US/NATO War on Russia

[Magda Hassan]

A couple of relevant Russian articles from 2009.

Vadim Stolz
A Trap for Russia. U.S Neoliberals and Ukrainian Fascists Behind Operation "Clean Field"

This is a transcript of an interview with Vadim Stolz (VS), chairman of the international editorial board of burtsev.ru a group of investigative journalists, affiliated with the Internet weekly Left Russia (left.ru). The interview was taken on August 13 by Natasha Barch (NB), member of the Moscow chapter of burtsev.ru. Vadim Stolz spoke on the telephone from Azerbaijan. NB. Vadim, what can you tell about those who conceived and prepared the genocidal attack against the Ossetian people by the Georgian army? VS. We believe that this conspiracy matured by the spring of 2008 in the triangle between Senator McCain's campaign, the former members of Bob Gates's"supersecret group" of 1989-91, and the representatives of the clandestine Banderovite center in the Main Directorate of Military Intelligence of Ukrainian Defense Ministry, NB. Could you be more specific and give us details and names? VS. OK. First, I should mention Dick Cheney's VP Office as a vital link between McCain's campaign and the executive power. In McCain's campaign we identify two key individuals: Randy Scheunemann and Robert Kagan. Scheunemann is McCain's senior advisor on international affairs; he also owns a lobbying firm, hired by Saakashvili to lobby Georgia's membership in Nato. In 2002 Scheunemann founded the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (2002) and became a leading lobbyist for the US war against that country. He took part in the falsification of US intelligence on WMD in Iraq and in organizing its puppet government. He was close to the notorious Ahmed Chalabi of the Iraqi National Council. Chalabi served as the main disinformation source for the CIA and the Pentagon and provided them with deniability when the scam became evident. It is possible that Scheunemann worked with the "former" high-ranking CIA officer Fritz Ermarth in this disinformation operation. At that time Ermarth was on the pay of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), one of the biggest contractor for the Pentagon, the CIA, and the FBI, with Robert Gates on its board and deeply involved in the aggression against Iraq. One of SAIC's contracts was to payroll the Iraqi puppet government hastily put together by Washington. [Fritz Ermarth serves as a liaison between a group of former Soviet intelligence officers behind the front company Far West LLC and right wing cabals in the US military-industrial complex and the political class Ed.] As to Robert Kagan, he is McCain's "informal" advisor from the far-right Atlantic elites and their fashionable ideologue who peddles a return to Western imperialism of the pre-WWI period. His wife is the US representative to NATO. They live in Brussels. Together with William Kristol, Kagan co-founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) that has become a cheerleader and a flag-bearer for protofacist military-political cabal that includes neocons, ultra right-wing Republicans, ethnic post-Nazis elements, and Likudniks, aching for world domination. The individuals from the "top secret group" who participated in the latest conspiracy in the Caucasus are Robert Gates, Condi Rice, Ermarth, and Eric Edelman, who works for Gates as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. This is an ideologically cohesive group of veterans of the secret war against the SU and Russia. We believe that the key role in the conspiracy was played by Ukrainian military intelligence, represented by its informal chiefs: generals Vladimir Filin (b. Vladimir Vladimirovich Litovchenko) and Alexei Likhvintsev (b. Alexei Alexeevich Kolosovskii)

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[Major-General Vladimir Filin has many faces. In addition to his duties in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, he is a vice-chairman of the "consulting" company Far West LLC (formerly Far West LTD) with head-quarters in Dubai. This company serves as a commercial front for an anti-Russian alliance of the intelligence services of the United States, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, and some other countries. Filin also posits as "political scientist" in two Russian publications that belong to Far West LLC: Forum.msk.ru and Pravda.info. Until recently he and his FarWest partners also published in Zavtra, Russia's main "nationalist" weekly