Russia warns US not to attack Iran
There's really no two ways to interpret this.
An attack on Iran will plunge the US into war with Russia - exactly what israel wants.
"The Russian foreign minister said Wednesday U.S.-led multinational foreign forces in Iraq must not conduct military operations outside the country, including against Iran," the RIA Novosti news agency reported."The multinational force in Iraq should abide strictly by the UN Security Council's mandate, which does not provide for any operations outside the country," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the Lebanese magazine Al-Watan Al-Arabi in an interview.
"The escalation of the conflict and its possible spread beyond the Iraqi borders will inevitably result in catastrophic consequences and not for the Middle East alone," Lavrov said according to the report. "I believe Washington understands this."
Lavrov told Al-Watan Al-Arabi that a timetable needed to be drawn up for the coordinated and gradual evacuation of all foreign military forces from Iraq. He said that was essential to bring stability to the troubled Middle eastern nation.
"But at the same time we believe that U.S. Army detachments and their coalition allies should not leave Iraq tomorrow," Lavrov said.
Of course, this statement is only part of the struggle as it comes on the heels of an announcement that assets of the bankrupt Yukos Oil company are to be sent to the chopping block in March:
The assets of the bankrupt Yukos oil company will be liquidated at an auction in late March, a company official said Wednesday. The series of sales are expected to be dominated by state-controlled energy companies.Yukos was partly renationalized in 2004 against billions of dollars in disputed back tax bills, while its former [israeli] owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky was jailed on fraud charges in an apparent attempt to silence the Kremlin opponent and cement the government’s control of the crucial oil sector.
The company’s remaining assets include some 470,000 barrels per day of potential production capacity as well as several refineries.
That's a lot of oil.
Too much for anyone to pass up, which is why Chevron Corp. has shown interest in bidding despite official US criticism of the renationalization of Yukos.
And finally, to underline the growing hostility between Russia and israel, the newly appointed Chechen president, at the tender age of 30, openly accused exiled billionaire Boris Berezovsky (another israeli national) for the deaths of former spy Alexander Litvinenko and reporter Anna Politkovskaya.
Berezovsky, of course, lashed back insulting both Kadyrov and Putin:
Putin and Kadyrov are both "bandits," Berezovsky said in a written statement. "Mr. Berezovsky considers Kadyrov a bandit regardless of his formal position that he has gotten from another bandit, the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin," the statement said.
Of course, Berezovsky, the charmer, is wanted for fraud, among other honors, in Russia.
All this gives new meaning to Putin's statement in Munich last week:
"I am convinced that we have reached that decisive moment when we must seriously think about the architecture of global security", [said Putin], stressing that Russia needed "responsible and independent partners" to build a better world where there would be "security and prosperity for all, rather than for a selected few."
We no longer need to wonder who he was referring to.
I had to pick myself up off the floor after reading this. I'll have to give Berzovsky 20 out of 10 for sheer nerve! This notorious Khazar kleptomaniac has the audacity to call Putin and Kadyrov thieves?
Easy for Berezovsky to mouth off from somewhere in his flat, in exile, in London. Anywhere further east and Putin would have his head on a pike, in a heartbeat, and he knows it. We can thank this freak and his buddy Cheney for much of the black market proliferation in nuclear arms trading that has aggravated a current nightmare scenario between US / USSR.