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FR -- Manlio Dinucci -- L’art de la guerre -- Flotte USA avec 1.000 missiles en Méditerranée

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L’art de la guerre



Flotte USA avec 1.000 missiles en Méditerranée

Manlio Dinucci


Le porte-avions USA Harry S. Truman, parti de la plus grande base navale du monde à Norfolk en Virginie, est entré en Méditerranée avec son groupe d’attaque.

  Celui-ci est composé du croiseur lance-missiles Normandy et des torpilleurs lance-missiles Arleigh Burke, Bulkeley, Forrest Sherman et Farragut, plus sous peu deux autres, le Jason Dunham et The Sullivans. Est rattachée au groupe d’attaque du Truman la frégate allemande Hessen. 

  
La flotte, avec plus de 8.000 militaires à bord, a une énorme puissance de feu. Le Truman - super-porte-avions long de plus de 300 mètres, doté de deux réacteurs nucléaires- peut lancer à l’attaque, par vagues successives, 90 chasseurs et hélicoptères. Son groupe d’attaque, intégré par 4 chasseurs torpilleurs déjà en Méditerranée et par plusieurs sous-marins, peut lancer plus de 1.000 missiles de croisière. 

  Ainsi se trouvent notablement potentialisées les Forces navales USA pour l’Europe et l’Afrique, dont le quartier général est à Naples-Capodichino et la base de la Sixième Flotte à Gaeta, sous les ordres du même amiral (actuellement James Foggo) qui commande la Force Conjointe Alliée à Lago Patria (Naples).

  Ceci participe de la montée en puissance générale des forces étasuniennes en Europe, sous les ordres du même général (actuellement Curtis Scaparrotti) qui recouvre la charge de Commandant Suprême Allié en Europe. 

  
Dans une audition au Congrès, Scaparrotti explique la raison de cette montée en puissance. Ce qu’il présente est un véritable scénario de guerre : il accuse la Russie de mener “une campagne de déstabilisation pour modifier l’ordre international, broyer l’Otan et miner le leadership USA dans le monde entier”.  En Europe, après “l’annexion illégale de la Crimée par la Russie et sa déstabilisation de l’Ukraine orientale”, les États-Unis, qui déploient plus de 60.000 militaires dans des pays européens de l’OTAN/NATO, ont renforcé ce déploiement par une brigade blindée et une brigade aérienne de combat, et ont constitué des dépôts pré-positionnés d’armements pour l’envoi d’autres brigades blindées. Ils ont en même temps redoublé le déploiement de leurs navires de guerre en Mer Noire.

  Pour accroître leurs forces en Europe les États-Unis ont dépensé en cinq années plus de 16 milliards de dollars, en poussant simultanément leurs alliés européens à augmenter leur propre dépense militaire de 46 milliards de dollars en trois ans pour renforcer le déploiement 
OTAN/NATO contre la Russie.  

  Ceci entre dans la stratégie lancée par Washington en 2014 avec le putsch de Place Maïdan et l’attaque successive contre les Russes d’Ukraine : faire de l’Europe la première ligne d’une nouvelle guerre froide pour renforcer l’influence étasunienne sur les alliés et faire obstacle à la coopération eurasiatique.

  Les ministres des Affaires étrangères de l’
OTAN/NATO ont réaffirmé le 27 avril leur consensus, en préparant une extension ultérieure de l’OTAN/NATO à l’Est contre la Russie par l’entrée de Bosnie-Herzégovine, Macédoine, Géorgie et Ukraine.

  
Cette stratégie requiert une préparation adéquate de l’opinion publique. À cet effet Scaparrotti accuse la Russie d’”utiliser la provocation politique, diffuser la désinformation et miner les institutions démocratiques” y compris en Italie. Il annonce ensuite que “les USA et l’
OTAN/NATO combattent la désinformation russe avec une information véridique et transparente”. Dans leur sillage la Commission européenne annonce une série de mesures contre les fake news, en accusant la Russie d’utiliser “la désinformation dans sa stratégie de guerre”.

  On peut s’attendre à ce que l’
OTAN/NATO et l’UE censurent ce qui nous publions ici en décrétant que la flotte USA en Méditerranée est une fake news diffusée par la Russie dans sa “stratégie de guerre”.

