(c) Copyright 1999: Graham L. Strachan
In 1984 a Russian defector, Anatoly Golitsyn, wrote a book called ‘New Lies for Old’ in which he revealed that the Soviet Union and China had been manufacturing ‘disinformation’, false information, about the state of affairs within the communist bloc since at least 1957. Such activities extended to the staging of events which would create a false picture of relationships between various bloc members including Russia and China. The object was to fool the West into lowering its guard against the communist threat, and adopting policies which furthered, or at least did not hinder, communism’s long range plans for world domination.
According to Golitsyn, such disinformation had included manufacturing the idea that Yugoslavia under Tito was ‘independent’, that the Soviet Union and China were ‘split’ over ideology, that Czechoslovakia was liberated in the ‘Prague Spring’, and that there was a ‘dissident movement’ within the Soviet Union. These false ideas were designed to distract the West while the communist regimes laid the groundwork for a ‘major shift in communist tactics’ in the final phase of policy during the 1980s.
According to Golitsyn, this ‘major shift in tactics’ would involve bold new
disinformation initiatives,
surpassing all previous ones in scope and daring. These included:
(1) “false liberalisation in Eastern Europe and probably in the Soviet
Union” including the “demolition of
the Berlin Wall”, and “some form of confederation between East and West
Germany”.
(2) the appointment of a Soviet leader who would be “a kind of Soviet
Dubcek” who “would provide the
framework for the introduction of a new set of ‘reforms’”. According to
Golitsyn, however, despite the
‘reforms’ the reality of collective leadership and the leaders’ common
commitment to long-range policy
(world domination) would continue unaffected.
(3) such reforms would include ‘economic reforms’ which would appear to
bring Soviet practice more into
line with Western models (‘capitalism’). In reality the communist party
would be less conspicuous, but it
would continue to control the economy from behind the scenes as before.
(4) the ‘liberalisation’ would be “spectacular and impressive” and involve
the apparent introduction of
democracy. But it would be “calculated and deceptive in that it would be
introduced from above”.
Because the West would want to believe what it was seeing, it would be fooled by it all, and fail to ask the obvious question: why the KGB, which had successfully suppressed opposition to the regime for more than 70 years (during which the Soviet Union murdered 64 million of its own citizens), had suddenly become ineffective? The apparent liberalisation of the Soviet Union would inspire America to wind back its armed forces. “A massive U.S. defence budget might be found no longer justified.” [Golitsyn].
In the final stage of the ‘major shift in communist tactics’ there would be a ‘Sino-Soviet reconciliation’, in which the apparent policy disagreements between China and the Soviet Union would dissolve, giving way to the “strategy of one clenched fist”. The U.S. and the West, suddenly confronted with “the overwhelming strength of communism” which would be ‘virtually unanswerable’, would have no option but to join in a “supranational economic and political communist federation”, a process the West would find “painful”.
Now if there was anything to Golitsyn’s claim about the ‘strategy of one clenched fist’, the world would expect to see China and Russia arming themselves, and commencing talks to ‘resolve’ imaginary differences. Is there any evidence of this? There certainly is. And not only is America winding back its own defence preparedness as Golitsyn predicted, the Clinton administration is actually helping China’s buildup by assisting it to acquire vital military technology from the U.S.
RUSSIA PREPARES
According to Colonel Lunev, a recent defector from the main intelligence
directorate of the Russian General
Staff, Russia’s military is doing everything it can “to prepare for a war
that it considers inevitable.” Though
Russia supposedly has been in economic turmoil, Moscow has been spending
billions on vast underground
nuclear war bunkers, new biological and chemical weapons, as well as road
and rail-mobile ICBMs. Yeltsin's
military continues to deploy 10,000 to 12,000 ABMs (Anti-Ballistic Missiles)
and 18 battle management
radars, even though such deployment violates the 1972 ABM Treaty. At the
same time, the Russian Navy
continues to improve its surface and submarine forces, deploying the largest
ballistic missile cruiser of its
kind, Peter the Great.
American intelligence researcher Jeffrey Nyquist, who conducted extensive interviews with Colonel Lunev, reports that while continuing to beg for more food from the West, Russia is stockpiling grain, slaughtering its herds, increasing fuel production, stockpiling fuel, slaughtering fur-bearing animals, continuing to build weapons despite treaty agreements to the contrary, continuing to expand its deep water navy, and developing vast underground ‘cities’ capable of housing over 30,000 people. Russia continues to lie, obfuscate, deny and dissemble regarding all the above. It refuses to allow any kind of inspections as a condition for receipt of any western aid. The Washington Times reported recently that Russia’s strategic bomber forces carried out simulated nuclear bombing raids against the United States in exercises that included test firings of long-range cruise missiles.
CHINA BUILDUP
China too has been building up state-of-the-art military might, including
its first aircraft carriers. During
1996 reliable observers estimated that China spent $87 billion on armaments
and military expansion, and that
expenditure had been growing at 11-14% annually. China had the third largest
military in the world (after
Russia’s and America’s) and at the rate at which it was growing and
modernizing it was expected to be
equal to or ahead of America’s military within five to 15 years. China’s
army, at 3 million troops, was even
then twice as large as America’s at 1.5 million troops (1996 figures).
