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SOMETHING OMINOUS THIS WAY COMES

©Richard Roberts2/21/05

To paraphrase Ray Bradbury, something most ominous this way comes, and frankly I’m worried.  Not since Russia tried to put missiles in Cuba have I seen an international crisis as potentially dangerous to America.  World Communism has pushed a big pile of chips onto the table of the Great Game, and neither the mainstream media nor conservative commentators have caught the significance of what has happened.

However, if one views political science like a jigsaw puzzle, then when a significant piece falls into place, it is relatively easy to see the Big Picture, in this case the Baran-Wallerstein theory (B-W), which I have been warning about for some three years.  To recap:  Communism never gave up its goal of world conquest; however, the fat-cat “workers of the world” of the industrialized nations now have no interest in revolution.  They’ve got it made.  But Communism’s goal remains the same, the destruction of capitalistic America:  Deemed by B-W an “Eminent Evil,” and the cause of Third World “immiseration.”  Fortuitously, the means to the end of destroying America appeared in the form of Islamic jihad.  Thus, Communist nations like Russia, North Korea and China are doing all they can to enable terrorists by training and surreptitious weapons supply.  For example, missiles found in Libya were manufactured in North Korea, and Russia has—or promises to—provide Syria with ground-to-air missiles.  As for Kerry’s so-called allies, Socialist nations like France and Germany (along with Russia and China), armed Saddam and opposed removing him by force.  In effect, they were all bribed by Saddam through the U.N’s elaborate scam, Oil-for-Food. 

The new piece of the Baran-Wallerstein puzzle that fell into place last week was the alliance of Syria and Iran.  Syria’s premier, Assad, is of course Saddam’s Baathist cousin.  I reported that just days before the Iraq invasion, convoys of trucks were detected by satellite moving into Syria from the border town of al-Qaim.  Undoubtedly these were WMDs going west.  [UPDATE: On 3/13/05 The N.Y.Times basically confirmed that Saddam Hussein possessed "stockpiles of monitored chemicals and materials," as well as sophisticated equipment to manufacture nuclear and biological weapons, which were removed to "a neighboring state" before the U.S. could secure the weapons sites.]  Assad already had a substantial arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, but now he also has Saddam’s weapons, and will not hesitate to use them if Iran is attacked by Israel to take out Iran’s nuclear capability, just as Israel had done in Iraq.  The U.S. probably would respond by attacking Syria, which would probably cause Russia to enter the war against us.  After all, why would Russia give Syria ground-to-air missiles if not to attack Israeli or American planes?! 

I also reported that Russian special-ops teams were in Iraq advising Saddam on defenses up to hours before the invasion.  Indeed, this was confirmed when Iran awarded medals to two Russian generals for their services who, when queried, replied that they had not gone to Iraq “for a cup of coffee.”  Now another ominous piece of the Big Picture fell into place this week when Putin declared, “The latest steps taken by Iran have convinced us that Iran does not intend to produce nuclear arms.”  He added that Russia would continue to supply Iran with nuclear technology and weapons!  And because most media people are not cognizant of the Baran-Wallerstein Big Picture, the significance of Putin’s words were utterly lost on them, and thus to the American public.

The significance of Putin’s statement as an indication of Russian policy is proof positive of B-W:  The Iranian part of the “Axis-of-Evil” will not only be nuclear-enabled by Russia, but also defended.  Once again, as in the Carter-North Korean nuke fiasco, an American president is being asked to trust a Communist’s word that Iran will not build nuclear weapons.  I say thank God for Bush.  Had Kerry been elected, he undoubtedly would have been led down that primrose path again.  Moreover, a new Pentagon report cited in U.S. News & World Report (2/21/05), reveals that hundreds of American soldiers from WWII and the Korean War were imprisoned in Soviet forced-labor camps where they eventually died.  In the report is testimony of a woman who “said that in the 1950s, her father was in a Siberian gulag with an American named Stanley Warner,” who in fact was a Michigan Navy reservist listed as missing in WWII.

Back in March of 2004, hosting a visit by Iranian President Mohammad Khatami President  Putin reaffirmed that Russia would pursue new arms sales to Iran and complete construction of a nuclear power plant at Bushehr.  Then, early last November, the Kremlin notified the United States that on December 1 Russia would withdraw from a June 1995 agreement to end arms sales to Iran. Russia had not strictly adhered to the agreement, selling an estimated $200 million in weapons to Iran between 1996 and 1999.

So, even then, the seeds were being sown to disrupt peace in the Middle-East. Putin, who met at the Kremlin with Iran's security chief Hasan Rowhani on Friday, said he would visit Iran soon, Interfax reported.

The significance of the alliance of Syria and Iran, and Russia’s nuclear contribution, was not missed by the international press. The following is from an Indian newspaper, which views India as allied with Brazil(?!), Russia, and China against America. [Note: “Adventure” is a word used in Communist jargon to indicate the imperialistic use of American power]:

America rethinks Iran and Syria adventure as Putin makes Russia and BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) alliance ready for military confrontation.  Balaji Reddy, Special Correspondent. January 19, 2005

Neo-conservatives in America are eager to move into Syria and Iran to complete their “mission”. Every day that theme is reiterated in conservative American talk radio. The plan was to complete “Iraq” fast and then ask Iraqis to complain about insurgency support from Iran and Syria and then use that logic to enter those two nations. . . .

At the same time, Syrian leadership has gone to Russia asking for protection from American invasion. Russians are defending Iran in pointing out that Iranians have no secret nuclear program for weapons. This was in response to reports that Washington does not rule out invading Iran to neutralize Weapons of Mass Destruction. China and India have built special relationship with Iran because of Iran’s enormous supply of Natural Gas and Crude oil.  Russia is upset with America over what happened in Ukraine and on going fiasco in Georgia. American private money may have influenced the elections in Ukraine. The leaders of Ukraine and Georgia are ready to take shelter from NATO and EU. Recently Putin made a world tour visiting China, India and Brazil. He tried to brief the leaderships of these BRIC alliance countries that Russia and BRIC will not put up with American aggression in Iran and Syria. . . .

It is becoming clear that Russia and BRIC will not tolerate American adventure into Syria and Iran. Iranian elements in Iraq like Chalabi will not tolerate that either. Neo-conservatives in America are debating on their next move given the strong opposition from the world as such on their moving into Syria and Iran....

Next week for subscribers I shall discuss how that other member of the “Axis of Evil,” North Korea, fits into the Big Picture of the Baran-Wallerstein theory.

The above article was the first of a four part series on the new Communist alliances against America. Richard Roberts is the author of nine books, and writes a national email newsletter which he sends out to subscribers weekly for $18 a year. To subscribe send a check made out to him in care of J.R. Nyquist, POB 4931, Eureka, CA. 95502.

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