SITREP:
A false flag attack on a USN ship next?
21
April, 2018
by
Nick for the Saker blog
The
USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group left the east coast Naval
Station Norfolk, VA on 11th April.
The
aircraft carrier is accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS
Normandy, the guided-missile destroyers USS Burke, Bulkeley, Forest
Sherman and Farragut, and the destroyers USS Jason and The Sullivans.
The strike group carries 6,500 sailors and Carrier Air Wing One.
Recent
announcements about Russia’s hypersonic Kinzhal (‘Dagger’)
missile system having made these vessels effectively obsolete, this
means that the ships and their crews are essentially being sailed
into a bloody scrapyard.
Even
without the recent upgrading of the Kinzhal system, the experience of
the British fleet in the Falklands conflict illustrates the
vulnerability of warships to low-flying missiles. In addition to the
sinking of the HMS Sheffield and Sir Galahad, virtually every British
ship was hit by at least one of Argentinian’s French-made Exocet
missiles – a weapons system which was already 20 years old at the
time.
Exocet
missile sinks HMS Sheffield during Falklands War:
Reportedly
the only thing that saved the UK force from obliteration was that the
Argentinians had got their missile altimeter settings wrong. The
Russians will not make the same sort of error!
These
facts are of course known to the US military planners and – one
would assume and hope, for it is duty to know – by Donald Trump.
And yet the US fleet is now nearing the coast of Syria, where it will
met up with American and other NATO warships already in position.
Together, they will make one big flock of sitting ducks.
If
the people pushing Trump manage to get him launch a new strike on
Syria (and we must expect a new false flag attack) and if the massive
increase in NATO firepower means that enough missiles get through to
enough targets to kill Russians, then Putin really has no choice but
to sink the US fleet.
No
choice because, whatever the danger of doing so, failure to respond
would signal Russian defeat and retreat in Syria, which would of
course lead to a rapid escalation of military pressure against
Lebanon and Iran, and mean that when the Empire then rolls on to
strike Russia, her most reliable allies will already have gone and
her ‘soft underbelly’ will be seriously exposed.
So
Putin orders the destruction of the US fleet, and an hour later all
that is left is debris and mangled corpses in some oil slicks – and
some ‘great’ photos and video clips to illustrate Trump’s
declaration of war on account of “Russia’s deadly sneak attack on
a US humanitarian force”.
Sounds
familiar? It should do. Because we’re not just thinking here of the
USS Maine, the Lusitania and the Gulf of Tonkin. The Washington habit
of using sunken ships as the causus belli also of course included
Pearl Harbor.
Just
in case you need a reminder, here’s just one example of the many
short videos out there on the truth about the Japanese attack on 7th
December 1941 which explain how Roosevelt had advance intelligence of
the planned attack, but decided not to pass it on to the anchored
sitting duck fleet:
The
more or less official excuse (the President’s guilt never having
been formally acknowledged) is that to have alerted the fleet would
also have tipped off the Japanese that their naval codes had already
been broken. But the truth is of course that deliberately didn’t
warn the fleet because he knew that the sacrifice would goad the
American people into a war against Hitler to which he and those
around and behind him were committed, but which the American people
opposed.
The
circumstances this time are of course somewhat different, not least
that everyone with even a passing knowledge of the Russian missile
capability already knows that 6,500 sailors are “on their way to
Samara”.
Which
makes Donald Trump either a criminally incompetent fool, a bad poker
player or a wholly controlled puppet of the psychotic Anglo-Zionist
elite. If he is one of the first two of these, then there is of
course still a chance that he might respond to the disaster by
blinking and retreating. In which case, the Beltway elite will use
the human tragedy and his humiliation to remove him from office (not
a bad consolation prize, from their point of view).
But
if he is the third, then the ‘shock’ blitz on the US fleet will
lead to the immediate declaration of World War Three.
Indeed,
if things get that far (and we’re probably 48 hours and one White
Helmets’ video away from it) then the only thing that realistically
stands a chance of stopping the racist Anglo-Zionist psychopaths in
their tracks is if the Russian attack and its result are such a
devastating show of ‘shock and awe’ as to make it impossible for
them to ignore a simultaneous public warning by Putin to Netanyahu
that any further US hostile response will place Israel directly in
the firing line as well.