In more recent times, China has been upgrading its military technology with the assistance of the Clinton administration. Charles Smith of the Internet news site WorldNetDaily reports that President Clinton facilitated the sale of advanced technology to China by companies such as Loral and Motorola in return for campaign donations. Clinton has signed waiver after waiver, circumventing Congress and the law to export satellites, super computers, radars, secure communications (encryption technology) and bombing navigation equipment to China. China has 18 ICBMs trained on American cities, and is now able to aim them far more accurately than ever before with the new technology.
RUSSIA AND CHINA
Is there any evidence that the ‘differences’ between China and Russia are
about to be ‘resolved’? Absolutely!
In a report entitled ‘Russia and China Prepare for War’, Internet journalist
Christopher Ruddy has detailed
major developments in China and Russia that appear as war
preparations....developments that have gone
unnoticed by the major media. Russia recently entered into an alliance with
Communist China specifically
designed to undermine the West’s dominance as a world power. China and
Russia have openly admitted that
the purpose of their alliance is to challenge the dominance of the United
States. Both countries have been
moving troops off their shared borders, as military cooperation has been
stepped up.
The Australian of 23 February, 1999, reported that Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, was to fly to Moscow for his first official trip to “boost flagging trade”. The South China Post reported on 13 February 1999, that “Beijing confirmed yesterday that it had held talks with Russia on the US plan to create a theatre missile defence (TMD) system to protect its troops and allies in Asia.”
MEANWHILE IN AMERICA
Meanwhile in America, the Clinton administration has slashed defense
spending and reduced America’s
military readiness. It has destroyed two-thirds of America’s nuclear
arsenal, leaving Russia with the largest
nuclear arsenal in the world. Never has America been so vulnerable.
Joseph Farah of the Internet news site WorldNetDaily reported on 16 June 1998 that the American defense budget had been cut, in real terms, for the last 14 consecutive years, from 16 % of GDP during the Eisenhower administration, to 3 % today. Says Farah, “The U.S. has been slashing the military budget every year since the Cold War ended with the idea that the major threat to American security has been eradicated.”
Since 1990, active Army ranks have been reduced from 770,000 to 495,000. The Army currently has only 10 active combat divisions compared to the 18 it had at the start of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Cuts include 293,000 reservists, two reserve divisions, 20 Air Force and Navy air wings with approximately 2,000 combat aircraft, 232 strategic bombers, 13 ballistic missile submarines with 3,114 nuclear warheads on 232 missiles, 500 ICBMs, four aircraft carriers, 121 surface combatants and attack submarines, plus all the support basing, transport and logistic access, tanks, armored fighting vehicles, helicopters, etc.
According to Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), a member of the Senate Armed Service Committee, “[America is] in a more threatened position than we have probably been in the history of this country....We’re at one-half the defense force we had in 1991. We don’t have a national defense system!”
THE MILLENNIUM BUG
Intelligence researcher Jeffrey Nyquist argues that many factors may be
leading Russia’s military to consider
a war option. Notable is the ‘tripwire’ of Y2K. Russian weapons systems are
vulnerable to potential Y2K
failures, and several experts suggest Russia feels compelled to ‘use it or
lose it’ regarding its arsenal.
Russia’s military authorities have admitted they could be faced with a
problem: whether to use the nuclear
weapons before the Year 2000 or risk losing them for a period of time.
Colonel Lunev agrees with Nyquist’s
concerns, warning that Y2K may be a tripwire for war.
The so-called millennium or Y2K ‘bug’ is the result of the apparent failure by tens of thousands of computer software progammers over the past three decades to anticipate that the use of only two digits to denote the year where dates were required would cause difficulties when the year 2000 or ‘00’ came around. Governments in the West are now predicting social chaos from the disruption of essential services, and are using that prospect as the pretext for government preparations for crackdowns on civilian populatons.
The British government is ready to impose martial law. So is the Canadian government. The American government is not only drawing up plans to do the same, but it is conducting urban anti-terrorist ‘training’ exercises by SWAT-like teams in black helicopters using live ammunition and explosives in closely populated areas all over the country without warning. It is a serious question whether Americans have more to fear from their own government than they do from the ‘strategy of one clenched fist’. Or could it be that the actions of Russia, China and the Clinton administration are all part of the same ‘clenched fist’?
While facilitating the sale of advanced military technology to China, president Clinton has initiated moves to disarm the American people. Reports have been circulating for some time that there are over 130 well maintained but empty detention facilities within the U.S resembling concentration camps, for which no satisfactory explanation has yet been given.
In Australia, the Sunday Mail of February 14, 1999, reported that “defence forces could patrol the streets as part of a federal government plan to tackle civil unrest if the Year 2000 bug disrupted essential services....Federal government sources said Australia’s defence forces were drafting a contingency plan for the army, air force and navy to quell any ‘millennium chaos’....”
As usual Australia’s politicians and their parasitic ‘elites’ cannot wait to demonstrate their allegiance to their new world order bosses. Is Australia also about to experience the ‘strategy of one clenched fist’?