Russian military alliance and doctrine

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For Russia War Is Now a Grim Reality. West a Bitter Rival

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New Russia military doctrine spells out which countries are Russia's allies, partners and sources of military threats

By Dmitri Trenin (Carnegie Moscow Center)

The text below is a brief overview of new Russia military doctrine, signed into law by the Russian president on December 26th, 2014.
This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared at Moscow Carnegie Center

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Essentially, for Commander-in-Chief Putin and for his generals, admirals, and security officials, war in 2014 ceased to be a risk and turned into grim reality.
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Russia has had to use its military forces in Ukraine, arguably the most important neighbor it has in Europe.
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The conflict over Ukraine, in Moscow’s view, reflects the fundamental reality of an “intensification of global competition” and the “rivalry of value orientations and models of development.” Against the background of economic and political instability—crises and popular movements—the global balance is changing in favor of emerging power centers.
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In this new environment, the doctrine highlights information warfare and outside interference in Russia’s domestic politics as risks of increased importance.
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The list of main external risks has not changed much, but the nuances are important.
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As in the past, top of the table is NATO-related issues: its enhanced capabilities, global reach and enlargement, which brings alliance infrastructure closer to Russia’s borders.
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After the risk of NATO comes the risk of destabilization of countries and regions, which can be taken to mean Libya, Syria and Ukraine, and foreign force deployments close to Russia, which presumably refers to additional NATO aircraft in the Baltic States, BMD assets in Romania, and naval ships in the Black Sea.
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The top portion of the list of risks contains references to U.S. strategic ballistic missile defense, its Global Strike concept, and strategic non-nuclear systems. 
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The doctrine elaborates on Russia’s relationships with its allies, partners and other countries.
It singles out Belarus as Moscow’s closest ally, whose armed forces are practically integrated with Russia’s.

This situation explains the Kremlin’s tolerance for Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s undisguised blackmail of Russia.
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The next category is the members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan, which have agreed to coordinate their policies and have formed rapid reaction forces for various contingencies—mainly in Central Asia, with a view toward countering risks coming out of Afghanistan (a cause of rising common concern).
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In December, Putin welcomed CSTO leaders to the new National Defense Control Center in Moscow and invited their countries to join the center.
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In the Caucasus, the Russian republic of Chechnya has emerged as Moscow’s security stronghold and a paramilitary resource. Also, under a treaty concluded in November, Abkhazia has merged its forces with Russia’s. South Ossetia is de facto a Russian military protectorate. This completes Russia’s defense perimeter as of late 2014.
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Even though President Putin continues to make tongue in cheek reference to the United States and its NATO allies as “partners,” the military doctrine is blunter on the issue.
Only countries deemed to be friendly to Moscow are labeled partners: members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (China and Central Asia) and the BRICS group.
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Placing China in the SCO context, the doctrine proposes to “coordinate efforts to deal with military risks in the common space.” This, of course, falls far short of any form of military alliance with Beijing.
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Despite the public debate, the Russian doctrine makes no change to the principles of using nuclear weapons.
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As before, Russia will retaliate against a nuclear/WMD attack against itself and/or its allies; and it will also go nuclear if an existential threat is posed by a conventional attack.
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The new iteration of Russia’s military doctrine makes it clear that even if the West is not officially an adversary, it is a powerful competitor, a bitter rival, and the source of most military risks and threats.
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Even faced with a coming recession, upgrading defense capabilities and force readiness remain Russia’s clear priority.
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Russia is also strengthening integration and cooperation with its several allies and partners in Eurasia, even as military contacts with the West are downgraded to Cold War levels.
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A watershed has been passed.

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Dmitri Trenin is director of Moscow Carnegie Center. He retired from the Russian Army in 1993. From 1993–1997 he held a post as a senior research fellow at the Institute of Europe in Moscow. In 1993, he was a senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome.

CHINA-RUSSIA in detail-- a must read.

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By the Saker blog
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It is amazing for me to see that most observers and analysts have apparently failed to realize that China is now a key actor in the Ukrainian war.  Anybody doubting this claim should read the Vineyard of the Saker White Paper written by Larchmonter 445 entitled The Russia-China Double Helix.  To make a long story short, China and Russia have decided to keep their own "hands" (their armed forces) and their own "heads" (their political leadership) but to share a common "torso" (their economies, natural and human resources, their industrial and technological know-how and everything else which allows a society to prosper).  I call this the Russia-China Strategic Alliance (RCSA) but really it is something even bigger then that - it is a long term decision to share a common fate and to take the risk to become inseparable.  An alliance, a treaty, can be broken or withdrawn from.  But once your "internal organs" are shared with another entity you are bound together, for better or for worse.  What has happened is truly a tectonic geopolitical shift: two empires have decided to join together while remaining sovereign and independent.  To my knowledge this has never happened in history and Putin and Xi have already changed the course of history by this monumental decision.
. The two countries are ideal symbionts: everything one has the other needs and vice versa.  China needs Russian raw materials, especially energy, Russian high technology (aerospace, engines, power plants, etc.) and Russian armaments (everything from the rifle bullet to the ICBM).  Russia needs two things from China: money and "Walmart" (consumer goods).  Together these two giants not only have immense currency resources but the biggest stash of physical gold on the planet.  And, to make things even better, Russia and China are the undisputed leaders of BRICS and SCO.  Taken together these two countries are already far more powerful than the AngloZionist Empire and that trend will only grow.

A Russian, a Russian Asian and a Chinese solider

Of course, China will not intervene militarily in the Ukraine.  Remember - each country keeps its own "hands" so long as the other is not directly threatened.  But in the Pacific Russian and Chinese navies are already training together and even creating joint command centers.

In the Ukraine, China still play a crucial role by providing Russia will all the economic aid needed to overcome the western sanctions and restructure the Russian economy.  The Chinese have now officially declared that.  It is both ironic and beautiful that after decades of Russian fears that China might try to conquer Siberia (even Solzhenitsyn shared these fears) Putin and Xi have found a much more intelligent solution - Russia will sell Siberia's riches to China while China will protect Russia from the West.  Again, this is truly a historic development whose importance cannot be overstated.





