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Alarm Grows Over Weakened Militaries and Empty Arsenals in Europe...

SUDDENLY
"A great war will erupt suddenly, such as has not been seen from the beginning of creation. Countries shall disappear in moments from the face of the earth. Will you not listen to Me before it is too late? You all do not have much time left." - Our Lady, October 2, 1990

THREE-QUARTERS
"Wars shall increase, and the great World War, the greatest of all, shall befall mankind, and shall make extinct three-quarters of the world's population. Is this what you want?" - Our Lady, June 18, 1982

"Russia has but one plan: to capture the whole world. They will do this without heart or conscience. Therefore, know that I ask you again, as your God in the Trinity, I ask you to contact the Holy Father—through pen or prose, or the written script—to contact the Holy Father and beg him to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of My Mother. This has not been done, My children." - Jesus, May 17, 1986

The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York. Read more

The Wall Street Journal on December 11, 2023:

by Max Colchester, David Luhnow and Bojan Pancevski

The British military—the leading U.S. military ally and Europe’s biggest defense spender—has only around 150 deployable tanks and perhaps a dozen serviceable long-range artillery pieces. So bare was the cupboard that last year the British military considered sourcing multiple rocket launchers from museums to upgrade and donate to Ukraine, an idea that was dropped. 

France, the next biggest spender, has fewer than 90 heavy artillery pieces, equivalent to what Russia loses roughly every month on the Ukraine battlefield. Denmark has no heavy artillery, submarines or air-defense systems. Germany’s army has enough ammunition for two days of battle. 

In the decades since the end of the Cold War, weakened European armies were tolerated by governments across the West because an engaged America, with its vast military muscle, underpinned the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and defense policy in Europe. The U.S. accounted for nearly 70% of NATO’s defense spending last year. 

But alarm has grown as America has moved toward a more isolationist stance, and as the understanding of a potential threat to Europe from Russia re-emerges, after nearly two years of bloody fighting in Ukraine.

There is no immediate military danger to Europe from Russia, and Western military and political leaders think that Russia is for now contained by its war of attrition in Ukraine. But if Russia ultimately wins in Ukraine, few doubt Moscow’s capacity to rearm completely within three to four years and cause trouble elsewhere. Russian President Vladimir Putin has for years mourned the loss of a Russian empire that encompassed Ukraine and other Eastern European nations including the Baltics.

Much of Europe’s industrial capacity to make weapons has eroded over years of budget cuts, and turning that around is a challenge at a time when most governments face budget constraints amid slow economic growth and aging populations, as well as large political opposition to cutting back on welfare spending to fund defense.

Europe has “systematically demilitarized itself because it didn’t need to spend the money,” thanks to the lack of an apparent threat and U.S. military dominance around the globe, said Anthony King, a professor of war studies at the University of Warwick. “They have basically gone to sleep.”

The Ukraine war has made clear the depth of Europe’s problem.

“Although NATO countries’ combined economic and industrial might dwarfs that of Russia and its allies, we are allowing ourselves to be outproduced,” said Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO Secretary-General. “Ukraine is now in a war of attrition, if we do not get serious on ammunition production the threat of war will likely come closer to us.”

Aid for Ukraine

President Biden has reaffirmed America’s steadfast support for NATO and said the alliance was stronger than ever. But former President Donald Trump, running again for the 2024 election, has repeatedly questioned NATO’s value. While he endorsed NATO’s clause of collective defense, he clashed with NATO leaders over funding and U.S. troop numbers. Leaders of both political parties have long urged Europe to pay more for its own defense. 

Efforts to pass new U.S. aid for Ukraine have hit resistance from Republicans in Congress, and fighting in Gaza has pulled U.S. political focus away from Ukraine. The White House has said the U.S. will be unable to continue providing more weapons and equipment to Ukraine if Congress doesn’t approve additional funding by the end of the year.