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L’arte della guerra

Flotta USA con 1000 missili nel Mediterraneo

Manlio Dinucci


La portaerei USA Harry S. Truman, salpata dalla più grande base navale del mondo a Norfolk in Virginia, è entrata  nel Mediterraneo con il suo gruppo d’attacco. Esso è composto dall’incrociatore lanciamissili Normandy e dai cacciatorpediniere lanciamissili Arleigh Burke, Bulkeley, Forrest Sherman e Farragut, più tra poco altri due, il Jason Dunham e The Sullivans. È aggregata al gruppo d’attacco della Truman la fregata tedesca Hessen. La flotta, con a bordo oltre 8.000 uomini, ha una enorme potenza di fuoco. La Truman – superportarei lunga oltre 300 metri, dotata di due reattori nucleari – può lanciare all’attacco, a ondate successive, 90 caccia ed elicotteri. Il suo gruppo d’attacco, integrato da 4 cacciatorpediniere già nel Mediterraneo e da alcuni sottomarini, può lanciare oltre 1.000 missili da crociera.

Vengono così notevolmente potenziate le Forze navali USA per l’Europa e l’Africa, con quartier generale a Napoli-Capodichino e base della Sesta Flotta a Gaeta, agli ordini dello stesso ammiraglio (attualmente James Foggo) che comanda la Forza Congiunta Alleata a Lago Patria.

Ciò rientra nel potenziamento complessivo delle forze statunitensi in  Europa, agli ordini dello stesso generale (attualmente Curtis Scaparrotti) che ricopre la carica di Comandante Supremo Alleato in Europa. In una audizione al Congresso, Scaparrotti spiega il perché di tale potenziamento. Quello che presenta è un vero e proprio scenario di guerra: egli accusa la Russia di condurre «una campagna di destabilizzazione per cambiare l’ordine internazionale, frantumare la NATO e minare la leadership USA in tutto il mondo».

In Europa, dopo «l’annessione illegale della Crimea da parte della Russia e la sua destabilizzazione dell’Ucraina orientale», gli Stati uniti, che schierano oltre 60.000 militari in paesi europei della NATO, hanno rafforzato tale schieramento con una brigata corazzata e una brigata aerea da combattimento, e costituito depositi preposizionati di armamenti per l’invio di altre brigate corazzate. Hanno allo stesso tempo raddoppiato lo spiegamento delle loro navi da guerra nel Mar Nero.

Per accrescere le loro forze in Europa gli Stati uniti hanno speso in cinque anni oltre 16 miliardi di dollari, spingendo allo stesso tempo gli alleati europei ad accrescere la propria spesa militare di 46 miliardi di dollari in tre anni per rafforzare lo schieramento NATO contro la Russia.

Ciò rientra nella strategia avviata da Washington nel 2014 con il putsch di piazza Maidan e il conseguente attacco ai russi di Ucraina: fare dell’Europa la prima linea di una nuova guerra fredda per rafforzare l’influenza statunitense sugli alleati e ostacolare la cooperazione eurasiatica. I ministri degli esteri della NATO hanno riaffermato il 27 aprile il loro consenso, preparando una ulteriore espansione della NATO ad Est contro la Russia attraverso l’ingresso di Bosnia-Erzegovina, Macedonia, Georgia e Ucraina.

Tale strategia richiede una adeguata preparazione dell’opinione pubblica. A tal fine Scaparrotti accusa la Russia di «usare la provocazione politica, diffondere la disinformazione e minare le istituzioni democratiche» anche in Italia. Annuncia quindi che «gli USA e la NATO contrastano la disinformazione russa con una informazione veritiera e trasparente». Sulla loro scia la Commissione europea annuncia una serie di misure contro le fake news, accusando  la Russia di usare «la disinformazione nella sua strategia di guerra».

C’è da aspettarsi che NATO e UE censurino quanto qui pubblicato, decretando che quella della flotta USA nel Mediterraneo è una fake news diffusa dalla Russia nella sua «strategia di guerra».  


