China Says Dump U.S. Dollar, Builds Oil Pipeline With Russia
There are two very important stories out of China. The first is more evidence supporting our claims that China is not even a trade ally much less an ally overall. China is blaming the United States dollar for the recent decline in global wealth:
The United States has plundered global wealth by exploiting the dollar’s dominance, [...]
Russian Begins Overhaul of Nuclear Forces
All has not been quiet on the Russia front the last couple of weeks. The Russians did in fact send some of their naval fleet to Venezuela to participate in war games, and now we get word that, just as we have been telling you, they overhauling and strengthening their military–specifically their nuclear forces:
Russia announced [...]
Russia Planning War Games With Venezuela
Looks like the Putin-Chavez relationship is getting even closer:
With American-Russian relations declining to the point of Cold War-era posturing, Moscow is sending ships to the Caribbean.
If the scheduled joint exercises with the Venezuelan navy take place, the maneuver would be one of Russia’s most provocative exercises in the Western Hemisphere since the Soviet Union supported [...]
U.S., Poland Strike Missile Defense Deal
Think the timing of the finalization of this deal is just a coincidence?
The United States and Poland reached a long-stalled deal on Thursday to place an American missile defense base on Polish territory, in the strongest reaction so far to Russia’s military operation in Georgia.
But the deal reflected growing alarm in countries like Poland, [...]
Russian Ultimatum: Choose Us or Georgia
Hmm, why isn’t Russia using the diplomatic tone it has so often accused the U.S. of not taking? The answer should be pretty obvious: Russia and Putin only believe in diplomacy when one of their interests is at stake.
Here’s an excerpt on the story from CNN.com:
Russia pressed the United States on Wednesday to choose [...]
McCain’s Right on Russia and Vladimir Putin
McCain is right on several accounts:
Putin is ex-KGB and that’s really all we need to know
Russia’s economy is decidedly leveraged to oil
This Russia issue is one that McCain has a good grasp on. Certainly more so than Bush who, and I’m paraphrasing, looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes and saw a good man. Ha.
We should [...]
Georgia Retreats, Russia Continues Offensive
Here’s an update on the war (and this is a war) between Russia and Georgia:
Russia battled Georgian forces on land and sea, reports said late Sunday, despite a Georgian cease-fire offer and its claim to be withdrawing from South Ossetia, the separatist Georgian province battered by days of intense fighting.
Russian planes on Sunday twice [...]
Russia, Georgia On the Brink of War
We’ve been writing here at The Conservative Beacon for well over a year now about Russia’s desire, under Vladimir Putin and now Dmitry Medvedev, to re-establish some semblance of the former Soviet Union.
Russia has mostly used rhetoric and blackmailing has its tools to revive the former Soviet Union, but today we see that Russia [...]
Putin Says Russia Needs to Revive Relationship with Cuba
Here’s yet another piece of evidence of Cold War re-posturing by Valdimir Putin–for what it’s worth:
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday said it was time for Russia to rebuild links with former Cold War ally Cuba, news agencies reported.
“We need to reestablish positions on Cuba and in other countries,” news agency Interfax quoted Putin [...]
Iran to Get New Russian Air Defense Systems
And the flood of troubling news of Russia’s growing hostility towards America continues:
Iran is set to receive an advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft system by year-end that could help fend off any preemptive strikes against its nuclear facilities, senior Israeli defence sources said on Wednesday.
First delivery of the S-300 missile batteries was expected as soon as early [...]