European nations have pledged billions in aid to Kyiv but have said they face economic constraints and production limits on weapons. If the U.S. pulls back from providing the bulk of aid, Europe doesn’t have the stockpiles to make up the difference, nor can it resupply Ukraine and rebuild its own forces at the same time. The head of NATO’s military committee, Dutch Adm. Rob Bauer, said this year that Europe could now “see the bottom of the barrel” in terms of what it could offer Ukraine.

The European Union looks unlikely to keep a promise to supply a million desperately needed artillery shells to Kyiv by this spring, achieving only around a third of that so far. North Korea, an impoverished dictatorship with a population of 25 million, has shipped over a million shells to Russia in the same period, according to Western officials and Russian government statements.

Ukrainian officials have said that if aid dries up completely they will be unable to continue an already struggling military campaign to retake lost land and may be unable to hold back Russian units supported by a far larger country with superior reserves of manpower.

Gen. Patrick Sanders, the U.K. army’s most senior commander, compares this moment in European history to 1937, when the U.K. and its allies debated whether they would ultimately have to face down Hitler. “The lesson from the 1930s is that when the strategic context and the threats begin to increase, and I think that’s what we’ve seen, then you need to begin to prepare for it,” he said, from his office in London’s Ministry of Defence.

Putin could pressure other non-NATO countries such as Moldova or Georgia, launch sabotage attacks in the Baltics or further bolster Russia’s military presence in Kaliningrad, a strategic Russian enclave sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania, said Mark Sedwill, the U.K.’s former national security adviser.

Poland has raced to beef up its military and both Finland and Sweden joined NATO to get its security guarantees.

During the Cold War, Europe’s conventional forces were far smaller than the Soviet military, so deterrence relied on the threat of a nuclear response should the U.S.S.R. roll across the continent to expand the Iron Curtain. But none of the smaller actions by today’s Russia would likely be seen as worth risking nuclear war, so a bigger conventional military deterrence is vital, Sedwill said. 

Military spending among NATO countries fell from about 3% of annual economic output during the Cold War to about 1.3% by 2014, according to NATO data. Things began to change after the 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea, but only slowly. In the past decade, EU defense spending rose 20%, according to the European Parliament. Over the same period, Russia and China boosted their defense budgets by almost 300% and close to 600%, respectively.

A militarily weak Europe is a huge shift for a continent that boasted the world’s best armed forces from at least the early 1500s to the 1940s, a stretch of five centuries in which European armies and naval power carved up the world into global empires. That dominance ended during World War II, when the region’s armies pulverized each other for the second time in roughly two decades. After that, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. emerged as the bigger powers. 

During the Cold War, European nations on both sides of the Iron Curtain maintained robust armies. The post Cold War peace dividend allowed governments to slash military spending in favor of everything from pensions to healthcare, raising wealth and standards of living across the continent but leaving their militaries hollowed out.

Germany’s army, which at the end of the Cold War had half a million men in West Germany and another 300,000 in East Germany, now has 180,000 personnel. West Germany alone had more than 7,000 battle tanks by the 1980s; reunified Germany now has 200, only half of which are likely operational, according to government officials. The country’s industry can make only about three tanks a month, these officials said.

“The armed forces are lacking in everything,” Eva Högl, the parliamentary commissioner for Germany’s armed forces, said as she presented the findings of her report earlier this year. German military bases not only lack armaments and ammunition, but functioning toilets and internet, she said. One attack helicopter unit has been waiting a decade to be fitted with helmets, her findings show.

The Netherlands disbanded its last tank unit in 2011, folding the remaining few tanks into the German army. Conscription across most European countries was scrapped after the Cold War. 

Today, Russia, China and India are all ranked as more potent military powers than the U.K., the highest rated European military, while South Korea, Pakistan and Japan are ranked above France, the second-highest rated European power, according to Global Firepower, a website that uses public data to publish an annual ranking of military strength.  