 By Larchmonter 

Saker blog asked me if I could provide an article regarding China and Russia. I told him that I thought the entwining of the two was far deeper and meaningful than 'deals' for commodities and weapons. He added that the two militaries had gone through highly unique, for the two nations, training and had scheduled more for next year to push their integration capabilities.

I felt that what I had learned studying China for over a dozen years, the relationship was qualitatively unique in international history, far from just a special partnership category. There was a bonding in process. Double Helix was, to my mind, an ideal metaphor. Thus, the article became a large presentation. But the two nations are two of the largest and the bonding in process is comprehensive. To give it light, it took length and some depth.

One other note, I could have added another 20-30 footnotes, but it is another purpose of the philosophy of the Vineyard, as Saker has expressed, for the visitors, readers, commenters and participants do research of their own, contribute material and facts dug up and shared. In other words, one voice does not make anything authoritative and final. I agree. In the spirit of Orthodox practice, challenge whatever you find in error or doubt.

I found it best to read in pdf on my iPad. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and remember to donate to the Saker. He uses most of 18 hours a day of nearly every day to make this blog work for you. The Vineyard is our megaphone and resource in the resistance to hegemony and the destruction of life and human values. Chip in with 'green ammo'
 
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Happy New Year!

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The Imperial Collapse Playbook

By Dmitry Orlov at Information Clearing House.

 - Some people enjoy having the Big Picture laid out in front of them—the biggest possible—on what is happening in the world at large, and I am happy to oblige. The largest development of 2014 is, very broadly, this: the Anglo-imperialists are finally being forced out of Eurasia. How can we tell? Well, here is the Big Picture—the biggest I could find. I found it thanks to Nikolai Starikov and a recent article of his.

Now, let's first define our terms. By Anglo-imperialists I mean the combination of Britain and the United States. The latter took over for the former as it failed, turning it into a protectorate. Now the latter is failing too, and there are no new up-and-coming Anglo-imperialists to take over for it. But throughout this process their common playbook had remained the same: pseudoliberal pseudocapitalism for the insiders and military domination and economic exploitation for everyone else. Much more specifically, their playbook always called for a certain strategem to be executed whenever their plans to dominate and exploit any given country finally fail. On their way out, they do what they can to compromise and weaken the entity they leave behind, by inflicting a permanently oozing and festering political wound. “Poison all the wells” is the last thing on their pre-departure checklist.

• When the British got tossed out of their American Colonies, they did all they could, using a combination of import preferences and British “soft power,” to bolster the plantation economy of the American South, helping set it up as a sort of anti-United States, and the eventual result was the American Civil War.(The British funded the Southern Confederates, along with British mercenaries and military advisers.....their point man being Judah P Benjamin, the Confederate War minister who escaped to the UK after the civil war...which claimed the lives of 600,000 people or 2% of the entire population, of the USA. You could also argue that Canada was also set up as an anti-America by the British colonials, to the point where every President from Lincoln onwards contemplated the invasion and occupation of Canada, with military plans for such action existing into the 1930's)

• When the British got tossed out of Ireland, they set up Belfast as a sort of anti-Ireland, with much blood shed as a result.

• When the British got tossed out of India, they set up Pakistan, as a sort of anti-India, precipitating a nasty hot war, followed by a frozen conflict over Kashmir.(Jinnah the founder of Pakistan was a British agent and the Muslim League the political vehicle which created Pakistan was also set up and funded by the British as a counter weight to the emerging nationalist socialist secular Congress movement. Pakistan to this day remains an integral part of the Anglo-Zionist proxy force with its security personnel stationed in GCC countries.....its participation in the creation of the Afghan Mujaheddin (1979--1991), the Taliban (1994--2014) and 'al-CIA-duh' in Afghanistan (1996---2014) ....and its security ops using the numerous proxy Islamist organisations of the Pakistan military/ISI.......against Afghanistan, Iran, China! And of-course India.

Pakistan is a failed state.

One hopes China ceases to fund through strategic projects this Anglo-Zionst project, especially those areas related to security/military. Economic development is fine.


The BJP/RSS in India could become an anti-India should they adopt extreme ideological positions once they become comfortable in power. The Anglo-Zionsts brought them to power for this purpose with the idea that India after being armed by Israel and the USA should go to war with China and Pakistan.

The Anglo-Zionists are hoping that the BJP/RSS are crazy enough ideologically, filled with manic faggots to try such a dangerous idea.)
 
• When the US lost China to the Communists, they evacuated the Nationalists to Taiwan, and set it up as a sort of anti-China, and even gave it China's seat at the United Nations.

The goal is always the same: if they can't have the run of the place, they make sure that nobody else can either, by setting up a conflict scenario that nobody there can ever hope to resolve. And so if you see Anglo-imperialists going out of their way and spending lots of money to poison the political well somewhere in the world, you can be sure that they are on their way out. Simply put, they don't spend lots of money to set up intractable problems for themselves to solve—it's always done for the benefit of others.

Fast-forward to 2014, and what we saw was the Anglo-imperialist attempt to set up Ukraine as a sort of anti-Russia. They took a Slavic, mostly Russian-speaking country and spent billions (that's with a “b”) of dollars corrupting its politics to make the Ukrainians hate the Russians. For a good while an average Ukrainian could earn a month's salary simply by turning up for an anti-Russian demonstration in Kiev, and it was said that nobody in Ukraine goes to protests free of charge; it's all paid for by the US State Department and associated American NGOs. The result was what we saw this year: a bloody coup, and a civil war marked by numerous atrocities. Ukraine is in the midst of economic collapse with power plants out of coal and lights going off everywhere, while at the same time the Ukrainians are being drafted into the army and indoctrinated to want to go fight against “the Muscovites.”

But, if you notice, things didn't go quite as planned. First, Russia succeeded in making a nice little example of self-determination in the form of Crimea: if it worked for Kosovo, why can't it work for Crimea? Oh, the Anglo-imperialist establishment wishes to handle these things on a case-by-case basis, and in this case it doesn't approve? Well, that would be a double-standard, wouldn't it? World, please take note: when the West talks about justice and human rights, that's just noise.

