The Prophetic Messenger
A Newsletter From Mysteries From The Word Of God Ministries
November/December 2023 - Volume 25, Issue 6
Russia Friend or Foe? - Revisited - Part II
"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." I Thessalonians 5:3
This article shows that Russia is not our friend but an enemy to the United States of America and is planning a future attack on this nation.
This article shows that Russia is not our friend but an enemy to the United States of America and is planning a future attack on this nation.
2. Treaty Signer, Treaty Breaker
b) An article titled "Satellites Pinpoint Russia Nuclear Arms In Baltics"(Note 6) states
"U.S. spy satellites have located the exact position of Russian tactical nuclear weapons in the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, contradicting Moscow's contention that it had not transferred the battlefield arms....The satellite photographs have refuted Russian government denials about the transfer or deployment of nuclear arms in Kaliningrad. The transfers were first reported by The Washington Times on Jan. 3....Under an informal agreement reached between the United States and Russia in 1992, Moscow was to remove all tactical nuclear weapons from forward-deployed areas and said they had done so.....A Pentagon spokesman told The Washington Times last month that the deployment of tactical nuclear arms to Kaliningrad violates Moscow's pledge to keep the Baltic region a 'nuclear-free'" zone."
c) On May 24, 2002 President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty in Moscow. An article titled "A New Nuclear Treaty" is subtitled "Allowing Weapons To Be Stored Could Leave Russian Arms Vulnerable"(Note 3). The article states that this treaty "would limit nuclear stockpiles in both nations to 1,700 to 2,200 warheads by 2012."
In another article titled "Russia Issues 'Regret,' Warning Over US Missile Shield Plan"(Note 7), it states
"Russia expressed 'regret' Wednesday at US President George W. Bush's decision to deploy a limited missile shield by 2004 and said the move could lead to a new arms race while sidetracking the fight against terrorism. 'Such steps must not hurt Russia's security interests,' said Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov while on a visit to Tokyo, the Interfax news agency reported....That new partnership was sealed at a May summit in Moscow at which Bush and Putin vowed to slash the two sides' nuclear arsenals by two thirds over a 10-year span......Igor Sergeyev, a former defense minister who serves as Putin's advisor on strategic defense, argued Wednesday that Washington has failed to assure Moscow that the shield was aimed against nations like North Korea rather than Russia itself. We cannot fail but notice that the shield is being unfurled not in the south -- where the perceived danger from so-called rogue states is coming from -- but in the north, the direction from which Russian missile could rain down on US soil, said Sergeyev. Meanwhile lawmakers in Russia's State Duma lower house of parliament -- which must still ratify the May disarmament treaty -- launched a move to amend the May disarmament to let Russia withdraw from the pact under exceptional circumstances....Duma defense committee chairman Andrei Nikolayev said he would propose that US or NATO military decisions threatening Russia's national security, and serious Russian economic difficulties, would allow Russia to abandon the pact and keep its nuclear arms."
In another article titled "Pompeo: Russia Using Open Skies Treaty For Data On Cruise Missile Targets" (Note 8) it states
“Russia is using intelligence obtained from U.S. and European overflights under the Open Skies Treaty to plan future cruise missile strikes on infrastructure targets, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed yesterday. ‘Moscow appears to use Open Skies imagery in support of an aggressive new Russian doctrine of targeting critical infrastructure in the United States and Europe with precision-guided conventional munitions,’ Mr. Pompeo said in a statement supporting President Trump’s announcement to withdraw from the 2002 treaty. ’Rather than using the Open Skies Treaty as a mechanism for improving trust and confidence through military transparency, Russia has, therefore, weaponized the treaty by making it into a tool of intimidation and threat,’ he noted.”
