- It is obvious today that the war in Iraq is not the kind
of war that the American administration was intended to have. The strong
resistance that Iraqi troops showed, Iraqi ABM systems and anti-tank facilities
turned out to be an unexpected surprise for Americans.
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- As the American administration believed, the war turned
out to be difficult on account of the fact that the Russian defense industry
delivered anti-tank missiles to Iraq via third countries. As it was said,
the Russian defense industry also supplied Iraq with night vision devices,
and unique Kolchuga anti-missile systems. The US administration determined
that Russia delivered those weapons to Iraq several days before the war
was launched. The official note of protest on the part of the US Department
of State was based on those illegal deliveries. The note of protest was
handed over to the Russian ambassador to the USA, Yury Ushakov.
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- The Russian government did not ignore USA's threats (in
the form of certain statements) to punish Russia for arms deliveries. The
Russian leadership realizes that the war menace is approaching the country.
According to the information from competent military sources, the navy
command finished checking the alertness of anti-submarine facilities of
naval troops in Kamchatka. Military exercises were conducted in admiralsâ
presence. Diesel submarines of the Russian navy performed basic military
exercises at sea. The order for battleships to travel to the Indian Ocean
and to the Persian Gulf was called off.
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- Military units of the Russian Far East get ready for
possible border conflicts. It seems that the Supreme Commander-in-Chief
of Russia, President Vladimir Putin, realizes the anti-Russian essence
of Americaâs aggressive aspiration. Putin takes measures to strengthen
the alertness of Russian troops at the border territory. The Russian army
and navy command held a secret session in Moscow yesterday, at which military
high-ranking officials considered possible variants for the Mideast situation
to develop. American spy planes have been conducting aerial reconnaissance
at Russiaâs borders for several days already.
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- Colonel-General Valery Manilov, a member of the Federation
Council from the Primorye region, said in his interview to Echo of Moscow
radio station: ãThe decision to start the war on Iraq is a big mistake
that the United States made. America gave an incentive for the rest of
the world to unite in the anti-American coalition. It is obvious from the
diplomatic point of view that no country in the whole world will wish to
live and watch Americans using the military force whenever they want and
like it to use. The world community will have to consolidate its military,
political, economic, technical resources in order not to allow that to
happen. The process is under way already. This is a unique moment, for
it never happened before, not even during the USAâs bombing of Yugoslavia.
The world will have to unite and find a format to restrain America, the
country, which opposed itself to the whole world.ä
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- On the other hand, the beginning of the war is a drama
for the USA itself. This is likely to provoke the collapse of the antiterrorist
coalition, terrorist activities in the USA and in Great Britain might increase,
arms race is likely to speed up, including the weapons of mass destruction
race. Ecological catastrophes are likely to happen in the world as well.
Before opposing the whole world, the United States and Great Britain made
desperate steps to strengthen their activities for winning UN Security
Council members and the world community over to their side. This means
that George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice did
their best not to let the USA have an aggressive image for the world community.
The American administration suffered a diplomatic failure. Cheap and high-quality
Iraqi oil is the prime goal of the game. Americans hope that the oil will
allow them to settle their economic and financial issues. However, the
price of that oil will be unacceptable for the USA. Americaâs image
as a safe, stable and powerful country has been ruined. At present moment,
the world perceives the USA as a country that is ready to disregard the
opinion of the world for the sake of its own interests only. A large number
of victims is not an issue at all.
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- Thousands of lives will have to be wasted for such hypothetical
takeover of the Iraqi oil. Those lives will be the lives of American people
too. As they say, if you sow wind you will rip a storm. The inferiority
complex might also be a reason why the war began. This complex has been
tormenting President Bush and his team ö the people, who did not get
to overthrow Saddam in 1991. Those people try to get rid of their complexes,
including the September 11th complex, with the help of the military force.
The inevitable failure of the incumbent American administration will be
the result of that. You can conquer with bayonets, but you canât
sit on them.
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