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The Period of American Dominance Has Passed


The Period of American Dominance Has Passed
The Period of American Dominance Has Passed
Russian Missile Tech has Made America’s Trillion Dollar Navy Obsolete
Dmitry Orlov
For the past 500 years European nations—Portugal, the Netherlands, Spain, Britain, France and, briefly, Germany—were able to plunder much of the planet by projecting their naval power overseas. Since much of the world’s population lives along the coasts, and much of it trades over water, armed ships that arrived suddenly out of nowhere were able to put local populations at their mercy.
The armadas could plunder, impose tribute, punish the disobedient, and then use that plunder and tribute to build more ships, enlarging the scope of their naval empires. This allowed a small region with few natural resources and few native advantages beyond extreme orneriness and a wealth of communicable diseases to dominate the globe for half a millennium.
The ultimate inheritor of this naval imperial project is the United States, which, with the new addition of air power, and with its large aircraft carrier fleet and huge network of military bases throughout the planet, is supposedly able to impose Pax Americana on the entire world. Or, rather, was able to do so—during the brief period between the collapse of the USSR and the emergence of Russia and China as new global powers and their development of new anti-ship and antiaircraft technologies. But now this imperial project is at an end.
Prior to the Soviet collapse, the US military generally did not dare to directly threaten those countries to which the USSR had extended its protection. Nevertheless, by using its naval power to dominate the sea lanes that carried crude oil, and by insisting that oil be traded in US dollars, it was able to live beyond its means by issuing dollar-denominated debt instruments and forcing countries around the world to invest in them. It imported whatever it wanted using borrowed money while exporting inflation, expropriating the savings of people across the world. In the process, the US has accumulated absolutely stunning levels of national debt—beyond anything seen before in either absolute or relative terms. When this debt bomb finally explodes, it will spread economic devastation far beyond US borders. And it will explode, once the petrodollar wealth pump, imposed on the world through American naval and air superiority, stops working.
New missile technology has made a naval empire cheap to defeat. Previously, to fight a naval battle, one had to have ships that outmatched those of the enemy in their speed and artillery power. The Spanish Armada was sunk by the British armada. More recently, this meant that only those countries whose industrial might matched that of the United States could ever dream of opposing it militarily. But this has now changed: Russia’s new missiles can be launched from thousands of kilometers away, are unstoppable, and it takes just one to sink a destroyer and just two to sink an aircraft carrier. The American armada can now be sunk without having an armada of one’s own. The relative sizes of American and Russian economies or defense budgets are irrelevant: the Russians can build more hypersonic missiles much more quickly and cheaply than the Americans would be able to build more aircraft carriers.  
Equally significant is the development of new Russian air defense capabilities: the S-300 and S-400 systems, which can essentially seal off a country’s airspace. Wherever these systems are deployed, such as in Syria, US forces are now forced to stay out of their range. With its naval and air superiority rapidly evaporating, all that the US can fall back on militarily is the use of large expeditionary forces—an option that is politically unpalatable and has proven to be ineffective in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is also the nuclear option, and while its nuclear arsenal is not likely to be neutralized any time soon, nuclear weapons are only useful as deterrents. Their special value is in preventing wars from escalating beyond a certain point, but that point lies beyond the elimination of their global naval and air dominance. Nuclear weapons are much worse than useless in augmenting one’s aggressive behavior against a nuclear-armed opponent; invariably, it would be a suicidal move. What the US now faces is essentially a financial problem of unrepayable debt and a failing wealth pump, and it should be a stunningly obvious point that setting off nuclear explosions anywhere in the world would not fix the problems of an empire that is going broke.
Events that signal vast, epochal changes in the world often appear minor when viewed in isolation. Julius Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon was just one river crossing; Soviet and American troops meeting and fraternizing at the Elbe was, relatively speaking, a minor event—nowhere near the scale of the siege of Leningrad, the battle of Stalingrad or the fall of Berlin. Yet they signaled a tectonic shift in the historical landscape. And perhaps we have just witnessed something similar with the recent pathetically tiny Battle of East Gouta in Syria, where the US used a make-believe chemical weapons incident as a pretense to launch an equally make-believe attack on some airfields and buildings in Syria. The US foreign policy establishment wanted to show that it still matters and has a role to play, but what really happened was that US naval and air power were demonstrated to be almost entirely beside the point.
Of course, all of this is terrible news to the US military and foreign policy establishments, as well as to the many US Congressmen in whose districts military contractors operate or military bases are situated. Obviously, this is also bad news for the defense contractors, for personnel at the military bases, and for many others as well. It is also simply awful news economically, since defense spending is about the only effective means of economic stimulus of which the US government is politically capable.
Obama’s “shovel-ready jobs,” if you recall, did nothing to forestall the dramatic slide in the labor participation rate, which is a euphemism for the inverse of the real unemployment rate. There is also the wonderful plan to throw lots of money at Elon Musk’s SpaceX (while continuing to buy vitally important rocket engines from the Russians—who are currently discussing blocking their export to the US in retaliation for more US sanctions). In short, take away the defense stimulus, and the US economy will make a loud popping sound followed by a gradually diminishing hissing noise.
Needless to say, all those involved will do their best to deny or hide for as long as possible the fact that the US foreign policy and defense establishments have now been neutralized. My prediction is that America’s naval and air empire will not fail because it will be defeated militarily, nor will it be dismantled once the news sinks in that it is useless; instead, it will be forced to curtail its operations due to lack of funds. There may still be a few loud bangs before it gives up, but mostly what we will hear is a whole lot of whimpering. That’s how the USSR went; that’s how the USA will go too.
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House Intelligence Committee Concludes “Russiagate” Is Orchestrated Fake News