South Korea, where the Cold War never ended given the threat from North Korea, now has a military of equal size—roughly half a million personnel—as the U.K., France and Germany put together. It also has a world-class military industry that is helping arm Poland.

Counterinsurgency focus

American military officials and political leaders have long urged Europe to carry more of the military burden, including every American president since Dwight D. Eisenhower, who warned Western European allies in 1959 that they risked “making a sucker out of Uncle Sam” by not spending more of their own money on defense. 

In 2014, NATO allies agreed to move toward spending 2% of economic output on defense within a decade. This year, only 11 of NATO’s 31 members are expected to hit the target, according to the group. 

Within days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Germany pledged to spend 100 billion euros, or about $110 billion, on defense in a one-off surge in spending, but only about 60% of that amount is expected to be earmarked by the end of this year. 

Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, combined with military budget cuts, left most European armies built for counterinsurgency operations in far-flung countries, and poorly equipped to fight a well-armed foe in a grinding land war, in the style of Ukraine.

Britain invested in lightly armored equipment, such as armored Land Rovers, rather than heavy artillery, as it took on less well equipped enemies. 

The thinking was “for us, all wars are optional,” said Simon Anglim, a military historian at King’s College London.

Putin has changed that. Beginning around 2005, he has openly hinted at his aim of recapturing lost parts of the former Soviet Union, such as Armenia and Georgia.

That has ratcheted up tension with the West in a way that few expected just over a decade ago. 

Poland, Finland and the Baltics—all sharing or near borders with Russia—have moved the fastest to build up their militaries. Poland said it wants to spend more than 4% of its annual economic output on defense next year, almost double what it did in 2022. Poland could have the strongest conventional forces in Europe in two or three years, said Bence Nemeth, the academic program director of the Advanced Command Staff course at the Defense Academy of the U.K., the country’s top postgraduate military program.

Russian spending on national defense will grow to 6% of its economic output next year, from around 3.9% this year, according to Russia’s finance ministry. That would be the highest level since the demise of the Soviet Union, economists who track the data said. If the Ukraine war stopped today, it would take Russia three to five years to rebuild enough capacity to attack another country, according to Estonia’s military intelligence. 

“It’s hard to imagine a scenario in which Russia will not rebuild, and by the late 2020s, it will be able to learn a lot of lessons of its own and field a formidable army which could pose a threat” to Europe, said Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director at the Royal United Services Institute, a military think tank, in London.

While Russia doesn’t disclose data on its weapons manufacturing, statistical lines in its industrial production reports indicate significant growth. The output of finished metal goods—a line that analysts say includes weapons and ammunition—rose by 31% in the first 10 months of the year compared with the period last year. Other lines associated with military output also increased. Production of computers, electronic and optical products rose 34%, and so-called special clothing jumped by over 37%. In contrast, production of medicines was down around 2%.

Germany is currently unable to fight a war of defense and must rearm in light of Russia’s massive military buildup, the commander of Germany’s armed forces said. “We must get used to the idea that we will maybe have to fight a war of defense,” Gen. Carsten Breuer told the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper on Sunday. The reign of peace that society has become accustomed to “exists no more,” he said.

‘Not fast enough’

For European politicians, spending more on defense is a tough political sell, especially at a time of stagnant economic growth, soaring government borrowing costs and an aging population that will strain government budgets for years to come. 

Once pooled, NATO forces are technologically superior to Russia, some European officials say, though NATO’s ability to fight jointly is untested. Ukraine is proof that a smaller but better managed force can challenge a juggernaut like Russia. 

Still, military analysts say Ukraine’s forces are having trouble dislodging the Russians partly because Russia has advantages in numbers of soldiers and equipment, which could make a difference if the U.S. stalls its support and Europe runs out of military equipment to give. 

“People may say the Russians have taken it on the chin, and we don’t need to worry. That’s a valid point, but it ignores residual Russian strength,” said John Deni, a professor at the U.S. Army War College and an expert on European militaries. “If the Russians present us with a mass problem in Europe, the challenge is, can technology and advanced capabilities do it? And there we see some challenges.”