Next, the Russians provided some amount of support, including weapons, volunteers and humanitarian aid, to Ukraine's eastern provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk, which declared themselves People's Republics and successfully fought Ukraine's so-called “anti-terrorist operation” to a stalemate and an imperfect, precarious cease-fire. Very significantly, Russia absolutely refused to get involved militarily, has withheld official recognition of these republics, has refused to consider breaking up Ukraine, and continues to insist on national dialogue and a peace process even as the bullets fly. According to Putin, Ukraine must be maintained as “a contiguous political space.” Thus, the Russians have responded to the Anglo-imperialists' setting up of an anti-Russia in the form of Ukraine by setting up an anti-Ukraine in the form of DPR and LPR, thereby shunting the Anglo-imperialist attempt to provoke a war between Ukraine and Russia into a civil war within Ukraine.

You might also notice that the Anglo-imperialists have been getting very, very angry. They have been doing everything they can to vilify Russia, comparing Putin to Hitler and so on. This is because for them it's all about the money, and they didn't get what they paid for. What the Anglo-imperialists were paying for in corrupting Ukraine's politics was a ring-side seat at a fight between Ukraine and Russia. And what they got instead is a two-legged stool at a bar-room brawl between Eastern and Western Ukraine. Eastern Ukraine accounts for a quarter of the Ukrainian economy, produces most of the coal that had formerly kept the lights on in the rest of the country, and contains most of the industry that had made Ukraine an industrialized nation. Western Ukraine is centered on the unhappy little rump of Galicia, where the political soil is so fertile for growing neo-Nazis. So, paying billions to watch a bunch of Ukrainians fight each other inconclusively while Russia gets to play peacemaker is not what the Anglo-imperialists wanted, and they are absolutely livid about it. If they don't get the war they paid for PDQ, they will simply cut their losses, pack up and leave, and then do what they always do, which is pretend that the country in question doesn't exist, which, the way things are going in the Ukraine, it barely will.

Note that leaving, and then pretending that a place doesn't exist, is something the Anglo-imperialists have been doing a lot lately. When they left Iraq, they did succeed in setting up a sort of anti-Iraq in the form of Iraqi Kurdistan, but that all blew up in their face. Their attempts to set up an anti-Syria or an anti-Libya died in their infancy, and they don't seem to have any plan at all with regard to Afghanistan, unless it is to repeat every single blunder the Soviets made there as carefully and completely as possible.

 

What's more, it's starting to look like they are about to get kicked out of Eurasia altogether. Most of the major Eurasian players—China, Russia, India, Iran, much of Central Asia—are cementing their ties around the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, to which the United States isn't even admitted as an observer. 
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As for the European Union, the current crop of EU politicians is very much bought and will be paid for upon retirement by the Anglo-imperialists, but the only reason they are still in power is that there are lots of older voters in Western Europe, and older people tend to cling to what they know even after it stops working—for them or, especially, for their kids. If it was up to the young people, the Anglo-imperialists would face open rebellion. In fact, the trends in voting patterns show that their departure from the region is a matter of time.

Here is a preview of possible coming attractions. On their way out, the Anglo-imperialists will of course try to set up an anti-Europe, and the obvious choice for that is Britain. Of all the European nations, it is the most heavily manipulated by their Anglo cousins from across the pond. It would take minimal effort for them to hurt Britain economically, then launch a propaganda campaign to redirect the blame for the bad economy toward the continent. They wouldn't even have to hire translators for their propaganda—a simple “spelling-chequer” (or whatever) would suffice. And so, to make sure that their efforts to provoke a large-scale, hugely destructive, festering conflict between Britain and Europe fail, Europe would do well to set up an anti-Britain within Britain.

And the obvious choice for an anti-Britain is of course Scotland, where the recent independence referendum failed because of... the recalcitrance of older voters. A dividing line between the Anglo empire and Eurasia running through the English Channel/La Manche would be a disaster for Europe and moving it somewhere west of Bermuda would pose a formidable challenge. On the other hand, suppose that line ran along Hadrian's Wall, with the traditionally combative and ornery Scots, armed with the remnants of North Sea oil and gas, aligning themselves with the Continent, while England remains an ever-so-obedient vassal of the Anglo-imperialists? That would reduce the intercontinental conflict to what Americans like to call a “pissing contest”: not worth the high price of admission. Yes, there would be some strong words between the two sides, and some shoving and shouting outside of pubs, and even some black eyes and loose teeth should diplomacy fail, but that should be the extent of the damage. That I see as the best-case outcome.

So that's the big picture I see heading into 2015, which I am sure will be a most tumultuous year. Not to make a prediction as to timing (don't worry, you won't ever get one out of me!) but 2015 could be the year the Anglo-imperialist franchise finally starts shutting down in obvious ways. We know it will have to shut down eventually, because failing all the time is not conducive to its survival. The bonus question is, what sort of anti-America will these parasites set up inside America before they abandon their host and scatter to their fortified compounds in undisclosed locations around the world? Or will they not even bother, and just provoke a war of all against all?

I would think that they would at least try to leverage their expensively engineered red/blue divide within the United States. This fake cultural/political divide, with all the pseudoliberal/pseudoconservative indoctrination and university- and church-based brainwashing that put it in place, cost them a pretty penny. It was engineered to produce the appearance of choice at election-time while making sure that there isn't any. But could it not be pressed into service in some more extreme manner? How about leveraging it to organize some sort of rabidly homophobic racist fundamentalist separatist enclave somewhere down south? Or perhaps one somewhere in the north, where zoophilia is de rigeur while heterosexual intercourse requires a special permit from a committee stocked with graduates in women's studies? Now, fight, you idiots! Don't you see how well that could work in practice? Would they waste such a nice opportunity to set up a system of controlled mayhem? I think not!

I leave all of that up to you to imagine.

Happy New Year!  
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Dmitry Orlov is a Russian-American engineer and a writer on subjects related to "potential economic, ecological and political decline and collapse in the United States," something he has called “permanent crisis”. http://cluborlov.blogspot.com

2015--The Year of China/Russia geostrategy and global leadership

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It is clear that Jewish leadership through the USA, Jewish shekels, rap music, hip-hop, endless war, Jewish paedophilia, Kab-allah and satanic worship....and crisis management is not what the world needs or wants.

The World needs the just, balanced leadership of CHINA.

