General Valery Gerasimov, Chief of Staff of the Russian Federation Armed Forces, recently visited Russia’s European border to take a look at NATO’s war drills carried out just on the other side of Russia’s borders.

General Gerasimov concluded that the great maneuvers that NATO countries performed just across the border indicated that Washington and its vassals are preparing a large attack on Russia.

In a report to foreign military attaches, Gerasimov told them that, judging by the scale of the offensive material accumulated at the border under the pretext of maneuvers and by the amount and movements of the troops involved, there is no doubt that Washington is preparing a large offensive.

Besides those preparations can be added the recent fact that the United States Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, has just announced that the United States is willing to be the first to use low-performance nuclear weapons on the battlefield, even during a confrontation with conventional weapons; this attitude is coherent with Washington’s refusal to negotiate a new START treaty concerning the location in Europe of nuclear weapons of limited range.

To make matters worse, during the last North American maneuvers about a hypothetical nuclear confrontation, diplomatic courtesy advises to name the hypothetical adversary with neutral sounding names. Until now, the US always called the adversary with names such as blue or red or a fictitious name, such as Vastralia. This time the adversary was unambiguously called Russia.

It is necessary to fit within these referential parameters the Turkish invasion of the Syrian province of Idlib, an invasion intended to give military support to an attack by Al Nusra Front terrorists that fight against the positions of the Syrian Armi that supports the legitimate government of Assad in Damascus, Al Nusra seeks to install in Syria a Salafist government of Islamic intolerance.

Syria's armed forces defended themselves against an intense attack by well-armed terrorists that were supported by Turkish artillery. Turkish tanks and armored transport vehicles were operated by units of the Turkish army that invaded Syrian territory to prevent the recovery by Damascus of Idlib, the Syrian province bordering Turkey. The Turkish units supporting the Al Nusra attack clashed with the regular Syrian army and suffered 33 deaths and many casualties, due probably to the support that Russian aviation provided to the Syrian troops.

It is unthinkable that Erdogan invaded Syria without a previous consent by the United States, because Turkey is a member of NATO and the Atlantic Alliance is Washington's subaltern.

The risk of a wider military confrontation is evident, because Russia is Syria’s ally. It is quite probable that Turkey deliberately behaved in such an illegal and provocative way because as an important member of NATO it could, as soon as it suffered any causalities, invoke Art5 of the NATO Charter; the one that engages its members to mutual military assistance in case of an attack. In fact, Turkey’s representative in Brussels invoked Art.5, but the issue was considered under Art.4 which calls for previous consultations with Washington.

I am afraid that the whole preparation for an attack denounced by General Gerasimov is in fact part of a wider project previously prepared that was stopped because of the Turkish army misadventures in its attempted invasion of Syrian territory. The invasion was perhaps calculated to create friction that would furnish the spark to allow for a NATO intervention, but the Turkish units were overrun by the Syrian Arab army and had to retreat before the confrontation could be escalated into a faux legal pretext for a NATO intervention. Presumably, NATO’s intention was to impose a No fly zone, which explains all the noise about a looming civilian catastrophe, as they did in Libya. Anglo-Saxons tend to repeat themselves in their successful crimes.

But such a scheme would be impossible to implement now, because it is the Russians who now control the sky in the Middle East.

According to international economic institutions like the OCDE, BIS and IMFT, the financial world debt burden is untenable and there is a grave financial crisis about to explode. Much the same financial circumstances that were present before the previous World Wars.

Both wars allowed bankrupt bankers in London & New York to erase all debts and to start a new accounting. It is the same three century-old trick of the Anglo-Saxon Debt-based financial system.

Only that this time, a war may amount to a collective suicide of London & New York bankers; because this time the best and newest military toys are on the opposite side.

There is a new military toy aptly named Avangard which can finish the whole war game in an instant, especially if striking from the South.

Almeria 28/02/2020