Another major concern is the time needed to get the European defense industrial base to shift gears if the Russia threat grows. “Definitely more money is being spent, but the increased military capability could be years away,” says Nan Tian, a senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, who tracks military global expenditure. 

The British army is widely regarded as being run by highly capable soldiers and has among the best special forces in the world. 

But defense spending as a share of U.K. GDP halved since the mid-1980s to around 2.2%, and the army is only now undergoing a modernization. A combination of underfunding and botched procurement deals for equipment upgrades weakened the service. “You need a super capable air force. You need a super capable navy. We’ve got them. But you’re incomplete if you don’t have an army,” said Sanders, the U.K. army senior commander.

Britain hasn’t had a fully deployable armored division since the 1991 Gulf War, Ben Wallace, who was U.K. Secretary of State for Defence until the end of August, said recently to Parliament.

Sanders said the U.K. had taken a risk by allowing stockpiles to dwindle and its industrial base to atrophy. He said he has spent more time in the past year visiting factories than inspecting troops in the field. 

Britain announced its biggest increase in defense spending since the Cold War in 2020. But the overall army size is still expected to shrink to 72,500 full-time troops from a previous target of 82,000. It is replacing its 227 tanks with 148 more-modern versions, but those won’t be deployed until 2027. Of its existing 227 tanks, only 157 can be deployed within 30 days and perhaps only 40 are fully functioning and ready to move, military analysts said, as many are in storage or being upgraded. 

The U.K. has pledged to ramp up defense spending to 2.5% of GDP, but only when economic conditions allow. 

Sanders declined to comment on how much equipment the army could currently deploy. He said the army will get an average of 200 new armored vehicles a year between 2024 and 2028. It will also address the shortfall in ammunition capacity, though he declined to give a timeline. 

“As the bloke who is responsible, not fast enough,” Sanders said. 

The Ministry of Defence placed a £410 million, or about $515 million, order with  BAE Systems this year for artillery shells and ammunition to bolster production eightfold. But that production capacity won’t be reached for another two years. It also bought 14 Archer artillery systems from Sweden to replace the 32 AS90 long range artillery pieces it handed over to Ukraine, plugging a gap until the U.K.’s own upgraded long range artillery systems arrive in the late 2020s. “We are on the right trajectory,” said James Cartlidge, the British Minister for Defence Procurement.

The British army’s new armored reconnaissance vehicles, called Ajax, show just how long it can take to upgrade a fighting force. On a recent day this fall, a group of army officers stood in the pouring rain watching as two Ajax vehicles cruised over the muddy plains in southwest England. It was the first time the Ajax was used in a military exercise, 13 years after the army first announced it would purchase them.

Initially ordered at a cost of £5.5 billion to replace aging tracked reconnaissance vehicles used since the 1970s, Ajax, made by the U.K. subsidiary of  General Dynamics , suffered numerous technical problems. During test runs hundreds of soldiers fell physically ill due to the vibration and noise when driving them. The delays were so long that the army had to extend the use of its ’70s-era vehicles. 

Those problems are now fixed. But the nearly 600 new vehicles won’t be fully deployed until the end of 2028. Meanwhile the new high tech communications kit the Ajax is supposed to use is also delayed, perhaps by longer.