In an article titled "NF Nuclear Treaty: US Pulls Out Of Cold War-Era Pact With Russia" (Note 9) it states
"The US has formally withdrawn from a key nuclear treaty with Russia, raising fears of a new arms race. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was signed by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. It banned missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 km (310-3,400 miles). But earlier this year the US and Nato accused Russia of violating the pact by deploying a new type of cruise missile, which Moscow has denied. The Americans said they had evidence that Russia had deployed a number of 9M729 missiles - known to Nato as SSC-8. This accusation was then put to Washington's Nato allies, which all backed the US claim. 'Russia is solely responsible for the treaty's demise,' Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Friday. 'With the full support of our Nato allies, the United States has determined Russia to be in material breach of the treaty, and has subsequently suspended our obligations under the treaty,' he added."
In another article titled "Large-Scale Russian Treaty Violations Revealed On Eve Of New Talks" (Note 10) it states
"The Trump administration revealed on the eve of new arms talks with Russia nine major arms control agreement compliance failures by Moscow. Special U.S. arms control envoy Marshall Billingslea said the sole positive finding in the forthcoming State Department annual report on arms compliance is Moscow’s adherence to the terms of the 2010 New START. However, Mr. Billingslea said extending the treaty, set to expire in February, remains uncertain. 'This year’s arms control report documents Russia’s abysmal track record in complying with its promises,' Mr. Billingslea told The Washington Times. 'These aren’t trivial arms control violations,' he said. 'These are invasions of countries, assassination attempts and blowing up a 30-year-plus treaty through its violations.' . . . . The report also addresses U.S. “concerns with Russia’s activities related to its commitments under the Biological Weapons Convention,” a senior State Department official said. Violations of the Vienna Document, part of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, include Russian stationing forces in Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the report says. Moscow is violating the 1975 Helsinki Final Act by arming and training anti- government forces fighting in Eastern Ukraine, the report notes. The Conventional Forces in Europe agreement is being violated by Russia’s stationing of military forces in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine without those nations’ consent."
We see from these articles that Russia is using deception by signing treaties it doesn't intend to keep.
"U.S. spy satellites have located the exact position of Russian tactical nuclear weapons in the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, contradicting Moscow's contention that it had not transferred the battlefield arms....The satellite photographs have refuted Russian government denials about the transfer or deployment of nuclear arms in Kaliningrad. The transfers were first reported by The Washington Times on Jan. 3....Under an informal agreement reached between the United States and Russia in 1992, Moscow was to remove all tactical nuclear weapons from forward-deployed areas and said they had done so.....A Pentagon spokesman told The Washington Times last month that the deployment of tactical nuclear arms to Kaliningrad violates Moscow's pledge to keep the Baltic region a 'nuclear-free'" zone."
c) On May 24, 2002 President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty in Moscow. An article titled "A New Nuclear Treaty" is subtitled "Allowing Weapons To Be Stored Could Leave Russian Arms Vulnerable"(Note 3). The article states that this treaty "would limit nuclear stockpiles in both nations to 1,700 to 2,200 warheads by 2012."
In another article titled "Russia Issues 'Regret,' Warning Over US Missile Shield Plan"(Note 7), it states
"Russia expressed 'regret' Wednesday at US President George W. Bush's decision to deploy a limited missile shield by 2004 and said the move could lead to a new arms race while sidetracking the fight against terrorism. 'Such steps must not hurt Russia's security interests,' said Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov while on a visit to Tokyo, the Interfax news agency reported....That new partnership was sealed at a May summit in Moscow at which Bush and Putin vowed to slash the two sides' nuclear arsenals by two thirds over a 10-year span......Igor Sergeyev, a former defense minister who serves as Putin's advisor on strategic defense, argued Wednesday that Washington has failed to assure Moscow that the shield was aimed against nations like North Korea rather than Russia itself. We cannot fail but notice that the shield is being unfurled not in the south -- where the perceived danger from so-called rogue states is coming from -- but in the north, the direction from which Russian missile could rain down on US soil, said Sergeyev. Meanwhile lawmakers in Russia's State Duma lower house of parliament -- which must still ratify the May disarmament treaty -- launched a move to amend the May disarmament to let Russia withdraw from the pact under exceptional circumstances....Duma defense committee chairman Andrei Nikolayev said he would propose that US or NATO military decisions threatening Russia's national security, and serious Russian economic difficulties, would allow Russia to abandon the pact and keep its nuclear arms."