that he financially supported. Another of Filin's faces is the Brazilian businessman F. T. Carvallo, who owns several ethanol factories and recently entered into a partnership with George Soros's ethanol interests in Brazil. Ed. ] According to our sources in Ukraine, Filin and Likhvintsev represent the "Banderovite Center" in the Defense Ministry of Ukraine. [Bavderovites Ukrainian fascists. Ed. ] Their partners are: Rt. Colonel of Russian military intelligence Anton Surikov (Mansur Nathoev), General-Major Ruslan Saidov (b. Ruslan Sadulaev), advisor to Ruslan Mirzaev, defense minister of Uzbekistan, and the head of the illegal external intelligence service of the Chechen Republic. Also I have mention the Saudi Prince Rasheed, president of Far West LLC and a relative of Prince Turki al-Faisal. This third group of shadow intelligence operatives has no independent political significance. They are trusted agents of the Atlantists, Saudis, Panturkists, and Ukrainian nationalists. NB. What can you say about the history of this conspiracy? VS. Politically speaking, the Georgian assault on South Ossetia is a new phase of what we call "Barbarossa-3" -- the project to dismember Russia after the pattern of dismembering the Soviet Union and taking control over its natural resources and nuclear arsenal. Before the spring of 2008 the main focus of Farwest was the blackmail of Russian leadership, in particular, a group of siloviki around Igor Sechin. Ukrainian military intelligence even created a special department "R," manned by former Soviet GRU officers, to collect dirt on Sechin's and other groupings of Russian highest bureaucracy and business. The idea was to fan the internal struggle between them, perhaps, even provoking a coup in Moscow and destroying Russia from inside. Putin was either to be assassinated or made a hostage, a puppet of the Sechin group. In the end, Putin was able to defeat these plans by playing the old game of "good cop" and "bad cop" (Dmitry Medvedev and Sergei Ivanov). The transfer of power to Medvedev was smooth. The literary document of that struggle is the book Third Barbarossa by Anton Baumgarten. Its main victim Lieutenant-General Alexander Bulbov, head of the Operational Department of the Federal Service for Control Over the Trafficking of Narcotics, and his officers, who took "preventive measures" against Farwest. They were arrested in the fall of 2007 and, despite the protests of the Prosecutor General's Office, remain in prison on the fake charges brought against them by Sechin's ally Alexander Bastrykin, the chairman of the Investigation Committee at the Russian Prosecutor General's Office. A new phase in the secret war against Russia began when the failure to exploit the transfer of presidential power in the Kremlin for creating chaos became apparent and the Republicans were facing defeat in the 2008 presidential elections. In this new phase, the central place was assigned to the "orange" regimes of Saakashvili and Yushchenko.Their role was to provoke a military crisis with Russia that could be used to convince the "old Europe" that a new cold war with Russia was inevitable, to rally them around the United States and to remove any objections for a speedy integration of Georgia and Ukraine into Nato. No less important was the calculation to boost McCain's faltering bid for presidency. In this respect, it is noteworthy that, according to many observers, Robert Gates was involved in the "October surprise" conspiracy of 1980 that brought Reagan and Bush to the White House. A number of Western commentators have pointed to this parallel with the Georgian attack. There were also larger considerations. According to Kagan's proposal for a new imperialism, the United Nations must be dissolved and replaced by a "league of democracies," which will defend "civilization" against a "league of autocracies." It goes without words that Russia (and China) belongs to the last. It follows that the Atlantists need a "new cold war" against Russia in order to cement the ultra imperialistalliance, called "the West." In Kagan's vision, the system of the international law will be swept aside, leaving a "clean field," as it were, for an armageddon between the forces of Western light and Eastern darkness. Kagan dreams about the return to the pre-WWI epoch, when Western imperialists, blissfully ignorant of decadent political correctness, whacked "savages" and "barbarians" left and right. This time the "barbarians" will be called a "league of