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WAR Games: Russia and China vs the US and NATO

Posted on by Helena

A Russian nuclear submarine surfaced 50 miles off the coast of Washington and the US stated it was just a reconnaissance mission, and did nothing…

Two Chinese bombers were sited off the coast of Hawaii and the US Navy happily waved at them as they buzzed through international air…

These events did NOT happen, but imagine for a moment that they had. How would you envision the US would react? How should the US react?

July 2015:

Two Russian bombers flew within 40 miles of the California coast and one of the pilots relayed a veiled threat during the Fourth of July aerial incident, defense officials said.

The threat? “Good morning American pilots, we are here to greet you on your Fourth of July Independence Day.”

September 2016:

A Navy spy plane was roughly 40 miles from Russia in the Black Sea when the Russian jet approached, according to a separate defense official. A Russian fighter jet zoomed within just 10 feet of a U.S. Navy spy plane over the Black Sea on Wednesday, the latest in a string of daring maneuvers involving Russian aircraft and the U.S. military.

The Black Sea is surrounded by Russia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Georgia and Romania. Why would a US spy plane be buzzing the Black Sea?

May 2015:

Russian military aircraft were scrambled to head off a US warship that was acting “aggressively” in the Black Sea, state news agency RIA has reported, citing an anonymous source in Russia’s armed forces in Crimea.

The source was quoted as saying the US destroyer Ross was moving along the edge of Russia’s territorial waters and heading in their direction.

April 2016:

USS Donald Cook, a guided missile destroyer, was conducting ‘exercises’ in the Baltic Sea when it was buzzed by two Russian SU-24’s. The destroyer was about 50 miles from a Russian naval base.

Chinese jets intercept US spy planes over The South China Sea. It is normal and it is not. It is dangerous, it is stupid, it is insane, but these maneuvers are pushing buttons, instigating fear and they are the result of world stage guys playing war games that put citizens at risk in their stupid playground agenda.

If the US wasn’t in everybody’s business, then there would be no interceptions. If Russian jets fly anywhere near US territories, we send out interceptors. That’s the game. And it works both ways. As tensions and sanctions and blame is ramped up – so are the games. NATO has been building up troops along the Russian border for two years. The latest deployment was over 4000. The UK has committed an additional 650 troops. But that’s peanuts. NATO intends to have more than 50,000 troops along the Russian border. Add to the fray a continuous display of destroyers along the coast, and bombers in the air, and the bully pulpit is not what the media might portray.

What if Russia were to set up a naval base in Cuba and deploy 50,000 troops…how would we react? Positioning is antagonist in nature and reminiscent of the instigation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

President Hoover’s explanation of what triggered the attack is not unlike what the US is doing today with Russia and China. Japan adamantly did not want war, the then Prime Minister, Konoye, was a US ally who valued peace above everything. In response, FDR froze all Japanese assets and refused meetings, letters, pleadings and even prayer.

“Out of the war that arose from the refusal to meet Prince Konoye came scores of thousands of U.S. dead, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the fall of China to Mao Zedong, U.S. wars in Korea and Vietnam, and the rise of a new arrogant China that shows little respect for the great superpower of yesterday.”

The indictment for war was supposedly pushed by the fact that Japan’s economy was flourishing, and Rockefeller saw Japan as a competitor in the world of – oil. At the time Rockefeller was the primary shareholder of the largest oil company in the world, Standard Oil, the second largest shareholder was the German chemical company, IG Farben. It was this German-Rockefeller relationship that led to the claim of playing both sides in Hitler’s war.

Today, Russia is a world competitor in the oil market. Russia’s economy has the power to expand. Russia has the world’s most valuable agricultural land. And Russia doesn’t want to give it away. Russia doesn’t want NGO’s. Russia doesn’t want foreign investors to own its country. Russia doesn’t want Monsanto. And so – the Games – become a power playground.

Men, by nature, are ritualistic, if it works don’t change, if it might work don’t change, if it worked before – don’t change.

