Russia’s right to secure its borders with Ukraine is as strategic as the West’s right to protect Switzerland

[Side Note: President Vladimir Putin, please prioritize your targets. Nato is fast losing its grip on world dominance both politically and economically. Its former colonies in mineral rich countries in West Africa are already kicking out Western markets as we speak and the West knows the power shift is headed to your office, now they are trying to preoccupy you and the Russian Federation with Ukraine...

The long awaited D Day between Russia and US is imminent. Russia's former military soldier and KGB General President Vladimir Putin here is testing his weapons. He is up against Joe Biden, a man without any history in military action 

It’s an old trick in the book. Remember how they preoccupied and exhausted the ever-growing Reichstag in Germany with European wars, only for the US to emerge on an eleventh hour and steal the show?

They had to preoccupy Germany with European wars and when she was exhausted, they struck. That’s how the West won the Second World War by con and tricks, with US pretending to be upholding Monroe’s doctrine of isolation and neutrality in European wars, while behind the scenes they were selling weapons to warring factions in Europe. So don’t repeat former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev’s mistake. Don't be reactionary. Be proactive.

Russia assisted Fidel Castro defeat the West during the Bay of Pigs war in Cuba in 1961. You were in Angola in 1988 when the ANC's military wing MK defeated the Western backed South African Defense Force. Recently you successfully assisted President Bashar al Asaad drive their predatory markets out of Syria.

The West is Russian Federation's bread and breakfast President Putin and it is by time you jogged their short memory along. The world can no longer afford to be bullied by a second grade terrorist army like Nato. 

The Russian Federation must be proactive this time around. You can’t afford a knee-jack reaction in the face of this barefaced provocation and aggression. You have become an obvious threat to their world hegemony and with this Ukraine move they are merely raising a false flag to distract you from their real, sinister intentions.

They are fully aware that Ukraine is to Russian Federation what Switzerland is to Western economic interests. The Geneva Convention, among many of its amended stipulations since its inception in 1864, declares that any country in the world that would attack, meddle with or occupy Switzerland would have declared a war against the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato).

So why are they doing this with Ukraine? Why are they training insurgents there? They are testing the Russian Federation waters and the only way they can respect the Federation once again, is by striking back, proactively. You better teach them a lesson never to stray into that no-go area again.

Therefore, it is better to strike the head of this menacing snake than waste your time punching its stomach by preoccupying yourself with a distraction. By meddling with Ukraine they have declared a World War.

So, if any missile flies out of Russia, Iran or North Korea these days, it should be aimed straight at the military bases in US, Britain and France. Not to the third grade army that they have deployed to Ukraine to train insurgents . These three axis of evil are holding the entire humanity hostage through their network of capitalism (slave economy). Now they are trying to weaken you by creating a false flag with Ukraine, merely to distract you from directly striking at the heart of all world’s problems; which is Washington DC, London and Paris.

The world’s freedom from Western bondage solely depends on your astute decision to choose your strategic targets carefully. May Almighty God be with you in defeating these abominable agents of Satan…]

By Shannon Ebrahim 

OPINION: Russia has plans for military collaboration with Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and if the current trajectory of provocation continues, this could lead to a whole new era of heightened tension and potentially armed conflagration, writes Shannon Ebrahim...

What if Russian troops and missiles are deployed in Cuba and Nicaragua, and the establishment of Russian military bases are underway? What would the reaction of the US be? We know the answer to that because after Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was asked about the possibility of sending troops to Latin America earlier this month, the US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the US would act decisively if there was Russian military activity in Latin America.

So that begs the question: Why should Russia not act decisively when there is a build-up of Western forces in its own backyard, a web of Western military bases already in place, and the imminent threat of Nato extending its military presence right up to Russia’s borders by possibly accepting Ukraine as a member? Should Russia be any less concerned about the current threat to its national security than the US would be under similar circumstances?

The answer is that Russia would never get as far as establishing a military presence anywhere near the borders of the US without setting off an international crisis that could lead to a world war.

The only reason the West got away with expanding its military presence in Russia’s sphere of influence was due to Russia’s weakened position in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union when Russia’s economy was on its knees and it could do little more than watch as the West enveloped former Soviet states into its ambit under Nato.

It was a catastrophe for Russia when Nato welcomed former Warsaw Pact states in the late 1990s such as the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Then in the early 2000s, Nato brought in Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

In 2007 Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Nato expansion did not have any relation with the modernisation of the alliance or with ensuring security in Europe, but that Nato expansion was a serious provocation.

In 2009 Albania and Croatia were welcomed as members, in 2017 Montenegro was admitted, and last year North Macedonia. There was a promise in 2008 that Georgia would be admitted as a Nato member, which raised a huge red flag for the Russians.

Russia contends that the US violated its promise made in 1990 by US Secretary of State James Baker who said “there would be no extension of Nato’s jurisdiction for forces of Nato one inch to the east”.

The equivalent scenario would be if Russia had emerged from the Cold War era as a stronger power, and had convinced Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas to join the Warsaw Pact over the proceeding three decades.

Imagine the national humiliation to the United States if Russia had then proceeded to establish a web of military bases in those countries, and deployed sophisticated weaponry on their soil. Would that not be a serious threat to the national security of the US?

Russia has amassed 100 000 troops on the border with Ukraine to make the point that it will never accept Ukraine becoming a Nato member - it would be like Mexico having become a member of the Warsaw Pact. 

That is where Russia has drawn a red line, and it is not without reason as Ukraine has been actively involved in military drills and exercises with Nato forces even though it is not officially a member of the alliance, and it has been supplied with weapons. Some Nato members also want to set up military training centres in Ukraine which would give them a foothold in the region.

Had the tables been turned, such a Russian military presence in Mexico would have been as emotionally inflammatory as a Nato military presence in Ukraine would be. Ukraine has had strong historic ties to Russia, and Russians comprise approximately 17.3 percent of the population of Ukraine. 

This community forms the largest single Russian diaspora in the world. 

The emotional ties of Russians to the diaspora in Ukraine cannot be underestimated, and attempts to assimilate the Russian population in Ukraine has caused great consternation.

The Russian language is being constantly suppressed in Ukraine, with more than 70 Russian TV channels banned, and schools in Ukraine have recently scrapped the Russian language from their curricula. 

Given Russia’s real security concerns, it wants legally binding security guarantees from the US and Nato that Nato membership will be denied to Ukraine and Georgia, and that Nato must end its eastward expansion.

It wants Nato to roll back the deployment of troops and weapons in central and eastern Europe, and halt Nato drills near Russia’s borders. No intermediate range missiles should be stationed in areas where they can strike the other party’s territory. 

Nato is unlikely to accede to Russia’s demands which presents the greatest risk to international peace and security. Russia has plans for military collaboration with Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and if the current trajectory of provocation continues, this could lead to a whole new era of heightened tension and potentially armed conflagration.

* Shannon Ebrahim is Independent Media Group’s Foreign Editor.

Source: The Independent Media