Former Soviet States: Battleground For Global Domination

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16243
Former Soviet States: Battleground For Global Domination

by Rick Rozoff for StopNATO

Global Research, November 23, 2009

A Europe united under the EU and especially NATO is to be strong enough to contain, isolate and increasingly confront Russia as the central component of U.S. plans for control of Eurasia and the world, but cannot be allowed to conduct an independent foreign policy, particularly in regard to Russia and the Middle East. European NATO allies are to assist Washington in preventing the emergence of "the most dangerous scenario...a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran" such as has been adumbrated since in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Four years after the publication of The Grand Chessboard, Brzezinski's recommended chess move was made: The U.S. and NATO invaded Afghanistan and expanded into Central Asia where Russian, Chinese and Iranian interests converge and where the basis for their regional cooperation existed, and Western military bases were established in the former Soviet republics of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, where they remain for the indefinite future.

As the United States escalates its joint war with NATO in Afghanistan and across the Pakistani border, expands military deployments and exercises throughout Africa under the new AFRICOM, and prepares to dispatch troops to newly acquired bases in Colombia as the spearhead for further penetration of that continent, it is simultaneously targeting Eurasia and the heart of that vast land mass, the countries of the former Soviet Union.

Within months of the formal breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in December of 2001, leading American policy advisers and government officials went to work devising a strategy to insure that the fragmentation was final and irreversible. And to guarantee that the fifteen new nations emerging from the ruins of the Soviet Union would not be allied in even a loose association such as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) founded in the month of the Soviet Union's dissolution.

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http://www.agentura.ru/english/terrorism/chechnya/

Chechnya: Who are we fighting with?

Andrei Soldatov

Ramzan Kadyrov announced that in the next several days, the counter terrorism operations in Chechnya will be declared complete; a few days later the Kremlin declared that the counterterrorist operation in Chechnya was over. In order to understand what is, in the opinion of the Kremlin and Kadyrov, now concluded, one would do well to know what the Russian forces and special services have been dealing with in Chechnya since October of 1999, when the counterterrorism operation officially began. The operation was presented as a response to the invasion of militants into Dagestan and the bombing of buildings in Volgodansk, Buynaksk, and Moscow.

Counterterrorism operations were not exactly another front against al-Qaeda: Chechnya proved to be independent of the Global Jihad. In Chechnya there were foreign mercenaries and foreign funds which were provided as war funds, but Chechnya still did not become a base for international terrorism. The reason for this was within the Jihadist movement: instead of going to Chechnya after Afghanistan (where the Mujahedeen were involved in 1992 in Kabul, when it was hinted that, the services of “Brothers” were no longer needed), rallying around the Egyptians from the “Islamic Jihad” and “al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya,” the Arabs which in the years following would make up the framework for al-Qaeda went to Bosnia.

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Published in Ezhednevny Journal 01.04.2009


Pictured: Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen President


Related:

(After it was implied that I use an opinion forum called 'TransAsianAxis' as a source for Russia-and-Caucasus news, on a Multiply group called Worldwide Debate Club at the weekend, I showcase here a variety of sources I do in fact use for this...)

http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSGEE5B10CF

(Who is Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov?)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8390258.stm

(North Caucasus group claim responsibility for train bomb)

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/chechen-rebels-claim-nevsky-express-bombing/390777.html

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20091202/157072744.html

(Kadyrov doubtful of Umarov's involvement)

http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-12-02/nevsky-express-militants-responsibility.html

http://www.felshtinsky.com/index1.html

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/12/2009121154133134536.html

(Deadly clashes in Dagestan)

And the source I used on the occassion of the Nevsky Express bombing - Debkafile can be found at http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1362 . Turns out they were probably printing speculation regarding any al Qaeda involvement in the Nevsky Express attack. Train bomb has now been claimed by N. Caucasus militants, but no apparent link to al Qaeda. Here's a random story about Debkafile's reporting:

http://www.russiablog.org/2009/08/fsb_involvement_in_lebanon.php#more

"...pro-Israeli Debka file is reporting the disturbing assertion that the Russian intelligence agency, FSB, was instrumental in rolling up an Israeli spy ring within the Hezbollah-controlled regions of Lebanon..."

http://kavkazcenter.com (link down at present, possibly overloaded - I gather it was they who broke the claim by Chechen Islamists)


http://en.for-ua.com/ (Breaking Ukrainian news)