The antagonist of WWII is pushing for WWIII using the exact same, ritualistic agenda, platform and military task. History in the – remake.

Confederate Flag – justice vs forgiveness

Posted on by Helena

The Civil War, The Confederate Flag, Pearl Harbor, Bolsheviks, Henry VIII – a common theme…

Sometimes morality and legality become intertwined. I was recently debating the issue with a lawyer friend of mine. She was talking about the legal ramifications of property that has been stolen/confiscated and when it should and should not be a legal concern. Property taken by the Nazi’s from the Jews during WWII is considered property of the Jewish people. But property taken from the Greeks by the Romans or British – is not.

Why?

If property is stolen as in a spoil of war should the law return the property no matter the time that has lapsed?

When we talk about the American Civil War we zoom in on the the cause and effects and make an arbitrary determination that a flag is symbolic of slavery because it was the succession flag of the Confederates. From a biblical point of view, this would make the flag somewhat of an ‘idol’. As though burning it will change the heart.

Some of the more vocal Hollywooders try to liken Confederacy with Nazism. I suppose that makes Merkel = to Hitler and Putin = to Stalin and Obama = Idi Amin. Should all Italians be punished as descendants of Nero and his depravity? Should all Japanese be likened to Admiral Yamamoto who successfully attacked Pearl Harbor? Should all men be caned for their enslaving of women for centurries? Should all Jews be responsible for the Communist Bolshevik slaughter of the Russian Tzar and his entire family including children?

At what point do we – let it be? Do we put a legal time limit on forgiving – say forty years?

My friend’s point in allowing the return of Nazi spoils but not allowing the return of British spoils of Greek antiquity was that legal chaos would ensue as battle upon battle vied for property rights that were thousands of years old. I see her point, but then in legal terms we would need to put an absolute time limit on the return of property – and by moral right – a legal time limit on holding grudges.

The American Civil War was 150 years ago. It’s history has been written and rewritten, erased and rewritten probably nearly as many times as the years that have passed. Given that the flag of the US represents the slaughter of American Indians, should we abolish it? Should the British burn their flag because it represents a history rife in war, immorality, beheadings, and misery? Should we ban all ancient Roman symbols because they can relate to the atrocities of Nero?

Should we demand that the Japanese, the Germans, the Austrians, the Koreans, the Vietnamese, the Mexicans all create new flags? Will that change their hearts? Where is the defining line?

At what point is Stalin history? Is Henry the VIIIth forgotten? Sweden and Norway were still beheading people into the twentieth century, do we let it go or do we demand submission?

While forgiveness is a form of letting go, it is also a form of moving forward, taking responsibility, and striving to make sure what happened, never happens again. We can’t do that if we keep using the past as justification for bitterness. Surely, the demented boy who shot the church goers while in service was heinous! But that boy should be convicted as one – not a race. It is no different than convicting all blacks every time a black person robs, attakcs, or executes another. The mistake is repeated but now in a grandly hypocritical way. To put so much value in a symbol, an idol, a flag, will do nothing but create a new rage of injustice. It is merely shifting the target, the cause, the source, and giving it a new breath.

The Confederate flag may be gone from our history, but slavery has simply morphed and grown exponentially. Perhaps a better focus would be on this heinous cancer of sexual slavery that is allowed to be perpetrated on children of all colors, ages, sizes, genders and class. Perhaps the indignation needs to refocus on what is truly the largest and most perverse injustice today. Not some silly flag – not some overgrown prickly agenda, but on the crime of life.

Maybe holding on to an injustice is something like saving a portion of your meal, putting it in the refrigerator to preserve as leftovers, but eventually finding the food spoils, and soon rots, growing mold and decay from what was once something rather good. Justice is good when properly employed, but when we clutch it with a feverish vengeance, it rots.

We don’t forget – we move on – before our hearts suffer the same consequence and rot, decay and mold.