dictators" who threaten the liberties of the "civilized mankind." Kagan calls all this "the return to history and the end of dreams." Judging from the powerful publicity that this fascist crap enjoys in the West, Kagan can be seen as the lead ideologue of the Atlantic and post-Nazi elites. "Operation Clean Field" has ideological roots in Kagan's doctrine. In Saakashvili's speeches, Georgia is portrayed as "the bastion of civilization" against "Asiatic slavery." Georgia's official discourse is full of similar racist nonsense. NB. U.S. neocons and the ideological sources of the Georgian genocide against the Ossetian people is a very important topic for analysis and we will be writing about it. But what can you tell about the pre-history of "Operation Clean Field"? VS. Some time ago we published the information, based on our sources in Ukraine's ministry of defense, that in the fall of 2007 General Vladimir Filin was re-assigned from the Special Department "R" to "coordinate" the activities of Ukrainian and Georgian military intelligence. In practice, this meant that Filin controlled the flow of Ukrainian intelligence about Russian military to Georgia. Georgian intelligence services were not adequate for this task and had to rely on Ukrainians. Filin has experienced intelligence cadres, many of who worked for the Soviet GRU, and a strong operational network in southern Russia and in Moscow. Filin also has sources in the Russian Ministry of Defense, the FSB, and other state agencies. Filin and his Farwest partners developed these sources through what is called "commercial recruitment," or the partnership in criminal activities like narcotrafficking and illegal arms trade. One can say that, as far as human intelligence was concerned, "Operation Clean Field" was supported by Ukrainian military intelligence. The rest was provided by the U.S. technical intelligence, deployed around the city of Gori and elsewhere. According to our German sources, in mid-March 2008 Robert Kagan had his first meeting with the leadership of Far West LLC Vladimir Filin, Ruslan Saidov, and Anton Surikov. They were introduced to Kagan in Brussels by the former high-ranking CIA officer Fritz Ermarth, presently of the Nixon Foundation. This meeting established a channel of communication between FarWest and the foreign policy and secret service elements behind McCain's campaign. Then, in May, Filin began his public nuclear blackmail of Russia, hinting that Ukraine's military had concealed some nuclear weapons in violation of the Budapest agreement of 1995. He also continued to demonize German social-democrats by comparing former Chancellor Schroeder and foreign minister Steinmeier to Nazis, and the Russian-German pipeline project Nord Stream to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. 1 NB. Could Filin raise the theme of Ukraine's re-nuclearization without the approval from Washington? VS. This is out of question. Filin's statements were obviously sanctioned by Dick Cheney's people and suggested to him by someone from the MacCain campaign, most likely Kagan or Scheunemann. This is evident from what happened next. In May, Bush goes to Berlin and tells Merkel that Ukrainians are determined to have the Bomb if Germans do not approve their membership in NATO. After meeting with Bush, Merkel goes to Kiev, where GUR (military intelligence) has prepared for Yushchenko and the National Security Council a draft of the declaration about Ukraine exiting the Budapest Treaty and no longer bound to remain a non-nuclear-weapon state. In Kiev, Merkel reportedly softens up on the Nato issue but convinces Yushchenko to wait with the declaration. Meanwhile, Ukrainian press respond to Left.ru publications with a lively discussion of Ukraine's nuclear status. Soon the communist deputy Leonid Grach makes an official inquiry about Ukraine's alleged violation of the Budapest Treaty. He writes to Yushchenko and also to the US Ambassador William Taylor. 2 While Russian press continue to pretend that nothing happens, the Moscow mayor Luzhkov repeats his provocative statements about the Crimea and no less provocative anti-Ukrainian publications come out from the Surkov-Belkovskii stable of shady "political scientists." 