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The Outlook for the New Year

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By Paul Craig Roberts at Information Clearing House.
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- Washington has shaped 2015 to be a year of conflict. The conflict could be intense.
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Washington is the cause of the conflict, which has been brewing for some time. Russia was too weak to do anything about it when the Clinton regime pushed NATO to Russia’s borders and illegally attacked Yugoslavia, breaking the country into small easily controlled pieces. Russia was also too weak to do anything about it when the George W. Bush regime withdrew from the ABM treaty and undertook to locate anti-ballistic missile bases on Russia’s borders. Washington lied to Moscow that the purpose of the ABM bases is to protect Europe from non-existent Iranian nuclear ICBMs. However, Moscow understood that the purpose of the ABM bases is to degrade Russia’s nuclear deterrent, thereby enhancing Washington’s ability to coerce Russia into agreements that compromise Russian sovereignty.
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By summer 2008 Russian power had returned. On Washington’s orders, the US and Israeli trained and equipped Georgian army attacked the breakaway republic of South Ossetia during the early hours of August 8, killing Russian peacekeepers and civilian population. Units of the Russian military instantly responded and within a few hours the American trained and equipped Georgian army was routed and defeated. Georgia was in Russia’s hands again, where the province had resided during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Putin should have ousted Mikheil Saakashvili, the American puppet installed as president of Georgia by the Washington-instigated “Rose Revolution”, and reincorporated Georgia into the Russian Federation. Instead, in a strategic error, Russia withdrew its forces, leaving Washington’s puppet regime in place to cause future trouble for Russia. Washington is pushing hard to incorporate Georgia into NATO, thus adding more US military bases on Russia’s border. However, at the time, Moscow thought Europe to be more independent of Washington than it is and relied on good relations with Europe to keep American bases out of Georgia.
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Today the Russian government no longer has any illusion that Europe is capable of an independent foreign policy. Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated publicly that Russia has learned that diplomacy with Europe is pointless, because European politicians represent Washington’s interest, not Europe’s. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently acknowledged that Europe’s Captive Nation status has made it clear to Russia that Russian goodwill gestures are unable to produce diplomatic results.
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With Moscow’s delusion shattered that diplomacy with the West can produce peaceful solutions, reality has set in, reinforced by the demonization of Vladimir Putin by Washington and its vassal states. Hillary Clinton called Putin the new Hitler. While Washington incorporates former constituent parts of the Russian and Soviet empires into its own empire and bombs seven countries, Washington claims that Putin is militarily aggressive and intends to reconstitute the Soviet empire. Washington arms the neo-nazi regime Obama established in Ukraine, while erroneously claiming that Putin has invaded and annexed Ukrainian provinces. All of these blatant lies are echoed repeatedly by the Western presstitutes. Not even Hitler had such a compliant media as Washington has.
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Every diplomatic effort by Russia has been blocked by Washington and has come to naught. So now Russia has been forced by reality to update its military doctrine. The new doctrine approved on December 26 states that the US and NATO comprise a major military threat to the existence of Russia as a sovereign independent country.
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The Russian document cites Washington’s war doctrine of pre-emptive nuclear attack, deployment of anti-ballistic missiles, buildup of NATO forces, and intent to deploy weapons in space as clear indications that Washington is preparing to attack Russia.
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Washington is also conducting economic and political warfare against Russia, attempting to destabilize the economy with economic sanctions and attacks on the ruble. The Russian document acknowledges that Russia faces Western threats of regime change achieved through “actions aimed at violent change of the Russian constitutional order, destabilization of the political and social environment, and disorganization of the functioning of governmental bodies, crucial civilian and military facilities and informational infrastructure of Russia.” Foreign financed NGOs and foreign owned Russian media are tools in Washington’s hands for destabilizing Russia.
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Washington’s reckless aggressive policy against Russia has resurrected the nuclear arms race. Russia is developing two new ICBM systems and in 2016 will deploy a weapons system designed to negate the US anti-ballistic missile system. In short, the evil warmongers that rule in Washington have set the world on the path to nuclear armageddon.
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The Russian and Chinese governments both understand that their existence is threatened by Washington’s hegemonic ambitions. Larchmonter reports that in order to defeat Washington’s plans to marginalize both countries, the Russian and Chinese governments have decided to unify their economies into one and to conjoin their military commands. Henceforth, Russia and China move together on the economic and military fronts. http://www.mediafire.com/view/08rzue8ffism94t/China-Russia_Double_Helix.docx 
 
