PART 1 –——- GO THOU THY WAY!
Like It Or Not, The Final Die Is Cast!
All The Elements Are Coming Together,
Which Will Lead to Conventional Warfare
In the Middle East Which Finally Culminates
In the Last great World Battle of Armageddon,
Some three and one-half years after war Begins,
Which Initially Drives Israel Into Negev Wilderness!
September 9, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
I do not expect a major Middle East war to break out until some point in time between 2010 and 2015.
All of those nations directly involved by actively fighting in the war, or those nations supplying the ones fighting with logistical support during it, are currently preparing for it by helping each other militarily. Both participants and their suppliers are jockeying into position territorially at the present time on land and sea, so as to have advantageous military posture on a worldwide basis during the conflict.
The navies of Russia and America are now actively engaged in the act of positioning themselves in waters touching each others coasts, carrying nuclear capabilities, which will cause a standoff when the Middle East war begins. They will not engage as Israel and the Islamic nations slug in out and Israel is driven into the Negev wilderness.
Russia, China, and the U.S. will not engage in the three and one-half years after Israel is driven into the Negev, but will during the last battle of the war, the battle of Armageddon.
Begin Excerpt from DEBKAfile
US-Russian naval rivalries heat up over Black, Caspian, Persian Gulf
seas
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
September 8, 2008, 11:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile’s military sources report Washington is testing the Turkish government’s response to the permanent anchoring of US warships at either of the two Georgian ports of Poti or Batumi. This would be quid pro quo for Moscow’s interest in bases in Iranian Azerbaijan and the Persian Gulf.
Monday, Sept. 8, a NATO delegation was due in Georgia to evaluate damage to military structure following the five-day war with Russia last month. This is a further irritant for Moscow after the highly sophisticated American command vessel USS Mount Whitney docked in Poti Saturday.
Our sources report that the US anticipates a protracted period of tension with Russia for the following reasons:
1. U.S. and NATO vessels will need safe coastal berths when the approaching winter storms strike the Black Sea. As time goes by, Turkey, which under international conventions controls the passage of naval vessels through the Dardanelles, will be under increasing pressure from Russia to block the waterway to NATO.
Already, Turkey fears it may lose its top trading partner, Russia. Since the outbreak of the Georgian crisis a month ago, Moscow has introduced new customs regulations which have backed up at checkpoints dozens of Turkish trucks carrying export goods. The predicted loss to Turkish firms is some $1 billion so far, a figure that would treble if Moscow continued its unacknowledged sanction up to the end of the year.
2. A permanent base in a Georgian port is seen by US strategists as the quickest way to show the flag for Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili without a frontal clash with Russia.
Washington sources argue that if Russia can maintain a large fleet base at the Crimean port of Sevastopol and a second at Abkhazia,
there is no reason why America cannot maintain a permanent presence on the Black Sea too.
3. Washington is well aware of the talk in Moscow and Tehran in recent days about establishing Russian naval bases in Iran: Iranian Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea and an Iranian-held island in
the Persian Gulf.
The latter, if Moscow and Tehran reached agreement, would terminate US naval control of the Persian Gulf waters opposite Iran forces and drastically upset the balance of strength in the region.
Washington’s response to this talk is its bid for a permanent Black Sea base.
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Russia and Venezuela Confirm Joint Military Exercises
By SIMON ROMERO and CLIFFORD J. LEVY
September 9, 2008
CARACAS, Venezuela — Chafing at the reactivation in recent weeks of an American naval fleet in Lat
in American waters, President Hugo Chávez said Sunday that Venezuela could engage in naval exercises with Russian ships in the Caribbean before the end of the year.
Mr. Chávez’s words echoed news reports here over the weekend that four warships with as many as 1,000 sailors from Russia’s Pacific Fleet could take part in a training exercise in November off Venezuela’s coast. Salvatore Cammarata Bastidas, Venezuela’s chief of naval intelligence, said the exercises were aimed at streng
thening military ties.
Russian officials confirmed on M
onday that Russian naval ships, including the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Peter the Great and the anti-submarine ship Admiral Chabanenko, will dock in Venezuela by the end of the year.
The ships will engage in joint exercises with Venezuelan warships in the Atlantic Ocean, Russian Navy Assistant Commander Capt. Igor Dygalo told the Interfax news agency on Monday.
“The ships will have joint maneuvers, practice search and rescue at sea and check communications,” he said.
Anatoly Nesterenko, a Russian foreign ministry spokesman, said, “The temporary deployment of Russian Navy anti-sub aircraft at an air field in that country is also planned.”
He said the operations were not a reaction to the tensions between the United States and Russia over Georgia.
“This is a planned operation, and is not in any way connected to current political events, nor to the situation in the Caucasus,” he said.
“These exercises will in no way be directed against the interests of a third country.”
But Mr. Chávez made clear he had the United States in mind when discussing the joint naval operations. “Go ahead and squeal, Yanquis,” Mr. Chávez said in a mocking tone on his Sunday television program, adding, “Russia’s naval fleet is welcome here.” But Mr. Chávez qualified his remarks by saying that planning for the maneuvers was in the “preparation phase,” pending decisions by the Russian government.
After the war in Georgia, the Kremlin has expressed increasing frustration over the presence of NATO and American ships in the Black Sea.
On Saturday, after an American ship delivered humanitarian aid to Georgia at its Black Sea port of Poti, President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia suggested that the United States was encroaching on Russia’s sphere of influence.
A few days before the conflict in Georgia, Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir V. Putin, announced that Russia would bolster its relations with Cuba, Venezuela’s top ally. But Russian officials at the same time denied that they would deploy military hardware there.
Venezuela has gone out of its way to strengthen relations with Russia. In addition to welcoming Russian investment, Mr. Chávez has emerged as a major buyer of Russian arms. Last month, he also backed Russia’s recognition of two Georgian breakaway regions.
Mr. Chávez has framed his warming to Russia within his government’s concern over the reactivation in July of the United States Navy’s Fourth Fleet in Latin American waters after a five-decade lull.
Simon Romero reported from Caracas, and Clifford J. Levy from Moscow. Ellen Barry contributed reporting from Moscow.
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