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"There are evil powers, My child, being set up to enslave your world! I have begged you, I have asked you through countless years to pray much for the conversion of Our adversaries. One nation, Russia, My children, shall be your scourge. As they shall go across the world, ravenous in appetite, destruction as their means for enslaving the world!" - Our Lady of the Roses, September 13, 1975

OPENLY THEY WORK UNDER THE NAMES OF SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM
“Secretly they work to destroy your country, to destroy your children. Openly they work under the names of socialism and communism, but secretly their members labor for Lucifer, for the destruction of souls, under the pain of death. Lucifer is the father of all liars. He was a murderer from the beginning and he brings death, only death to those who foolishly follow him.” – Our Lady, November 25, 1978

NEW MODES OF MODERNISM AND SOCIALISM
"My children, I do not approach you to bring fear to your hearts, but to counsel you as a just God, to warn you that there is a great Warning and Chastisement approaching, many accidents that are not accidents! As you sow, so shall you reap!
     "You must not reject the Sacraments in My Church; you must not reject the teachings for new modes of modernism and socialism.
     "And I say this unto My pastors: you will not change the way to suit man, but you must change man to bring him to My way! This way has been given to you in the Book of life and love, your Bible. You will not change the wording or the meaning to please man! It is a narrow road to Heaven, and so few remain on this road. Many of My priests are on the road to perdition and taking many souls with them.” – Jesus, June 2, 1979

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THE  APOCALYPSE
Veronica-I'm looking up, and the sky's becoming very lighted. And I am seeing thousands and thousands of people marching. But they look like Chinese, or Mongolian. No, they're-I believe they're Chinese; they're Asiatic. They're marching across the land, and they're boarding some kind of transport. They're going onto the water. Oh, it's a great War. Oh! Oh!
   Now Michael is coming over to the left side of the flagpole, and he's looking down.
   St. Michael-"My child, we have asked you to send the word to mankind that they will read in the Book of life, the Bible, the words given to them that will fulfill the prophecy of the latter days, Apocalypse. You are living the days of the Revelations. Read them and be knowledgeable, and you will not be caught without the light." - St. Michael, June 8, 1974

RUSSIA  PLANS  ATTACK
"My child and My children, I wish that you all keep a constant vigilance of prayer going throughout the world, your country, the United States, and Canada. I warn you again that Russia plans an attack upon the United States.
   "You must remember, My children, when you accept the talkings and the words of an atheist: there is no honor in the atheist. There is no truth in the atheist. They will cajole you, and buy you, until you no longer are what is called a 'free nation,' but you will be enslaved-if they do not kill the multitudes before, My child. I say 'if,' because it is their plan to destroy your nation and rebuild it by themselves. The cost of life means nothing to them, as you can recognize in all of the countries around your world that have been invaded by Russia, or Russia is the secret agent giving over the firearms and the destructive missiles to destroy the United States and Canada." - Our Lady, September 14, 1985

RUSE
Shortly after Veronica finished reading the articles in the daily newspaper pertaining to the "demise" of communism in the Soviet Union, and the subsequent birth of the new Commonwealth of Independent States, Our Lady appeared in what Veronica perceived as a message expressed in desperation:
     "Do not be deceived. Their father is the father of all liars: satan. Their master plan is in motion. Pray for the light. Minds are clouded. I repeat: it is a ruse. Wake up America or you will suffer much." - Our Lady, December 18, 1991

