The March Goes On: The Reconstruction of The Russian Federation: As the world looks on, Russia ups the ante in its bid to absorb old satellites, March 31 2014

"The thing about it is that the Pentagon, Washington, really doesn't know what the intentions are of the Russian troops built up across the boarder..."

CNN reporter March 30 2014 Karl Penhaul--

While standing in front of an entire Russian division entrenched across the Ukrainian border, veteran reporter Karl Penhaul seemed reticent to pin down the  significance of men at arms.

In this situation it seems more relevant to consider what wasn't stated rather than what was.  That the situation is indeed very serious is without doubt, and it is this state of emergency which enforces the reality that the taking of the entire Ukraine realistically becomes more of "when" rather than "if", leaving  doubt in short supply as Ukrainians ponder their probable absorption into the New Russian Empire, as second class citizens.

These rather pro Russian reports follow equally evasive statements of the Obama administration, which doubts Russia's intention for an eminent attack, and re colonization of the greater Ukraine.  A stepping stone to glory as Putin seems to enjoy the sport of highway robbery.  That one does it with brigades of special forces makes it no less of a crime.

When one however points this out to the Russians they immediately respond that the defintion of criminality and law have become moot in the wake of the Iraqi, Somali, Yemeni, Afghani, Pakistani, Libyan and Syrian wars.

Although not offically called "wars" in the US, these actions were by all definitions, warfare, warlike and continue to date.   All considered by many scholars to be wars wherein severe violations of human rights and international law continue to date, unchecked and un monitored.

Why the President of The United States Is Only "Highly Concerned"
In the wake of equally vague and suspicious comments by the Obama administration Americans have been led to believe that a Russian invasion of the Ukraine is somehow NOT imminent, and will "most likely not take place".

Using its highly effective and deadly weapon of "sanctions" and "harsh words" the West has lashed out at Russian imperialism with ... silence.  As the Ukrainians ponder their allegiance to the Empire of Russia, diplomats in the West seem almost gleeful at these events.  The EU fails to even suggest it will use force to prevent further escalation of the conflict.  Conspiracy or appeasement?  The world may never know.

 Russian president Vladimir Putin seems to revel in the fact that his US counterpart has fumbled the international power  ball.   One would presume that Putin sees Barack Obama as weak, inexperienced and fundamentally incompetent  in deadly game of international global power politics.   In the nuclear world this
can be a fatal and globally devastating flaw.

In the face of this aggression however the Western powers express what one could describe as a 'political fart', in terms of outrage;  a stark contrast to the angry howls for "intervention", "strategic strikes" and "no fly zones" proposed as responses to aggression of NATO's arch rogues such as: Saddam Hussein in Kuwait (formerly a part of Iraq), Muammar Qaddafi within his own country, the Taliban, and even the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran during the revolution.

The current rogue which preoccupies the US these days being Syrian President Bashar al Assad whom the US administration has "vowed" to remove for aggression against his own people, and who incidentally, Russia has vowed to protect.

It seems that the two world powers have been locked in a conflict stretching a lot further back in time than March 2 2014.  Therefore if America can do it, then 'why not us' says Vladimir Putin?

The Global Land Grab
While America colonizes nations far from its homeland, punishing the people with crushing economic sanctions and devastating invasions, Russia occupies former territories upon the invitation of its inhabitants and without firing a shot.  Truly Amazing.  This type of flare has not been seen since the start of WWII.  The global lang grab.

Russia's invasion and preparation for the complete retaking of the Ukraine however constitute international, trans-border, and regional threats, violations of treaties, and UN law... yet this has elicited  little more than economic sanctions against a few obscure and rather distant business enterprises, excluding Putin and his top regime officials, or the Russian public on a whole.  Polls in fact suggest that Putins approval ratings have never been higher, even in the Crimea and Ukraine.

Back home, the US President Barack Obama "expressed concern" in dry professorial terms that lead one to believe he has no idea about the history of the region, even after severing on the Congressional Committee for the de-nuclearization of Cold War era regional powers.  One would think he may be an expert in the politics of this region... yet he seems... out of his depth.  In any case his leadership is less than inspiring.