The unity of the Bear and the Dragon reduces the crazed neoconservatives’ dream of “an American century” to dangerous nonsense. As Larchmonter puts it, “The US and NATO would need Michael the Archangel to defeat China-Russia, and from all signs Michael the Archangel is aligned with the Bear and its Orthodox culture. There is no weapon, no strategy, no tactic conceivable in the near future to damage either of these rising economies now that they are ‘base pairs.’”
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Larchmonter sees hope in the new geopolitics created by the conjoining of Russia and China. I don’t dispute this, but if the arrogant neoconservatives realize that their hegemonic policy has created a foe over which Washington cannot prevail, they will push for a pre-emptive nuclear strike before the Russian-Chinese unified command is fully operational. To forestall a sneak attack, Russia and China should operate on full nuclear alert.
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The US economy–indeed the entire Western orientated economy from Japan to Europe–is a house of cards. Since the economic downturn began seven years ago, the entirety of Western economic policy has been diverted to the support of a few over-sized banks, sovereign debt, and the US dollar. Consequently, the economies themselves and the ability of populations to cope have deteriorated.
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The financial markets are based on manipulation, not on fundamentals. The manipulation is untenable. With debt exploding, negative real interest rates make no sense. With real consumer incomes, real consumer credit, and real retail sales stagnant or falling, the stock market is a bubble. With Russia, China, and other countries moving away from the use of the dollar to settle international accounts, with Russia developing an alternative to the SWIFT financial network, the BRICS developing alternatives to the IMF and World Bank, and with other parts of the world developing their own credit card and Internet systems, the US dollar, along with the Japanese and European currencies that are being printed in order to support the dollar’s exchange value, could experience a dramatic drop in exchange value, which would make the import-dependent Western world dysfunctional.
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In my opinion, it took the Russians and Chinese too long to comprehend the evil that has control in Washington. Therefore, both countries risk nuclear attack prior to the full operational capability of their conjoined defense. As the Western economy is a house of cards, Russia and China could collapse the Western economy before the neoconservatives can drive the world to war. As Washington’s aggression against both countries is crystal clear, Russia and China have every right to the following defensive measures.
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As the US and EU are conducting economic warfare against Russia, Russia could claim that by wrecking the Russian economy the West has deprived Russia of the ability to repay loans to the European banks. If this does not bring down the thinly capitalized EU banks, Russia can announce that as NATO countries are now officially recognized by Russian war doctrine as an enemy of the Russian state, Russia can no longer support NATO’s aggression against Russia by selling natural gas to NATO members. If the shutdown of much of European industry, rapidly rising rates of unemployment, and bank failures do not result in the dissolution of NATO and thus the end of the threat, the Chinese can act.
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The Chinese hold a very large amount of dollar-denominated financial assets. Just as the Federal Reserve’s agents, the bullion banks, dump massive shorts onto the bullion futures markets during periods of little activity in order to drive down the bullion price, China can dump the equivalent in US Treasuries of years of Quantitative Easing in a few minutes. If the Federal Reserve quickly creates dollars with which to purchase the enormous quantity of Treasuries so that the financial house of cards does not implode, the Chinese can then dump the dollars that they are paid for the bonds in the currency market. Whereas the Federal Reserve can print dollars with which to purchase the Treasuries, the Fed cannot print foreign currencies with which to buy the dollars. 
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The dollar would collapse, and with it the power of the Hegemon. The war would be over without a shot or missile fired.
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In my view, Russia and China owe it to the world to prevent the nuclear war intended by the neoconservatives simply by replying in kind to Washington’s economic warfare. Russia and China hold all the cards. Not Washington.
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Russia and China should give no warning. They should just act. Indeed, instead of step by step, Russia and China could simultaneously use the counter-measures. With four US banks holding derivatives totaling many times world GDP, the financial explosion would be the equivalent to a nuclear one. The US and Europe would be finished, and the world would be saved.
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Larchmonter possibly is correct. 2015 could be a very good year, but pre-emptive economic moves by Moscow and Beijing could be required. Putin’s current plan seems to be to turn away from the West, ignore the provocations, and mesh Russia’s strategic and economic interests with those of Asia. This is a humane and reasonable course of action, but it leaves the West untroubled and undistracted by its economic vulnerabilities. An untroubled West remains a grave danger not only to Russia and China but also to Americans and the entire world.
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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.

India looks East

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Benefits of Doing Business in India

For companies and executives from Western economies there are many benefits of doing business in India when compared to other Asian or emerging country alternatives.

• With a 5,000 year heritage of welcoming foreigners to its shores, India welcomes diversity. America, Americans and American brands are well liked and popular in India while Europeans and Asians are also readily accepted.

• India is a free society and Websites, movies and music from other cultures is not censored or limited, with the exception of pornographic or extremely seditious materials.

• Investing into India and repatriating profits or other gains is generally quite straightforward. Foreign companies can readily raise equity capital in India and many foreign companies have subsidiaries traded on Indian stock exchanges.

• India’s location can make it a good strategic alternative to China for manufacturing and shipping to Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Honeywell manufactures turbochargers in Pune, and Hyundai makes automobiles in Chennai for the African and European market.

• India’s engineers and managers travel well globally. GE, Google, CA, Mastercard, Reebok and many others have transplanted managers first hired in India into corporate headquarters and worldwide leadership positions. India’s talent is a tremendous asset.

• You will readily find people who speak English and you can buy English language books and magazines in all major Indian cities and airports. If you speak a major European language such as Spanish, German, or French, you will also find speakers of these languages in major Indian cities, thanks to organizations such as Max Mueller Bhavan and Alliance Francaise and also due to India’s booming global call center business.

• India’s young population and growing economic power promises to be a magnet for foreign companies for decades to come.
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• Advantage India

• World's largest democracy with 1.2 billion people.
• Stable political environment and responsive administrative set up.
• Well established judiciary to enforce rule of law.
• Land of abundant natural resources and diverse climatic conditions.
• India's growth will start to outpace China's within three to five years and hence will become the fastest large economy with 9-10 per cent growth over the next 20-25 years (Morgan Stanley).
• Investor friendly policies and incentive based schemes.
• India's economy will grow fivefold in the next 20 years (McKinsey).
• Cost competitiveness; low labour costs.
• Total labour force of nearly 530 million.
• Large pool of skilled manpower; strong knowledge base with significant English speaking population.
• Young country with a median age of 30 years by 2025: India's economy will benefit from this "demographic dividend".
• The proportion of population in the working age group (15-59 years) is likely to increase from approximately 58 per cent in 2001 to more than 64 per cent by 2021.
• Huge untapped market potential.
• The urban population of India will double from the 2001 census figure of 290 m to approximately 590 m by 2030 (McKinsey).
• Progressive simplification and rationalization of direct and indirect tax structures.
• Reduction in import tariffs.
• Full current account convertibility.
• India is member of WTO.
• Robust banking and financial institutions.
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India, South Korea shore up strategic ties

By Times of India and PTI

In boost to their strategic ties, India and South Korea on Monday decided to enhance cooperation in sectors like shipbuilding, electronics, defence production, infrastructure and energy besides outlining mutual interest in areas of nuclear energy and cyber security.

  In the eighth joint commission meeting, external affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her South Korean counterpart Yun Byung-se deliberated on all aspects of the bilateral ties with a view to "chart out a road map" to further deepen engagement.

  "They agreed that development of cooperation in the field of defence equipment and technology, as well as, sectors like shipbuilding, electronics, IT, energy and infrastructure held considerable possibilities

   "They reiterated mutual interest in deepening cooperation in the areas of civil nuclear energy and cyber security," the ministry of external affairs said.

   In her address, Swaraj called South Korea an important partner for India's economic growth and invited South Korean companies to make "bold investments" and benefit from the "Make in India" initiative of the government.

   She said South Korea and South Korean companies occupy a strategic place in India's "Act East" initiative and that there was huge scope for greater investment in the country, particularly in the manufacturing sector.