3 Passions begin to rise on both sides. This is just what the sponsors of "Operation Clean Field" need. Finally, a few days before the Georgian attack, Prince Rasheed [president of Far West LLC Ed.], Saidov, Filin, and Surikov come to the United States, apparently to make last arrangements with the political sponsors of the operation and Gates's people from the DIA. From the United States, Filin flies directly to Georgia. According to our sources, in Gori his role was to prevent a non-sanctioned destruction of the strategic Rok Tunnel by the Georgians. After the first battalions of 58th Army have reached Tskhinvali, Filin moves to the Kodor Gorge in Abkhazia. We believe that his role there was two-fold. In the situation when the Georgian defeat was imminent he had to provide for a safe evacuation of the Ukrainian military specialists and make sure that the Abkhazians take under their control the entire Gorge. This last and most important task has strategic significance for the plans of Farwest and his Atlantist and Pan-Turkist sponsors. The Kodor Gorge is a bridge between the Abkhazians and their ethnic relatives the Adygei (Cherkes) of the Northern Caucasus. Their organization "The Cherkes Congress" and the Turkish Grey Wolves envision the creation of the "Greater Cherkessia" as a part of the Pan-Turkist empire of "The Great Turan." Anton Surikov (Mansur Nathoev) is thought to be in charge of the security service of the "Chechen Congress" and their liaison with the Grey Wolves in Turkey. NB. If your account is correct Filin had actually helped the Russian army. Why did they want to keep the Tunnel open? VS. It is because getting the Russians into Georgia was the main political objective of "Operation Clean Field," at least for its American sponsors and the Ukrainians, if not for Saakashvili. They just could not imagine that the Georgian army disintegrate that fast. Their strategic goal was to draw Russia into a protracted war, as exhausting and bloody as possible, with big losses of life among civil population and chaos spreading over the entire Caucasus and beyond, into Russia's interior. Do not forget that a genocidal attack was planned against Abkhazia as well. The Georgian war plans, captured by the Russian army, show the encirclement of the Abkhazian forces and most of its population. It is likely that the main concentration of Ukrainian military specialists was in Abkhazia's Kodor Gorge rather than around Tskhinvali. But the Russian army did not get bogged down in Tskhinvali and the lightning speed of its advance stunned U.S. military experts. Even the use of Ukrainian specialists did not help the Georgian army. According to our information, Ukrainian SAMs, manned by Ukrainian crews, downed all four aircraft lost by the Russians. But this was of little significance for the outcome of this war. Perhaps, the loss of a Tu-22 strategic bomber had slowed down somewhat the advance of our troops, because we began to use aviation with more caution. But as soon as the Georgians were dislodged from their positions on the heights around Tskhinvali, we began rolling fast towards Gori. Facing the Russian "blitzkrieg," Filin evacuated the Ukrainians from the Kodor Gorge. I believe this was a part of their minimum plan anyway. No one could seriously count on Georgia's final victory. They used Georgia as expendable country, as a bait and hook for Russia. Ukraine was entirely different business. Filin's lobbying for Ukraine's nuclear status had begun in anticipation of a Russian-Georgian war that he helped to provoke. NB. Could we have avoided biting their bait? VS. No chance. They knew that Russia could not sit and watch a genocide in South Ossetia. So they pushed Saakashvili to this criminal and stupid adventure. Their goal was not to occupy South Ossetia. Americans do not care about this. Otherwise, the first thing they would have done was to destroy the Rok Tunnel. Instead, they began murdering the peacekeepers and civil population as if inviting the Russians to come to their rescue. Their calculation was accurate. Russia had a choice between very bad and the worst, between war and abandoning the South Ossetians to extermination. We had to choose war and make our relations with the West deteriorate even more, which seriously undermined our allies their like Steinmeier and others. NB. But why didn't we launch a preventive strike? Well, I guess this was a stupid question. They would present us as aggressors. VS. You bet! In that case, Russia could have to pay much more for saving two thousands lives. Ukraine would have gotten the green light for Nato membership and then we would have to act fast and in full force, risking dangerous consequences. NB. In other words, our victory in South Ossetia was not victory after