The EU following suit even declined to feign concern for its Eastern European partner espousing a few tepid threats, but failing to support the US stance in combating Imperialism with "economic sanctions" the international equivalent of "peer pressure".

This lack of interest and alarm at the taking of the Crimean territory belies hubris in the NATO strategy (or non-strategy) toward Russia, which fundamentally assumes that Vladimir Putin will stop with the Crimea or even the Ukraine itself.  History recalls a similar assumption made about both Stalin and Hitler.

In fact one of Hitler's prime objectives for long term longevity of the German Imperial regime was to take both the Ukraine and its Crimean peninsula as the worlds bread basket.  This was a precursor to the taking of Easter Asia itself.



 In the nuclear age however this miscalculation could have devastating results, as the world can hardly afford another Adolf Hitler.  Yet ironically the same region which was so central to the first two World Wars, once again rises to front and center stage.  In similar fashion world powers look on, and offer little more than a political yawn.

Strategy of 'appeasement
These events in Crimea will go down in history as a military and strategic success on behalf of Russia, the likes of which have not occurred since the Red Revolution.

If the taking of the Ukraine were the end all of this story it would be a great one, but as life goes this event is merely a precursor to several other pending and logical moves by the Putin government.

As little stands between the taking of the bread basket of the wold suggesting Putin would somehow "pull back from the edge" is little more than journalistic romanticism as every action of Putin since March 2 2014 has indicated his objectives stretch well beyond the Ukraine.

Xerxes may once again cross the Bosporus as Russian fleets grow in number, strength, and capabilities in the Mediterranean, extending its global military footprint well past its supposed "coveted" warm water port.

To apologize for their lack of alarm at "40,000 troops amassed" along the Ukrainian border ( however Ukrainian govt says the number is more around 88,000) Western officials have treated this event in the same manner the League of Nations treated Hitler prior at the invasion of the Rhineland, and well up to the taking of Poland:  appeasement.   Hitler went down in history as one of the worlds greatest conquerors, all made possible by political appeasement, war profiteering and salutary neglect.

The Western powers are far from the uncompromising and belligerent Spartans and Barack Obama is certainly not Leonidas.  More of a Neville Chamberlain Barack Obama makes his offering of "earth and water" to the local conquering tyrant.  It seems that Obama may go down in history as "The Great Appeaser".

Putin The Hun
Putin  a notable military strategist and political genius who has held power since the 90's and fundamentally built the modern Russian has not only survived but also thrived in the heavy hitting  Russian political landscape where viciousness is a prerequisite.

His deftness denotes study, strategy and daring of the kind which has set off revolutions in Russian for ages.  Sensing weakness in his Western adversaries he does not hesitate to pretend that he cares much for their opinions, and doubts their commitment to confront his onslaught.  His goals are clear, his objectives attainable, the rebuilding of the USSR began March 2, 2014.

The March Goes On

As Russian defensive positions being dug in around strategic positions establishing their base of operations and thus a strategic foothold for further military conquest, Western nations attempt to distance themselves politically in a bid to possibly  avoid the inevitable conflict which may arise, adding folly to arrogance.



With the war on Terror over and the Islamic Jihad a simmering background of constant regional conflict.  Russia has taken up its mantle and waded into the global land grab which has marked the beginning of the Twentieth Century.  With the Ukraine the worlds third largest grain producer and a traditional appendage of their territory, it hung like a ripe apple waiting to be plucked.  As the world looked on in disbelief the Ukraine was taken without a shot.

The march however has just began.   Russian operations which are in full swing, include, according to reports include the massing of  "tanks, personnel carriers, and attack helicopters along with possible up to 88,000 infantry.  This occurs while the Ukrainian government itself fails to mount a significant reaction.  Once again history is replete with parallels as the question of whether or not the Ukrainian army will even fight, is debated in news circles.



