Russian and Chinese Exercise Practices for Long Future Haul to Middle East Armageddon!
Big Russian and Chinese Exercise Features Transfer of Large Military Forces across Vast Distances!
August 20, 2007
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I do not believe Russia, America, or China will initially commit their forces directly to an attack of 10 Arab nations against Israel, which I guesstimate will begin at some point in time between 2008 and the end of 2012. At that time Israel will be driven into the Negev Wilderness, where they will remain for some three and one-half years.
At the end of that time a final battle of Armageddon will occur in Israel with many nations involved, Russia and China being among them. Massive numbers of Chinese and Russian military forces will be transported across the vast distance from their environs to Islamic environs surrounding Israel.
The following Scriptures describe the assembling of the forces and the final battle of this age, as well as God’s unleashing of the natural forces of the earth’s great surface and atmospheric phenomena.
Revelation 16:16 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Joel 3:11-16 – Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.
[12] Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. [13] Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. [14] Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley
of decision. [15] The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. [16] The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
Revelation 16:16-21 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. [17] And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. [18] And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. [19] And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. [20] And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
[21] And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
Joel 3:16 – The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
Revelation 19:16-21 – And he hath on his vesture and
on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. [17] And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; [18] That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. [19] And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
[21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
Revelation 16:15,16 – Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see
his shame. [16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
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DEBKAfile: Russo-Chinese war game brought Chinese commando and air units onto Russian soil for the first time.
August 19, 2007, 2:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
On Aug. 3, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 312 carried an exclusive report on the Peace Mission 2007 exercise run simultaneously from command centers 3,000 kilometers apart in Russia and China.
Friday, Aug. 17, President Vladimir Putin, while watching the exercise with China’s Hu Jintao, announced his order for the resumption of regular Russian long-range strategic bomber flights after 15 years.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s military experts note that the Russian-Chinese exercise began in fact two weeks before the given date and that an important part of the drill was the transfer of large military forces across vast distances.
The war game practiced tight military cooperation between the Russian and Chinese armies – and not only in combating terror. Those sources pointed to four novel manifestations:
1. Ch inese Air Force and special units will enter Russian territory for the first time and be activated
in conjunction with Russian units from Chelyabinsk in the Russian Urals and Urumgi, capital of the Chinese province of Xingiang.
2. Also for the first time, a Russian-Chinese-Central Asian military war game will be directed from two command centers 3,000 kilometers apart in Russia and China.
3. China has never drilled its air force over any foreign territory.
A formation will fly over the Altay Mountains at an altitude of 4,000 meters when it crosses the Sino-Russian frontier.
China will also send 16 Mi-17 transportation helicopters and 16 Z-9 armed helicopters to Russia.
4. Another first will be the Chinese army’s use of the Russian military railway system. The main force of 1,600 troops set out with its munitions from Xinjiang on July 19, transferring at China’s Inner Mongolian border to a Russian military train for the rest of the journey.
The capability to transfer large-scale military contingents across vast distances is essential should Moscow and Beijing decide on joint military action in the event of a possible American military operation against Iran spilling over into the Caspian and Central Asian regions.
The exercise was tagged a joint anti-terrorism drill staged by the six members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) – China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It involved 6,000 military personnel including 4,700 Russian soldiers and 36 aircraft.
The Chinese joint commander of the maneuver Gen. Xu Qiliang, pointed up the common interests binding Moscow and China as including energy and opposition to US dominance of Central Asia.
The war games coincided with Russian air force maneuvers involving strategic bombers which flew over the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans.
Speaking near the Ural Mountain city of Chelyabinsk, Putin said a halt in the flights of Russian long-range bombers after the Soviet collapse had affected Russia’s security and they would now be resumed on a regular basis.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said: “It’s interesting. We are certainly not in the kind of posture we were with what used to be the Soviet Union. It’s a different era.”
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