In another article titled "Pompeo: Russia Using Open Skies Treaty For Data On Cruise Missile Targets" (Note 8) it states
“Russia is using intelligence obtained from U.S. and European overflights under the Open Skies Treaty to plan future cruise missile strikes on infrastructure targets, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed yesterday. ‘Moscow appears to use Open Skies imagery in support of an aggressive new Russian doctrine of targeting critical infrastructure in the United States and Europe with precision-guided conventional munitions,’ Mr. Pompeo said in a statement supporting President Trump’s announcement to withdraw from the 2002 treaty. ’Rather than using the Open Skies Treaty as a mechanism for improving trust and confidence through military transparency, Russia has, therefore, weaponized the treaty by making it into a tool of intimidation and threat,’ he noted.”
In an article titled "NF Nuclear Treaty: US Pulls Out Of Cold War-Era Pact With Russia" (Note 9) it states
"The US has formally withdrawn from a key nuclear treaty with Russia, raising fears of a new arms race. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was signed by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. It banned missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 km (310-3,400 miles). But earlier this year the US and Nato accused Russia of violating the pact by deploying a new type of cruise missile, which Moscow has denied. The Americans said they had evidence that Russia had deployed a number of 9M729 missiles - known to Nato as SSC-8. This accusation was then put to Washington's Nato allies, which all backed the US claim. 'Russia is solely responsible for the treaty's demise,' Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Friday. 'With the full support of our Nato allies, the United States has determined Russia to be in material breach of the treaty, and has subsequently suspended our obligations under the treaty,' he added."
In another article titled "Large-Scale Russian Treaty Violations Revealed On Eve Of New Talks" (Note 10) it states
"The Trump administration revealed on the eve of new arms talks with Russia nine major arms control agreement compliance failures by Moscow. Special U.S. arms control envoy Marshall Billingslea said the sole positive finding in the forthcoming State Department annual report on arms compliance is Moscow’s adherence to the terms of the 2010 New START. However, Mr. Billingslea said extending the treaty, set to expire in February, remains uncertain. 'This year’s arms control report documents Russia’s abysmal track record in complying with its promises,' Mr. Billingslea told The Washington Times. 'These aren’t trivial arms control violations,' he said. 'These are invasions of countries, assassination attempts and blowing up a 30-year-plus treaty through its violations.' . . . . The report also addresses U.S. “concerns with Russia’s activities related to its commitments under the Biological Weapons Convention,” a senior State Department official said. Violations of the Vienna Document, part of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, include Russian stationing forces in Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the report says. Moscow is violating the 1975 Helsinki Final Act by arming and training anti- government forces fighting in Eastern Ukraine, the report notes. The Conventional Forces in Europe agreement is being violated by Russia’s stationing of military forces in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine without those nations’ consent."
We see from these articles that Russia is using deception by signing treaties it doesn't intend to keep.
Notes:
Note 3: The Oregonian Newspaper, Tuesday, May 14, 2002 page A6
Note 6: The Washington Times, Published 2/15/01 by Bill Gertz
Note 7: www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/bv/Qrussia-us-missile.Rw7M_CDI.html
Note 8: https://tinyurl.com/ybyhgy4e
Note 9: https://tinyurl.com/y3bmalqs
Note 10: https://tinyurl.com/y6qfbpja
Note 3: The Oregonian Newspaper, Tuesday, May 14, 2002 page A6
Note 6: The Washington Times, Published 2/15/01 by Bill Gertz
Note 7: www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/bv/Qrussia-us-missile.Rw7M_CDI.html
Note 8: https://tinyurl.com/ybyhgy4e
Note 9: https://tinyurl.com/y3bmalqs
Note 10: https://tinyurl.com/y6qfbpja
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Russia Friend or Foe? - Revisited - Part III. Read this article in the next issue of The Prophetic Messenger.
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