Putin Now Massing Russian Divisions On the Eastern Ukraine Border
And sooner or later he will use them to Secure a Russian Land Road
I Doubt If He Will Attack Estonia, LithuanIa, And Latvia Due to NATO
But Russia Has a Drastic Strategic Need to Control the Southeastern
Ukraine North Of the Sea Of Azov For At Least 30 Miles Inland Across
The Southern Ukraine to Where the Dnieper River Flows In Black Sea
March 27, 2014
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Please scan back and take a look at our map of the Black Sea and its environs, which we put up on March 10, 2014.
Under the map I wrote the Following:
The Sea of Azov, east and northeast of the Crimean Peninsula, is the shallowest sea on the earth. Please note the narrow water entrance between Kerch on the Crimean side and what looks like a turtle head about ready to snap up Kerch across the narrow water channel.
Now note the narrow water entrance of the Black Sea seen at Istanbul between Turkey and the European Mainland.
The Cold War Soviet Union conducted well-coordinated land, sea, and air operations with rival friendly Soviet divisions on opposite sides of a water channel between Kerch and the turtle head. They did this to be able to quickly conquer the Istanbul channel if war broke out. Turkey was a trustworthy ally of NATO during the Cold War.
By the time the Islamic Antichrist attacks Israel at some point in time after Obama leaves office, many of the former Soviet Union satellites will have united with Russia. Some three years after Gog, the chief prince of Meshech & Tubal, drives Israel into the Negev Wilderness, he will ask the ruler of the Land of Magog and all the nations of the Old World to come down and eliminate Jews from the face of the earth. At the final battle of Armageddon all the enemies of the Apple of God’s will experience the wrath of God as he returns at his 2nd Advent.
Begin Excerpt from Nikkei Asia Review
March 27, 2014
Russia tightens hold on Kyrgyzstan
RYSKELDI SATKE, Contributing writer
BISHKEK — As the U.S. prepares to close its sole military base in Central Asia in July, Russia is making sure the Americans won’t be coming back.
Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft inked a preliminary deal Feb. 19 with the Kyrgyz government to invest up to $1 billion for a stake of at least 51% in Manas International Airport, which is both Kyrgyzstan’s main international gateway and home to the U.S. base used to support NATO operations in Afghanistan. The investment, Rosneft said, is “aimed at the creation of a large-scale international logistics hub,” although the company is not experienced in that area.
“Rosneft’s bid for Manas marks the culmination of Russia’s recent methodical acquisition of Kyrgyzstan’s key strategic assets,” said Alexander Cooley, a political scientist specializing in Central Asia at Barnard College in New York. “Over the last two years, Moscow has sought to terminate Bishkek’s security cooperation with the U.S. and become the Central Asian state’s dominant and exclusive strategic partner. It is now clear that Moscow seeks to turn Kyrgyzstan into a client state.”
Russian state-owned energy companies have been leading the way. Alongside the Manas deal, Rosneft on Feb. 19 also signed a framework agreement to buy 100% of Bishkek Oil, which has a wholesale and retail gasoline business in the capital, and a 50% stake in the sole aviation fuel provider at Osh International Airport, Kyrgyzstan’s second-largest airline hub.
“We are interested in the all-round promotion of the Rosneft brand in the high-potential Kyrgyz market,” said Igor Sechin, chairman of Rosneft and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I believe that this acquisition [of Bishkek Oil] will allow all Kyrgyz motorists to appreciate the high quality of our fuel.”
The same month, Gazprom moved closer to completing its acquisition of 100% of Kyrgyzgaz, operator of the country’s natural gas network. The Russian gas giant is paying $1 for Kyrgyzgaz but will assume $40 million in debt and has pledged to invest 20 billion rubles ($551 million) to modernize its gas pipelines over the next five years. Gazprom has been involved in exploration in Kyrgyzstan since 2003 and also is the dominant provider of aviation fuel. It has a 70% share of the retail gasoline market.
RusHydro, another partly state-owned Russian energy company, last year began construction on the first of a series of hydroelectric dams in Kyrgyzstan that it is also to manage. It is investing at least $205 million in the first four dams.
“Moscow’s assertiveness and how it conceives its relationship with its partners in the former Soviet space pose a serious challenge for Bishkek and the sovereignty of Kyrgyzstan,” said Nicolas de Pedro, a Central Asia specialist at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs. “The presence of Kyrgyz migrants in Russia gives the Kremlin a quite effective tool to exert a critical influence over Bishkek at any time.
“If Russia takes control of the few strategic assets that Bishkek has at its disposal, the Kyrgyzstan authorities will see their already narrow capacity of maneuver severely diminished,” he said.
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