    "We invite Korean companies to build on their success in India and make bold investments to benefit from my government's focus on 'Make in India' which is aimed at providing necessary policy and other incentives to encourage manufacturing in India," she said.

    Yun welcomed the initiatives taken by India and agreed to encourage the South Korean industry to engage with India even "more closely".

    In the meeting, there was agreement on the considerable potential for further expanding bilateral economic and investment cooperation.

   The South Korean side reiterated a cordial invitation for an early official visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the country.

   Swaraj welcomed the invitation adding that both sides will work closely to ensure a productive and successful visit of Modi at a mutually convenient early date.

       The two ministers exchanged views on global and regional developments and agreed to step-up exchanges between officials and academics of the two sides.

Swaraj also called on South Korean President Park Geun-hye and held meetings with the minister of trade, industry and energy and the national security adviser.

In her address, Swaraj sought steps to boost trade ties to realise the target of $40 billion bilateral annual trade by next year and said South Korean companies like Hyundai, Samsung and LG have become household names in India.

"My government attaches importance to relations with Republic of Korea. We see you as an important partner for our economic growth. Korea and Korean companies occupy a strategic place in India's 'Act East' initiative," she said.

Currently 300 South Korean companies have invested approximately USD 3 billion and have employed nearly 40,000 people in India.(Peanuts---need more investment from South Korea, and maybe they can teach India to play baseball, instead of cricket???)

The current bilateral annual trade between the two countries is about USD 16 billion. Indian companies have invested around USD 2 billion in South Korea and some of the leading names who acquired South Korean companies are Tatas, Mahindra and Aditya Birla Group.

"We would like to see a new form of connectivity between our two countries through cross-border production networks," the external affairs minister said.

"We need to work together to realize the fuller potential of bilateral trade. We had set a target of USD 40 billion by 2015. To achieve this target, our companies need to take full advantage of our economic complementarities and leverage the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement," she said.

India-South Korea joint commission for bilateral cooperation was established in February 1996, which is chaired by the external affairs minister and the minister of foreign affairs from the South Korean side.

China as Reserve banker of the WORLD

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China Steps In as World's New Bank

By William Pesek Bloomberg and Information Clearing House.

 

Thanks to China, Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund, Jim Yong Kim of the World Bank and Takehiko Nakao of the Asian Development Bank may no longer have much meaningful work to do.
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Beijing's move to bail out Russia, on top of its recent aid for Venezuela and Argentina, signals the death of the post-war Bretton Woods world. It’s also marks the beginning of the end for America's linchpin role in the global economy and Japan's influence in Asia.
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What is China's new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank if not an ADB killer? If Japan, ADB's main benefactor, won't share the presidency with Asian peers, Beijing will just use its deep pockets to overpower it. Lagarde's and Kim’s shops also are looking at a future in which crisis-wracked governments call Beijing before Washington. 
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China stepping up its role as lender of last resort upends an economic development game that's been decades in the making. The IMF, World Bank and ADB are bloated, change-adverse institutions.  When Ukraine received a $17 billion IMF-led bailout this year it was about shoring up a geopolitically important economy, not geopolitical blackmail.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping's government doesn't care about upgrading economies, the health of tax regimes or central bank reserves. It cares about loyalty. The quid pro quo: For our generous assistance we expect your full support on everything from Taiwan to territorial disputes to deadening the West’s pesky focus on human rights.
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This may sound hyperbolic; Russia, Argentina and Venezuela are already at odds with the U.S. and its allies. But what about Europe? In 2011 and 2012, it looked to Beijing to save euro bond markets through massive purchases. Expect more of this dynamic in 2015 should fresh turmoil hit the euro zone, at which time Beijing will expect European leaders to pull their diplomatic punches. What happens if the Federal Reserve’s tapering slams economies from India to Indonesia and governments look to China for help? Why would Cambodia, Laos or Vietnam bother with the IMF’s conditions when China writes big checks with few strings attached?
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Beijing’s $24 billion currency swap program to help Russia is a sign of things to come. Russia, it's often said, is too nuclear to fail. As Moscow weathers the worst crisis since the 1998 default, it’s tempting to view China as a good global citizen. But Beijing is just enabling President Vladimir Putin, who’s now under zero pressure to diversify his economy away from oil. The same goes for China’s $2.3 billion currency swap with Argentina and its $4 billion loan to Venezuela. In the Chinese century, bad behavior has its rewards.
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There's plenty to worry about as China tosses money at rogue governments like Sudan and Zimbabwe. But there’s also lots at stake for Asia's budding democracies. The so-called Washington consensus on economic policies isn't perfect, but is Beijing's model of autocratic state capitalism with scant press freedom really a better option? With China becoming Asia's sugar daddy, the temptation in, say, Myanmar might be to avoid the difficult process of creating credible institutions to oversee the economy. (Just like the USA's federal institutions)

 

American racism and double standards

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America tells India that the USA will make India into a superpower.....and then proceeds to without an iota of irony and hypocrisy, actively fund, arm and support the live border foe of India, Pakistan and its security apparatus to the tune of billions of $.

The notorious ISI is funded by the USA........through which the 'al-CIA-duh' hologram was created.

The idea that the USA will make India into a great power is ludicrous, given the Neocon/Zionist written PNAC 2000 policy paper. Full Spectrum Dominance for the Jew, and no rivals to the USA accepted.....except China (The Rothschilds little hobby horse....AN ISSUE with which I have no problems, SINCERELY IF THINGS keep developing out of China as they do presently......"a RESPONSIBLE ASIAN SUPER=POWER" that helps Developing nations, and maintains the primacy of International Law, UPHOLDS 21st century international business norms........AND is an alternative viable center of power which developing nations especially can turn to for assistance) 

What has the USA done for India except dump mountains of surplus food from the 1950--1990's as aid.

Participated in no strategic projects in the country.......arms and munitions factories, power plants, chemical plants, machine tools, metal works, iron and steel mills, heavy engineering.

Bumping off of high profile scientists in India, and enticing--SIPHONING off of 50,000 of the brightest and best engineers and scientists to work in the backroom of the USA.

Terrorism in India with Israel/Pakistan and RSS elements.

Buying elements of the media in India including Bollywood.

