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Putin’s former aide: Russia has been preparing for global war since 2003
Lithuania Tribune ^ | Friday, September 26, 2014

Posted on 09/27/2014 8:21:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai

People in the Baltic states cannot feel secure. Russian President Vladimir Putin has a plan he has been working on for over a decade. So says former adviser to President Putin, Andrey Illarionov.

Giving a presentation at a conference in Palanga, Lithuania, Illarionov, who advised Putin on economic policy in 2000-2005, referred to a question that was raised in the recent Riga Conference 2014: Can people in Riga sleep peacefully at night?

“The same question could be raised in Tallinn, Vilnius, Palanga, Bucharest and other cities. No one in Riga could reply to it in the positive,” Illarionov said. “From my side, though, the question should be rephrased, especially after Barack Obama visited Estonia and said that NATO was prepared to defend Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. The situation seems safer after the statement, but we must look at military readiness, military equipment at hand, not words. From the point of view of military readiness, NATO forces in the Baltics are insufficient.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at en.delfi.lt ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: belarus; china; coldwar2; communism; estonia; evilempire; hillaryclinton; kgb; latvia; lithuania; nationalsecurity; nyquist; palanga; putin; russia; sovietreunion; sovietunion; ukraine; ussr2
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

“A minority view again it seems, at the moment.”

I don’t think it’s a minority view. I guess it depends on what crowd you’re speaking to. It always comes down to what you have (resources etc.), or what you can make. Manufacturing capability is a huge reason we won WWII (not taking anything away from the bravery and fighting capability of all those who fought for us). If the question was asked “What country can produce the highest number of fighter jets, ships, tanks, guns, and ammunition in the shortest period? I think I’d still put my money on the U.S., but I think the gap is starting to close in an uncomfortable way.


61 posted on 09/28/2014 4:24:01 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Aria
I don’t believe I ever inferred that Putin would be as beneficial to the world as we’ve been.

I don't believe there is any benefit to having Putin.

62 posted on 09/28/2014 5:19:26 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: EEGator; Almondjoy; All

I would think after Fukushima and the 5.? earthquake near the Virginia nuclear plant people are having serious second thoughts. I was about 80 miles away and my walls vibrated intensely for about 15 seconds and I and several neighbors had cracks in chimneys, and one person’s chimney collapsed.
Regarding solar and wind versus oil and coal, a level playing field would be nice. However, the carbon fuels have about 100 years of government subsidies and benefits which gives them a major advantage. Either subsidies for all or free markets for all is the fair thing. For example, I know someone who sold a number of acres with underground coal. Once they realized that coal prices had gone down between the time they got the property and then sold it, they were able to take a nice little tax deduction rather than having to pay income tax on the sale. Then there are oil depletion allowances, etc.


63 posted on 09/29/2014 12:07:19 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: CMB_polarization

“Conservative” attitudes such as nationalizing all the gas and oil?


64 posted on 09/29/2014 3:24:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: bkopto

Or...Christians, rallying to a God-made nation, are moving to revitalize not just their faith, but their faith in this great nation. America will overcome and we will be the vanguard.

Speaking just for myself, I’ll not lay down and die so neo-communists and Islamofascists rend my beloved country. Will you join me in this fight?


65 posted on 09/29/2014 4:54:17 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Olog-hai
Former aide my ass. Kremlin has been running a massive psychological operation, which aim is to scare people in the west - that Russia will go to full scale war if Kremlin isn't allowed to put together all the ex-Soviet republic - and this guy seems to be a part of it. Russia is not ready for any confrontation with US/NATO, they upgraded their army but at the cost of its size, they would have to double their military spendings to become really dangerous and their economy wouldn't handle that. Russia alone won't be a superpower again, not without a chain a territories it used to freeload off, so they must not be allowed to control them again. With 150 million people all this talk is a huge bluff of the botox grandpa.
66 posted on 09/29/2014 6:15:48 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: riverdawg

That was about protecting American maritime interests and the rescue of hostages that formerly had been saved by the paying of ransoms. Regime change and entering of alliances to fight full scale wars on other continents was not the intent of the early govt. of the United States. “Entangling alliances” was to be avoided at all costs.


67 posted on 09/29/2014 8:10:26 AM PDT by CMB_polarization
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To: ansel12

Are Russians generically, racially evil? When did that start, with Stalin, Lenin, Tsar Nicolas? Peter the Great? Was Russia ever invaded and ravaged by Western powers? Or far eastern powers?


68 posted on 09/29/2014 8:13:14 AM PDT by CMB_polarization
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To: CMB_polarization

Russia is evil, you support Russia against the free world, you need to rethink your loyalties.


69 posted on 09/29/2014 8:22:14 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: CMB_polarization

“Western liberals are disturbed that conservative attitudes are being cultivated in Russia.”

Undoubtedly, they are conserving traditional Russian values over there.


70 posted on 09/29/2014 10:32:25 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: CMB_polarization

“Are Russians generically, racially evil?”

I think so.

“When did that start, with Stalin, Lenin, Tsar Nicolas? Peter the Great?”

Russian expansionism started a thousand years ago, from the region around Kiev.

“Was Russia ever invaded and ravaged by Western powers? Or far eastern powers?”

Yes. By the French in 1812 and the Germans in 1941. The Japanese attacked Port Arthur, a leased Russian naval base in 1904.


71 posted on 09/29/2014 10:52:08 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I think it is long past time to bring manufacturing back to America.


I wish it were that simple. I will point out one fact to you, the cos. doing well are Dollar Tree, Dollar General and such. Cheap discount stores, that is because Americans have gone thru their capital. We lived off the fat of the land that our forefathers produced and now we are broke. I don’t see the US having enough capital to rebuild our manufacturing base. I wish we could bring back manufacturing to our shores but I just don’t see the math working out.


72 posted on 09/29/2014 10:53:17 AM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: Grzegorz 246

If Russia is “not ready” for such a conflict, then why provoke it?


73 posted on 09/29/2014 11:08:04 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

To pull off a bluff, to conquer what they can before someone big stands up to them.


74 posted on 09/29/2014 12:10:42 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12

Obama sure isn’t big enough. And he’s bending over backwards (forwards?) to demonstrate his “flexibility” while pressing the “reset button” repeatedly.


75 posted on 09/29/2014 1:08:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The United States and our NATO alliance is big enough.


76 posted on 09/29/2014 3:58:27 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12
Not the leadership. No will at the top, nothing happens, unless we get blessed with generals that will heed Sun Tzu’s advice:
If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler’s bidding.

The Art Of War, 10:23

77 posted on 09/29/2014 4:11:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The Russians are no match.

I don’t know why you want to try to sell that they are?


78 posted on 09/29/2014 4:22:08 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12

No match for what? A not-so-secret ally?

Who is ahead in the battle of the wills here? The military does not operate autonomously, remember; even less so with NATO.


79 posted on 09/29/2014 4:35:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: gleeaikin

Suggesting renewables can replace fossil fuels is ridiculous. Anyone remotely familiar with the power industry knows this.

Nuclear should be our base, followed by oil, coal, and CH4.


80 posted on 09/29/2014 4:36:09 PM PDT by EEGator
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