"FOR IT IS THEIR PLAN TO SUBDUE YOU, ONCE THEY GET THE BILLIONS THAT THEY NEED IN AID"
"As I counseled you all in the past, I said to you as quote: 'This is a ruse,' I repeat again. This is the visit to your country, the once great and Illustrious United States of the world, the nation, the United States of America, the illustrious country that now is leading into a path of darkness. This has been allowed because of the dire straits of your nation. The morality has now been cast aside. Darkness has fallen upon mankind....
     "I tell you now, and I will not tell you again. This is the last time you will receive this counsel.
     "As in the past Lenin, as in the past Stalin, and Khrushchev; and many others had tried to deceive the United States. They all felt that by trying to ensnare you with delusions of casting aside their communistic aspirations, that they had become as you, a free nation for all.
     "I assure you, My children, there is no freedom in Russia. It is all a delusion.
     "They seek the monies of the world from the nations of the world. And why do you not learn a lesson? It happened in the time of Lenin; it happened in the time of Stalin. And there you are all on the same road, ready to give billions of monies that should be given to those of your nation and the free nations of the world.
     "Do not be deceived, My children, Russia is not free. It is a cosmetic act to delude you. Lenin and Stalin used the same tactics, My children. Why do you not learn from your errors?"
Veronica - Our Lady now, Our Lady is crying. Now She is looking up and She says:
Our Lady - "My tears fall on you, My children. And I must give you also the conclusion to what I have spoken to you of. Lenin and Stalin are not with Us. They were cast off to meet with their god, the prince of darkness, satan.
     "It behooves Me to say, and it tears My heart in anguish, that they did not seek to be saved. For those who approach them, as they will approach you in your nation and try to convince you that their way of life without the Eternal Father was a way that should be adopted by all - no, My children!
"I repeat again, because this will be my last discourse to the world on this subject: This man, these two men are of the same creed, color, spirituality - or should I say, My children, lack of spirituality. They have a father who is the father of all liars, so what does it make them, My children - Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Gorbachev?
     "That is the same old plan, My children, and those leaders of your nation are as blind as they were in the past. I tell you for your own good, My children of the United States of America, that once was a nation under God and indivisible, that you will fall! If you do not come out of your slumber now, you will fall!
     "For it is their plan to subdue you, once they get the billions that they need in aid, to bring up the economy and buy more armaments. They have not disposed of their armaments, My child and My children. They store them in other nations. They have the same goals as their forefathers." - Our Lady, June 18, 1992

CONSECRATE RUSSIA, NOT THE WORLD
"When I came to Fatima many years ago, I knew that communism would go throughout the world destroying many nations and attacking My Son's Church. Therefore, I made a promise that if the Pope, the Pope of those days and the Pope today, would unite with all the bishops of the world, all together on one day--not the world--but the bishops and the Pope will unite and pray for the consecration of Russia. I do not mean the world, My children; I mean Russia--Russia, the scourge of mankind. You will pray for Russia. One day must be allotted in which Pope John Paul II and, also, all the bishops of the world must unite on one day, I repeat, and pray for Russia; or Russia will continue to be the scourge from God. Russia will continue to go throughout the world annihilating people and places and countries." - Our Lady, October 2, 1987

IN UNISON WITH ALL THE BISHOPS
"I repeat from My Mother Her words to the world some time ago--and I believe, My child, you have been a voice-box before and a means for Heaven to transport this message to the world--that is, that the Holy Father in Rome, in unison with all of the bishops of the world, must consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of My Mother." - Jesus, March 18, 1989

RED HORSE
"The red horse is war! And war is in the balance next, My child. And what can you do about this? This is My direction from Heaven—and We hope, My children, that you will get this out to the world—unless the bishops and the Holy Father in unity with all the bishops of the world—unless they consecrate Russia to My Mother's Immaculate Heart, the world will be doomed! Because Russia will continue to spread her errors throughout the world, rising up wars and carnage and pestilence and famine." - Jesus, June 17, 1989

WORLD  WAR  III  
Veronica -  . . . Our Lady now is looking down sadly. And I see She's pointing now to what looks like a map. Oh, my!
     Now as I am watching—it's a map of... oh, I can see Jerusalem, and Egypt, Arabia, French Morocco, Africa. Oh, my goodness! There seems to be a very dense darkness now settling upon those countries. Oh, my!
     And Our Lady is saying:
Our Lady - "The start of the Third World War, My child." -- March 29, 1975  

INVASION WITH MISSILES
"My child, the last time We spoke to you, We told you that there was a far greater message to be given to mankind.  This is the message:  THAT RUSSIA PLANS TO INVADE THE UNITED STATES WITH MISSILES!
     "There is much that you don't know, My poor children, or perhaps some think it best that you don't know what is happening within your governments.  Many of the newspapers and other means of relaying this to you have been silenced.
     "But I, as your Mother, beg intercession through Jesus to the Eternal Father and the Holy Ghost to spare you these terrible punishments.  If there is a need for more victim souls, let them be satisfied to know that they have been warned.
     "My child, I know this has been a complete shock to you, but this message must go throughout the world.  Awaken those who sleep before it is too late." - Our Lady, March 26, 1983

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D10 - Consecrate Russia  PDF
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D102 - Russia and China, Part 2   PDF
D103 - Communism   PDF
D104 - Invasion   PDF
D136 - Visions of the Great War: The Mideast  PDF
D137 - Visions of the Great War: Russia and China  PDF
D156 - Terrorism PDF
D283 - The Deceit of Russia  PDF

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Articles...