all. VS. Neither a victory nor a defeat. After all, in Russian the word for victory (po beda) includes these seemingly opposite meanings. We have failed to prevent the death of two thousand people and the destruction. We also had to take the bait, because the strategic initiative remains in their hands and they won't stop at anything. But we have won morally. This is the main thing. Besides, they cannot foresee everything. Our diplomatic activity begin to bring results they did not expect. NB. Saakashvili's regime has been armed to the teeth by Ukraine, Israel, and the United States. What was the role of Farwest in arming Georgia? VS. Their role was exceptional. Generals Filin and Likhvintsev represent GUR in supervising Ukraine's military-technical exchange with other countries. They were also primary business partners of the defense minister Okruashvili, selling arms to Georgia through their front company Far West LTD and later through BIVIS-RU. Incidentally, this was the reason that the publication in "Profil" about arms shipments from Ukraine to Georgia, Azerbaijan, and the United States provoked Filin's hysterical response. That article openly blamed Ukraine for warmongering and inciting arms race in the Caucasus. 4 As I recall, that's when Filin for the first time described Russia as Ukraine's likely military adversary and threatened to make public the information about the kickbacks in the arms deals between Russia and Venezuela. 5 Farwest sold Georgia not only the arms from the arsenals of the Ukrainian defense ministry but also the unlicensed arms from their pirate factories in Poland, Bulgaria, and Jordan. NB. What is to come next? VB. They will remove Saakashvili. For the United States he's become expendable long ago. Last spring it was decided to put Burdjanadze in his place. Since then she distanced herself from Saakashvili.Yushchenko is in the same boat with Saakashvili. The Americans and Banderovites will replace him with Timoshenko. They think they can control her. For some time she fought for her independence, but in the end Filin, Galaka, Likhvintsev, and other Banderovites psychologically broke her. [Alexander Galaka forner head of GUR Ed.]. Now Timoshenko believes they will kill her if she disobeys. Russia will have to face now provocations in Sevastopol as they will attempt to draw us in a war with Ukraine. If they succeed, it will be impossible to avoid a new cold war and the West will support the Banderovites going nuclear. The hard-core ultra-nationalists in Ukraine are quite capable of dropping the Bomb on Moscow. Kadyrov and his 25 thousand fighters-veterans of the Dudaev-Maskhadov regime (do not confuse them with the heroic pro-Moscow battalions of Chechen spetsnaz "East" and "West") so far keep quiet. They are not a threat for now. Better not touch them, we have more urgent business to take care of. In Turkey, the Grey Wolves used the Supreme Court to intimidate the prime minister Erdogan. He is afraid of them and seeks understanding and support from Russia. Israel--where all politicians are obsessed with Iran and compete with each other for being the toughestrisks to find itself in Saakashvili's position, in case the Israelis attack Iran. The United States and the Gulf Arabs want Israel to go for this, because they are afraid of Iranians and wish to weaken them by someone else's hands. The United States are having back-room negotiations with China. From what we hear, the Chinese want to have their own sector of responsibility in Afghanistan. This will automatically make the Central Asia and Kazakhstan their sphere of influence. In exchange, they can use Iran as a bargaining chip with the United States. Unfortunately, we cannot verify this information. As far as we can see, relations between Putin and Medvedev remain good, but there are constant efforts from inside and outside to drive a wedge between them. Western press and the Russian press, controlled by Farwest, deliberately portray Putin as a fascist. Russia's exclusion from G-8 is almost inevitable. In CIS, no state openly supported Russia. Medvedev and Putin personally asked Lukashenko, Nazarbaev, and Karimov for support but they refused. This is all I have to say for now. NB. Thank you, Vadim. You can write to us at research@left.ru

Примечания

