from an email from: Michael Wells Mandeville,
The Hills of Arizona USA at [email protected]
Master
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August 9, 2008 by MW Mandeville
(Black Canyon City, Arizona)
BULLETIN
ITEM: Is Iran About To Be Japanized? Or is it the U.S.?
MWM: Vast naval
armadas have been assembled and are now within a few days of stationing
themselves off the Middle East. The article below claims they intend to surround
Iran and impose a blockade of the shipment of refined oil products to Iran,
which would pretty much shut down their transportation and industry. It this a
drill? A script for a war game? High stakes bluffsmanship to show the Iran-dians
that the Cavalry is serious, by gum? Or a cover and provocation for the
instigation of hosilities? Is it all of these things? Stay tuned, we will know
much more soon, but consider this in the meantime. One of the little understood
facts of the events leading up to the Japanese bombing of Hawaii were decisions
made by FDR to stop being "neutral" in the world wars between the imperial
powers. FDR issued orders to stop the selling of California oil to Japan, which
threatened to undermine the Imperial Japanese war effort. This was ostensibly in
retaliation for continue Japanese expansionism in China and SE Asia. With less
supply of crude, the reach of the Imperial machines would be restricted,
limiting its ability to pursue the British and Dutch colonial areas and reach
into the remote parts of China. The axis parties saw this as the last
interference they could tolerate from FDR and so Japan decided to seriously
wound the ability of the U.S. to reach accross the Pacific (by bombing the ships
in Pearl Harbor), which would give them considerable time to drive out the
British and secure new supplies of oil. Unfortunately for the Japanese, they did
not seriously wound the U.S. and they did not understand the power of mass
industrialization to quickly ramp up a serious war machine several times larger
than both they and the Germans could imagine. The question before us, is the
U.S. about to make the same mistake the Japanese made? The simple reality is
that Iran has the greater part of Eurasia to serve as its supporting
"hinterland". China and Russia have most of the goods Iran needs and Iran
can run refined black market petro products through the Caspian and Black Sea in
exchange for crude. And, if you are forced to be crude, you can refine crude a
lot easier than the oil companies do it in their vast refineries. I suspect that
this current set of maneovers is a fine example of Zbigniew Brzezinsky's "Grand
Chessboard" thinking, a grand assembly of floating Anglo-American-Jewish
& et-tu-French pissants which have not a snowball's chance in hell of
prevailing.
Using mainly the Plato-Aristotle school of classical
political dynamic analysis, the following will result from the intimidation and
blockage efforts:
a) the non-western Eurasian oligarchies will firm up in
opposition to "western" intrusions and economics.
b) Iran will become more
resolved than ever to forge relationships through central Asia to strengthen its
natural hinterland
c) Neither Russian nor China will be distracted and will
deepen their ability to black-market their trade with Iran
d) Iran will
undertake more efforts to destablize Afghanistan and Pakistan, not that they
need to do much. The inability of Anglo/American forces to practice the real
arts of war and conquest (blindly destructive bombings are not warfare, they are
extermination programs) are pretty much single-handedly destabilizing the entire
region. Iran will exploit the conditions to weaken western intursions and
perhaps succeed in helping to drive them out of some areas completely..
e)
Iran will become stronger than ever, not weaker - all levels of western
interference against Iran directly will fail.
f) the coalition of the western
powers (read the Anglo/Yankee/Jewish cabal) will loose ever more
credibility and the Grand Alliance of the New World Order dreamed of by
intellectual pissants such as Brzezinsky will dissolve ever more rapidly.
g)
during the next ten years, no matter WHAT the Grand Alliance Aristrocracy does,
even including bombing Iran, these results are the results which will be
obtained.
h) if the U.S. undertakes bombing in Iran, the eventual blowback on
both Europe and the U.S. will result in the destruction of the EU as constituted
and planned. It will also result in the final political disintegation of the
U.S., a decade of bitter political conflict, and a fairly radical change in the
consitution and the basic organs of government.
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Massive
US Naval Armada Heads For Iran
By the Earl of
Stirling
<mailto:earlofstirling%40yahoo.com>[email protected]
Operation Brimstone ended only one week ago. This was the joint
US/UK/French
naval war games in the Atlantic Ocean preparing for a naval
blockade of Iran
and the likely resulting war in the Persian Gulf area. The
massive war games
included a US Navy supercarrier battle group, an US Navy
expeditionary
carrier battle group, a Royal Navy carrier battle group, a
French nuclear
hunter-killer submarine plus a large number of US Navy
cruisers, destroyers and
frigates playing the "enemy force".
The lead
American ship in these war games, the USS Theodore Roosevelt
(CVN71) and its
Carrier Strike Group Two (CCSG-2) are now headed towards Iran along
with the
USS Ronald Reagon (CVN76) and its Carrier Strike Group Seven
(CCSG-7) coming
from Japan.