Russia:

Russia's military and strategic buildup:

Russian long-range nuclear bombers resume Cold War sorties
https://www.tldm.org/News11/RussianBombersResumeColdWarSorties.htm

Russia ramping up its military machine
https://www.tldm.org/News10/RussiaRampingUpMilitary.htm

Last year Russia built about 25 new nuclear missile systems — in what's considered the fastest increase of nuclear spending since the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962
https://www.tldm.org/News9/RussiaNotAFriend.htm

Russia oil production overtakes Saudi Arabia
https://www.tldm.org/News9/RussiaOvertakesSaudiArabia.htm

NATO paper warns of Russian global gas cartel
https://www.tldm.org/News9/NATOWarnsOfRussianGasCartel.htm

Russia's master plan
https://www.tldm.org/news/master_plan.htm

Russia developing new nuclear missile
https://www.tldm.org/news7/Russia'sNewNuclearMissile.htm

WorldNetDaily exposé on Russian military confirms Our Lady of the Roses June 18, 1992 message
https://www.tldm.org/news/expos%E9.htm

Russia's plan to invade the U.S.

Missile invasion
https://www.tldm.org/news2/missiles.htm

Planned U.S. invasion through Mexico
https://www.tldm.org/news3/Nicaragua.htm

First strike
https://www.tldm.org/news2/first_strike.htm

Masters of deceit
https://www.tldm.org/news2/masters_of_deceit.htm

Russia's orchestration and support of global terrorism:

Is the Mideast headed for apocalyptic war?
https://www.tldm.org/News10/Epicenter.htm

Unconverted Russia and its influence on Mideast terrorism
https://www.tldm.org/News9/RussianInfluenceOnMideast.htm

Russia is now world's #1 seller of military weapons
https://www.tldm.org/News9/RussiaArmingWorld.htm

Israeli Internal Security Minister: "All the terrorists surrounding Israel" are using Russian weapons
https://www.tldm.org/News9/RussiaSupplyingTerrorists.htm

Russia supplied Hezbollah with intelligence during war
https://www.tldm.org/News9/RussiaSuppliedHezbollahWithIntelligence.htm

Hezbollah using Russian-made anti-tank missiles
https://www.tldm.org/News9/HezbollahRussianWeapons.htm

Russian footprints
https://www.tldm.org/News9/RussianFootprints.htm

Yasser Arafat was trained in terrorism by the Russian KGB
https://www.tldm.org/news2/arafat.htm

President Putin, Middle East arms merchant
https://www.tldm.org/News9/RussiaMideastArmsMerchant.htm

Putin defends Russian missile sales to Syria
https://www.tldm.org/news8/russia%2Dsyriamissiledeal.htm

Russia tied to missing weapons in Iraq
https://www.tldm.org/news7/RussiaIraqWeapons.htm

Russian arms network seen behind Al-Qaeda
https://www.tldm.org/news4/arms%5Fnetwork.htm

Russian assassinations and espionage:

Litvinenko's relatives: Russia's "evil powers" killed him
https://www.tldm.org/News9/PutinCriticPoisoned2.htm

Documents link Kremlin to ex-spy's death
https://www.tldm.org/News9/PutinCriticPoisoned3.htm

Another outspoken Putin critic shot dead in Moscow
https://www.tldm.org/News9/PutinCriticShotDead.htm