That
might JUST be enough to make the Neocons back off. If not, then World
War Three it will be. It might not go nuclear straight away, but even
while it is conventional EVERYTHING will change:
Dissident
anti-war voices such as this will rapidly be silenced by blanket
censorship and internment; your sons and daughters will be
conscripted; your taxes will go through the roof – and you will
have to live with the ever-present fear that, once China enters the
war against Washington and its client states, the tide will run so
fast against the ‘democratic allies’ that their ‘humanitarian
missiles’ will end up with nuclear tips.
If
that disturbs you (and it surely should) then all I ask is that you
take the Pearl Harbor analogy and get busy spreading it on social
media RIGHT NOW. Because once those young sailors and airmen have
been sacrificed, the demand for a war of ‘revenge’ will be
unstoppable. But if the warmongers realize that plenty of people have
already understood the plan, it might just spook them into backing
off.
In
which case the fleet can do a few face-saving manoeuvres and then
sail home again and we can look forward to a summer which may be
warm, but not as uncomfortably hot as it could otherwise become!
The
Mediterranean Is “Heating Up”! Sudden Mission Of Russian Navy
Squadron
Nuclear
hunters across the USS Harry S. Truman
23
April, 2018
Let’s
go for a new solid “match” in the Mediterranean. More recent
information says that Russia is sending a much larger naval squadron
as it sailed from the Black Sea to two destroyer ships, along with
ships of the Baltic Fleet and two nuclear-powered submarines.
A
total of 2 Akula II and 2 Improvised Kilo submarines have been
reported.
Beforehand,
Project 1135M BSF Krivak II, Pytlivy 868, and Project61BSF Kashin
Destroyer, Smetlivy 870, were found in the Straits.
As
mentioned earlier, the frigate of missiles “Yaroslav the Wise”
comes with the submarines and the Lena tanker. It is stressed
that this ship is at the forefront of the ships of the Russian Navy’s
constant combat readiness, around the world
The
ship has Cruise missiles and is designed for search, tracking, and
tracking enemy submarines. It has modern weapon systems and
large anti-submarine capabilities at sea, anti-ship missiles as well
as electronic warfare systems.
Outside
of Syria, the frigates “Admiral Essen” and “Admiral
Grigorovich” have long been in existence with an anti-submarine
ship.
The
reason is, of course, the arrival of the US aircraft carrier along
with USS Battle Team Harry S. Truman, which includes:
USS
Normandy (CG-60), and USS Class Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), USS Bulkeley
(DDG-84), USS Farragut (DDG-99), USS Forrest Sherman DDG-68) and USS
Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81).
So
Russia is preparing for every chance, either new chemical provocation
and a new NATO intervention, or a destruction operation of the Syrian
S-300 with Russian collateral losses, so we will be involved there.
Smetlivy
is a mid-size Kashin Project 61M Destroyer class last in the Russian
Navy classes and belongs to the Black Sea Fleet force.
The
crew of the vessel consists of 266 people and its post-modern
reinforcement, which was essentially driven by the incorporation of
surface-to-surface missile capabilities and the reinforcement of the
electronic warfare sector, consists of a 76mm double-gun type AK-726,
two double launchers Sa-N-1 Goa, which is the naval version of the
S-125 with 32 missiles, a 533mm torpedo launcher, two RBU-6000
two-shot launchers, 2 quadrilateral surface-surface missile launchers
Kh-35, and ASW helicopter type Ka-27.
The
Admiral Grigorovich frigate was delivered to service on March 10,
2016 by Yantar yard in Kaliningrad and is the first of a total of 6
Project 11356 frigates, three of which will be delivered by 2017.
The
frigate is a displacement of 3,850 tons and a crew of 200 people and
has a new generation of electronic attack, surveillance and defense
systems as well as weapon systems.
More
specifically, the frigates of the type using a COGAG propulsion
system with a total capacity of 69,000hp have a total length of
124.8m. width 15.2 and draft 4.2 m. can achieve maximum
autonomy of 30 days or 4,850 nm. at an economic speed of 14
knots, with maximum speed reaching 30 knots.
Design
features include thermal, acoustic and radar reduction
characteristics.
Its
armament is capable of dealing with every threat and consists of a
100mm A-190 gun, an 8-shot UKSK VLS launcher for Kalibr and 3M55
Oniks cruise missiles, two 12-inch Shtil-1 VLS missile launchers, two
Kashtan CIWS systems, 8 Igla- 1E (SA-16), two 533mm double torpedo
tubes and a RBU-6000 anti-submarine missile launcher, and has a
helicopter shed and helicopter for a Ka-27PL or Ka-31 helicopter.