1 Andrei Petrov. "Bush blackmails Germany by Ukraine's plans to go nuclear. A new round in the strategy of tension? " For Filin's anti-German vitriol, see his publications in Forum.msk.ru "In the Treaty Putin Schroeder Vladimir Vladimirovich Is for Sure Not Stalin but His Funny Cop," Taras Klimenko "Ukraine Can Again Become Nuclear State" Forum.msk.ru , 2008.05.28 <http://forum.msk.ru/english/material/eng...65130.html> , Natalia Roeva, "Schroeder Fuerer of the IV Reich" <http://forum.msk.ru/material/lenty/476007.html>
2 "Ukrainian Deputy Asks U.S. Ambassador Taylor to Clarify US Position on Ukraine's Nuclear Status." Left.ru # 7, 2008 <http://left.ru/2008/7/grach_eng176.phtml>
3 "Luzhkov: Ukraine Has No Grounds to Appropriate Crimea and Sevastopol." MIGnews .com 14.05.2008 <http://mignews.com.ua/en/articles/302052.html> . See, Igor Dzhadan's "The Mechanical Orange" The Russian Journal 21 April 2008 <http://www.russ.ru/stat_i/operaciya_meha...j_apel_sin> (in Russian). Partly translated by Farwest 's "The Kremlin Is Ready to Make Demonstrative Nuclear Attack against Ukraine in the Southern Part of Pripyatsky Bogs." Forum.msk.ru 2008.04.25 <http://forum.msk.ru/english/material/eng_news/470793.html>
4 Барабанов Михаил. ЗДРАВСТВУЙ, ОРУЖИЕ!Профиль №40(548) от 29.10.2007 <http://www.profile.ru/items/?item=24498>
5 «Военно-техническое сотрудничество России с Венесуэлой, Сирией и Ираном основано на мошенничестве и коррупции» <http://forum.msk.ru/print.html?id=398798>



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Natasha Barch and Vadim Stolz
From the Arctic Sea to the Titanic?
NB. Vadim, what do your sources say about the strange voyage of the Arctic Sea and the way it was spinned by Vladimir Filin of Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR) and the Russian "investigative journalist" Yulia Latynina?
VS. To put it briefly, it was a very dangerous provocation, inspired and organized by a group of US militarists with the help of their partners in the GUR. The provocation was preceded by a meeting in Washington between Filin and Vice-President Biden. It had followed their meetings in Kiev during Biden's recent official visit there. We don't know any details about these meetings but the way the whole affair was plotted is pretty clear by now. Here is my reconstruction.
Filin and his Far West LLC partners Ruslan Saidov and Anton Surikov (aka US citizen Gregory Orloff) are former senior officers of Soviet and Russian military intelligence, who for many years were involved in both illegal and legal international arms trade. (I mention Saidov and Surikov because they accompanied Filin during that meeting with Biden in Washington). Their use of the ill-fated ferry "Estonia" for arms and drugs smuggling was one episode of their international activities relevant to the Arctic See case. In the 2000s they became active in anti-Russian politicsFilin from his base in Ukraine, Saidovin the Caucasus and Central Asia, and Surikovabout everywhere. In this capacity they were brought into the fold of what we call the intelligence cabalthe assortment of extremist Russophobic elements in the intelligence, military, and political establishments of the United States, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, and some other countries. Before this US administration, their "Dear Leader" was Vice-President Cheney and his office. Their partners in the US were and still are Fritz Ermarth and Robert Gates. Filin and his partners hoped that McCain and Palin would win the presidency and in the spring of 2008 they developed relations (through Ermarth) with Robert Kagan and Randy Scheunemann, McCain's senior advisor on international affairs. At that time General Filin controlled the flow of military-political intelligence from Ukrainian intelligence to the Georgians who didn't have serious intelligence capacities. This gave him the opportunity to manipulate the decision-making process in Tbilisi.
So in August of 2008 after his meetings in Washington Filin went to Georgia and several days later the Georgians, supported by Ukrainian military specialists and mercenaries attacked South Ossetia. 1 The goal of the Ukrainians and their US partners was to create a military-political crisis that would allow the hawkish McCain to win presidency and to produce a new cold war against Russia, preventing further reapprochement between Russia and Europe. We now think that the Georgian-Ukrainian provocation in South Ossetia had also another objective of making Obama to choose Joe Biden as his running mate. In this way, Biden owes one to Filin. The adventure in South Ossetia misfired. Nobody expected that the Russians would punish the Georgians so swiftly and convincingly.