Russian spying in the United States has reached the high-water mark of the Cold War
https://www.tldm.org/news7/RussianSpyingInAmerica.htm

Russia ordered shooting of Pope John Paul II, says Italian commission
https://www.tldm.org/news9/russiabehindagcasattempttokilljohnpaulii.htm

Russia's death of freedom:

Putin's economic adviser resigns, saying Russia 'not free'
https://www.tldm.org/News8/UnconvertedRussia3.htm

Russia's slow death of freedom
https://www.tldm.org/News9/Russia'sDeathOfFreedom.htm

Pope John Paul II concerned about persecution of the Catholic Church in Russia
https://www.tldm.org/news6/persecution.htm

Links:

Russia motives, Jeff Nyquist, May 25, 2007
http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2007/0525.html

Words from Red Square, Jeff Nyquist, May 11, 2007
http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2007/0511.html

One clenched fist, Jeff Nyquist, April 27, 2007
http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2007/0427.html

Evil in politics, Jeff Nyquist, February 23, 2007
http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2007/0223.html

A new methodology for Moscow's wet affairs, Jeff Nyquist, November 27, 2006
http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2006/1127.html

The plot against America exposed, Wes Vernon, November 27, 2006
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/vernon/061127

Russia police 'regularly torture', BBC, November 22, 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6169242.stm

Death of the woman who shamed Moscow, The [U.K.] Times Online, October 8, 2006
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2393752,00.html

"The corrosive evil of a forgotten war", By Anna Politkovskaya
http://www.indexonline.org/en/news/articles/2006/3/russia-anna-politkovskaya-the-corrosive-evil.shtml

Straight talk, Jeff Nyquist, April 22, 2005
http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2005/0422.html

Russia's challenge to America, Jeff Nyquist, December 15, 2004
http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2004/1215.html

The enemy behind our enemy: Russia is the spider at the center of the global terrorism web, Jeff Nyquist, January 14, 2003
http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2003/0114.htm

Russia's game, Jeff Nyquist, August 27, 2003
http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2003/0827.htm

Dangerous Russia, Chris Ruddy, December 17, 2003
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/12/16/232628.shtml

Surprise Nuclear Attack, Part 1, J.R. Nyquist (WorldNetDaily)

Surprise Nuclear Attack, Part 2, J.R. Nyquist (WorldNetDaily)

Russia's Economic Moves and What They Portend, J.R. Nyquist (WorldNetDaily)

A Genuine Threat of War? J.R. Nyquist (WorldNetDaily)

Russian Threats: Then and Now - Introduction (WorldNetDaily)

Can Moscow Be Trusted? Russia's Hidden Nuclear Missiles - Part I (WorldNetDaily)

Can Moscow Be Trusted? Inside Russia's Magic Mountain - Part II (WorldNetDaily)

High Anxiety, J.R. Nyquist (WorldNetDaily)

Ex-spy Fears Sneak Russian Attack. Newsmax.com, January 25, 2000

China Reveals Nuclear War Plans Against U.S. (UPI, March 20, 2000)

Russia and China Prepare for War -- Part 1 (Christopher Ruddy)

Russia and China Prepare for War -- Part 2: Clinton's Sell-Out of America: (Christopher Ruddy)

Russia and China Prepare for War -- Part 3: Russia and China -- Our Friends? (Christopher Ruddy)

Russia and China Prepare for War -- Part 4: Russia May Launch a Surprise Attack Against US (Christopher Ruddy)

Russia and China Prepare for War -- Part 5: Russia’s Recent Military Build-up (Christopher Ruddy)

Russia and China Prepare for War -- Part 6: Eleven Signs of a Russian Surprise Attack (Christopher Ruddy)

Russia and China Prepare for War -- Part 7: United States is Unprepared for War (Christopher Ruddy) 

Russia and China Prepare for War -- Part 8: Why are Most Americans Oblivious to These Terrifying Facts? (Christopher Ruddy)

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