They are joining two existing USN battle groups in the Gulf
area: the USS
Abraham Lincoln (CVN72) with its Carrier Strike Group Nine
(CCSG-9); and the
USS Peleliu (LHA-5) with its expeditionary strike
group.
Likely also under way towards the Persian Gulf is the USS Iwo Jima
(LHD-7)
and its expeditionary strike group, the UK Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal
(R07)
carrier battle group, assorted French naval assets including the
nuclear
hunter-killer submarine Amethyste and French Naval Rafale fighter
jets on-board the
USS Theodore Roosevelt. These ships took part in the just
completed Operation
Brimstone.
The build up of naval forces in the
Gulf will be one of the largest
multi-national naval armadas since the First
and Second Gulf Wars. The intent is to
create a US/EU naval blockade (which
is an Act of War under international law)
around Iran (with supporting air
and land elements) to prevent the shipment
of benzene and certain other
refined oil products headed to Iranian ports.
Iran has limited domestic oil
refining capacity and imports 40% of its benzene.
Cutting off benzene and
other key products would cripple the Iranian
economy. The neo-cons are
counting on such a blockade launching a war with Iran.
The US Naval
forces being assembled include the following:
Carrier Strike Group
Nine
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN72) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its
Carrier Air Wing Two
Destroyer Squadron Nine:
USS Mobile Bay (CG53) guided
missile cruiser
USS Russell (DDG59) guided missile destroyer
USS Momsen
(DDG92) guided missile destroyer
USS Shoup (DDG86) guided missile
destroyer
USS Ford (FFG54) guided missile frigate
USS Ingraham (FFG61)
guided missile frigate
USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG60) guided missile
frigate
USS Curts (FFG38) guided missile frigate
Plus one or more nuclear
hunter-killer submarines
Peleliu Expeditionary Strike Group
USS
Peleliu (LHA-5) a Tarawa-class amphibious assault carrier
USS Pearl Harbor
(LSD52) assult ship
USS Dubuque (LPD8) assult ship/landing dock
USS Cape
St. George (CG71) guided missile cruiser
USS Halsey (DDG97) guided missile
destroyer
USS Benfold (DDG65) guided missile destroyer
Carrier Strike
Group Two
USS Theodore Roosevelt (DVN71) nuclear powered supercarrier
with
its Carrier Air Wing Eight
Destroyer Squadron 22
USS Monterey (CG61)
guided missile cruiser
USS Mason (DDG87) guided missile destroyer
USS
Nitze (DDG94) guided missile destroyer
USS Sullivans (DDG68) guided missile
destroyer
USS Springfield (SSN761) nuclear powered hunter-killer
submarine
IWO ESG ~ Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group
USS Iwo Jima
(LHD7) amphibious assault carrier
with its Amphibious Squadron Four
and
with its 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit
USS San Antonio (LPD17) assault
ship
USS Velia Gulf (CG72) guided missile cruiser
USS Ramage (DDG61)
guided missile destroyer
USS Carter Hall (LSD50) assault ship
USS
Roosevelt (DDG80) guided missile destroyer
USS Hartfore (SSN768) nuclear
powered hunter-killer submarine
Carrier Strike Group Seven
USS Ronald
Reagan (CVN76) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its Carrier Air Wing
14
Destroyer Squadron 7
USS Chancellorsville (CG62) guided missile
cruiser
USS Howard (DDG83) guided missile destroyer
USS Gridley (DDG101)
guided missile destroyer
USS Decatur (DDG73) guided missile destroyer
USS
Thach (FFG43) guided missile frigate
USNS Rainier (T-AOE-7) fast combat
support ship
Also likely to join the battle armada:
UK Royal Navy
HMS Ark Royal Carrier Strike Group with assorted guided
missile destroyers
and frigates, nuclear hunter-killer submarines and support ships
French
Navy nuclear powered hunter-killer submarines (likely the Amethyste
and
perhaps others), plus French Naval Rafale fighter jets operating off of
the
USS Theodore Roosevelt as the French Carrier Charles de Gaulle is in dry
dock, and assorted surface warships
Various other US Navy warships
and submarines and support ships. The
following USN ships took part (as the
"enemy" forces) in Operation Brimstone and
several may join in:
USS
San Jacinto (CG56) guided missile cruiser
USS Anzio (CG68) guided missile
cruiser
USS Normandy (CG60) guided missile cruiser
USS Carney (DDG64)
guided missile destroyer
USS Oscar Austin (DDG79) guided missile
destroyer
USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG81) guided missile destroyer
USS
Carr (FFG52) guided missile frigate
The USS Iwo Jima and USS Peleliu
Expeditionary Strike Groups have USMC
Harrier jump jets and an assortment of
assault and attack helicopters. The
Expeditionary Strike Groups have
powerful USMC Expeditionary Units with amphibious
armor and ground forces
trained for operating in shallow waters and in
seizures of land assets, such
as Qeshm Island (a 50 mile long island off of Bandar
Abbas in the Gulf of
Hormuz and headquarters of the Iranian Islamic
Revolutionary Guards
Corps).