The defeat in the Caucasus made the Ukrainian extremists in the military and intelligence to call off the Operation "300 Spartans" that was to begin with the attack on the Russian naval base in Sevastopol, its blockade and the reprisals against the pro-Russian "fifth column" in Ukraine. After several months of changes in Washington, they found their new "Dear Leader" in Biden and their place in the wide international conspiracy against Obama's policy of a 'reset' in USRussian relations. The Arctic Sea provocation is part of this conspiracy.
NB. Can you describe what actually took place?
VS. Of course, we don't know everything but only a general outline and sequence of events. Russian secret services include a number of groups who are engaged in business and who use their services for the sake of their businesses. This was how the Soviet army and secret services were incorporated in the capitalist restorationthey were given the opportunity to have their piece of the Soviet pie. Usually, it's arms trade, sometimes drugs, like in the case of Filin and his partners who used to be some the largest heroin traders in the Eurasia. These groups operate by having "protection" of the corrupted government officials, including those in the Kremlin; they bribe, they corrupt, they use sometimes violence against each other. That's capitalism, no better no worse than in any other country, their US counterparts included as equally corrupt and violent. So one such group in the military intelligence (GRU) used a group of smugglers they controlled for a shipment of light weaponry to some place in Africa. This cargo was not intended for Iran, Syria or Venezuela as Filin alleged. Another GRU business group, their competitors, tried to intercept this shipment in the Baltic Sea. I have information that the attackers were guided by the Ukrainians, their former GRU colleaguesGenerals Filin, Likhvintsev, and Kosyakov. That was the episode described by now in all mass media when a group of men in black raided the ship and held her for 12 hours. Now it is clear that they did not find what they were told was on the ship. The Ukrainians set them up too. What for? Well, they needed to create a "pirate" situation that would justify the ceasure of the ship by the Nato Navy, Americans or British. In that case, the smugglers, their cargo, and the "pirates" would be televised around the world and the crew could be intimidated to tell anything they were asked to. A great juicy anti-Russian scandal was in the cookingthe Russians (are coming!), their secret services, corrupted and bloodied, Russian "pirates" in the center of Europe, good Europeans in the claws of the Russian Bear! I mean this was a feast the West badly needed in the last throes of the "Bailout Bubble." But the Kremlin felt a rat. It was rather late in the game but not too late. Putin did not allow Nato to have its great victory over "piracy" in the European Sea. But in terms of counter-propaganda the Russians could not do much. Understandably, they could not tell the true story. After all, there were smugglers, there were people from Russian state agencies involved, there were even "pirates" of a sort. They had to allow Filin's and Latynina's lies to continue unopposed. And lies they were. There were no KH-55s Kent and the "biochemical" weapons on the ship heading to Iran. There were no American special forces boarding the ship as Filin has announced. The energetic, no-nonsense maneuver of the Russian Navy made the provocateurs back off the Arctic Sea. The Kremlin was able to avoid the trap prepared by the Ukrainians and their partners in the US.
NB. You mentioned Latynina, the controversial fifth columnist who last year was awarded a medal by the State Department. But Filin's version was also backed by Tarmo Kiuts, the former commander of the Estonian Defense. He claimed that the Arctic Sea had KH-55 on board though, like Filin, he offered no evidence for his allegations.
VB. Kiuts is associated with the FarWest crowd. He helped Roeva to obtain Estonian passport for conducting subversive anti-Russian activities together with Paul Goble, former CIA and State Department "expert" on the "nationalities question" in the Soviet Union. 2 Roeva, Goble, Estonians, and Finns run a racket under the title of "the independent state of Idel-Ural" -- this was an old project of Alfred Rosenberg and his Ministry for the Occupied East in 1941-44. I am not surprised that Kiuts helped out Filin. The partition of Russia into a patchwork of client states is their common dream.
