georgia’s pro-western policies, in February 2008.

“You think you can trust the Americans, and they will rush to assist you?” Putin asked according to a Georgian record of the talk. “Nobody can be trusted! Except me.”

Georgian ‘Hothead’

Saakashvili, seen as a reformer by some, a demagogue by others, was central to the non-meeting of minds between the U.S. and Europe over how to bring Georgia closer to the West. In European capitals he was seen as “an American-backed hothead who spelled trouble,” Asmus writes.

Trouble was preprogrammed when the equally histrionic Sarkozy shuttled between Moscow and the Georgian capital of Tbilisi to negotiate a ceasefire. The choice of the French leader, in his role as holder of the EU presidency, reflected concern in Washington that high-profile U.S. involvement would further rile the Kremlin.

Asmus’s account of Sarkozy’s seat-of-the-pantalons diplomacy includes the insight that at least one senior U.S. official was “appalled” by the ambiguous ceasefire text improvised by the French leader in Moscow on Aug. 12.

Later that evening, with 100,000 Georgians happily chanting “Sar-ko-zy, Sar-ko-zy” outside the parliament in Tbilisi, the French president confronted Saakashvili with the document and told him that he wouldn’t get a better deal.

“Where is Bush? Where are the Americans?” Sarkozy is quoted as snarling at the Georgians. “They are not coming to save you. No Europeans are coming, either. You are alone. If you don’t sign, the Russian tanks will be here soon.”

“A Little War That Shook the World: Georgia, Russia and the Future of the West” is published by Palgrave Macmillan (254 pages, $27, 20 pounds).

(James G. Neuger writes for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.)

To contact the reporter on this story: James G. Neuger in Brussels at jneuger@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: January 13, 2010 19:00 EST
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