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Old Cold Proxy War


Is Ahmadinejad setting a trap for Israel and the US?

The Israel Air Force has managed to use that capacity with amazing skill and daring, as it showed last September when a dozen fighter bombers and support aircraft jammed Syria's Russian-supplied air defenses and destroyed a secret nuclear facility on the Euphrates river --- not far from Iran. The nature of that target has still not been revealed, but it must have been important enough to risk triggering a missile attack from Syria. That means the target was believed to be very important: most likely a joint Iranian-Syrian-North Korean nuclear facility.

In a very odd move, the Syrians are now rebuilding that mysterious concrete cube in exactly the same location --- even though the whole world knows about it now. Why should they spend vast amounts of money doing that, if it would only become another fat target?

One possibility is that it's a trap for IAF jets. Surround the concrete cube with enough new Russian anti-aircraft missiles, back it up with radars based on Russian ships that just happen to be doing the biggest naval exercise in years right now in the Mediterranean, and provoke another attack by announcing another nuclear breakthrough. It could be a baited ambush.

The whole thing smells like an Ahmadi-Nejad shell game, with Russian help: put your nuclear materials under a dozen different giant concrete shelters, and dare the enemy to attack all of them, without knowing which one has nuke materials. All of the sites would be heavily defended with state-of-the-art Russian anti-aircraft missiles. Not just one trap for attacking aircraft, but a dozen or more.

I have expressed my doubt about the true nature of Iranian nuclear ambitions and about how these Iranian nuclear ambitions are possibly responsible for the Uranium shortage and rise in prices.

But I have also pointed out that the "New Cold War" is actually just a re-heated and re-vamped version of the "Old Cold War" with the same puppetmasters and different proxy agents.

Now it seems others share my doubts - but the big question is why is Russia cosying up to Iran when it is a competitor in selling energy? Why would the Russians assist a competitor which is often suspected of promoting terrorism worldwide?

Unless the Russians are still playing "The Great Game" of course - which seems likely given how they have recently taken to flexing their military muscles in Europe once again with a series of exercises and mock battles.

Otherwise I can't see any reason why they export nuclear technology to Iran - and to be quite honest, after Chernobyl, who want's Russian nuclear technology anyway? Unless it is because they are "helping the enemy of their enemy".

It also gives them a huge lever to really p*ss off the USA and help to expand the Russian hegemony across the rest of Europe by controlling the supply of natural gas ..

As I said - back at the beginning of 2006 - I don't want a "New Cold War" because I remember the "Old Cold War" - but it looks increasingly likely that we are going to get one ..

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