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Will We Ever Stop Believing the stinking dirty lying scum that are Western governments & media?


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No Attack, No Victims, No Chem Weapons: Douma Witnesses Speak at OPCW Briefing at The Hague


Witnesses of the alleged chemical attack in Douma, including 11-year-old Hassan Diab and hospital staff, told reporters at The Hague that the White Helmets video used as a pretext for a US-led strike on Syria was, in fact, staged.
“We were at the basement and we heard people shouting that we needed to go to a hospital. We went through a tunnel. At the hospital they started pouring cold water on me,” the boy told the press conference, gathered by Russia’s mission at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague.

Hassan was among the “victims” seen being washed by water hoses in a video released by the controversial White Helmets group on April 7. The boy and his family later spoke to the media and revealed that Hassan was hurried to the scene by men who claimed that a chemical attack had taken place. They started pouring cold water on the boy and others, filming the frightened children.

“There were people unknown to us who were filming the emergency care, they were filming the chaos taking place inside, and were filming people being doused with water. The instruments they used to douse them with water were originally used to clean the floors actually,” Ahmad Kashoi, an administrator of the emergency ward, recalled. “That happened for about an hour, we provided help to them and sent them home. No one has died. No one suffered from chemical exposure.”
Halil al-Jaish, a resuscitator who tended to people at the Douma hospital that day, told the press conference that some of the patients had indeed experienced respiratory problems. The symptoms, however, were caused by heavy dust, which engulfed the area due to recent airstrikes, and no one showed any signs of chemical warfare poisoning, al-Jaish said.

The hospital received people who suffered from smoke and dust asphyxiation on the day of the alleged attack, Muwaffak Nasrim, a paramedic who was working in emergency care, said. The panic seen in footage provided by the White Helmets was caused mainly by people shouting about the alleged use of chemical weapons, Nasrim, who witnessed the chaotic scenes, added. No patients, however, displayed symptoms of chemical weapons exposure, he said.

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Ahmad Saur, an emergency paramedic with the Syrian Red Crescent, said that the ward he was working at did not receive any patients exposed to chemical weapons on the day of the alleged incident or after it. All the patients needed either general medical care or help with injuries, he said. Saur told journalists he came to speak at The Hague independently of the Red Crescent, and that he was testifying freely and without any pressure.

One reporter asked what would happen to the eyewitnesses and whether they would “stay in Europe to testify.”

“We’re going back home, and see no problem with that. The situation is a lot better now. We’re Douma residents, like many others,” Hassan Ayoun, a doctor with the emergency department, said.

Six of the Douma witnesses brought to The Hague have already been interviewed by the OPCW technical experts, Russia’s permanent representative to the OPCW, Aleksandr Shulgin, said.

“The others were ready too, but the experts are sticking to their own guidelines. They’ve picked six people, talked to them, and said they were 'completely satisfied' with their account and did not have any further questions,”Shulgin revealed. He added that the allegations by “certain Western countries” ahead of the briefing that Moscow and Damascus were seeking to “hide” the witnesses from the OPCW experts did not hold water.
The alleged chemical incident was only supported by the White Helmets’ video and social media reports from militant-linked groups, but the US, the UK and France judged they had enough evidence that it actually took place and launched a series of punitive strikes against Syria on April 14. The US and its allies accused Syrian President Bashar Assad of carrying out the “attack,” without providing any proof of their claim. Notably, the strike came hours before the OPCW fact-finding team was set to arrive in Douma to determine whether chemical weapons had been used there.
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