This last weekend Russia attacked the Republic of Georgia to gain 1/3 of the nation. Incidentally it was the area of the oil fields and pipeline. Coincidence? Not likely. Russia wants to gain control of the only oil pipeline that doesn't go through their nation or Arab nations. Why is that? Could Russia be planning to blackmail the US and the West? A good possibility.
Now coming off their stunning victory in Georgia, Russia now has its eyes on the rest of Eastern Europe.
A top Russian general said Friday that Poland's agreement to accept a US missile defense battery exposes the country to attack, pointing out that Russian military doctrine permits the use of nuclear weapons in such a situation, the Interfax news agency reported.
The statement by Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn is the strongest threat that Russia has issued against the plans to put missile defense elements in former Soviet satellite nations.Poland and the United States on Thursday signed a deal for Poland to accept a missile defense battery as part of a system the United States says is aimed at blocking attacks by rogue nations but that Moscow claims is aimed at weakening Russia.
"Poland, by deploying [the system] is exposing itself to a strike - 100 percent," Nogovitsyn, the deputy chief of staff, was quoted as saying.
We've heard this before. Stalin used this ploy to take control of Eastern Europe and now Putin through his lackey Nogovitsyn is trying the same. Threatening a member of NATO (Poland) with nuclear annihilation is serious.
Interfax said he added, in clear reference to the agreement, that Russia's military doctrine sanctions the use of nuclear weapons "against the allies of countries having nuclear weapons if they in some way help them." Nogovitsyn said that would include elements of strategic deterrence systems, according to Interfax.
At a news conference earlier Friday, Nogovitsyn had reiterated Russia's frequently stated warning that placing missile-defense elements in Poland and the Czech Republic would bring an unspecified military response. But his subsequent reported statement substantially stepped up a war of words.
Funny how history repeats itself. Somebody better explain to Putin that this isn't 1956 and Poland and the Czech Republic aren't Hungary. What happened in 1945 and 1956 will not be repeated in 2008. Not with 2 members of NATO. Not this time!!!
It is time for President Bush to tell Putin that he will not allow Russian aggression any longer. That Russia must remove its troops from Georgia. And that any aggression against Poland or the Czech Republic will be seen as aggression against the United States. It seems that this approach is the only one that Putin understands.
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And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself
on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it:
and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
Daniel 7:5
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