The
most lethal Russian systems in the area are the Akula II underwater
submarines that have a total displacement of 13,400 to 13,800 tons
and a length of 110 m, and in their armor except the cruise missiles
Kalibr have 4 torpedo tubes of 533 mm. and 4 650 miles. With
about 40 torpedoes stock.
Nuclear
submarines, which are considered among the world’s finest
submarines and belong to the improved Akula II type, are
double-hulled, 13,400-tonne displacement of 110m. with a crew of
62 people have a OK-659M nuclear reactor that through the steam
generators drive the submarine through a 7-prop propeller achieving
speeds of 35 knots while they can dive to depths of up to 520m.
Their
reinforcement consists of 4 533 mm torpedo tubes for 28 torpedoes and
Kalibr missiles and 4 650 mm torpedo tubes for 12 heavy duty
torpedoes or additional cruise missiles and three MANPADS IGLA
launchers for 18 missiles.
In
addition to their very low acoustic performance, their equipment
consists of active and passive sonar with side layout devices as well
as mine detection sonar and a complete suite of electropic sensors
and radar in the form of periscope.
Improved
Kilo submarines such as those received by the Black Sea Fleet belong
to Project 636 and have a displacement of 3950 tons, 74m long. crew
of 52 people, while in 6 533mm torpedoes 18 can be launched either
torpedoes or new Kalibr missiles. Finally, each submarine
carries a SA-N-10 MANPADS launcher with 8 missiles.
USS Harry Truman Aircraft Carrier Strike Group has entered the Mediterranean
20
April, 2018
The
USS Truman and its Strike Group entered the western Mediterranean Sea
early this morning, doubling the amount of American firepower in that
region of the world.
The
Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (CSG) entered the U.S. 6th fleet
area of operations Wednesday, the region where less than a week ago
U.S., British and French forces
launched air strikes against Syrian chemical weapons facilities.
The
Truman CSG left Norfolk on April 11 for
a regularly scheduled deployment to both the 6th Fleet and 7th Fleet
areas of operation. Along with sailing in the Mediterranean Sea, the
strike group is expected to also operate in the Arabian Sea and the
Persian Gulf during this deployment.
“We
are thrilled to have the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group here in
the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations and look forward to having them
on our team as we conduct the full spectrum of maritime operations to
include working alongside our NATO allies and regional partners. Our
U.S. 6th fleet motto is ‘Power for Peace,’ and there is no more
recognizable symbol of American naval power than a carrier strike
group. Their presence in this vital region is a reflection of our
commitment to a safe, prosperous and free Europe and Africa,” said
Vice Adm. Lisa M. Franchetti, the U.S. 6th Fleet commander in a
release.
In
the pre-dawn
hours of Saturday,
three facilities that were part of the Syrian government’s chemical
weapons program were hit by a coordinated set of U.S., French, and
British airstrikes. A total of 105 missiles were launched from both
ships and aircraft operating in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, and the
Persian Gulf.
In
the Eastern Mediterranean, Virginia-class attack boat USS John
Warner (SSN-785)
launched six Tomahawks and French frigate Languedoc (D-653)
fired three of the naval variant of the SCALP land attack cruise
missiles, according to Navy officials. British and French aircraft
also fired missiles while flying in the region.
The
Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group includes USS Harry
S. Truman (CVN-75),
Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 1, guided-missile cruiser
USS Normandy (CG-60),
and guided-missile destroyers USS Arleigh
Burke (DDG-51),
USS Bulkeley (DDG-84),
USS Farragut (DDG-99),
USS Forrest
Sherman (DDG-98),
USS The
Sullivans(DDG-68)
and USS Winston
S. Churchill (DDG-81).
German frigate FGS Hessen (F-221)
is also joining the Truman CSG for this deployment.
The
Truman CSG includes twice the number of ships that were part of the
George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike group that operated in the same
regions a year ago. The Bush CSG included USS George H.W. Bush
(CVN-77), and Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers
USS Laboon(DDG-58)
and USS Truxtun (DDG-103);
and guided missile cruisers USS Philippine
Sea (CG-58)
and USS Hue
City (CG-66).
From Dmitry OrlovRussian Missile Tech has Made America's Trillion Dollar Navy Obsolete
Times
have changed and America can no longer project its military power
like it did in Iraq. Those days are over.
Dmitry Orlov
19
April, 2018
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.
A
financially crippling military brontosaurus
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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