People constantly talk about American jobs off-shored to China and India. But the figures speak differently for the latter country.

Indian trade with the USA is a poultry $70 billion for 2014.........whereas China/USA trade is worth over $600 billion. And where are the millions of jobs off-shored in IT from the USA to India.....VERY LITTLE:

i) Major items of export from India to US

Select major items with their percentage shares, are given below.

a) Textiles (15.7%)
b) Precious stones & metals (20.9%)
c) Mineral Fuel, Oil (10.9%)
d) Pharmaceutical products (10.8%)
e) Organic chemicals (4.9%)
f) Machinery (4.9%)
g) Electrical Machinery (3%)
h) Lac, Gum, Resins (2.9%)

ii) Major items of export from US to India

Select major items with their percentage shares, are given below

a) Precious stones & metals (24.4%)
b) Aircraft, spacecraft, Parts (12%)
c) Machinery (9.8%)
d) Electrical machinery (6.5%)
e) Mineral Fuel, Oil etc (6.3%)
f) Optical instruments & equipment (6%)
h) Organic chemicals (3.4%)
g) Plastic Products (3.2%)

India's very small trade volume of about $340 billion exports of 2014, is not made up of huge numbers of jobs off-shored from the USA.......in IT, and call centers. In the Silicon Valley 34% of the workers are Indian.......where the USA sucks in expertise from India, AND not India sucking out jobs from the USA.

But the MAIN POINT which is being made is that without any serious assistance to the Indian economy and trade with the USA, the USA feels it has the right to express displeasure against India for signing MUCH NEEDED AND VERY IMPORTANT FOR INDIA strategic agreements with Russia worth $100 billion recently.

The USA feels entitled to many things.....no doubt as the exceptional nation, but this takes the cake.

The USA on the orders of the London based Rothschilds is silent on the 10 times bigger and of more significance, Russo-China trade agreements covering gas and oil. Or the even more significant currency swap agreements between both the countries.....in their local currency. Defacto a step in the merging of the two economies...where the Chinese economy leads.

For India to OBEY and jump how high sir, the USA will have to do a lot more then MERE lecture condescendingly in a racist double standard way to India. Faggot right-wing Modi comes from the premiere business state in India. Modi was a child-businessman before he became a political fascist apparatchik, and then a politician:

"I think pro-business mentality comes to Gujaratis from way long before even Europeans or Mughals invaded India. One reason for that is its geographical presence,it is a state of a shape in peninsula over Arabian ocean which has largest coast in India and had shortest sea route to Arab countries, Africa and Europe. The trade between India and other geographical areas mentioned had been in existence over a long long time, until Mughal countries started war in Arabian sea against Europeans (He means the Turkic Ottomans....and the Turkic Mughals). Thats why they had to find a new way to India (It is also an unverified story of Vasco d' gama meeting a Gujarati trader 'kanha' in Africa and followed him to India.) Back in time there might be huge population of traders who did business with other countries through Arabian sea from Gujarat that have created huge business minded population and grew sense of trading. (Don't believe me? Notice the power of a Gujarati to bargain price in the market next time.)"

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 Antwerp: Where Gujjus beat Jews

If there is one place where the legendary business acumen of Jews and Gujaratis clashes,it is Antwerps diamond trading hub.And so far,Gujaratis have come up trumps,says Melvyn Thomas


When a small-time diamond merchant from Palanpur,Mafatlal Mohanbhai Mehta,left the Indian shores for Antwerp in Belgium in 1959,little did he knew that the Gujarati community would one day dominate the diamond business in this foreign land.At 21,Mehta had a knack for sniffing out new business opportunities.In Belgium,the Jews had monopolised the diamond trade.Mehta got into their good books and soon set up two companies.
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Today,five decades later,the Mehtas and Shahs of the diamond industry control more than 75 per cent of the $42 billion annual diamond trade in Antwerp. In fact,if you bump into someone in Antwerp,there is a very good possibility that he is either a Shah or a Mehta.Today,Gujaratis are also making their presence felt in the diamond hubs of Tel Aviv and New York.

Thirty years ago,opening a diamond trading office in Antwerp was a must for each of the big diamond company owners in India.Gradually,following the footsteps of the Palanpuri Jains,Kathiawaris from Saurashtra too opened their trading offices in Antwerp.

In the last few years,Kathiawaris have established a strong foothold here,with 65 per cent of the Gujarati traders being from the community now.

Kathiawaris are becoming a formidable force in the Antwerp diamond market, says Ashit Mehta,chairman of the $1 billion-plus Arjav Diamonds NV,one of the top three diamond companies in Antwerp.But it is still Gujaratis ruling the market. Mehta is also the board member of the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC).

Many Jews,who traded diamonds in the public hall of Antwerps imposing Diamond Beurs are so worried about the new competitive pressure that they now prefer to meet clients in the privacy of their offices for fear that Indians will poach their remaining business.Some 25 years ago,Antwerp had than 30,000 diamond cutters and polishers.But now,the number has dropped to only 1,000 as most of the manufacturing has moved to Surat.

According to Mehta,whatever Palanpuri Jains are today in Antwerp is only due to their visionaries,who had set up their shops decades ago.Now,it is our responsibility to preserve our position so that our next generation can take the trade to higher levels.
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Once upon a time,the British ruled our land.Today,Palanpuri Jains and Kathiawaris rule the diamond trade in Antwerp.Being a professional attached to the diamond industry for the last 25 years,I am proud that Indians are the bosses of the international diamond trade, says KK Sharma,executive director of Indian Diamond Institute.
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Among the examples of Indian-American success, the book notes that of all the ethnic groups that the Census Bureau tracks, Indian-Americans have the highest median household income — $90,500 — compared with $51,200 for the United States as a whole.....You get the picture: Indian-Americans are doing awesome............... In fact, an eye-popping 44 percent of Indian-American households have incomes exceeding $100,000, compared with 21 percent for the entire country.