NB. Do you feel that this provocation was a reaction to President Medvedev's recent public thrashing of Yushchenko and his Russophobic policies?
VS. Absolutely, Filin himself wrote about this. But this was not just a knee-jerk emotional reaction to revenge the thrashing of the neo-Banderite regime. The provocation had clear political objectives. We feel that the main goal of this provocation was Israel. The US militarists and Ukrainian extremists want Israeli-Russian relations to deteriorate because of their tactical or, hopefully, strategic differences with the Israelis. Israel would like the United States to "take care" of Iran first and foremost. This is why the Zionist Lobby in the US and in Obama's administration wants a 'reset' in US-Russian relations, including some concessions in regard to Georgia, Ukraine and the anti missile defense system in Europe. The Russophobic elites in Ukraine and Eastern Europe hate Obama (and Jews) for this and want the opposite: the United States must not deflect its frontal attack against Russia for the sake of Israel. They find support in the US military-intelligence cabal that continues to reproduce itself from the days of the Cold WarBrzezinski, Gates, Ermarth, Woolsey, the neocons like Robert Kagan and Joshua Muravchik, the Hudson Institute and the CSIS crowd and you name them. The informational provocation with the Arctic Sea aims to incite animosity to Russia in Israeli society and to breed distrust to Russia in Europe.
NB. To summarize what you've said, there is a wide intentional conspiracy to subvert Obama's policy to normalize the relations between the United States and Russia. A group of US militarists, led by Vice-President Biden uses the extremist top brass of Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR) for black psyops operations against Russia. Is it a fair summary?
VS. Well, I would add that they are engaged not only in black psyops and false flag operations. They are war mongers and have to their credit at least one war in South Ossetia. But as we have seen even a black psyop like that with the Arctic Sea can easily trigger something much more nasty.
A Post Scriptum from the International editorial board of burtsev.ru
There are icebergs moving from the Arctic. They are the icebergs of the new cold war against Russia, against peace, against mankind. However the adversaries now find themselves in a very different situation. They are no longer capable to wage anything close to the Cold War between Western ultraimperialism and the Soviet Union. The Titanic of the West is full of water and can go down any moment once the "Bailout Buble" bursts. Nor do the Russians have the resources and the ideology to hold forth for long. There is a mean saying nowadays in Russia. It goes like this: "Before, when wronged, the Russian used to embrace his birch tree and cry. Today, he leans, with an evil smirk, on the maple tree." The unhealthy humor of this inside adage can be understood in the West only by a few Russian language experts, employed by corporate think tanks and universities who are the least interested in letting their population know the truth about the outside world. 'Topol'--Russian for maple tree-- is also the name of Russia's most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), considered to be unstoppable by any existing and future antimissile defense systems. The post-Soviet Mother Russia is becoming nuclear trigger-happy as she finds herself encircled and pushed into the corner by the likes of Mr. Biden and his buddies in the military-intelligence-industrial complex. The good ol' boys, who look at the fast changing world with fear and hatred, might not care much about the Russian "maple trees." But the young America and the young Europe must care, they have lives to live. And they better take control of their lives and their countries before the political descendants of the Nazis in Washington and London push the Russians just a bit too hard.
August 26, 2009

Notes

1 "A Trap for Russia: U.S Neoliberals and Ukrainian Fascists Behind Operation 'Clean Field'." Left.ru , 10 (2008) <http://left.ru/2008/10/stolz_en179.phtml>

2 Natalia Roeva (nee Valiakhmetova)--former TV anchorwoman in Izhevsk, Udmurtia. Member of the FarWest circle, specializes on inciting Ugro-Finn nationalism and separatism, lives in Finland, wife of a wealthy oil-trader. Besides Goble, Roeva has political contacts with Zeyno Baran and her husband, State Department diplomat Matthew Bryza. Both belong in the core of the Washington anti-Russian lobby.



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