"Our goals are attainable"
The words of one Nazi general to the Fuhrer when asked if Moscow could be taken in a few months.

Yet in the same manner President Putin has been advised by his military leaders that the retaking of Russian satelites in this time of US military, economic and political weakness are completely realistic goals and while presage further conflict, these countries will most likely fold as rapidly as during the Cold War era.  So far so good.

On the surface Russian officials speak of  "military exercises in the region", however this motive fails to explain the aggressive and strategic positioning of its military forces along the Ukrainian border.  After the Ukraine one can only guess at the direction of his growing army, and increased nuclear arsenal.  Hubris is the folly of great leader throughout the ages, passivity is not.

The enormous expense of these moves further supports the conclusion that Russia fully intends to retake its former satellite, and in short order.    Putin shows little sign of yielding any of his current momentum or de-escalation of the current crisis as the Russians propose "Federalization" of the Ukraine.

Are Putin's goals attainable? 

•  reclaim territory losses after the Cold War
•  expand control of regional strategic finite resources
•  hedge in NATO along the Asian Axis
• counterbalance Asian power away from a US-China-Japan axis towards a Russian-China-Korea axis
• destabilize the global economy and US hegemony in Mid East and Africa
• boost the Russian economy with military spending, and the "spoils of war" from colonized nations
• regain its former glory and territory

15 Potential Targets
Possible Targets of land invasion will and may include:

• Crimea (a region of the Ukraine, absorbed March 2014 into the Russian Federation)
• Ukraine proper, former USSR satellite, petitioning for NATO entry
• Georgia - NATO, former USSR satellite
• Armenia - NATO former USSR satellite
• Azerbaijan - former USSR satellite
• Belarus - NATO, former USSR
• Moldova - NATO, former USSR satellite
• Croatia - NATO/EU
• Romania - NATO/EU
• Slovakia - NATO/EU
• Lithuania - EU/NATO, former USSR satellite
• Latvia - EU/NATO, former USSR satellite
• Estonia - EU/NATO
• Finland (regions) EU/NATO
• Bulgaria - EU/NATO
• Kazakhstan - former USSR satellite
• Mongolia - former USSR satellite
• Alaska - NATO, Continental USA

This list includes strategic regions which are potential and logical extensions of the traditional Asian land mass in itself seen as the domain of Russia.  

States tend to expand to the limit of their ability to exercise meaningful control of any given territory.  As US political and economic clout have waned in the beginning of the 21st Century the tendency of conflict between existing and rising power centers was inevitable.

The question however begs, where will this end?  For the Nazi's it was the destruction of their entire country, and absorption into the EU Federation.  For regional Russian satellites this fate may not be so bad, however the burning of Moscow could only conceivably result from a hot war that went nuclear. 

While many believe nuclear war is in fact the goal of many world powers this is purely speculation, however the expressed and stated intent of all nuclear nations to use these weapons remains a looming specter threatening he existence of human life itself, thereby making any territorial gains a moot point. 

Thus to argue President Putin "intends" a nuclear war is to suggest he is mad or lacks logic, and of course this would be folly, as he is quite logical.  More likely the outward expansion of the Russian Federation will fulfill in the east what global powers have long wanted: a consolidation of the Asian continental governments into states under a federation. 

This has been accomplished in the North American continent, and Europe, and is being constructed in South America, Africa, the Middle East, China and Russia. 

Therefore a lack of interest in this ongoing drama may be due more to the prevailing belief that one day these regions will fall under the control of one Federation or another, as power centers consolidate into "Federations".

Rather than a prelude to global nuclear war, maybe the re colonization of the old USSR is the next stage of consolidation of global world order into regional federations, and the next stage in establishing the New World Order.

Recent history demonstrates that when the US gave Russia a free hand in Chechnya, the Russians gave the US a free hand in Afghanistan, and likewise China in Xinjaing province against the Ugayars.  Today one hand continues to wash the other as governments throughout the world are toppled and incorporated into the envisioned matrix of global order.