• India needs a MFN status with the USA that bypasses the Rothschild of London.
• India requires the lifting of trade quotas which are more SEVERE than those between MANY MANY MANY other USA partner countries.
• India requires technology transfer agreements from the USA that is significant and verifiable.
• The ditching of gimmicky slogans which constantly pronounce how special the relationship between the two countries are.
• Greater respect for Indian public figures in the USA, when they come visiting for cultural events. Rather than being singled out, like no other country on the orders of the Rothschilds of London......ditto Australia in the past.
• The Rothschilds are entitled to love another country MORE than the country they live in, and which allows them to enriches themselves....I like easy listening music, some movies, pizza, beautiful women, lounging and Pan Iranism. But my likes are not used as battering rams against something else to profess my love for the above....let me get into a 12 year world explanation mode if I may. Example 1: I like pizza therefore I must profess my hatred to the world about hamburgers, or tacos....the supposed rival of the pizza in the fast food industry to emphasize my love for the pizza. Example 2: I like Chelsea FC but I hate Man U, the premier League rival, and therefore I must attack Man U fans when they come to Rothschild run London to profess my tribal soccer loyalty. This is both Neanderthal and puerile. No Sane State must build their complex state policies on such whimsical puerile peccadilloes of the London elite.

The opportunity to discuss the above, away from yet more empty symbolism can be achieved when the two faggots meet in January 2015
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US “troubled” over slew of deals during Putin-Modi summit

By Dadan Upadhyay at Russia India Report blog


The outcome of the recent summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi gave an all-embracing boost to the strategic partnership between Russia and India. A total of 20 agreements, including in the key fields of defence, nuclear energy and oil and gas were signed during the summit. All these deals are long-term in nature.

According to the media reports, during the summit, the two sides signed $100 billion worth of commercial deals, including $40 billion in nuclear energy, $50 billion in oil and gas and $10 billion in the fields of defence, fertilizers, space and diamonds. A Joint Statement for strengthening the Indo-Russian friendship over the next decade was also signed.
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While the unprecedented success achieved by the two sides during the summit was welcomed by Putin and Modi, at their joint press conference, it provoked US to issue angry statements, disapproving the further strengthening of Russia-India bilateral ties. It was not only upset over India’s move to sign a slew of agreements with Russia, but also strongly objected to the presence of Crimea’s Prime Minister Sergei Aksenov in Putin’s delegation. It may be recalled, Aksenov had been included in the list of sanctions of the US, EU and Canada.

New energy, new horizons: India-Russia ties moving into higher orbit

Washington took the Indian move, as a challenge to its so-called “global authority” at a time when it was coercing the European Union (EU) and other countries into tightening a series of sanctions against Moscow following the Ukrainian crisis and reunification of Crimea Republic with Russia in a referendum earlier this year. Pro-West Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who was on a visit to Sydney, also did not lose time to condemn the Indian move to welcome Aksenov in India.
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With their eyes on defence and nuclear energy deals, the US and other Western leaders have been trying to woo the new Indian Prime Minister for closer cooperation in these fields. Washington wanted to capture India’s defence and nuclear energy market. It recently dislodged Russia from top position in supplying arms, but so far failed to get any nuclear reactors deals. During their talks, in New Delhi, Putin and Modi decided to speed up the implementation of defence and nuclear energy cooperation programmes between the two countries. The US fears that their decision to increase bilateral cooperation in these spheres may make it lose the Indian market to Russia.
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“Even as India’s options have increased today, Russia will remain our most important defence partner,” Modi said in his press statement after talks with Putin. He also referred to nuclear energy cooperation, in addition, to four reactors to be built at Kudankulam. “Today we have outlined an ambitious vision for nuclear energy of at least ten more reactors. It will have the highest standards of safety in the world. It will also include manufacture of equipment and components in India.”

Indo-Russian cooperation

Reacting over the Indo-Russian deals in defence and nuclear energy fields and inclusion of Aksenov in Putin’s delegation to India, in Washington, the US Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: “It’s not time for business as usual with Russia. We have conveyed this, certainly, to our allies and to our partners across the world.” She also said that the US was “troubled” by reports that the delegation accompanying Putin included Aksenov and sought clarifications on the matter from New Delhi.
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Since the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis, India has refused to back sanctions against Russia by the West. On the eve of the India-Russia summit, the External Affairs Ministry in a statement reiterated that New Delhi could never be a party to any sanctions against Moscow. The Joint Secretary (Eurasia) in the Ministry, Ajay Bisaria said the Indo-Russian ties are characterized by “special and privileged strategic partnership” and India considered the Ukrainian crisis as the former Soviet Republic’s internal problem.
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The Joint Statement issued by Putin and Modi also said, “India and Russia oppose economic sanctions that do not have the approval of the United Nations Security Council.”

Here’s how to raise Russia-India relations to a new level

In this connection, the trip by Aksenov to India could negatively affect “the friendly relations” established recently by Modi with US President Barack Obama during his visit to Washington, in September. Modi has already invited Obama to be the chief guest on the India’s Republic Day on January 26. Analysts said the controversy could overshadow Obama’s visit.
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During his visit to Mumbai, Aksenov signed a MoU between Crimean Republic and Gul Kripalani, chairman of the Indian business group Indian-Crimean Partnership. After signing the document, he said that the MoU is an “important milestone” in the development of bilateral relations between Russia and India.
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Aksenov organized a paramilitary force on the Crimean Peninsula early this year as pro-Western protests grew in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital. He was one of the first people to be singled out by the United States for sanctions. The symbolic show of support has put New Delhi in the middle of one of the bitterest disputes between Moscow and the West.
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After his return, Aksenov told reporters in Simferopol that US State Department’s spokeswoman’s statements against his trip to India, “have not brought any results” to the US representative.

Diamond sparkle for India-Russia ties

“During the trip, this country’s leadership achieved the objectives it had. With the Indians, we discussed various business topics and we share an understanding on how to proceed with the implementation of projects. For further cooperation, we have invited to Crimea representatives of India’s businesses,” he said.
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Russian State Duma, the lower house, International Affairs Committee chairman Alexei Pushkov said the US call on other countries not to have dealings with Russia was absurd. "The US has called on all countries of the world not to conduct business with Russia. I think this call won't be heard outside the US’ close allies. It is absurd," Pushkov said.
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The Indian External Affairs Ministry has so far not officially commented on the attack from the US and Ukraine over the issue. Observers said it’s too early to forecast how India might react to the pressure from the US regarding its bilateral relationship with Russia.