The large and very advanced nature of the US Naval warships is
not only
directed at Iran. There is a great fear that Russia and China may
oppose the
naval and air/land blockade of Iran. If Russian and perhaps
Chinese naval
warships escort commercial tankers to Iran in violation of the
blockade it could be
the most dangerous at-sea confrontation since the Cuban
Missile Crisis. The
US and allied Navies, by front loading a Naval blockade
force with very
powerful guided missile warships and strike carriers is
attempting to have a force
so powerful that Russia and China will not be
tempted to mess with. This is a
most serious game of military brinkmanship
with major nuclear armed powers
that have profound objections to the neo-con
grand strategy and to western
control of all of the Middle East's oil
supply.
The Russian Navy this spring sent a major battle fleet into the
Mediterranean headed by the modern aircraft carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov
and the
flagship of its Black Sea Fleet, the Guided Missile Heavy Cruiser
Moskva. This
powerful fleet has at least 11 surface ships and unknown
numbers of subs and can
use the Russian naval facility at Syria's Tartous
port for resupply. The
Admiral Kuznetsov carries approximately 47 warplanes
and 10 helicopters. The
warplanes are mostly the powerful Su-33, a naval
version (with mid-air refueling
capability) of the Su-27 family. While the
Su-33 is a very powerful warplane
it lacks the power of the stealth USAF
F-22. However, the Russians insist that
they have developed a plasma based
system that allows them to stealth any
aircraft and a recent incident where
Russian fighters were able to appear
unannounced over a US Navy carrier
battle group tends to confirm their claims.
The Su-33 can be armed with the
3M82 Moskit sea-skimming missile (NATO code
name SS-N-22 Sunburn) and the
even more powerful P-800 Oniks (also named
Yakhonts; NATO code name SS-N-26
Onyx). Both missiles are designed to kill US Navy
supercarriers by getting
past the cruiser/destroyer screen and the USN
point-defense Phalanx system
by using high supersonic speeds and violent end
maneuvers. Russian subs
currently use the underwater rocket VA-111 Shkval (Squall),
which is fired
from standard 533mm torpedo tubes and reaches a speed of
360kph (230mph)
underwater. There is no effective countermeasures to this system
and no
western counterpart.
A strategic diversion has been created for Russia.
The Republic of Georgia,
with US backing, is actively preparing for war on
South Ossetia. The South
Ossetia capital has been shelled and a large
Georgian tank force has been
heading towards the border. Russia has stated
that it will not sit by and allow
the Georgians to attack South Ossetia. The
Russians are great chess players and
this game may not turn out so well for
the neo-cons. UPDATE 8 August 2008 ~
War has broken out between Georgia and
South Ossetia. At least 10 Russian
troops have been killed and 30 wounded
and 2 Russian fighter jets downed.
American Marines, a thousand of them,
have recently been in Georgia training the
Georgian military forces. Several
European nations stopped Bush and others from
allowing Georgia into NATO.
Russia is moving a large military force with
armor towards the area. This
could get bad, and remember it is just a strategic
diversion....but one
that could have horrific effects. Link to story "Russia
sends forces into
Georgia rebel conflict". FURTHER UPDATE ~ Russian military
forces in active
combat; now total of four Russian fighter jets reported
downed. ADDITIONAL
UPDATE ~ Georgia calls for US help; Russian Air Force bombs
Georgian air
bases. DEBKA, the Israeli strategy and military site, states that
Israeli
military officers are advising the Georgian armed forces in combat
operations and that 1,000 Israelis are in-combat on the side of Georgia at
this
time.
Kuwait has activated its "Emergency War Plan" as it and
other Gulf nations
prepare for the likelihood of a major regional war in the
Middle East
involving weapons of mass destruction.
The two-ton
elephant in the living room of the neo-con strategy is the
advanced biowar
(ABW) that Iran, and to a lessor extent Syria, has. This places
the
motherlands of the major neo-con nations (America, France, the United
Kingdom), as well as Israel, in grave danger. When the Soviet Union fell the
Iranians hired as many out-of-work former Soviet advanced biowar experts as
possible. In the last 15 or so years they have helped to develop a truly
world
class ABW program utilizing recombination DNA genetic engineering
technology to
create a large number of man made killer viruses. This form of
weapon system
does not require high tech military delivery systems. The
viruses are
sub-microscopic and once seeded in a population use the
population itself as vectors.
Seeding can be done without notice in shopping
malls, churches, and other
public places. The only real defense to an
advanced global strategic biowar
attack is to lock down the population as
rapidly as possible and let those
infected die off.
Unless the public
gets it act together and forces the neo-cons to stop the
march to yet
another war in the Middle East we are apt to see a truly horrific
nightmare
unfold in OUR COUNTRIES.
Stirling
Do something about this ~ email
this article to as many of your friends as
possible and post it on as many
sites as possible, demand that your political
leaders stop this nonsense
before it kills us all.
The Earl of Stirling is available for public
speaking engagements ~
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