Aby August 27th, 2007
This article is in response to the claims made by a few scaremongering dissident sites and blogs that the US National Missile Defense program could lead to a global hegemony with the US achieving nuclear primacy and launching a nuclear holocaust on Russia. The claim is seemingly based on the assumption that the US can destroy more than 90% of Russia’s nuclear arsenal and then take cover under its ABM defence to prevent any retaliatory nuclear strike by Russia. An excerpt of such a claim is given below, taken from a Canadian site Global Research in its article “The Real Danger behind US ABM Deployment in Eastern Europe“.
By means of a US first strike about 99%+ of Russian nuclear forces would be taken out. So Bush Jr. needs ABMs to take care of what remains. And in any event what really matters here is the perception. Namely, the United States Government believes that with the deployment of a facially successful first strike capability, they can move beyond deterrence and into “compellence.” In other words, with an apparent first strike capability, the USG can compel Russia to do its bidding during a crisis.
The above scenario is a risky proposition which could easily inflame public paranoia and cause an alarming rise of anti-American movements around the globe. However such a nuclear war scenario be impossible from practical consideration due to the fail deadly mechanism employed by nuclear powers. The fail deadly mechanism (also known as second strike capability) is put in place by a nuclear capable country to prevent an enemy wiping off its nuclear arsenal with an overwhelming first strike. A force of survivable nuclear arsenal is developed and deployed as mobile ICBMs, submarine SLBMs and reinforced blast-resistant ICBM silos - all equipped with multiple nuclear warheads (MIRV). We will explain in brief using publicly available data and verifiable information, the technologies and strategic measures employed by Russia to protect their systems from US first strikes. We will also construct simulated attack scenarios to understand the second strike capability of Russia. The technical jargon will be kept to a minimum for easier understanding, with only as much technical details as necessary to explain the factors/scenario. For further technical details you may follow one of the resource links provided below or read up the resources in public and declassified databases, on the subject.
Submarine Nuclear Forces and SLBMs
This is the primary fail-deadly second strike measure employed by matured nuclear powers like United States, Russia, China, UK and France to have survivable nuclear deterrence capability. It is for this reason that both France and Britain are secured against enemy attacks Continue Reading »
Aby July 31st, 2007
I once had a discussion with a Canadian colonel and a few of his colleagues serving the NATO forces in Belgrade, about Zionism and the side effects it is causing to the world peace. It appears that in the western world especially the Anglo Saxon USA, UK or Canada, any ideological anti-Zionism is considered as Nazism and the majority unable to see the middle path of humanity. In 1975 the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 was passed stating that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination” which was later ratified due to heavy Anglo-US opposition. Today a lot of North Americans see Zionism and Jew appeasement as an answer to Nazism, which is considered as short sighted and racist by neutral countries in modern Europe, Asia and Africa alike.
Anti-Zionism protests in Europe during the Israeli aggression on Lebanon in 2006.
Modern Zionism arose because of the several complex political and social developments that took place in the world during and after the World War 2 in Europe. The genocidal mass massacre of Jews under Hitler’s regime in National Socialist Germany gave a guilt complex to Americans as they contributed to the Nazi Holocaust in several ways - financially and politically. There are also religious beliefs among those of Abrahamic faiths that the Jews are people of God and need to be rehabilitated to Israel and protected at all costs which gave them a justification for Zionism. These factors culminated to the widespread Jew appeasement in Anglo-US countries. It also led them to the creation of a religiously polarised Jewish state of Israel. This developments gave a cause and justification to the later Nazi supporters and anti-Semitic hate groups in US and abroad. It also created unhealthy anti-Semitism among Arabs because of the blatant Zionism in their homeland by the Allied victors after the World War 2 (most notably the Palestinian conflict and Suez Canal Crisis).
The Jews by their very nature are peaceful and intellectual people, who have proved themselves time and again by their countless contributions to the cause of modern science, humanity and politics. It is an insult to this community to think that they cannot live in normal secular and democratic societies without the aid of appeasement and Zionist policies. Nazism is half a century old ideology, hardly of relevance today. The western obsession with Nazis has created a positive heroic view of Nazis in youngsters who often take to Neo-Nazism as an expression of their rebel attitude. It can hardly be countered by Zionism, which is the form of extremist racism standing at an opposite pole to Nazism. Neither is Nazism as justification of Zionism and nor is Zionism as justification of Nazism. Jews are after all humans like us; we cannot have a world order where Jew appeasement regains supreme over the human rights of other humans, especially in countries like Yugoslavia and Palestine. This would make us no better than the original Nazis, if we were to counter racism with equal and opposite racism.
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